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31.Propagandhi - How to Clean Everything
The first album from Canada's foremost progressive-thrash pranksters was an exercise in how to have a message while having fun. Their self-deprecating humor, righteous anger, tongue-in-cheek slogans and stolen riffs combined to create an album that surprised the band with it's success. Alongside such traditional political fodder as sexism, religion and racism sits less serious songs such as 'Ska Sucks' and 'This Might Be Satire.' Often thought-proivoking, always entertaining, Propagandhi proved with this album that they never have and never will pledge allegiance.


32.NOFX – Ribbed
According to Fat Mike "this was the first NOFX album people liked". They took a little bad religion, di, rkl, and came up with the nofx sound. People started to enjoy themselves at NOFX shows. This album opens with the powerful song "Green Corn" and the power keeps up right to the very last song "The Malachi Crunch" which is a classic NOFX tune. This album also shows there diversity in music styles with ska songs such as "Food, Sex & Ewe" and "I Don't Want You Around" to the jazzy classic "Together On The Sand". It combines powerful punk songs, ska, jazz, and good old NOFX humour with song like "New Boobs" and just look at the album cover its a hudge red NOFX condom. With Fat Mike actually starting to sing good (kind of),his outstanding bass lines, some of Steve (who quit to join a rock band) and Melvins best guitar work, Bad Religion style harmonys, and Smellys million mile and hour drum beats this album was one of NOFX's best


33.AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
The guitar fades in and the drums crash, the album begins. This is just the intro to the album. But just beyond this description of the first part of the intro lies symbolism for not only this band, but for the future of punk after this album's release. Originally pictured as a one-dimensional hardcore band, AFI's Black Sails In The Sunset catapulted the band into recognition for their signature sound. From the hard, yet still melodic songs like "Midnight Sun", to their straight-forward hardcore songs like "Porphyria Cutania Tarda", to their more somber and brilliant material such as "Clove Smoke Catharsis", Black Sails In The Sunset is a monument in hardcore and a precursor to the present-day incarnation of melodic hardcore.


34.GBH - City Baby Attacked by Rats
Released in 1982, it was the first album of the famous street punk band (Charged) G.B.H. Packed full of loud, fast, and hard songs like the title track City Baby Attacked by Rats, I Am the Hunted, Slut, Big Women (Big women, I like the size. Big women, flabby thighs), and the 5 minute classic Bellend Bop. The album keeps you pumped up and contains some pretty nice drum and guitar work. This album is nescessary for any fan of street punk or punk in general.


35.Conflict - The Ungovernable Force
The Ungovernable force see's Conflict in their prime. The album takes on subjects ranging from police brutality, to environmental degradation. With this album Conflict showed that they beleived fully in the anarchist movement of the 80's and they also one of the leading names of the movement. The music is thrashy and the vocals aggresive, exactly what is needed in a punk rock album. Key songs are Force or service, This is the ALF, and the title track The Ungovernable Force


36.Bad Religion - Against the Grain
Against the Grain is considered by many to be the peak of Bad Religion's career. A perfect example of hardcore / punk rock beyond 1985. Fast songs sung at break neck speed with harmonies and leads for all to enjoy. One of the essentials to punk rock and a backbone of the industry. Numerous tracks off this album would later be used in a 'best of' cd entitled 'All Ages'. so that just goes to show you how good it really is.


37.Bad Religion - No Control
How a band can accomplish making a follow-up album to one that instantly became a landmark in punk rock is one task that seems beyond any band out there. However Bad Religion's No Control somehow successfully accomplished this feat. Featuring some of the catchiest guitar riffs you will ever hear and some of the smartest political lyrics that stand the test of time, No Control is a truly timeless album. Many fans wondered if the band had hit it's peak after Suffer. Could No Control actually rival that success? A few tracks in, you will see that Bad Religion had done it once again. The band had managed to outdo themselves and after releasing No Control, they went on to make many more records. You might say that if it weren't for No Control, one of the world's most influential and remarkable punk bands would not be around today.


38.The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
The Ramones first album may have been the one that kick-started the UK punk explosion but this is the one that really got the kids all hopped up and ready to go. Their third album saw the Ramones at the peak of their powers before they began to slip into self-parody. With classics like Cretin Hop, Sheena Is A Punk Rocker and Teenage Lobotomy, this album replete with all the simple catchy music that you would expect from the band that every pop-punk band since then has imitated in some way.


39.Dropkick Murphy's - The gang's all here
This is the album that introduces the Al Barr/Ken Casey switch off after Mike left the band. It is the second album of the 4 full albums they have released and is full of irish-influenced punk anthems. It starts off with the raging "Blood and Whiskey", ends with an unexpected play of Rick Barton's answering machine and in-between it will rock your face off. This album is most likely better than you.


40.Fugazi - 13 Songs
Post-hardcore genius from the father of straight-edge. Featuring Minor Threat of Minor Threat and Embrace, Guy Picciotto and Brendan Canty of Rites of Spring and bassist Joe Lally, 13 Songs compiled their earlier EPs into one hard-rocking package filled with musical intervention and more importantly, great songs. Tracks such as Waiting Room, Burning and Lockdown inspired countless great bands. With this album Fugazi changed hardcore, and music, forever.