100 Greatest Punk Songs 13-22

13 - 22 of a work in progress, compiled by me (M) and my co-blogger (T)

13. MDC - "I Remember"
Okay. This song made you think that maybe your life wasn't so bad. That someone had it worse than you. That someone was angrier than you and more pissed off than you. That no matter how punk you thought you were, someone is always behind you going, "Hey dude, you think you saw the shit? Lemme buy you a beer and tell you my story." A serious what-the-fuck song from some SF transplants that makes you think. It's a time to remember and a time to forget. Nothing I can do but get away. Good stuff. - T download

14. Husker Du - "New Day Rising"
This song is like fifty hits of speed shoved into your veins with a needle that's been dipped in pure adrenaline. It's fucking primal scream therapy. It's stomping on the ground and shaking your head and kicking the wall and maybe taking a chunk of plaster out of the spot behind your bedroom door and you really don't fucking care, you are just ripping shit off your walls and throwing books and empty beer cans around and screaming along with the song - and I mean throat tearing, from the bottom of your stomach screaming, which you play 43 times in a row until a neighbor bangs on the window and asks if you are okay and you are like, "Fuck, yeah, I'm okay. I'm better than okay." Cathartic. - M download

15. Radio Birdman - "New Race"
Gah! I knew someone would say that and I'd have to kick my ass for losing that album. Australian punk rock. Really, basically the only thing Australia had at the time. They came out of nowhere and they were gone before I could work a telephone. This is a great song that, well, fuck, now I need to get the album again. Just real, cool punk that kicks with simple, clean, no distortion licks that kinda rocks. Well, fuck that. It rocks. If you've never heard Radio Birdman, download some of their stuff. It's one of the only cool things to come out of Australia since Crocodile Dundee.....I knew someone was gonna say that song, dammit. And now I'm out fifteen bucks on the CD. - T download

Article Author: Michele Catalano

Michele is from Long Island and writes about two of her favorite things - punk rock and fast cars -along with her better half at Faster Than the World.

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