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01.11.18 13 Albums That Got Me Into Punk

13 Albums That Got Me Into Punk

Since I've been on a black metal kick lately, I wanted something to do to get myself thinking about punk and hardcore albums that got me into the genre and continue to be some of my favorites. This isn't in any particular order. This'll probably end up extending into post punk and goth and all that good shit as well.
1Bad Religion
Against the Grain

While I had listened to punk before I heard this, this is the album that made everything click for me. The opening lead of "Modern Man" is what truly turned me onto punk.
2Misfits
Static Age

Despite this essentially being a compilation, this is classic Misfits.
3Ramones
End of the Century

Weirdly enough, this was the first Ramones album I got into. It's been a long time since I've put it on, but when I first heard it I couldn't stop listening to it. Definitely not the one to start with though, that'd probably either be their debut or "Rocket to Russia"
4NOFX
Never Trust a Hippy

Even though I don't have much respect for NOFX these days, I can't disregard them when I think about how I got into punk. This is just an EP, but I bought it initially for the cover and was hooked instantly. The song "You're Wrong" spoke very strongly to my 8th grade angst-fueled sensibilities.
5Germs
M.I.A.: The Complete Anthology

As the title would suggest, this collects most of the Germs' songs onto one disc. The Germs were really important to me in high school. Beneath the snarling, drunken growls of Darby Crash lived an amateur poet whose lyrics, along with Bad Religion's, revealed a more intellectual side of punk music outside of the Ramones' boredom and the Misfits' horror fantasies.
6Black Flag
Damaged

The cover of this album fascinated me. The opening notes of "Rise Above" terrified me. This album was up there with Slayer's Reign in Blood in terms of heaviest albums I had heard up to that point. I had already heard Minor Threat, but this album added a layer of darkness to the hardcore punk sound that really resonated with me. This album also began my unhealthy obsession with Henry Rollins, so there's that.
7Green Day
Dookie

I guess I really couldn't leave this out. This was the first CD I ever got. My mom wasn't particularly happy about her 8 year old going around the house singing about masturbation, smoking pot, and terrorism, so this got tossed in the trash pretty quickly. Punk rock, eh?
8Circle Jerks
Group Sex

The brevity of this album was strange to me. What was stranger was that my CD of it repeated the album. What a bonus! But, oh, man I played the living shit out of this album in high school. Keith Morris is thankfully still putting out rad material with OFF!
9Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Jello's vocals were so bizarre to me at the time. I remember hearing "Holiday in Cambodia," then getting this album and thinking, "Hey, this isn't the version I heard, this version sucks!" While I don't think the album version sucks anymore, I do still prefer the single version. Dead Kennedys are satirical political punk done fucking right.
10Propagandhi
Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes

I remember hearing about this album from a NOFX song, "The Marxist Brothers" on the above-listed EP. I found it at the record store and grabbed it immediately. The title initially drew me to it. Just the bluntness and finality of the title was rad to me. After listening to this I was totally hooked on Propagandhi. They're still one of my favorite bands. To me, they carried the torch of witty, smart, political punk after the Dead Kennedys dissolved.
11Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures

This album introduced me to the darker aspects of punk rock, what I would later found out is post-punk, goth rock, deathrock, etc. The hollow production, the driving basslines, and Ian Curtis' deep and eerie vocals definitely struck a nerve with me and probably influenced my current sensibilities to an extent. Probably not as much as this next record though.
12The Cure
Pornography

I didn't really "get" this album when I first heard it. Robert Smith's vocals were odd to me, the erratic riff of the opening track "One Hundred Years" and the minimalist sound didn't particularly grab me at first. It wasn't until a little later on that I understood this album's disturbing beauty and it's now one of my favorite albums, period.
13Subhumans
EP-LP

I don't remember why I bought this, but I'm glad I did. It's a collection of the Subhumans' early EPs, that to this day I still only own "Reason for Existence" individually.
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