Your favourite Punk albums? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

HolyMoly wrote:

Just for variety, some fine hardcore punk albums I love from the 80s:

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great

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I have little liking for the period, but Joy Division's Closer is at least worth mentioning.

Here's an attempt at making a list of my favourite "punk" albums, but most of it is more like proto punk, post punk, new wave or just musically related to punk in some way.

The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground and Nico + White Light White Heat

Iggy Pop: Raw Power + The Idiot + Lust For Life

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World

Philemon Arthur and the Dung: Philemon Arthur and the Dung

Television: Marquee Moon

The Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food + Fear of Music + Remain in Light

The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta + Synchronicity

The Clash: The Clash + London Calling + Sandinista!

Sods: Minutes to Go

Kliché: Supertanker + Okay Okay Boys

Sort Sol: Everything That Rises Must Converge + Flow My Firetear

Idles: Brutalism

The Anders wrote:

Here's an attempt at making a list of my favourite "punk" albums, but most of it is more like proto punk, post punk, new wave or just musically related to punk in some way.

Anyway, I'm glad to see this attempt.

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David_D wrote:

Another book, with much relevance for the American Punk in the 80's, is

Our Band Could Be Your Life. Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (2001) by Michael Azerrad.

It consists of very extensive profiles of 13 bands, including Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Minutemen

and Mission of Burma.

very good book. Plenty to quibble about which bands were included (I’d think Dead Kennedys/Alternative Tentacles label would be a no-brainer, for example) but he covers what he chose to cover very well. And using the first 2 SST bands (Black Flag & Minutemen) as the initial “big bang” is as good a focal point as any. I applaud the care the author took covering the topic, and spending a lot of time on a few bands rather than trying to cover all of them.

Edited by HolyMoly - April 25 2022 at 14:47

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Lewian wrote:

If punk (or metal for that matter) wanted to be loved by me, it should sound like this album:

One more discovery in my collection of what on RYM is considered to be a Punk album:

Shellac (USA) - At Action Park (Post-Hardcore, 1994)

What do you think of that, Lewian?

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Shellac (USA) - At Action Park (Post-Hardcore, 1994)

Actually, this album is very interesting in relation to Progressive Rock, as it can be also labeled "Math Rock", and thus is

an exmple of the closeness and even commonship that can be found between some of Punk and Prog. Star

Edited by David_D - April 30 2022 at 05:59

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Rednight wrote:

Do the Buzzcocks apply?

Their early albums are classified as Punk Rock on RYM (and highly rated).

Edited by David_D - April 30 2022 at 09:59

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Post-Punk/Cold Wave, Poland, 1986

Edited by Tuzvihar - April 30 2022 at 17:02

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