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This is a list of notable first wave punk rock musicians (1971–1979).

0-9

  • 4 Skins
  • 45 Grave
  • 999

A

  • Abrasive Wheels
  • Adam & the Ants
  • The Adicts
  • Adolescents
  • The Adverts
  • Agent Orange
  • Alex Harvey
  • The Alley Cats (Los Angeles)
  • Alternative TV
  • Amazorblades
  • Amebix
  • Angelic Upstarts
  • Angry Samoans
  • Anti-Nowhere League
  • Anti-Pasti
  • Art Attacks
  • Au Pairs
  • The Avengers

B

  • The B-52s
  • Bad Brains
  • Bags
  • Big Balls and the Great White Idiot
  • Big Boys
  • Big in Japan
  • Black Flag
  • Black Randy and the Metrosquad
  • Blitzkrieg Bop
  • The Blockheads
  • Blondie
  • The Boomtown Rats
  • The Boys
  • Bush Tetras
  • The Business
  • Buzzcocks

C

  • Catholic Discipline
  • Cardiac Kidz
  • Channel 3
  • Charged GBH
  • Chelsea
  • The Cheifs<!--not a typo-->
  • Cherry Vanilla
  • China White
  • Christian Death
  • Chrome
  • Chron Gen
  • Circle Jerks
  • Circus Mort
  • The Clash
  • Cock Sparrer
  • Cockney Rejects
  • James Chance and the Contortions
  • The Controllers
  • The Cortinas
  • The Cramps
  • Crass
  • Crime
  • Crime & the City Solution

D

  • The Damned
  • Darby Crash
  • The Dead Boys
  • Dead Kennedys
  • Death
  • Defunkt
  • Descendents
  • Desperate Bicycles
  • Devo
  • The Dickies
  • The Dictators
  • The Dils
  • The Diodes
  • Discharge
  • Disorder
  • DMZ
  • DNA
  • D.O.A.
  • The Dogs
  • Destroy All Monsters
  • The Drones
  • Ian Dury

E

  • The East Coast Angels
  • Eater
  • Ebba Grön
  • Eddie and the Hot Rods
  • The Electric Eels
  • Elton Motello
  • Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  • The Exploited

F

  • The Fall
  • Fang
  • Fatal Microbes
  • The Fast
  • Fastbacks
  • Fear
  • The Feederz
  • Flamin' Groovies
  • The Flesh Eaters
  • The Fleshtones
  • The Flowers of Romance
  • Flyboys
  • Forgotten Rebels
  • Flipper
  • The Flys (UK band)
  • The Freeze

G

  • Gang of Four
  • Generation X
  • The Germs
  • GG Allin
  • The Go-Gos
  • The Gun Club

H

  • The Heartbreakers
  • Hüsker Dü

I

  • Iggy Pop
  • The Innocents

J

  • The Jam
  • Jayne County
  • The Jerks
  • Joan Jett
  • Johnny Moped

K

  • The Kids (Belgian band)
  • The Killjoys
  • Kommunity FK
  • KSMB

L

  • Leisure Class
  • LiLiPUT
  • London
  • London SS
  • The Lurkers
  • The Last
  • Lydia Lunch

M

  • Magazine
  • The Mau Maus
  • MC5
  • The Mekons
  • The Mentally Ill
  • The Members
  • The Membranes
  • Mentors
  • Métal Urbain
  • MDC
  • Middle Class
  • Milk 'N' Cookies
  • Mink DeVille
  • Minutemen
  • Misfits
  • Misspent Youth (band)
  • Mission of Burma
  • The Modern Lovers
  • Jon Moss
  • The Mutants

N

  • Necros
  • Negative Trend
  • Neo
  • Neon Boys
  • Neon Hearts
  • Nervous Gender
  • The New Order (band)
  • New York Dolls
  • Nina Hagen Band
  • The Nipple Erectors
  • The Now
  • The Nosebleeds
  • The Nuns

O

  • The Offs
  • The Only Ones
  • The Outcasts
  • The Outsiders

P

  • The Pagans
  • Patti Smith
  • The Partisans
  • Pere Ubu
  • Penetration
  • Peter and the Test Tube Babies
  • The Plague
  • Plasmatics
  • Poison Idea
  • Poison Girls
  • The Police
  • Pork Dukes
  • The Prefects
  • Public Image Ltd
  • Punishment of Luxury
  • Pure Hell
  • The Punks
  • Pylon

Q

  • ? and the Mysterians

R

  • Radio Birdman
  • Radio Stars
  • Ramones
  • The Reactionaries
  • Really Red
  • The Replacements
  • The Rezillos
  • Rhino 39
  • Riff Regan
  • Rikki and the Last Days of Earth
  • Rocket from the Tombs
  • The Ruts
  • The Radiators from Space
  • The Runaways

S

  • The Saints
  • Scars
  • The Screamers
  • Sex Pistols
  • Sham 69
  • [[The Shapes (UK band)|The

Shapes]]

  • Shattered Faith
  • The Shirts
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • The Sillies
  • Skids
  • Skrewdriver
  • The Skulls
  • Slaughter & The Dogs
  • The Slits
  • Sniper
  • Social Distortion
  • Sonic's Rendezvous Band
  • The Specials
  • Special Duties
  • The Spitfire Boys
  • Spizzenergi
  • Splodgenessabounds
  • SS (Japanese band)
  • Steve Bjorklund
  • Stiff Little Fingers
  • Stinky Toys
  • The Stooges
  • The Stranglers
  • Subhumans (UK)
  • Subhumans (Canada)
  • Suburban Lawns
  • Suburban Studs
  • Subway Sect
  • Suicide
  • The Suicide Commandos
  • Swell Maps

T

  • T.S.O.L.
  • The Table
  • Teenage Head
  • Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
  • The Teen Idles
  • Television
  • Talking Heads
  • Toy Dolls
  • Toxic Reasons
  • The Tubes
  • Tubeway Army
  • Tuff Darts
  • Tuxedomoon

U

  • U.K. Subs
  • The Undertones
  • Ultravox
  • Urinals

V

  • The Vandals
  • The Varukers
  • Venus and the Razorblades
  • The Vibrators
  • Vice Squad
  • The Viletones
  • Void
  • (Richard Hell and) the Voidoids
  • VOM

W

  • Wayne County & the Electric Chairs
  • The Weirdos
  • Wipers
  • Wire

X

  • X (American band)
  • X (Australia)
  • XTC
  • X-Ray Spex

Z

  • Zero Boys
  • The Zeros (UK)
  • The Zeros (US)
  • Zolar X
  • Zounds

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