(Your) Top 10 Punk Albums of All-Time

Post Reply New Topic

Divided by style.

Hardcore/Traditional:
(Album-Artist)
Complete Discography-Minor Threat
Ramones
The Process of Weeding Out-Black Flag
Frankenchrist-Dead Kennedys
Walk Among Us-Misfits
Out of Vogue-Middle Class
Q-Are We Men? A-We Are Devo-Devo
Society's Victim-Discharge
No New York-Various
Marquee Moon-Television

Post Punk/Dream Pop:
(Album-Artist)
Rip It Up-Orange Juice
Hatfull of Hollow-Smiths
Rock Legends vol. 69-Talulah Gosh
Sunny Sundae Smile- My Bloody Valentine
Strange Times-Chameleons
And Don't the Kids Just Love It?-Television Personalities
Three Times and Waving-Breathless
Pornography-Cure
Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division

Shoegaze:
(Artist-Album)
Ride-Nowhere
Galaxie 500-Today
Cocteau Twins-Treasure
Slowdive-Souvlaki
Kitchens of Distinction-Love is Hell
Spacemen 3-The Perfect Perscription
Psychedelic Horseshit-Laced
Jesus and Mary Chain-Darklands
Jesus and Mary Chain-Psychocandy
My Bloody Valentine-(tie between Loveless and Ecstasy and Wine, although everything they did except their first mini-LP and first EP are phenomenal)

Post-Hardcore/American Alternative
(Artist-Album)
Saetia-Retrospective
Fugazi-In on the Kill Taker
Big Black-Atomizer
Minutemen-Double Nickels on the Dime
Green River-Come on Down
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
Husker Du-Zen Arcade
Moss Icon-Lyburnum
Nirvana-Nevermind

oops, i put the wrong wiper album on my list. I meant "youth of america"

I think "Over the Edge" is my favorite Wipers album... I also love Greg Sage's "Straight Ahead" album.

An acquaintance of mine tried to track down Greg Sage (He lives in the Arizona desert), and when they found his house he told them as politely as possible that he didn't want to be bothered. I guess he has a lot of cats. Anticlimactic story... I know, but my response to the persons who told me this story was something along the lines of "What the f**k did you expect? Leave the dude alone"

I'm not surprised that he lives in the desert with a bunch o cats.

I mean, how many albums did wipers put out before they played a single show outside of portland? They only even played in their hometown once a year or something, right?

I've read some crap about the not playing shows thing was an ingenious plan on Sage's part to develop a cult following ... seems more like the feller is just plain shy

On the topic of cult musicians, I met someone in. A library who looked JUST like Steve Albini! I informed him of Big Black and Surfer Rosa and In Utero, and I asked him if this sounded familiar. He then said "Yes. That's because I AM Steve." I. Flipped. Turns out it wasn't him . My drummer said he wishes he had a camera to capture my expression at that moment.

The Clash- London Calling
The Ramones- Ramones
Iggy & The Stooges- The Stooges
Sex Pistols- Never Mind The Bollocks
The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground
New York Dolls- New York Dolls
Inflammable Material- Stiff Little Fingers
Red Roses For Me- The Pogues
Damaged- Black Flag
Complete Discography- Minor Threat
Pay To Cum- Bad Brains

etc...

Check my list again...No Control is brilliant!

Yeah I can agree with that. Grindcore originated from Hardcore Punk and Discharge's 'D-Beat' sound. As well as the Thrash Metal of the time

Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration are two fantastic albums. I find Harmony Corruption to be underrated and Fear, Emptiness and Despair as their best work in the 90s.

Check out Terrorizer and Repulsion for a similar sort of sound.

Drill into my brain
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rR6vzsqF88[/youtube]

1. The Clash: London Calling
2. Rancid: ...And Out Come the Wolves
3. Operation Ivy: Energy
4. The Clash: The Clash
5. The Distillers: Sing Sing Death House
6. Against Me!: Reinventing Axl Rose
7. Bad Religion: The Process of Belief
8. American Steel: American Steel
9. Ramones: Ramones
10. Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material

Wow! Stooges riff monster Ron Asheton a FILM STAR!??
Don't believe me huh?
Well check these out.

Look. There he is!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUkSMxeaeuA&feature=related[/youtube]
Go! Ron, go!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXZ7XYWcGuw[/youtube]

Went a bit off topic there, me thinks. But I have watched both Mosquito and Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo since the last post and found them both 'entertaining', and can recommend both for your viewing pleasure (if anyone cares).
Here's my top 10, which gets a bit hazy towards the end.
1. Raw Power
2. Never Mind the Bollocks - Sex Pistols
3. Marque Moon - Television
4. Funhouse - Stooges
5. London Calling - Clash
6. The Ramones
7. New York Dolls
8. White Light/ White Heat - Velvets
9. Singles Going Steady - Buzzcocks
10. New Rose (single) - The Damned

Wasted Again - Black Flag
The Bronx (III) - The Bronx
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death - Dead Kennedys
Bullet in A Bible - Green Day
Indestructible - Rancid
A Collection of Pop Classics - Reagan Youth
Divided We Stand - T.S.O.L
Nevermind The Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Bad Religion: The Process of Belief

I'm not good with albums but heres some.
In no order

Barely legal-The Hives
Dead to the World-Officer Negative
Raw Power-Iggy and The Stooges
Never Mind the Bollocks-Sex Pistols
Shorter, Faster, Louder-Kid Dynamite
No Control-Bad Religion
Energy-Operation Ivy
Minor Threat-Minor Threat
one by Void
one by Dag Nasty

and then a million more

Am I the only person that finds the Sex Pistols album to sound like absolute crap?

Here is my top 12.
It would make a very good playlist for the occupy movement.

New Model Army -Thunder and Consolation
killing joke - absolute dissent
billy Bragg- back to basics
the pogues - If I should fall from grace with God
Manic Street Preachers- Holy Bible
The Replacements- Let it be
The waterboys- this is the sea
the clash-London calling
Levellers- levelling the land
The Jam- The Gift
Ted Leo and the pharmacists- shake the sheets
Flogging Molly- drunken lullabies

Nice - rare to find someone else whose favorite Bad Religion album is The Process of Belief, and whose favorite Bronx album is III.


Wearing a shirt with this album cover right now, awesome.