top 50 punk albums of all time

[_lower_class_brat_]

What do you guys think of this?
i, personally think this is crap, theres a few good ones though.


http://www.punknews.org/article/21079

[White Riot!]

lists are dumb , its all personal anyway

[Ronald McRaygun]

how is greenday before disharge?!

[Joe Cooper]

Yeah, I don't know how the hell bands like Discharge and the Dwarves got in there among the see of Green Days and AFIs. It's like two separate people made the list.

It also begs the question as to what criteria was used to make the list. If it has to do with originality and artistic merit, it makes you wonder how the Get Up Kids got on the list, or how Green Day was number two. If it's based on the band's influence and contribution to the genre, where are the Ramones? For that matter, how can a list of the top 50 punk albums not have the Ramones at all, regardless of how they were determined?

I guess there's no use in saying it's a bad list as that's obvious, it's just totally puzzling.

Edit: Oh, nevermind. Didn't see the Ramones at number 10. Still, though, I think my point stands.

[Brain Toad]

Green Day > Most bands

[Hagbard Celine]

that list made me giggle

[cuts_like_drugs]

10. Ramones - Ramones (1976)

[Milo in college]

Nirvana and Blink-182 shouldn't be on there. Blink suck and Nevermind wasn't even punk.

[lynch_me]

They have some good bands but it's a terrible list.

[TakeWarning]

What a horrible, unbalanced list.

But there were a few good albums mentioned.

[Neoteric]

Well it was Kerrang! that did it, what do you expect?

[username77]

That list is silly.

[Ghostfire3]

Crass and Green Day all on one list!!!1! What more could you want?!

[DBoons Ghost]

Based on comments I won't even look.

[Henrik]

I think that even the guy who wrote the intro for Punknews is a noob.

[TheMisterBungle]

I think this list is almost funny. Then again almost.

[Cholo]

there's some great records on that list it has to be said but also there are some who's inclusion is laughable to say the least.

[RCVA]

It's pretty **** but what do you expect from kerrang?


There is NO way Manic Compression is a better Quicksand album than Slip.

[DBoons Ghost]

Well, I made the mistake and looked.

The majority of those bands aint even punk.

Pretty sad.

[Pint of stella]

That list was shocking. How the hell did Offspring, Nirvana and Blink 182 get into that list? Were people aged 14 and under only allowed to vote?

About a third of that list is pretty solid though. But the rest just completely ruins it. But I'm glad to see they didin't have propagandhi.

[Jersey's Best Dancer]

I was just about to post this in the community thread.. yeah, the list sucks. I've seen a bunch of them and this is probably the worst one of the bunch.

[Flagjacket]

Hey, check out THIS list of top punk albums! what a crap list!

http://www.last.fm/user/DanielOSullivan/journal/2006/06/1/147176/

[Excursions]

This is a real punk rockers album list (me). Eat **** and die scumbags.

1. Hasil Adkins - Out To Lunch
2. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
3. Repo Man Sountrack
4. Derek Bailey - Aida
5. Electric Eels - God Says **** You
6. Charles Gayle - More Live at the Knitting Factory
7. 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators
8. Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
9. The Dead C - Harsh 70s Reality
10. Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava
11. Roky Erickson - The Evil One
12. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
13. Glenn Branca - The Ascension
14. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One
15. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
16. Cortex - Spinal Injuries
17. The Sonics - Here are the Sonics!!!
18. The Kingsmen - The Kingsmen in Person
19. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
20. The Scientists - The Scientists
21. The Stooges - Fun House
22. Sun Ra - Super-Sonic Jazz
23. Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
24. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
25. Kraan - Kraan Live
26. Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974
27. High Rise - II
28. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
29. Johann Sebastian Bach
30. The Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes
31. Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm
32. The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards
33. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
34. Y Pants - Beat It Down
35. The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
36. Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop
37. The Verlaines - Juvenilia
38. Destroy All Monsters - Bored
39. Universal Congress of - Universal Congress of
40. Roy Montgomery - Scenes From the South Island
41. Saccharine Trust - We Became Snakes
42. Comus - First Utterance
43. Henry Flynt - Raga Electric. Experimental Music, 1963-1971
44. Birchville Cat Motel - Beautiful Speck Triumph
45. MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
46. Cannon's Jug Stompers - The Complete Works 1927-1930
47. The Homosexuals - The Homosexuals' Record
48. F/i - A Question for the Somnambulist
49. Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Rock-It To Stardom
50. Silver Apples - Contact

[Neoteric]

yur list wus lik soo undergrouund

/fayled

[Flagjacket]

yur list wus lik soo undergrouund

/fayled

What?

[AIRIC]

I wonder who the **** picked the albums more than the bands. How is Punk In Drublic and SLATFATS on there and not Ribbed? I can't even comprehend how Slip isn't the Quicksand album. And Machine Gun Etiquette over Damned Damned Damned?

And the Exploited? please.

[Jersey's Best Dancer]

Hey, check out THIS list of top punk albums! what a crap list!

http://www.last.fm/user/DanielOSullivan/journal/2006/06/1/147176/

Its pretty funny looking at the comments some ppl left. I guess they didn't understand how the list came about...

[Eliminator]

hahahaha sex pistols and green day at the top

[Angry Balled Fists!]

some good bands.
a decent list for kerrang!
i read this article the other week actualy.

[_Mote_]

Green Day and Rancid? What a lawl.

[Zesty Mordant]

people shouldn't get so riled up over these lists.

its bad for your blood pressure you know.

[DaveToopes]

3. Repo Man Sountrack

Hahahahahahaha.

[Eliminator]

13. Glenn Branca - The Ascension

**** yeah

[Joe Cooper]

What?
Although it wasn't articulated effectively, I think he's making fun of how elitist and masturbatory the list comes off as. I'm probably just being cynical, but reading through it did make me think that the sole purpose of its creation was to give us the idea that the author is on some whole new plain with his understanding of "punk". Admittedly, I haven't even heard of half of the artists on the list, but from I do know it's pretty clear that it's viewing "punk" to mean "avant-garde" or "independent" rather than an actual musical styling.

I'm not going to pretend for a second that I know more about music than Excursions does, because he clearly knows of many obscure and interesting artists, most of which I've never heard of. However, there's really no reason that a mediocre rockabily artist's compilation album (Out to Hunch, by the way) should be able to objectively top a "Best Punk Album" list unless the author wants to show off.

Or I guess unless it is genuinely his favorite album and the list is just written from a personal perspective. In which case I'm a huge douchebag and I apoligize.
hahahaha sex pistols and green day at the top
Do you think the Sex Pistols should not be towards the top of the list?

[Eliminator]

no i mean they're amazing sorry

[DBoons Ghost]

Never Mind the Bollocks should top any top punk album list.

It's the most influential punk album in music history. Heck, even outside the punk genre, it's going to be tops on any rock list.

[Excursions]

I'd like to think Hasil Adkins was more influential to punk music than the Sex Pistols.

Oh yeah, my list was made as a joke although it does contain many of my favorite albums and a good deal of albums which are among the top 50 punk albums of all time in my opinion, such as MX-80 Sound and the Homosexuals.

[Neoteric]

Although it wasn't articulated effectively, I think he's making fun of how elitist and masturbatory the list comes off as. I'm probably just being cynical, but reading through it did make me think that the sole purpose of its creation was to give us the idea that the author is on some whole new plain with his understanding of "punk". Admittedly, I haven't even heard of half of the artists on the list, but from I do know it's pretty clear that it's viewing "punk" to mean "avant-garde" or "independent" rather than an actual musical styling.

I'm not going to pretend for a second that I know more about music than Excursions does, because he clearly knows of many obscure and interesting artists, most of which I've never heard of. However, there's really no reason that a mediocre rockabily artist's compilation album (Out to Hunch, by the way) should be able to objectively top a "Best Punk Album" list unless the author wants to show off.

Or I guess unless it is genuinely his favorite album and the list is just written from a personal perspective. In which case I'm a huge douchebag and I apoligize.You overanalyse things a bit too much.

[DBoons Ghost]

I'd like to think Hasil Adkins was more influential to punk music than the Sex Pistols.

Most people don't even know who he is. Rockabilly's infuence on punk music wasn't until long after street music like stuff was around.

Way to name drop though. :thumb:

[Joe Cooper]

I'd like to think Hasil Adkins was more influential to punk music than the Sex Pistols.
It might be cool, since Hasil Adkins seems way more badass than John Lydon, but is that actually the case? I know members of the Cramps admired him, but I don't think many other seminal punk bands cite his work as an influence. It should go without saying, though, that the Sex Pistols influenced some of the genre's most renowned bands.

I don't know all that much about Hasil Adkins, but unless I'm missing something huge, I don't even think there's a contest over who had more influence on punk between him and the Pistols.


Oh yeah, my list was made as a joke although it does contain many of my favorite albums and a good deal of albums which are among the top 50 punk albums of all time in my opinion, such as MX-80 Sound and the Homosexuals.

Oh, guess I'm a douche then. My bad.

[Brain Toad]

The posting of the top 100 from here on Last.fm is hilarious. People on Last.fm have some shitty taste in music and a shitty definition of what is and isn't punk.

[Excursions]

The Sex Pistols weren't even a punk band.

[Ghostfire3]

The Sex Pistols were sell outs. Literally.

[DBoons Ghost]

You guys really fail at seeing the irony of it all.

The Sex Pistols should be the definitive punk band, especially since they were a boy band, sellouts, major label backed over produced over engineered group of rock stars.

I love it.

[Joe Cooper]

The Sex Pistols weren't even a punk band.
I guess this is all about semantics? "Punk" as I'm using it, and I assume as most use it, refers to a style of music. I'm assuming to you the term focuses more heavily on originality and DIY ethics? If so, then I could understand where you are coming from, although I would still argue that the Sex Pistols had a greater impact on punk, even with your definition.

[DBoons Ghost]

I guess this is all about semantics? "Punk" as I'm using it, and I assume as most use it, refers to a style of music. I'm assuming to you the term focuses more heavily on originality and DIY ethics? If so, then I could understand where you are coming from, although I would still argue that the Sex Pistols had a greater impact on punk, even with your definition.

Wow dude you need a sense of humor about this stuff.. like quick.

[Excursions]

Jandek started punk in 1978.

[Joe Cooper]

Wow dude you need a sense of humor about this stuff.. like quick.
Guess I'm getting too wrapped up in this. :o

[Neoteric]

Jandek started punk in 1978.Sheesh dude, Green Day started punk, how could you not know that?

[Excursions]

I've never heard of Greenday.

Sorry.

[Jon]

Before even opening it I knew that Young, Loud & Snotty and LAMF wouldn't be there.

PAH

[Ghostfire3]

You guys really fail at seeing the irony of it all.

The Sex Pistols should be the definitive punk band, especially since they were a boy band, sellouts, major label backed over produced over engineered group of rock stars.

I love it.

But punk is all about the exact oppostie of what you said!!1!

[Brain Toad]

I guess this is all about semantics? "Punk" as I'm using it, and I assume as most use it, refers to a style of music. I'm assuming to you the term focuses more heavily on originality and DIY ethics? If so, then I could understand where you are coming from, although I would still argue that the Sex Pistols had a greater impact on punk, even with your definition.

Even without looking at your joindate I can tell you are new to MX.

[AIRIC]

WHO THE **** CARES

[Jon]

wait so in 1974 when Johnny Thunders and Joey Ramone were sitting in their squats busy writing the manifesto for punk they said that included politics, DIY and most specifically, labels?

[SantaDuJuan]

If it wasn't for the Pistols would be punk be what it is today?
No.

However, numba 1? Nah.
It'd be extremely hard to choose a number 1 punk album.

Oh, the list is crap.
Nevermind? Come on, I love Nirvana but that's just horrible.

[Aus Rotten]

lists are dumb , its all personal anyway

QFT.

I read the first line, and knew the list would be horrendous.

[Twin Human Highway Flares]

Jandek started punk in 1978.
Bizarre. I just learned who Jandek was. I'd never heard of him, and then a half hour later this pops up. Weird.

[DaveToopes]

Who is Jandek?

[_Mote_]

I've never heard him either.

I'd credit punk to either The Stooges, Velvet Underground or MC5, but that's just me (and most rock historians).

[Flagjacket]

Rock historian! That can't be a real job can it?

[Brain Toad]

Rock historian! That can't be a real job can it?

Yeah. There is historians and historians can specialize in any field they wish, that has a history. So you could specialize in the history of rock and therefore be a rock historian.

There is also musicologists.

[Flagjacket]

That is ridiculous!

[Excursions]

Who is Jandek?

No one really knows for certain. Just some guy who released 40 or so albums since 1978. He only recently started playing live.

Twin Human Highway Flares: Indeed.

[Ghostfire3]

If it wasn't for the Pistols would be punk be what it is today?
No.

You're right... The world of punk would be a much better place had it not been for the Sex Pistols!:lol: pwn.

[SantaDuJuan]

You're right... The world of punk would be a much better place had it not been for the Sex Pistols!:lol: pwn.

Whether you like them or not they did influence bands to start making punk music.

Same with the Clash.
rofl noob

[DaveToopes]

Why the **** are you guys speculating about what punk would be like without ANY band? The real answer is that nobody knows because it never ****ing happened!

[SantaDuJuan]

Why the **** are you guys speculating about what punk would be like without ANY band? The real answer is that nobody knows because it never ****ing happened!

Deep.

[The Ska Man]

Crass and Green Day all on one list!!!1! What more could you want?!

lolocaust..God..I feel lame saying that..

[bleep_bloop]

that's the worst list ive ever seen, and reagan youth's not on there.

[Eliminator]

no way dude the first beastie boys ep should be on there

it rules!!!

[TakeWarning]

Why the **** are you guys speculating about what punk would be like without ANY band? The real answer is that nobody knows because it never ****ing happened!

‪‪‪‪‪

[DBoons Ghost]

It wouldn't be punk without the Sex Pistols. Imagine the lack of fashion, bad makeup, and sexy clothes. Straight Edge kids would no longer wear bondage pants and lace and be walking contradictions and never understand why! It would be anarchy for reals!

I love it.

[AIRIC]

You know what else I think is pathetic and gay?
When niggaz speculate about what Pac would say
You don't know **** about a dead man's perspective
and talking **** will get your neck bone disconnected.

[DBoons Ghost]

Haha.. yo Skruunnch, if you dig on SOD, have you checked out MOD yet?

[lynch_me]

Aren't one of those like a rap crossover band?

[Flagjacket]

That's POD

[DBoons Ghost]

MOD is Methods of Destruction. Billy Milano of SOD formed the band after SOD broke up. It's hysterical.. Well, some of it is.

[AIRIC]

I'll look for some stuff. Is it still thrashy stuff?

[DBoons Ghost]

I'll look for some stuff. Is it still thrashy stuff?


Yeah it's real thrashy and more hardcore.

I'd recommend USA for MOD and possibly the second one which I think is Gross Misconduct. They started sucking a little due to the leaning too much to metal and away from punky hardcore thrashy stuff.

Billy Milano himself is a turd but he's funny.

[Anxious]

No one really knows for certain. Just some guy who released 40 or so albums since 1978. He only recently started playing live.

Twin Human Highway Flares: Indeed.

Everyone knows who he is now. Either this year or last year he played a live concert. No joke. It was also recorded as an album

[Excursions]

No one knows for certain who he is though. There is very little known information about him. Everyone always knew what he looked like since he was often pictured on his album covers.

[Anxious]

Well theres alot more info on him now than ever before.