I'll shut up about Combat Rock being my favourite then.

^^at least it's not Cut the Crap

They're all great, but London Calling is my favourite.

My favourite punk album is The Dead Kennedy's 'Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death'

Not sure if they've been mentioned but the debut album by the Adolescents is very good, especially on the tracks they really play out on, like this one.


Adolescents - Kids of the Black Hole - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exSxO...feature=relmfu

Adolescents - Amoeba - YouTube

^^I was just listening to that album

F*ckin' A!!!!!

Good stuff eh, its considered the second most important west-coast punk record after the Dead Kennedy's debut

I'm listening to the Ruts debut for the very first time, I can't believe that I'd never heard this album before, its a punk classic and the Ruts sound like the New York Dolls meets the Clash:band:

^ great album. One of my favorite.

Steve Soto played bass for them before he went and joined Adolescents. On the original "Bloodstains" 7".

Great band, saw them live here a couple years back and smoked a joint with Mike Palm. Nice guy.

Heard for the first time today as was very impressed, I knew about the connection with the Adolescents when I was listening to the Adolescent's album.

The original is the best. Never kind the bolllocks....nothing like it.

Are you talking about Agent Orange, the Sex Pistols or another band?

of course they never were

Everything about the Pistols and Bollox completely blows other punk out of the water in every single possible way.

I love Bollocks, even if it's a bit overproduced. Johhny Rotten is just one of the most charismatic and unique frontmen of all time. Easily my fav punk vocalist.

meh. I like that album, but wouldn't call it the best. One of the most influential I will give it. But I can not say it blows everything else out of the water. Look at the albums I have listened and give some a listen and you may be surprised.

Most of the albums you've listed are a load of bollocks.

quiet you.

Has to be Never mind the Bollocks, otherwise there would be nothing to talk about in the first place.

That makes it the first, not the best.
If YOU think it's the best say why YOU think it's the best, don't just offer some lazy reason like that.

I think Bollox is the best because of Rotten's voice and lyrics mainly. I think it's bizzarre that he ended up being in the band in the first place but then for them to somehow find a musical formula and then of course an attitude/lifestyle/outlook or w/e that enabled him to use the expressiveness of his voice is what best defines punk and obviously with them being as good as the originators then they get uber cred for that. I can see how people might think it's 'overproduced' for a punk album but it still sounds sorta tacky like a punk album should. Any less well produced or performed and it'd be too amateurish any more and it'd be too proffesional. They lyrics and themes seem stunningly original to me to and brilliant. I just love some of those lyrics. Bodies? What the **** is that!!! Who ever came up with something like that before? Bodies actually has a mini overture to it which is a very inspired idea from Jonesy or Glen Matlock or whoever came up with that. They're very ominous chords aren't they which just sets you up for what's to come perfectly. I never get over how original and exciting and powerful the Pistols music is well the songs from when Rotten was in them. It was such a freak of fortune that that band ended up together.

I like the Sex Pistols but I wouldn't call them the best, they pretty much defined punk for me but bands like The Damned, Killing Joke, Magazine and Big Black took the genre one step further.

sandinista because its 3 discs of raw badassness

Sandinista! is too eclectic to fit under any banner, punk or otherwise

Can't Maintain by Andrew Jackson Jihad is the best punk album

The more I listen to this masterpiece, the more it climbs the ranks:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LTP0NOojjX...heDarkness.jpg

such an amazing album.



just awesome.

riff kinda does remind me this:

Just been listening to the Bad Brains debut and what a classic, ranks up there as one of the best hardcore debuts along with Dead Kennedys, Black Flag and Agent Orange. If I had to choose just one, I'd probably go with Bad Brains its pure chaos.

Yeah, and with enough dub influence to break the tension. Though I usually skip those songs.

Is one of the best.

That's one of the things so great about it, its pure hardcore chaos and in the blink on an eye its reggae which serves as a breather (I don't even like reggae but BB mix it in just right) before going back into the hyper hardcore of the rest of the album. One of the songs on this debut album, was used in one of the GTA games to great effect.

Right Brigade was on GTA4, and S/T Bad Brains is definitely a top 3 punk album. I'd go with either that, Damaged by Black Flag or Suicidal Tendencies S/T. I listen to more hardcore than anything else.

You should check out Big Boys, and their compilations "The Skinny Elvis" and "The Fat Elvis".

some of my top 10 that comes to mind:


1. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
2. NoMeansNo - Wrong
3. Black Flag - Damaged
4. Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
5. Gang Green - Preschool
6. Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness
7. Dicks - Kill From the Heart
8. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
9. Zero Boys - Vicious Circle
10. SNFU - ...And No One Else Wanted to Play

some others that come to mind:

The Wipers - Youth of Today
Minor Threat - Minor Threat 7"
Deep Wound - Deep Wound
Genetic Control - First Impressions
DOA - Something Better Change
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
Fear - The Record



can probably come up with more, but will try and make a better list when i am not half dead.

I cant believe I missed Fresh Fruit For Rotten Vegetables and Plastic Surgery Disasters by Dead Kennedys. And thats an excellent list.

Add Is This My World by Jerry's Kids up there for me as well, highly underrated album.

Yeah, was going to. Name escaped me at time.

RKL~Riches to Rages

Idono that's just me

Probably doesn't belong on this thread, but this deathrock album is just so good.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uB-0D-gV8m...tian+death.jpg

Wipers' Over the Edge and Husker Du's New Day Rising are my faves...used to be Rancid's And Out Come the Wolves and NOFX's Punk in Drublic when I was much younger though, the anthems of my youth so to speak.

The Ramones S/T
The Clash S/T
Damned Damned Damned
XRay Spex Germ Free Adolescence
Sex Pistols Never Mind or Spunk!
Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material
Crass: Feeding of the 5000
old stuff