Thread: Three best punk albums ever?

1. Anti Nowhere League - We are... the League

2. Gob - Too Late... No Friends

3. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables


What you think?

Hate punk

I hate lists. No such thing as the best three but of the top of my head, ones that still stand the test of time

1. Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
2. Bus Station Loonies - Mad Franks Zonal Disco
3. Buzzcocks - Singles going steady

But on another day it could be another 33. The Stooges - The Stooges should really be way up there as a seminal album that Punk would not have happened without. Punk for me is about an attitude. A willingness to do it yourself and fly against the prevailing wind. Be original and f*%k what anyone thinks. By those criteria you would have to include Talking Heads, Magazine, Gang of Four and even people like Suicidal Tendencies, Sacred Reich, Napalm Death et al.

How can you not have Siouxie and the Banshees and the Slits ? John Cooper Clarke's poetry. In fact albums are quite an un punk rock thing to do. Penny Smith the photographer should have made an album of images but punk albums are a bit guilty of eating themsleves. If you can't say it in under 2 minutes and preferably 2 then f*&k off

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

I hate lists.

Yeah, what else do you hate? Freedom? Liberty? A cold beer on a warm day?

Lists RULE.

I like Crass' music but I don't go for the anarchy nonsense.

I'm not so much a connoisseur of punk albums, and I don't want to list something as "punk" and then have people say "Well that ain't punk" for a nonconformist, no labels kind of genre there are people within the walls of punk that set guidelines.

The bands I like are as follows:

Iggy & The Stooges
The Ramones
Crass
The Sonics
The Modern Lovers
New York Dolls
MC5
Cock Sparrer
Sex Pistols

But I think THE song that really kicked everything off is

...it's just simple 3 chord rock plain as you like

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

I hate lists.

Yeah, what else do you hate? Freedom? Liberty? A cold beer on a warm day?

Lists RULE.

I like Crass' music but I don't go for the anarchy nonsense.

I hate you.

I'm more a big band or Blue grass man myself

The thing is back then you would find "punk" in bits and pieces, literally whatever you got dubbed and tons of home made compilations. You'd hear 2,3 jams from 10+ groups and it wasn't until you got the full album or tape that you said Oh shit..its got a B side! Punks didn't have money for no albums . The very first 3 albums I received were bought as presents by my oldest sister, god rest her beautiful soul, and they were Bad Religion: How could Hell be any worse...Social Distortion: Mommies little monster...Bad Brains: I against I.
From a personal fav and one a random three you can bury with me?
Bad Brains! Bad brains
The Minutemen..Double Nickles on a dime
Dead Kennedys..Give me convenience or give me death

Originally Posted by Master

Hate punk

Oh yeh Well I hate porn!

Just kidding. No way. I'm a fan

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Originally Posted by Master

Hate punk

Oh yeh Well I hate porn!

Just kidding. No way. I'm a fan

Never ever say you hate porn, even in jest.

I like mod music - jam.

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Originally Posted by Master

Hate punk

Oh yeh Well I hate porn!

Just kidding. No way. I'm a fan

Never ever say you hate porn, even in jest.

I like mod music - jam.

Mod? Examples?

Originally Posted by El Kabong

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Originally Posted by Master

Hate punk

Oh yeh Well I hate porn!

Just kidding. No way. I'm a fan

Never ever say you hate porn, even in jest.

I like mod music - jam.

Mod? Examples?

Mod music? You know http://youtu.be/N3yXumNMW2E

Just kidding, we love our Mods

Who and Jam

Originally Posted by Master

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

I hate lists.

Yeah, what else do you hate? Freedom? Liberty? A cold beer on a warm day?

Lists RULE.

I like Crass' music but I don't go for the anarchy nonsense.

I hate you.

You love me and you know it. #bros4life

Originally Posted by El Kabong

I'm not so much a connoisseur of punk albums, and I don't want to list something as "punk" and then have people say "Well that ain't punk" for a nonconformist, no labels kind of genre there are people within the walls of punk that set guidelines.

I loved punk since I was a kid but I was NEVER a punk rock kid because I wasn't into the "punk" attitude or the politics of punk... I just love loud, FAST, aggressive music.

And to me the first true punk song was The Monkees' Stepping Stone!

My favourite when I was a teen was Slayer's "Undisputed Attitude", it's a whole album of Slayer doing old hardcore covers. It fucking rules.

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