Unknown Soldier

Most of the Clash grew up in London in the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s and around that time, there was a heavy awareness of socialism largely due to the revolutions years earlier in Hungary and Czechoslovakia and for most of that time Labour were in power (the left) So the band members grew up with a great awareness of all this. When they started recording the Conservatives soon gained power and were about as right wing as you could get, the Clash were a band that had an agenda for their time and I knew a lot of people in London at the time that liked them for their political agenda just as much as their music. I was too young at the time to understand any of this political agenda but in hindsight they were politically spot on despite being socialist romantics at heart. The house I lived in just happened to be a stones throw from where Mick Jones had gone to school several years earlier and most of the teachers in that school were all extremely left wing to my knowledge.

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Metal Wars

Power Metal

Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History

Brad Stengel

Now, look, I'm not gonna say this is the "Greatest Punk album of all time", because to me, rating such a thing in a genre that goes back so any decades is absurd. It's like rating "Best note of all time: 1 AD- 2013"

These things happen in miniature timescales that have no real borders, other than what you make of them in your own head.

Most of us can tell the difference between 70's and 80's punk. Why? These arbitrary musical borders we all make based on what we have heard. Time is important despite anyone's argument against it-the ****tiest 90's punk group would have been ahead of their time in the early 70's. What I am getting at here is the relevance of place and time[/I].

The Exploding Hearts are dead. Bus crash in the early 2000's. But every time I listen to any punk band trying to make it, I hear that Replacements-esque, sloppy, yearning guitar, attempting to emulate the 21st Century's best offer towards power-punk. All these tracks are cult classic sing-alongs, and I dare anyone to say otherwise. If you ask me, this band has made the biggest impact in punk rock since God knows when, and injected poppiness back into the diy/punk/trash groups that dominated the 90's with skull-headed abrasiveness.

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WonderingDUde

The Decline by NOFX
No Control by Bad Religion
Land of The Free? by Pennywise

Generalissimo

I'm giving it to Green Day's Dookie over Ramones' debut album.

Engine

Music Banter's Punk Sub-Forum Is Dead

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Like an arrow,
I was only passing through.

Newkie

Maybe that reflects the scene as a whole? /slits wrists.

RedStrokes

London calling - the clash
My war - black flag
Out of step - minor threat
Slip it in - black flag
Rocket to Russia - the Ramones
Or Boogadaboogadaboogada- screeching weasel

Gilly1314

if you know any thing about punk from Edinburgh the best album would be punks not dead by The EXPLOITED

Moog Bass

Aye Watties still going. Love the Lets Start A War Album!

Janszoon

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

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