prBAND88

For me, top 3 bands is not enough. So let's go with top 25. Oh, and this not limited to only punk bands, most of my favorite just happen to be punk.

In no particular order:

The Unseen
A Global Threat
Dead Kennedys
The Hunns
Rancid
The Havoc
Operation Ivy
The Casualties
The Slackers
Fugazi
Conflict
The Nerve Agents
The Clash
F-Minus
The Virus
Germs
Tiger Army
Tenacious D
Nekromatix
U.S. Bombs
Capitalist Casualties
The Briefs
Aus-Rotten
William Hung
The Misfits

That's 25, I think...

abakubub

In alphabetical order:

Against Me!
All Girl Summer Fun Band
American Football
Bob Hund
Bright Eyes
Burzum
Devendra Banhart
Desaparecidos
Fancy Pants and the Cellphones
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention)
Holy Modal Rounders
Kind of Like Spitting
Kite Flying Society
Kleenex Girl Wonder
KMFDM
Minor Threat
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Lost City Ramblers
Operation Ivy
Propagandhi
Saetia
Sigur Rós
The Can Kickers
They Might Be Giants
Will Oldham (and all of his incarnations)

banonbush

AFI
Against Me
Anti Flag
Alkaline Trio
Brand New
Coheed and Cambria
Dashboard Confessional
Dillinger Escape Plan
Five Iron Frenzy
Good Riddance
Green Day
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Minor Threat
MXPX
Nirvana
NOFX
No Use For A Name
Propaghandi
Relient K
Saves the Day
Strung Out
Thursday
The Used
TSOL
The Vandals

MobilizeTerror

Here are mine (in no particular order):



1. Anti-Flag
2. Rancid
3. Propaghandi
4. TSOL
5. The Exploited
6. The Casualties
7. The Misfits
8. Ramones
9. Sex Pistols
10. Dead Milkmen
11. Nirvana
12. Varukers
13. Aus-Rotten
14. Assorted Jelly Beans
15. Dead Kennedys
16. Black Flag
17. Discharge
18. Funeral Dress
19. Blanks 77
20. Social Distortion
21. Blitz
22. GG Allin (muhahaha)
23. Conflict
24. Oi Polloi
25. Oi! Scouts


I could probably think of better ones if I took longer but those are the best that come to mind..

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Thrice

1) Thrice
2) Taking Back Sunday
3) Anti-Flag
4) Rise Against
5) Finch
6) Brand New
7) Incubus
8) Coheed and Cambria
9) Thursday
10) The Early November
11) Sublime
12) Lagwagon
13) Glass Jaw
14) Against Me
15) Tsunami Bomb
16) Alkaline Trio
17) Billy Talent
18) AFI
19) Alien Ant Farm
20) The Used
21) Saves The Day
22) No Use For A Name
23) NOFX
24) Tenacious D
25) Story Of The Year

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Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

Beor Uaine

1. Guns n' Roses
2. Metallica
3. Nirvana
4. Alice In Chains
5. Soundgarden
6. Pantera
7. Megadeth
8. Slayer
9. Motorhead
10. Nothingface
11. Tool
12. Smashing Pumpkins
13. Rancid
14. The Ramones
15. Black Sabbath
16. Ozzy Osbourne
17. Skid Row
18. Korn
19. Machinehead
20. Sepultura
21. Stone Temple Pilots
22. Mad Season
23. The Misfits
24. Bad Religion
25. Iron Maiden

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riseagainstrocks

I'll try to make these in as much order as possible. (lb) = local band

1. Rise Against (punk/hardcore)
2. In Flames (metal)
3. AFI (emo/gothrock)
4. Anti-Flag (punk)
5. The Offspring (punk)
6. Good Riddance (punk)
7. Darkest Hour (metal/hardcore)
8. The Clash (punk)
9. Strike Anywhere (punk)
10. Rage Against The Machine (alt.rock/ punk)
11. Against Me! (acoustic punk)
12. Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (baroque rock/operatic/shredding)
13. Children Of Bodom (heavy metal/black metal)
14. The Ramones (punk)
15. Only The Dead (lb) (hardcore)
16. Lostprophets (emo/rock)
17. Stroy Of The Year (emo/hardcore)
18. Thrice (emo/hardcore)
19. Thursday (emo/hardocre)
20. Tsunami Bomb (punk)
21. Vengance Meets Grace (lb) (hardcore)
22. Endless Struggle (punk)
23. Converge (grindcore)
24. Avenged Sevenfold (hardcore)
25. NOFX (punk)

I'm mostly a hardcore kid, but I like my metal and punk rock too!

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Thrice

Found it!!
mine have all changed since then though ill post an updated one later.

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Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

Thrice

REVISED VERSION!

1) Thrice
2) Taking Back Sunday
3) Anti-Flag
4) Rise Against
5) Finch
6) Brand New
7) Incubus
8) Coheed and Cambria
9) Thursday
10) The Early November
11) Sublime
12) Lagwagon
13) Glass Jaw
14) Against Me
15) Tsunami Bomb
16) Alkaline Trio
17) Billy Talent
18) AFI
19) Alien Ant Farm
20) The Used
21) Saves The Day
22) No Use For A Name
23) NOFX
24) Tenacious D
25) Story Of The Year
26) Silverstien
27) The Early November
28) Fifteen
29) Avenged Sevenfold
30) Simon and Garfunkel < Thats right I said it!
31) Glasseater
32) Hed (PE)

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Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

Drifting_Angel

In noo particular order...

1. The Jimi Hendrix Experiece
2. Nirvana
3. The Foo Fighters
4. Santana
5. Stone Temple Pilots
6. The Beatles
7. Muse
8. Incubus
9. Guns and Roses
10. Deep Purple
11. Silverchair
12. Led Zeppelin
13. The Rolling Stones
14. The Offspring
15. Queen
16. Double Trouble
17. Queens of the Stone Age
18. Collective Soul
19. Powderfinger
20. The Living End
21. Matchbox Twenty
22. NoFX
23. Audioslave
24. Red Hot Chilli Peppers
25. AFI

Variety of stuff there... Can't really say which I think is the absolute greatest... Actually I can. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, man!

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