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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.
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced short, fast-paced songs with hard-edged melodies and singing styles with stripped-down instrumentation.
- 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.")
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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.
May 10, 2024 · Punk, aggressive form of rock music that coalesced into an international (though predominantly Anglo-American) movement in 1975–80. Often politicized and full of energy beneath a sarcastic, hostile facade, punk spread as an ideology and an aesthetic approach, becoming an archetype of teen rebellion and alienation.
Oct 23, 2017 · Arguably punk rock’s most essential and influential album, Fun House—The Stooges follow-up to their 1969 self-titled studio debut—found Iggy Pop, David Alexander, Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton at their finest and purest form as artists, digging deeper than any band before them, channeling slow-rolling jazz with gritty blues guitar licks ...
Punk. Ramones. 2018. Vinyl, Album, Reissue, 180 gram. Shop. Want. It doesn’t get more classic than the Ramones’ self-titled debut. Released in April 1976, the album laid the foundation for every record featured on this list.
