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Old School 80's Hardcore Punk Rock Archive

If you want to know what hardcore punk rock was like in the 80s, you've come to the right place. We document the best punk rock songs to come out of the American Hardcore Punk Rock scene of the 80's circa 1980-85.

Top Ten Favorite Hardcore Punk Rock Songs

Anyway, in no particular order, here are my top ten favorite hardcore punk songs from the 80's. Some have clever lyrics or great drum beat, guitatr riffs, etc. Everytime I heard these songs, whether I was at a gig or got into someone's car and they were on cassette, they got me pumped (yes, cassette was a major distrubution format for punk, since there was no punk played on the radio, except for the few songs mentioned in "Top Ten Most Popular"). They are in no particular order and based soley on my opinion, since I was actually there. If you disagree with my selections, I invite you to start your own website. If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it out of you. I'm just playing, don't get your lace panties in a wad. Click the logo to play the songs. Pops Open New Window
  1. Jody Foster's Army - JFA
  2. Problem Child - Wasted Youth
  3. Deception - Secret Hate
  4. Trouble if You Hide - The Freeze
  5. Richie Dagger - Germs
  6. Jealous Again - Black Flag
  7. Dachau Cabana - The Vandals
  8. I Don't Care About You - Fear
  9. Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
  10. Lady Killer - The Vandals

Honorable mentions include: Richard Hung Himself - DI, Bloodstains - Agent Orange, No Friends - Adolescents, Wild in the Streets (Rodney on the Roq version) - Circle Jerks, I Got a Gun - Channel 3

Top Ten Most Popular Hardcore Punk Rock Songs

These were probabably the most popopular songs to come out of the 80s punk scene and were fiercley popular amongst the punk crowd. Most of these songs broke out of punk confines and became "mainstream" hits that were played on the more cutting-edge radio stations like KNAC and KROQ (los angeles). That's when it got so every new punk on the block played them to death or recited the lyrics to you until you became sick of the song itself. Pops Open New Window
  1. Code Blue - TSOL*
  2. Rise Above - Black Flag
  3. TV Party - Black Flag
  4. Urban Struggle - The Vandals
  5. Amoeba - Adolescents
  6. Nazi Punks - Dead Kennedys
  7. Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies
  8. MTV Get Off the Air - Dead Kennedys
  9. more to follow as it comes to my beer-soaked memory cells...
  10. I'm thinking, I'm thinking!
*This song was not played on the radio for obvious reasons (listen to it) but that didn't stop it from becoming monster-popular through word of mouth (remember, there was no internet back then).