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Topic: Top 10 Punk Albums Posted: September 03 2013 at 22:33
In the template of one-album-per-band lists, I decided to start a thread for punk. What are your favorite punk albums? I mean punk as far as punk goes— punk to post-punk to hardcore to post-hardcore. As long as it's in the punk tradition. Again, one album per band. Here goes:
1. The Fall— Wonderful and Frightening World Of 2. The Cure— Faith 3. This Heat— Deceit 4. Sonic Youth— EVOL 5. Killing Joke— What's this for...! 6. Chrome— Alien Soundtracks 7. Women— Public Strain 8. Television— Marquee Moon 9. Drive Like Jehu— Yank Crime 10. Siouxsie and the Banshees— Juju
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Posted: September 03 2013 at 22:46
[Alpha order]
Cap'n Jazz- [album with really long title]
Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy (that can be counted as punk, right?)
Converge - Jane Doe
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Crash of Rhinos - Distal
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Drive Like Jehu - s/t
Indian Summer - Science 1994
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Naked City - Naked City
As you can see, I'm really not well-versed in "pure" punk and tend to enjoy the offshoots and more modern stuff. I've just never really found punk on its own very interesting.
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Posted: September 03 2013 at 23:32
Most of the main punk acts have never interested me. From what I know, the entire movement was too focused on image and not music. Which is fine, but now the music is hard for me to appreciate when I listen to songs about rebellion remastered and re-released 40 years later through some giant label (I'm looking at you, Sex Pistols).
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Posted: September 04 2013 at 08:44
1 : Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruits for Rotten Vegetables 2 : Damned - Damned Damned Damned 3 : Radio Birdman - Radio Appears 4 : Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? - A: We Are Devo! 5 : Therapy? - Troublegum 6 : L7 - Hungry For Stink 7 : Black Flag - Who's Got The 10 1/2? 8 : Sick Of It All - Blood, Sweat And No Tears 9 : The Slits - Peel Sessions 10 : Voodoo Queens - Kenuwee Head (7'') and Supermodel, Superficial (7'') - okay, I'm cheating a bit, but I've never managed to locate their album and these two singles are so great...
Special mention to Joy Division, which I purposely chose to leave out of the equation. Never really thought of em as "punk" per se. Morbid romanticism perhaps....
Edited by Guldbamsen - September 04 2013 at 10:03
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