Alternatively, Dead Flag Blues-Godspeed You Black Emperor. Because a 16 minute long anthem that emanates despair and post apocalyptic hopelessness would be even better before everyone plays sports.

Thank you, thank you so much for not giving us God Save The Queen-Sex Pistols. Although i'd like to give serious consideration to Too Much Too Young-The Specials it feels so apt lyrically and who wouldn't want to dance along to a ska national anthem

Yes and i have, and agreed. They seemed to have more of a following by the time they reunited than they did when they broke up, but that is for the most part an anecdotal conclusion drawn from Internet buzz and the reunion gig of theirs i went to.

What about Refused? Or was there success always going to be 5-7 years down the line when the true impact of The Shape Of Punk To Come was felt? (I was 7 when that album was released, i can't pretend to have any idea how big they were at the time)

As remarkably futile as complaining about a singular band in a list of many culled from so much more ease, this list seriously needs more Mastodon.

I for one will not be satisfied until those worlds converge and we get a parallel universe show featuring infinite Matt Saracens, if we can have infinite Oppenheimers, we can have infinite Saracens.

If was going to do that sort of comparison, i'd probably just forgo the character/emotional beats, because i just don't really see the overlap there myself and compare the more meta/high concept/deconstructionist spirit to something like Comedy Bang Bang.