The Daily Telegraph Guide To Punk

'Britain's Best Selling Quality Daily' has finally decided to publish a guide to what the kids call 'punk rock'.

Some good choices - Pistols, Clash, Buzzcocks, and some bobbins - Generation X, Killing Joke. And no mention of any of the American bands which kicked things off - Ramones, NY Dolls, Television etc.

So for no reason other than pointless male list mania, I include my own personal punk top 10. Hey readers! why not do the same?

1. The Ruts - Babylon's Burning - this is the best 'getting ready to go out and drink beer' record ever made. The bass player Segs is now in Alabama 3, singer Malcolm Owen OD'd, which was careless.

2. The Sex Pistols - Bodies - the scariest intro of any song ever, and some great swearing. 'Fuck this and fuck that, fuck it all and fuck her fucking brat' full glorious lyrics here.

3. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love?

4. The Clash - I Fought The Law - cover version, the original was by one of Buddy Holly's Crickets. Best bit is the 6 rim shots on the line 'robbing people with a BANG BANG BANG six gun!'

5. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

6. The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop -hey ho! let's go!

7. Television - Marquee Moon. 10 minutes of guitars and cadillacs and graveyards.

8. Elvis Costello - Oliver's Army. a dead ringer for the king of Belgium.

9. Jilted John - Jilted John - where John Shuttleworth started....

10. Ian Dury and the Blockheads - What A Waste.