X-Ray Spex - "Germ Free Adolescents"

One of my favs from that era, if you don't mind female singers. They don't come much more punk than Poly Styrene.

Discharge - Why

Just to name a few of my must haves.

Flesh Eaters - Especially "A Minute to Pray a Second to Die" "Miss Muerta" "Dragstrip Riot"

Beyond Possession - "Is Beyond Possession" "Tell Tale Heart" (if you can even find these) Your best bet would be to try to find the "Repossessed" Anthology Disk on ebay or something.

Dead Kennedys "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" "Plastic Surgery Disasters" "Frankenchrist"

Germs - I'd just go with the anthology

The Cramps - "Songs the Lord Taught Us" "Bad Music for Bad People" "Stay Sick"

The Adverts - Anthology

Husker Du - "Zen Arcade" "Metal Circus" "Candy Apple Grey"

Drunk Injuns - "From Where the Sun Now Stands I will fight No More, forever"

Dicks - "1980-1986"

Fear - "The Record"

False Prophets - "Blind Roaches & Fat Vultures: Phantasmagorical Beasts of the Reagan Era"

Jello Biafra w/DOA - "Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors"

Husker Du's greatest album is unquestionably New Day Rising, at leas you got the band right...

some of my favs:

Descendents - Milo Goes to College, I Don't Want to Grow Up, ALL
Bad Brains - S/T, Rock for Light, I Against I
Buzzcocks - Love Bites, Singles Gone Steady
The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned
The Misfits - all
Marginal Man - Identity
Dag Nasty - Can I Say?/Wig out at Denkos
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks....
Ramones - Pleasant Dreams/Rocket to Russia
The Birthday Party - Hee-Haw
The Clash - London Calling

that's off the top of my hgead

Agreed. My fave... along with Flip Your Wig.

Rancid, Op Ivy, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, and some older H2O are probably my fav punk bands... Im more of a old school HC/punk guy and you may like some of that. Minor Threat, Nausea, Bold, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits type shit. Bad Brains of course is always good as well.

dead kennedys all the way! though i think "plastic surgerie disasters" or "give me convienence" are better than "fresh fruit...." forgive my spelling if its wrong im drunk.

Wire-Pink Flag. Best punk album. Ever.

You must be drunk if you think those are better than Fresh Fruit.

My choices:

X-Los Angeles, Wild Gift, Under the Big Black Sun
The Descendents-Milo Goes to College
Black Flag-Damaged
Repo Man Soundtrack
Flipper-Album Generic Flipper
The Replacements-Tim, Let it Be
The Clash-The Clash, Combat Rock
Sex Pistols-Never Mind the Bollacks
The Ramones-The Ramones, Rocket to Russia
The Cramps-Bad Music for Bad People
Minutemen-Double Nickels on the Dime
Husker Du-New Day Rising, Zen Arcade, Warehouse Songs and Stories

What's so great about this album is that there is nothing else like it. They nailed the whole 20+ song album in this perfect blend of punk snot with arty cool. It sounds fantastic from start to finish. When I hear these little boyband punkies doing their 4th generation Green Day it utterly pales in comparison.

No doubt I love New Day Rising but my personal favorites are Zen Arcade and Metal Circus. Opinions and assholes ya know

I wouldn't consider Husker Du's "New Day Rising" or "Flip Your Wig" to be "punk". They abandoned the "punk" genre tag by the time those albums came out (which are fantastic, by the way)

Dillinger Four is the best of the newer punk bands. Everything they've done has been incredible.

Don't neglect Screeching Weasel or the Queers!!!

I got Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime based off recommendations here and I love it, although I find it hard to listen to the whole thing in one sitting. That doesn't mean it's bad, I just prefer shorter doses.

Of newish punk bands, I really like MxPx.

I'm going to check out Wire next.

Nodeer, that quote in your sig isn't yours.

This forum never neglects the queers.

Dillinger Four are fantastic! My friends' band Tiger Army are getting some actual airplay in LA and SF right now, good guys, great musicians. I really loved the Nerve Agents when they were around, unfortunately they had a pretty short but fruitful run. Check out NA's Days Of The White Owl and The Butterfly Collection.

Your Friend is in Tiger Army??!! I really like those guys

Your friend's in Tiger Army? Cool. I bought Ghost Tigers Rise a few years back. I knew nothing about them but the combination of their name and the album art piqued my interest.

...yeah but your average punk music fan needs those albums in their collection. Also, "Flip Your Wig" is pretty much the template for all pop-punk albums since, if you're going to include MxPx on this list, you need it.

I'm really proud of them. You can even see my name in the thanks list in the first CD. I've known Nick for 10 years, and the other guys almost that long. The new album sounds like a winner, I'm not so much a fan of the song they have in rotation on KROQ, but there are some seriously rockin' tunes on the album. June 5th!

Well as a huge DK fan, and as much as I love FFFRV, 'Plastic Surgery Disasters' and the 'In God We Trust' Ep are comparable efforts. All 3 are brillliant.

Another nod for Black Flag's "Damaged".

Might I suggest listening to our interent radio show? We play punk from the 70s/80s exclusively. It's a podcast so you can download it and listen at yr convenience.

http://radio.punkvinyl.com