Here is my list of punk, post punk and post-post-punk-new-wave bands I love:
Big Country, first and foremost and forever.
The Chameleons
The Waterboys
The Alarm
REM
Th Cure
Wang Chung (trust me, they were a punk band)
I consider Motorhead a punk band, they are so dissimilar to the metal I like.
The Misfits
Samhain
The Skids
The Clash
some Ramones
I love how punk created a lot of bands that were so far away from punk that it really made the whole thing worthwhile. If punk were the ramones, the clash and the sex pistols, it would be a very awful experiement in music, but every band took it to another place and eventually we got great overproduced pop records, like depeche mode and the pet shop boys out of it. I used to really hate punk until I realized how it had morphed into some of the stuff I love the most.
The muderdolls? I am a huge slipknot fan and think that album is a piece of shit. That is the opposite of a good idea. It's like if edsel dope made a punk album and was drunk, stoned and on a crack bender the entire time. I just really hate the bands that want to live in 1977 perpetually like punk stayed the same forever and only the sellouts advanced it to where it got.
It's funny, you never hear punks throw the clash to the wolves, but mention Falco, if they know who it is, and they will act like that whole scene never existed, the hypocrits.
It's like if us metal fans talked a bunch of shit about every NWOBHM band that didn't quit in 1983 or accused maiden with dickinson to be the same category as Damn Yankees or Bad English.