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Punk Recommendations?
I was more of a metal kid during high school in the 80's but I found some of my old Punk records and thought I'd give the genre another try. What I have:
The Misfits - Most records Black Flag - Most records Bad Brains - Bad Brains & Rock for Light Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba Anything else I should give a listen too? |
To me, these are indispensible:
Wire - Pink Flag Gang of Four - Entertainment Undertones - Undertones Ramones - First four albums Replacements - Let It Be & Tim (I wouldn't call this punk, but it fits at times) Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster There's more! I'll let others fill in. |
Dead Kennedys, X, Hüsker Dü, Circle Jerks, The Dead Boys, The Heartbreakers, Minutemen, Squirrel Bait...
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Ramones - also add Too Tough To Die. The last 2 studio albums are good as well. Mondo Bizarro and Adios Amigos
Bad Brains - Black Dots Husker Du - Zen Arcade Schlong - Punk Side Story X - Los Angeles, Wild Gift, Under The Black Sun Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables |
X (all of them up to See How We Are)
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Minor Threat
Fugazi |
The Clash!
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My top eleven punk bands of all time:
11. The Descendents (get Milo Goes to College) 10. Minor Threat (get the Complete Discography disc) 9. Black Flag (get Damaged) 8. Dead Kennedys (get Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables) 7. Pistols (obvious) 6. Bad Brains (I against I and Rock for Light) 5. Husker Du (Zen Arcade, New Day Rising and Flip your Wig are all essential) 4. X (First four albums and the live one) 3. Clash (everything except parts of Sandinista) 2. Stooges (first three albums) 1. Ramones (first five albums) The Minutemen are another favorite, but I dont really see them as punk sounding. Double Nickels is one of my favorite albums of all time. Lots of other bands (random listing: DagNasty, X-Ray Spex, Dead Boys, Germs, Exploited, GBH, Bad Religon, UK Subs, Youth of Today, Crass, Circle Jerks, Social Distortion, Agnostic Front, Unsane, Gorilla Biscuits etc) are also worth hearing. |
Lots of good stuff mentioned, my top 3 would be Dead Kennedys, The Clash, and of course the Sex Pistols are way at the top of the heap. I recently watched "The Filth and The Fury", and also the DVD about them in the "Classic Albums" series. Fascinating stuff.
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Blink 182
Good Charlotte New Found Glory :cool: |
Couple more goodies:
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts The Vibrators - Pure Mania |
I always mention this one....
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The Ruts |
Maybe also consider....
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The Lurkers |
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come.
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Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves
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Might as well give the jocks a look in....
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The Skids |
Oh man, I could go on for days with punk bands. Depends what kind of stuff you want, but I'll just list a lot of my favorites.
The Clash, Ramones, Operation Ivy, Minor Threat, Screeching Weasel, Bad Religion, No Use for a Name, NOFX, Rancid, The Vandals, Lagwagon, Good Riddance, Propaghandi, Ten Foot Pole, Ignite, Pennywise, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Rise Against, Bouncing Souls, Circle Jerks, Diesel Boy, Dropkick Murphy's, Goldfinger, Jughead's Revenge, Longfellow, Millencolin, Pulley, Snuff, SNFU That should keep you busy for about 5 years. |
Not much to add here, most of it has been covered... But, three that I didn't see mentioned... Fear, DRI and MDC. Fear "The Record", Millions of Damn Christians "This Blood's for You" and "Dirty Rotten" / "Dealing With It" by DRI are my favorites from that bunch. On DRI they crossed over from hardcore to thrash in 1987 so no need to go farther than that if you're only interested in punk/hardcore. But, being a metal kid, you might dig it.
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Awsome guys, thanks so much. As I mentioned, I found my old punk albums, but I didn't list the ones I had on CD. Those would be the Ramones, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols.
There's a lot of good stuff here. I hadn't thought of the Buzzcocks in years. I dug "What Do I Get?". And of course Fugazi's 13 songs! Thanks again, I've got some exploring to do. |
Cro-Mags - Age of Quarrel
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Hiro11 mentioned....
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The UK Subs
Originally Posted by ytrez
Awsome guys, thanks so much. [....] And of course <A HREF="http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/fugazi/albums/album/123677/review/5945997/in_on_the_kill_taker" target=blank" style="Text-decoration:none">"Fugazi</a>'s 13 songs! Thanks again, I've got some exploring to do.
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One band I didn't see mentioned is the Swingin' Utters. They are a little inconsistent but I'd recommend these albums to start with:
A Juvenille Product of the Working Class Swingin Utters Five Lessons Learned |
I wholeheartedly second the recommendation of Bad Religion, they've been on nonstop rotation in my car for weeks. Descendents, Circle Jerks, X, Crime, the Dwarves (up to Are Young And Good Looking), the Criminals were underrated, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, the Dickies, Dead Boys, I could go on for days...
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A third vote for Bad Religion.
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Originally Posted by Captain Freeze
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come.
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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
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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" |
Originally Posted by kakihara1
Husker Du - "Zen Arcade" "Metal Circus" "Candy Apple Grey"
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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 |
Originally Posted by zombeaner
Husker Du's greatest album is unquestionably New Day Rising, at leas you got the band right...
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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.
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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.
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Wire-Pink Flag. Best punk album. Ever.
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Originally Posted by chino77
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.
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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 |
Originally Posted by Arpeggi
Wire-Pink Flag. Best punk album. Ever.
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Originally Posted by zombeaner
Husker Du's greatest album is unquestionably New Day Rising, at leas you got the band right...
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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!!! |
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