I'm still waiting to see if one of my new favorite bands is on here. Namely, Madball.

i'm almost 100% sure that he covered Madball a while back

never been a fan of Dropkick Murphys.....although a good friend lives by them....i will say that they are an absolute blast live

I have their first two albums and like them both quite a bit, but they're the kind of band where I've never felt like I needed any more than that.

The Real McKenzies! now that's a name I haven't heard in long while. I use to go see the RM quite a bit back in the day as some of the members were friends of my best friends older brother. I am however going strictly on musical ear & compositions to an extent, and I just don't think they are musically on the same calibre as the DM's myself...mind you I haven't listened to their recent stuff


You should check out their stuff after that J. Once they started to master their musical scales & compositions for Celtic music, they've become rather good. Still one more band from Boston to go!

11. Iggy & the Stooges & Iggy Pop ,Genre (Proto punk/punk rock) era, 60's/70's & 80's and beyond for Iggy

The band that influenced both the Ramones & the Pistols with their musical style and attitude, and while I personally prefer the Pistols, neither they nor the Ramones were able to write songs as good as Gimme Danger.

Gimme Danger



Search And Destroy



The Passenger

I am a huge fan of "Off the Leash" by Real McKenzies, one of my favorite albums.



In acoustic form:

Hmmm pretty damn good, sometimes I spend to much time listening to stuff abroad that I lose touch with what's going on my own backyard. I did sort of give them a fly by when creating the list, but not in depth....I ended up listening to a gazzilion bands when I made this list...what was suppossed to be light fun started to turn into quite the endeavour.

Your right to point out that I erred on Body Count by the way, though I have probably erred on many things by now. I still think the first album is classic in its own way, but the more I'm listen to it, the quicker it tires. I'm not sure if there is enough interest out there to revive the thread, but if there, load your list and recomendations, cheers.

Whatever, opinions are just that. I am not making my own list, so who am I to complain. Anything I say is just my curmudgeon opinion.

The Murphys are class, really entertaining and have wide appeal-they're a bit of a go-to band for people who don't really like punk but I am unashamedly a big fan. Although The Real McKenzies and flogging molly are definitely up there as well. All good fun.

I could never really get into Iggy though, although The Passenger is an absolute classic.

All right, next weekend I'll be back to wrap up the top 10, it's hard to believe that this has been going since October, and since some of you have been following this from day 1. I thought I would give you an idea of what's in the top 10.


Of the top 10, 3 are modern bands, though one has been around for quite awhile, and the rest are from previous decades. To avoid a barrage of critisim I'll forewarn everyone now that there is a big ass metalcore band in the top 10. I know this has become a much despised genre, but this band has earned their stripes and I stand by them. There is also a classic band on the list that tends to be a bit divisive (people either love them or hate them)

Of the 10 bands, 5 are from the United States, 4 are from the UK and 1 is from Australia.

Of the American bands, 2 are big landmark bands, and the other 3 are classic 80's bands that everyone would expect.

Of the UK bands, 2 are from the 70's, 1 from the 80's and 1 band is modern, so that's it , see you then, cheers.