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- Dead Kennedys, ‘Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables’ (1980) Dead Kennedys' debut LP is the ultimate hardcore comedy album, with singer Jello Biafra playing Johnny Rotten as goofball satirist on songs like "California Über Alles" and "Holiday in Cambodia."
- Devo, ‘Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!’ (1978) As much performance-art collective as punk band, Devo screeched their way out of Akron, Ohio, with a brilliantly warped New Wave vision.
- White Lung, ‘Deep Fantasy’ (2014) This Vancouver band comes on like Black Flag fronted by the bastard daughter of Patti Smith and Stevie Nicks, with each song going off like a nail bomb of desire.
- Blink-182, ‘Enema of the State’ (1999) Blink-182's third LP reimagined Green Day's Dookie as one big, undeniably catchy fart joke. This pop-punk smash stayed on the charts for 70 weeks.
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- The Clash. 298 votes. The Clash reigned supreme as the explosive pioneers of British punk rock and political activism, creating a unique sound that resonated deeply with disenchanted youth of the late 70s and 80s.
- Ramones. 279 votes. The Ramones burst onto the burgeoning New York punk scene in the mid-1970s, redefining the genre with their electrifying stage presence and blistering, two-minute tracks.
- Dead Kennedys. 205 votes. Hailing from the West Coast, the Dead Kennedys combined blistering hardcore punk with razor-sharp satirical lyrics to become one of the most iconic bands of the early '80s.
- Sex Pistols. 269 votes. The Sex Pistols' meteoric rise to infamy in the mid-1970s ignited a punk revolution that reverberated across the globe. Unapologetically brash and raw, their irreverent lyrics and anarchic stage presence thrust them into the limelight and forever altered the course of modern music.
NJ.comSpringsteen pays tribute to late punk icon with classic cover
Bruce Springsteen honored late musician Shane MacGowan at a performance in Ireland Sunday night, performing one of the revered punk icon’s songs live for the first time ever. The show, held ...
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Legendary L.A. punk band coming to Kent in July
Los Angeles Punk icons X are coming to The Kent Stage on Wednesday, July 17. The band’s “Smoke and Fiction... Cervenka, bassist-singer John Doe, drummer DJ Bonebreak and guitarist Billy Zoom ...
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- The Ramones — 'The Ramones' (Sire, 1976) In an attempt to recreate rock & roll's pre-Sgt. Pepper innocence, the Ramones pillaged the sounds of their childhood (surf music, girl groups and British Invasion pop) and distilled rock down to its three-chord essence while celebrating their own twisted culture in tracks about huffing, horror movies and hustling.
- The Sex Pistols — 'Never Mind the Bullocks Here's the Sex Pistols' (Virgin, 1977) Its best riffs may have been stolen from classic rockers like the Who, the Kinks and the Small Faces, but 1977's Never Mind the Bullocks...
- The Clash — 'The Clash' (Epic, 1977) In 1977, American record execs were still too busy snorting lines off the Hotel California gatefold to notice a cultural shift was imminent.
- Bad Brains — 'Bad Brains' (ROIR, 1982) Hardcore's unlikeliest heroes, these African American former jazz musicians not only waxed some of the most searing punk rock ever heard ("Pay to Cum," "Sailin' On," "Banned in D.C.")
Aug 17, 2021 · The 50 Best Punk Songs of All Time. The only punk soundtrack you'll ever need. Illustration by Steven Fiche. Consequence Staff. August 17, 2021 | 12:30pm ET. Consequence ’s Punk Week continues with a staff list of the genre’s Top 50 songs.
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- Dead Boys – Young Loud And Snotty (1977) The Dead Boys could easily have been one of the bands of their generation. Frontman Stiv Bators should have been punk’s poster boy.
- Richard Hell And The Voidoids – Blank Generation (1977) John Lydon said Richard Hell had nothing to do with punk. He was wrong. Aside from The Ramones’ D-U-M-B exception to the rule, NYC’s CBGB-based version of punk was significantly more cerebral than its largely visceral McLaren encouraged UK counterpart, and Hell – poet, style icon, novelist, nihilist, perfectionist, arsonist – was its nearly man.
- Sham 69 – Tell Us The Truth (1978) Traditionally dismissed by a derisory media, Sham 69 have been effectively excised from punk history. It’s not as if they didn’t sell records (a consecutive run of irresistibly hooked late-70s chart singles that left punk contemporaries such as The Clash, Damned and Jam choking on their dust) or become influential (the classic Sham template continues to define today’s street-punk).
- X – Los Angeles (1980) In Los Angeles in 1980, the first wave of local punk bands, including incendiary art-punks X, had established a groundswell of allegiance among the disillusioned.
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Oct 23, 2017 · It may or may not be the definitive list of punk albums—any such suggestion would seemingly go against punk itself—but it features our 100 favorite albums that we could call punk. There’s not a platter here that isn’t badass, and that’s good enough for us.
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