Marky Ramone: My 5 Favorite Punk Songs

Drummer explains how tracks by Kinks, Love prefigured the movement

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Many consider the Ramones' self-titled debut, recently named the greatest punk album of all time by Rolling Stone, to be punk's Big Bang moment. But according to Marky Ramone, the famed Queens group's later-period drummer, the genre's roots stretch back quite a bit further. Here, Ramone, who will spend his summer playing classic Ramones tunes on tour in Europe with his band Blitzkrieg, names his five favorite punk songs.

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The raunchiness of the production and Dave Davies' guitar sound were the beginnings of punk. When I first heard it I was like, "Holy shit!"

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This is an off-the-wall song that's crazy and insane beyond description. It was different than anything on the radio.

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This came out 10 years before the genre was really consolidated at CBGB, but it's still punk. It should have gone Number One.

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I was in this band. This song spoke for the populace at the time CBGB was going. It reflects a moment in time.

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The fuzz bass, production and singing on this had all the elements of punk. It's filthy, sludgy and different from anything else that came out in 1966.