Favorite punk albums?

Sckxyss wrote: Most of these aren't "pure" punk, but.. Television - Marquee Moon Wipers - Youth of America Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance/Dub Housing The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

Nice to hear from the punk purists
Punks were notorious for always trying to be the punkest and write off everyone else. In the US hardcore scene a lot of the Brit '77 styled punk listed here was considered music for posers with safety pins, weekend mohawks and leather jackets, as well as the Ramones too.
X were considered to be total sell-outs for getting with a major label.

You guys shouldn't worry about what is punk, it was different things to different people at different times in different parts of the globe.

How many of you 'experts' were at the clubs in the late 70s and early 80s seeing these bands for real with the scars to prove it, or up on the stage opening for many of these bands.

Edited by Easy Money - June 15 2010 at 19:33

^ contrary to the front they put up in their 'zines', California punks weren't as 'straight-edge' as they pretended to be, ha ha.

Which reminds me, I went to a punk club in Yugoslavia in 82 and it was a bunch of old hippies getting wasted on alcohol, in the US it would be young people with short hair and no alcohol at an all-ages club.

Edited by Easy Money - June 15 2010 at 20:49

^
yes the Misfits are great.

And some may have forgotten that Beastie Boys were one of the major bands of the NY punk hardcore scene at their debut :




Another fine US punk band Hüsker Dü (at least on their album 'Zen arcade' which is a pure wonder) :

We Are the League - The Anti Nowhere League

Edited by Green Shield Stamp - June 16 2010 at 15:46

London Calling by The Clash is so good.
Also, Boys Don't Cry is a bit post-punk but it's still good.

The Wipers, The Buzzcocks and - if that still counts as punk - Nomeansno.
I'm not much of a punk-head, more the post-punk type.

thellama73 wrote: I'm not much of a punk listener, but Walk Among Us by The Misfits is incredible.

I was going to write that The Misfits were the only punk band I was really ever into. Well, them and Athletico Spizz 80 (or  Spizzenergi/Spizzles/Spizzoil/Spizz... they changed their name all the time), but they are quite complex.

Easy Money wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: Easy Money wrote: Nice to hear from the punk purists Punks were notorious for always trying to be the punkest and write off everyone else. In the US hardcore scene a lot of the Brit '77 styled punk listed here was considered music for posers with safety pins, weekend mohawks and leather jackets, as well as the Ramones too. X were considered to be total sell-outs for getting with a major label. You guys shouldn't worry about what is punk, it was different things to different people at different times in different parts of the globe. How many of you 'experts' were at the clubs in the late 70s and early 80s seeing these bands for real with the scars to prove it, or up on the stage opening for many of these bands.   Yes and we should stop debating 'what is prog?' while we're at it?  I agree that peoples views vary but thats why we talk about these things?  We like talking about these things.  I think some of us just didn't want this to turn into another post punk thread as there are several of these doing the rounds at the moment. I will obviously have to bow to your expertise! Ha ha, its all good. A lot of people don't realize how punk Devo was at first. Sure they were smarty-pants nerds and all that, but for their first couple tours they were very aggressive and in your face. While other new wave bands like T Heads and B 52s would stand on the stage like newby rock stars, Devo would mix up with the crowd, definitely not afraid of the gratuitous physical violence, they (at least their lead singer) loved it. After their first two albums they lost their edge.

 

London Calling (The Clash)

Edited by Sean Trane - June 17 2010 at 04:09