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Dutch punk:
If you like something more ska/funky:
Can't really add links right now, if I remember to I'll see if I can tomorrow. Bands with an asterix have english lyrics, the others have dutch lyrics
Alien weaponry is a metal band from New Zealand that has a lot of songs at least partially in Maori
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Female fronted Doom from Japan:
https://magdaleneju-nen.bandcamp.com/album/jingai-kitan
Female fronted stoner from Italy:
https://frayle.bandcamp.com/album/the-white-witch-ep
First nation's Yolnu Surf-Rock from Australia (English and Yolnu matha):
https://kingstingray.bandcamp.com/album/king-stingray
Argentinian punk:
From Germany Die Ärzte are great and their hit from the 80s or 90s Schrei nach Liebe is pretty much on topic.
Die Toten Hosen are their long time "rival". Die Ärzte got a pretty good start when they were the first act at a Tote Hosen concert.
Swedish punk:
Forgetting a bunch because it's 05:00 here and I'm tired, but these are the ones that first come to mind.
Links to some songs, by no means an exhaustive list, just songs that I enjoy and quickly find on YT.
Ebba Grön:
De Lyckliga Kompisarna:
Docenterna:
Man, listened to a few of these and they are great. I'm not the OP, but i appreciate these recommendations, thanks!
From Canada, in fact from my city, The Dreadnoughts! Their first three albums are punk gold. (Later stuff, they started having fun and doing polka etc. But whenever I see them in concert, they mostly rock from the first 3.)
If you're only going to listen to one, Polka's Not Dead would be my recommendation.
(Full credit to the Real McKenzies for paving the way, Chip would be their most famous song.)
SNFU and Propagandhi.
Check out the netlabel plainly named ‘Russian Post-punk’ for some of that genre from various post-Soviet countries.
Some more from Eastern Europe:
Russia:
NOM, e.g. ‘Entertainers choir of the conductors reserve’ — 90s ironic punkish rock, often mocking popular kitsch and consumerism. Now doing some metal-y songs with commentary on current events.
Nol — 80s-90s bayan folk-punk. Later Fyodor Chistyakov recorded some moody interpretations of classical music on bayan, and currently lives in the US and has released English versions of his old songs (but they suck, because he's old now and because the songs don't translate well).
Mango-Mango — 90s comedy-rock with splendid ska-ish instrumentation
Nogu Svelo — 90s absurdist rock
Boney Nem: e.g. ‘Heavy Nagila’ and ‘Chito-grito-margalito’ — mostly parodying cheesy Russian pop music in thrash and death metal. The 2003 album ‘День Победы’ (‘Day of Victory’) is full of bangers.
Lemonday — acoustic-ish low-fi somewhat absurdist anti-folk. Their best stuff is these old videos on YouTube.
Inturist — jazz/post-punk fusion
toska po domu — electronic post-punk (Russian, based in Tel-Aviv)
My friend tape recorder — very danceable post-punk, oddly lyrical
margenrot — post-punk/post-industrial with some Arabic motifs
Beskultura - noise-rock
Megapolis — retro rock (the linked song is actually a cover of a 1958 song, but with different lyrics)
Egor Letov / Grazhdanskaya Oborona — 90s psychedelic punk (fun fact: Egor's brother Sergei Letov is a jazz saxophonist, famously having played in Sergei Kuryokhin's band)
Straw Raccoons — 90s absurdist noise-rock/punk
Zemfira — 2000s inscrutable Russian alt-rock with pretty good instrumentation, afaik all written by the titular lead singer and leader of her band
Anatoly Nikulin's ‘Russian Music’ is a bunch of prog-rock/electronic covers of early-20th-century classical music that was influenced by the folk tradition back then
5'nizza — 90s Ukrainian reggae-rock
Воплі Відоплясова — Ukrainian folk-rock
The Hypnotunez — Ukrainian, playing some kinda Balkan-ska/swing
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra — a rather obvious recommendation for Serbian/Balkan folk-rock
Zdob și Zdub — Moldovan, playing Balkan folk-rock
Đorđe Marjanović was a popular Serbian/Yugoslav singer of the 1960s with rock'n'roll songs among other stuff
Demolition Group — Slovenian post-punkish rock, known for inclusion on the ‘Trans Slovenia Express’ tribute compilation by Laibach
the VAPE (Petr Válek) — hilarious Czech noise
A Hawk & A Hacksaw — USian, but mixing Balkan, Jewish and Turkish music
Elsewhere:
Die Toten Hosen — German bar-punk
Sexy Sushi — French electroclash / synth-punk (picks up with the forth track in particular)
Hedningarna and Värttinä — Nordic folk-rock
Garmarna — Swedish folk-rock
Ulver's ‘Kveldssanger’ is an acoustic album of sorta Norwegian folk-rock, made between two raw-black-metal albums
Tappi Tíkarrass and Kukl — Icelandic, punk/post-punk bands in which Björk was before The Sugarcubes
(Perhaps check out the 1982 concert/documentary film ‘Rokk í Reykjavík’, from which the Tappi Tíkarrass footage is taken, for more Icelandic post-punk/new-wave bands.)
‘Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968–1974’ and ‘Cambodian Rocks’ — brilliant compilations of garage-ish rock of Vietnam and Cambodia from back in the day
Pungo — Japanese jazzy post-punk/folk (see ‘Waltz’ in particular)
Garage Chanson Show — Japanese dark-cabaret
Melt-Banana — Japanese noise-rock
Ruins — Japanese prog/noise-rock
Faye Wong — Hong-Kong pop, check out the cover of ‘Dreams’ from the film ‘Chungking Express’
Mammals — Chinese noise/math-rock
Mimilocos — most probably Argentinian, coldwave
Molotov — Mexican rap/alt-rock
You are absolutely incredible. Thank you.
Kind of fitting the punk attitude and rock-ish in sound is a Finnish band called Ursus Factory. I love them, seen them live a few times, such energy. And it’s just two blokes, nothing more. It’s so surprising they make it work live too, since in studio releases they tend to have some backing tracks, but it just somehow works.
Bio in eng: https://ursusfactory.net/ENG-Bio
Not sure if it’s as good if you can’t pick up the lyrics, but here’s a few of my favorites:
Seriously suggest checking out!
Edit: For tidal users, I made this playlist to quickly check those five out: https://tidal.com/playlist/545e800a-1f64-4a2d-a536-1de2267ec40f
Operation Ivy
Dead Milkmen
Rancid
NOFX
(US)
Operation Ivy and Rancid have more members in common than some bands that keep the same name over a couple decades.
Funny you said Dead Milkmen. Can’t say I’ve ever met anyone outside of Philly who considers them more than a one hit wonder
From the Netherlands: HANGYOUTH . One of their big hits is translated as "You don't hate mondays, you hate capitalism".
Leg de Zuidas in de as! 😈
Dane here.
Skalar is a great Ska Punk band, but they're so punk that most of their stuff has never been released as albums. They just play live. You can find a lot of concert recordings on youtube though.
Rock is a broad genre, and "best" is highly subjective. Personally, I'd highlight things like Dizzy Mizz Lizzy who had an interesting sound going back in the day.
Disneyland After Dark is always a classic. The Savage Affair if you're looking for something more ballad-y perhaps.
Stoner rock with blues notes? Baby Woodrose might tickle your fancy.
If you're looking for something more psycadelic, The Savage Rose could be an option.
I see Belgium is missing, let me add a few bands / songs off the top of my head:
Ku de Judas, from Portugal. They were a cult band in the 1980's. Most members have already died.
Mata-Ratos is another. They still exist today.
+1 for Mata-Ratos, probably my favourite punk band from Portugal.
I'll also add:
And even though they're not punk, you might also like Mão Morta.
Give a listening to Ornatos Violeta, then. Definitely not punk but they have this very unique sound profile to their music.
And for what it may be worth, look up Comme Restus. Project group, a single album ever produced. Lyrics are... Questionable.
I've heard both, actually. Ornatos Violeta didn't leave much of an impression, though. Maybe I'll give them another listen sometime.
Comme Restus, on the other hand, are stupidly catchy. I know of them since I was a teen. Speaking of questionable lyrics, I gotta mention Kalashnikov. Lyrical content aside, there are some great riffs in there.
Danish person here. I see the other Dane in the thread recommended some old goodies, I will give you some young guns:
And although they are not Danish (they're belgian) i highly recommend Maria Iskariot. I recently saw them warm up for Tropical Fuck Storm, and they blew the roof off the venue.
Russian/CIS rock:
tl. Windmill. Folk rock with a very unique and not direct (literary) lyrics
1 word: protest
Very lyrical, often describing slice of life situations
tl. King and Jester. Punk/horror folk rock.
Feels like late-soviet bard rock
Odd that ‘Splean’ is spelled like that in English, when the original word directly corresponds to ‘spleen’ as in bad mood or melancholy. Wikipedia notes that it's ‘a pun on the spelling of the Beatles’, but it doesn't quite work imo.
punk scene in Ireland started up the north late 70s with bands like the Undertones, and Stuff Little Fingers In the 90s you'd have Ash (alt rock) and Therapy? (punk/metal crossover) The only current punkish one I can think now are Fontaines DC and Murder Capital
Well for the US, at least the industrial inland rust belt part, I think it has got to be The Armed.
German here. I once made a playlist of my favorite german punk songs, 'cuz it's my main genre. The playlist isn't up to date anymore because I quit using Spotify, but maybe you can find some cool songs from there!
Here are some from France :
From Germany: Die Ärzte
From Austria: Frei Wild
