Artist	Song
The Clash	London's Burning
from The Clash (2000)
The Sex Pistols	God Save the Queen
from Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (2007)
The Jam	The Modern World
from The Sound of The Jam (2003)
Generation X	Your Generation
from Anthology (2003)
Elvis Costello	(I Don't Want to Go To) Chelsea
from The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years (2007)
Buzzcocks	Everybody's Happy Nowadays
from Singles Going Steady (1992)
999	Homicide
from English Wipeout (2001)
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Hong Kong Garden
from The Best of Siouxsie and The Banshees (2002)
The Slits	Typical Girls
from In the Beginning (2006)
The Only Ones	Another Girl, Another Planet
from Special View (1991)
The Damned	Neat Neat Neat
from Damned Damned Damned (2009)
The Vibrators	Baby Baby
from The Best of the Vibrators (1999)
Wire	1 2 X U
from Pink Flag (Remastered) (2009)
The Police	Fall Out
from The Police (2007)
The Adverts	One Chord Wonders
from Anthology (2005)
X-Ray Spex	The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
from X-Ray Spex: The Anthology (2009)
The Boomtown Rats	Lookin' After No. 1
from Best of The Boomtown Rats (2004)
Mekons	Where Were You?
from Where Were You? Hen's Teeth and Other Lost Fragments of Unpopular Culture, Vol.2 (1999)
Patrik Fitzgerald	Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart
from The Very Best of Patrik Fitzgerald (1994)
Alternative TV	Action Time Vision
from The Image Has Cracked - The Alternative TV Collection (1994)
The Stranglers	No More Heroes
from The Stranglers: Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
Eater	Fifteen
from The Complete Eater (1993)
Public Image Ltd.	Memories
from Second Edition (2005)

Comment:

Think punk had it tough in the U.S.? Think again. While glam's gender-bending trashiness and pub rockers' rootsy swagger delivered a one-two punch to the dinosaurs roaming America's radio dial, an entire generation of Brits came of age under the jackboot of a suffocating class and political tyranny. In short, the fuse was lit. Consider Generation X, who gleefully gut "My Generation," the Who's mod-era anthem of alienation, as a swaggering Billy Idol flips flower children the bird in "Your Generation," spitting out, "Your generation don't mean a thing to me." In "Homicide," 999's Nick Cash screams from zero to crazy in 3.6 minutes, a psycho killer armed with a Telecaster. And in their poppy debut single, "Hong Kong Garden," Siouxsie and the Banshees sandwich a combo platter of culture clash and irony between its chop-suey marimba opening and gong-smash finale. But don't stop here: from the Adverts to X-Ray Spex, we've got the sounds of the city in the year when punk changed [i]everything[/i].

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