I wish to wax lyrical about punk music and its offshoots.

And I will at some point, but not today, or at the very least, not right away.

I will however share a playlist I’m building that consists of songs that are punk and punk-related. The main aim of this playlist is to one: get people such as myself to dance in their bedrooms, and two: make a curated list of songs through which (I say punk, but mostly what I mean is) post-punk (and new wave, no wave, hardcore, post-hardcore, dance-punk, alternative rock, alternative dance, etc.) has touched my life.

I know I’ve dropped a lot of obscure genre labels, and that makes stuff like what I’m making less accessible. I get excited, forgive me. Just get up off of the bed, jump up and about, thrash around, and enjoy yourself. This playlist — Everything punk touched — is intended for that. Over time, I plan to assort, arrange, annotate, but for now, it’s just an ever-growing list of punk and punk-adjacent songs through the ages.

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