What are some awesome punk emo and rock bands?

Answer 1

thing is, it depends on who you are talking to and their cultural significance as to classify what punk, and emo are. rock? everyone knows what rock is, but is is a whole genre of music. but lets see how i go..... (btw, these are my interpretations of what punk emo and rock are.....)

Punk~

1. The Misfits
2. The Sex Pistols
3. Black Flag
4. Anti-Flag
5. The Matches
6. Sum 41
7. pennywise
8. senses fail
9. AFI
10. Billy Talent
11. Dropkick Murphys
12. The Hot Lies (awesome Aussie band, relatively unknown, a little digging around the internet should show some mp3 downloads)
13. The Living End
14. Mest
15. NOFX
16. The Offspring
17. Start Trouble
18. +44
19. Gold Finger
20. Fall Out Boy (more toward FUCT and Take This To Your Grave)
21. Turbonegro

(The infamous) Emo~

1. Dashboard Confessional
2. Jimmy Eat World
3. Escape The Fate
4. From First to Last
5. Hawthorn Heights
6. The Starting Line
7. Thursday
8. Underoath
9. The Academy is....

Rock~ (this one covers a whole lot more genres aswell, mainly artists I listen to)

1. Avenged Sevenfold
2. Bullet For My Valentine
3. Atreyu
4. Trivium
5. Metallica (check out Apocalyptica)
6. Killswitch Engage
7. Led Zeplin
8. ACDC
9. Van Halen
10. Nirvana
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers
12. Rage Against the Machine
13. Living Colour
14. White Zombie
15. Disturbed
16. I Killed The Prom Queen (another Aussie band {guess where im from???})
17. Dragon Force
18. In Flames
19. Parkway Drive (Aussie)
20. Static-X
21. Queens of the Stone Age
22. Your Name In Neon