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21.Minor Threat - complete discography
This all encompassing Discography of the legendary DC hardcore band Minor Threat is a must listen for anyone interested in hardcore. Singer Ian MacKaye has become a great figure within the punk and hardcore communities. He helped form and give life to the Straight Edge movement and Minor Threat is a great influence for most hardcore bands since their formation in the early 80's. Great songs include "Filler", "Salad Days", "In My Eyes" among many others.


22.Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves
This album, released in 1995, made rancid to one of the most well know punk bands. Ruby Soho was a major mtv and radio hit, Maxwell Murder is also known for Matt Freeman's bass solo, and Time Bomb and Roots Radicals are hits of their own. On this album rancid tried to do something they never had done before: ska (time bomb, daly city train, old friend). Featuring Lars frederiksen's outstaning vocals on songs like Roots Radicals and The War's End, this album is filled with classic tracks and great lyrics such as Journey To The End Of The East Bay (about Operation Ivy). A great album featuring alot of Rancid's classics on it.


23.Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
An album that may not be punk in sound but certainly is in ethic. With highly-politicised lyrics, inspired song-titles and above all, excellent musicianship featuring brilliant basslines from Mike Watt, tight drumming from George Hurley and great guitar work from DBoon this album defied musical boundaries to create a truly unique record. With over 40 songs, at least 30 over which are great, this album has too many highlights to mention and remains a testament to the talent of the now sadly departed Dboon and his great musical chemistry with Watt and Hurley.


24.Circle Jerks - Group Sex
When Black Flag frontman, Keith Morris, left the band to form anothern band, many were skeptical. How could one produce a band that is even comparable to the revolutionary Black Flag? To Morris, the answer was simple. Take what was good about Black Flag. The aggression, the intensity, the abrasiveness. Make it more aggresive, more intense, more abrasive. That's just what Morris' new band, The Circle Jerks, accomplished in their debut release. The band was able to make some of the fastest, catchiest, and most intense music to date. The album ranged from political songs like "Paid Vacation" to humorous songs like "I Just Want Some Skank". Featuring future Bad Religion guitarist, Greg Hetson, the Circle Jerks created one of the most influential albums in hardcore history.


25.Black Flag - The first 4 years
Even in it's early beginnings, punk music was becoming stale. It was not until Black Flag formed, that the entire world of music was laid flat on it's back. The first four years of the band's lifespan were certainly the most influential, and now that period of time has been documented on this album. Having to replace band members constantly could not deter this band from putting out some of the first incarnations of hardcore. This record has all the recordings done in the band's early life including work from members such as Keith Morris, Chavo, Dez, and of course the legendary Greg Ginn. From the pure anger in "I've Had It" to the poetic brilliance of "Damaged I", this album contains it all from the band that embodies punk and helped give birth to hardcore.


26.Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights
Ska punk mastermind Tomas Kalnoky’s first big band, Catch 22 came together in late 1996. They spent two years touring almost non-stop, before signing to victory records to record their first full length album. “Keasbey Nights” quickly became a hit in the world of ska and punk. The group had amazing bass lines, and horn parts that you could be stuck humming for weeks. Everything seemed to fall perfectly into place for this album. Tomas’ vocals seemed to be fit the music perfectly. This album starts off with the fast paced “Dear Sergio” and includes the song “Keasbey Nights”, which has one of the most addictive and sing a long choruses you will ever hear before it finshes with “12341234”, which is an amazing song with a minute long acoustic intro, followed by several more minutes of fun and excitement, closing the album in a perfect way.


27.Leftover Crack - Mediocre Generica
After Choking Victim broke up the former band members were left with nothing to do. They soon reformed with a new drummer and became Leftover Crack. With this album they took many written but not recorded Choking Victim songs, plus some new songs and made a good debut for this skacore band. They lost of their true ska roots for a more hardcore sound, but you can still hear the ska influence in songs as Gay Rude Boys Unite. But also showing their pseudo-politcal side in songs like Nazi White Trash and Atheist Anthem.


28.Exploited - Punk's Not Dead
The group that defined street punk and popularised it, this debut album set off what punk rock should be about. The Exploited were formed in Thatcher era England and their songs reflected that. Not with political insigt, but angry lyrics speaking out against the fucked society in which they were living. Released in 1981, the punk scene that was so budding 4 years ago might of been dieing, but Wattie refused to believe this and shouted out in the title track of the album that it was not. The album is solid street from Punks Not Dead all the way to the last track, I Believe in Anarchy


29.The Misfits - Static Age
Possibly the best release by one of the best punk bands of their time. Boasting some of the band's best material ever written and has a better production than most of their releases. This is the album to spawn the on coming bands and fans of this classic punk rock sound. Be sure to listen to such greats as Hybrid Moments, We Are 138, Bullet and the infamous One Last Caress.


30.Bad Religion - Suffer
Ah, Suffer, one of my favorite albums. Originally released in 1988, then re-mastered last year, this album still ranks as one of the top Bad Religion albums. The cover art is awesome, the kid on fire is memorable. The cd bursts out with the banging rifts of You Are The Government, which sets the stage for the rest of this amazing cd. On this cd, they seem to have sound their sound and set into it. They begin to drift away from the hardcore feel seen on the albums on Hell/80-85, and into more harmonic stuff that has come to define Bad Religion. Hetson and Gurewitz rip up the place together, with Gaffin singing at the top of his game.