My top three:
1. Never Mind the B****** (the very symbol of punk)
2. The Ramones (The thing that started modern punk)
3. Fresh fruit for Rotting Vegetables (a never-ending smack in the face)
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do no exist. The people liberate themselves."-Che Guevara
.Pere Ubu-The Modern Dance
.Pennywise-Unknown Road or About Time(both have extremely good pissed-off tunes)
.Killing Joke's first album
.Bad Religion-Generator
.Fugazi-In On The Killtaker
.Rudimentary Peni-Death Church
.Dead Milkmen-Beelzebubba
.Dead Kennedys-Plastic Surgery Disasters
.Black Flag-My War
.The Melvins-Gluey Porch Treatments
.Nirvana-Incesticide or Bleach
.The Ramones-Road To Ruin
.Ministry-Houses Of The Mole
.Rites Of Spring-End On End
.MDC-Millions Of Dead Cops
.Husker Du-Zen Arcade
.Minutemen-Double Nickels On The Dime
.Cro-Mags-Best Wishes
Felt I should include some more.
.The Offspring-First Album
.Subhumans-From The Cradle To The Grave
.Agent Orange-Living In Darkness
.Violent Femmes-Freak Magnet
.Gang Of Four-Entertainment!
.Devo-Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
.Dead Boys-Young, Loud, And Snotty
.The Germs-MIA
.NOFX-Ribbed
.The Last-LA Explosion
.Fear-The Record
.X-Ray Spex-Germ Free Adolesence
.Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged During Shipment
.Propaghandi-Potempkin City Limits
and because I do like it extremely and I like to poke fun at the purists despite how much I can't stand rich kid posers and whatever FUSE is shoving down our throats...........................................................
Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT!
Okay...ONE MORE!!!
The Circle Jerk's Wild In The Streets
damn
Rosemary's Babies-Talking to the Dead
Mourning Noise-Death Trip Delivery
if anyone knows who these 2 bands are youre my homie.
Hello I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Jackass.
Wow, I can't wait for this doco to come out. Alright, here's my personal heirarchy.
TSOL - S/T (circa 1980)
Dead Kennedies - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
...and may I add that Propagandhi are by far the most genuine punk band out in the culture today. With the advent of punk rock and rebellion infiltrating the mainstream, may they let us think otherwise via rocking the hell on.
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Oh yeah and Doyle-Punk, yeah I do know Rosemary's Babies. How could you forget such a funny name haha. Does this mean I'm in your posse?
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Punk rock is what I was brought up on, so I have been listening to it forever. Hard to pick out my favorite albums, but here goes a small list of albums I have been listening to lately-
Pennywise- Wildcard/Word From The Wise
Poison Idea- Dutch Courage
Riverboat Gamblers- To The Confusion Of Our Enemies
Good Riddance- Symptom Of A Leveling Spirit
Huntingtons- Growing Up Is No Fun: The Standards
Methadones- 21st Century Power Pop Riot
Face To Face- Shoot The Moon: Essential Collection
Alkaline Trio- From Here To Infirmary
All- Breaking Things
Youth Brigade- Come Again
Death Piggy- Smile Or Die
Negative Trend- EP
Descendents- Somery
plastic surgery disasters - dead kennedys
fresh fruit for rotten vegetables - dead kennedys
black and white - the stranglers
bad religion - stranger than fiction
heavy petting zoo - nofx
My band: www.myspace.com/mordingjarnir
Bullet-Misfits
A Class of Our Own-Lower Class Brats
Rather Be Hated than Ignored-Lower Class Brats
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables-Dead Kennedys
Damaged-Black Flag
Never Mind the Bollocks-Sex Pistols
Punk's Not Dead-The Exploited
there are just too many but those are a few
Bloodied But Unbowed-D.O.A.
The Day The Country Died-Subhumans
Damaged-Black Flag
Inflammable Material-Stiff Little Fingers
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegtables-Dead Kennedys
Stations Of The Crass-Crass
Not A Pretty Sight-Death Sentence(This is a ep but i had to mention it because it's *beep* great)
These are the best punk albums, period.
Screeching Weasel - Bark Like a Dog
The Riverdales - Storm the Streets
Teenage Bottlerocket - Total
The Lillingtons - Death by Television
The Creeps - Back to the Bin
Honorable Mention:
Ramones - Leave Home
The Clash - London Calling
Social Distortion - Social Distortion
Social Distortion - Sex, Love, & Rock n Roll
Rancid - ...And out come the wolves
Punk-o-Rama III
"A collection of pop Classics"-Reagan Youth
"Living in Darkness"-Agent Orange
"Adolescents/All by Myself"-Adolescents
Call me poser or whatever
"Electriclarryland"-Butthole Surfers
"Everything Sucks"-Descendents
Is it "" for albums or __?
PS I love you internet people flaming each other. It gives me quit the laugh.
The Shape of the Punk to Come easily.
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WYLD, I like your picks man, those are some of the best CD's I've ever listened to. Some of my favorites..
My Brain Hurts, Weasel Mania - Screeching Weasel
Stranger Than Fiction, No Control, Suffer, The Gray Race - Bad Religion
Situationist Comedy - Dillinger Four
Burning Flesh and Broken Fingers - The Criminals
Damaged - Black Flag
Kid Dynamite and Shorter, Faster, Louder - Kid Dynamite
How I Spent My Summer Vacation - The Bouncing Souls
End Of The Millennium - 59 Times The Pain
Love Songs For The Retarded, Move Back Home - The Queers
Face to Face, Reactionary - Face to Face
Anthology of Releases 2001-2003, 2004-2005 - Career Suicide
Are Young and Good Looking, How To Win Friends and Influence People, Sugarfix/Thank Heaven For Little Girls - Dwarves
Also, I gotta mention Green Day and their CD's "Dookie", and "Insomniac", great albums even if they are considered "sellouts".
To the poster citing Dude Ranch as an album introducing you to punk, I agree actually. While I realize that a TON of people hate the band, I remember hearing their songs on the radio constantly, so I was exposed to them on a regular basis as well. As much as I hate to admit it, I actually do like quite a few songs by the band.
I'm Not Dead - Pink
Let Go - Avril Lavigne
Still Not Getting Any - Simple Plan
The Young And The Hopeless - Good Charlotte
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It's sad that only one person has mentioned the Minutemen.
Double Nickels on the Dime ~ Not only the best punk album of all time, but the best album of any genre.
True, but I do think it has some severe competition with Zen Arcade. I think what's really unique about them is that despite the fact they're both under the same musical tag and compared a lot, the two albums sound NOTHING alike!
But hey, if you could combine killing Joke's 1980 debut with their 1990 Extremities, Dirt, and Various Repressed Emotions plus Rudimentary Peni's Cacophony, Big Black's Songs About *beep* and Fugazi's End Hits we'd have another severe competitor.
"Rise of The Serpant Men" or "Grind the enemy"- Axegrinder
"Outlaw Anthems"- Blood for Blood
"Young Loud and Snotty"- Dead Boys
"Freaks *beep* Drunks and Junkies" or "Always Was, Is, and Allways Will Be"- GG Allin
"Bad Music for bad People"- The Cramps
Sex Pistols suck and so does Dead Kennedys and the Addicts.
People have to open their mind to other bands that are not mainstream.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???!!!!!! The Dead Kennedys are mainstream?!?! I think Blood for Blood are probably more mainstream than they are. And unlike the Dead Kennedys, The Cramps had videos on MTV! I really don't mind you saying the Sex Pistols suck but I'm willing to bet you've never heard the Dead Kennedys and just said that to look hardcore. Hmph...poser!
sharetry out some bigwig, belvedere, nofx, adhesive,...etc. i hate the sex pistols, but i love the dead kennedys. the clash got gay after a while etc.... and todays punk just a bunch of *beep*
share13 Songs - Fugazi
Double Nickels on the Dime - Minutemen
Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited
Group Sex - Circle Jerks
Walk Among Us - The Misfits
Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Suffer - Bad Religion
Damaged - Black Flag
Never Mind the Bollocks - The Sex Pistols
Ramones first album
Black Flag - Damaged
The Germs - G.I.
How Could Hell Be Any Worse? -Bad Religion
Fear - The Record
The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned
Circle Jerks - Group Sex