The punk section is being hated on or at least is full of idiots. Here are my favorite albums that are within the punk family tree. Check it out and post your own. I haven't duplicated any bands on this list. Included is a list of EPs as well.

1. Thrice - The Illusion of Safety
2. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
3. In Pieces - Lions Write History
4. Hot Cross - Cryonics
5. The Kidcrash - Jokes
6. Strung Out - An American Paradox
7. Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
8. Grade - Under the Radar
9. You and I - The Curtain Falls
10. Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings

Top 9 EPs

1. NOFX - The Decline
2. Trophy Scars - Hospital Music
3. Alkaline Trio / Hot Water Music - Split
4. With Honor - With Honor
5. Hot Cross - Fair Trades and Farewells
6. Glassjaw - El Mark
7. NOFX / Rancid - Split
8. Comadre / Trainwreck - Split
9. Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth

Man, I'm having a hard time even starting... and are you not a fan of older punk or...? Your list seems to be made up of somewhat recent albums.

Yeah, there's a whole slew of good stuff that came out between 75 and 85.

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Originally posted by JGlass:
Man, I'm having a hard time even starting... and are you not a fan of older punk or...? Your list seems to be made up of somewhat recent albums.

Don't listen to much older punk at all. Just drum up your own list.

OK, well if we're including "subgenres" or bands the are auxillary to punk then here we go:

1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
4. Wire - Chairs Missing
5. The Replacements - Let it Be
6. Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches
7. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
8. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
9. The Clash - London Calling
10. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (yes, I said it)

Not a whole lot of punk on here, I guess. I'm usually not a huge fan of "punk" in its most strict sense.

That looks a lot like what mine would look like... I'd replace Joy Division with This Heat and The Slits and then move This Heat up to #1.. I'd throw Refused on instead of The Clash. Hmm... I swear I'll post mine once I stop working on my Best of the Decade list.

Way too many albums to include in just a top ten, so I ended up with two lists. First is a top ten of the classic 70's punk (proto/post-punk included):

1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. Wire - Pink Flag
3. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
4. The Clash - The Clash
5. The Stooges - Raw Power
6. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
7. Ramones - Ramones
8. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
9. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
10. Suicide - Suicide

Needed a top thirty for the next few decades (80's, 90's, 00's). Still ended up bumping some classics (Bad Brains, Black Flag) and some personal favs (Gorilla Biscuits, Snapcase).

1. Fugazi - Repeater
2. Mission of Burma - Vs.
3. Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
4. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
5. The Replacements - Tim
6. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
7. X - Los Angeles
8. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
9. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
10. This Heat - Deceit
11. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
12. Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
13. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
14. Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
15. Social Distortion - Social Distortion
16. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
17. Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
18. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
19. Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
20. Descendents - Milo Goes to College
21. Far - Water & Solutions
22. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
23. Minor Threat - Complete Discography
24. The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
25. Wipers - Youth of America
26. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
27. Embrace - Embrace
28. Operation Ivy - Energy
29. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
30. Hot Water Music - A Flight and a Crash

Man, whathappened to Rancid after ...And Out Come the Wolves? That album is classic and I completely forgot about it.

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Originally posted by JGlass:
Man, whathappened to Rancid after ...And Out Come the Wolves? That album is classic and I completely forgot about it.

Their follow-up to that album, Life Won't Wait, is as strong. Maybe stronger.

After that, they ditched a lot of the genre hopping and moved toward a straightforward hardcore punk sound.

1. Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Raw Power
2. The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
3. Wire - Pink Flag
4. the Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
5. the Raincoats - Odyshape/s.t.
6. The Vibrators - Pure Mania
7. Gun Club - Miami
8. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
9. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures


11. Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
12. the Ramones - s.t.
13. the Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
14. The Clash - Give em Enough Rope
15. the Jam - All Mods Con
16. the Pop Group - Y
17. New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
18. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
19. P.i.L -Second Edition
20. the Replacements - Let It Be

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Originally posted by nmeiborg:

The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Fugazi - Repeater
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace

Hmm, you're making me consider my list. Maybe just drop them in at #11 - #15 for me? Although I may actually prefer The Argument to Repeater. Both great albums.

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Originally posted by nmeiborg:

The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine

Great to see someone else holding this album where it rightly belongs.

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Originally posted by V:

P.i.L -Second Edition

I really like this album, but does it really even fit into "punk" at all? I know, I know - since Lydon was in the The Pistols it's sort of has to be considered post-punk, but there's just not a lot of punk influence to these ears.

By the way DFelon204409, if you don't know the albums on our list you should really check a few of them out! I would say you're almost for sure to dig Fugazi looking at the stuff you like.

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Originally posted by sans_success:

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Originally posted by V:

P.i.L -Second Edition

I really like this album, but does it really even fit into "punk" at all? I know, I know - since Lydon was in the The Pistols it's sort of has to be considered post-punk, but there's just not a lot of punk influence to these ears.

yeah yeah yeah. the Modern Lovers, Television and This Heat didn't make my list for that very reason.

It does say punk and subgenres. Post-punk would be a subgenre of punk.

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Originally posted by EricG75:
It does say punk and subgenres. Post-punk would be a subgenre of punk.

Oh yeah, I understand. I included many post-punk albums on my own list. Metal Box just feels pretty far removed from punk to me, personally.

It's much more experimental/dub than punk. Same goes for Dub Housing. Yes, I have a soft spot for that combo (although I do have limits - note the omission of Sandinista! ). But it's got Johnny on it, and for some reason or another I can't bear to put Nevermind the Bollocks on there cos it sounds too much like Rotten wishing he was Iggy and trying to be really angry.

My top 10 punk LPs(in widest meaning possible)

1.Ramones - Ramones
2.Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
3.Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4.Big Black - Songs about Fucking
5.Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
6.Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
7.Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
8.Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
9.Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
10.Suicide - Suicide

10 is damn near impossible for me, so i will also break it down by era's

'76-79:

1. Wire - Pink Flag
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
4. Wire - Chairs Missing
5. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
6. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
7. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
8. Suicide - Suicide
9. The Clash - London Calling
10. Talking Heads - Fear of Music

1980-1989

1. Sonic Youth - Sister (Daydream Nation would be 2, but i don't want repeats.
2. Big Black - Songs About Fucking
3. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
4. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
5. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
6. Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift
7. Birthday Party - Mutiny/The Bad Seed
8. Rites of Spring - End on End
9. Pixies - Doolittle/Surfer Rosa
10. Replacements - Hootenanny/Let It Be/Tim

90's

1. Jesus Lizard - Goat/Liar
2. Shellac - At Action Park
3. Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come
4. Fugazi - Red Medicine/Repeater/In On The Killtaker
5. Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
6. Nirvana - In Utero (It's punk, i swear)
7. Boredoms - Super AE (I consider their approach punk, so get over it)
8. Sonic Youth - Goo
9. Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture.
10. Monorchid - Let Them Eat

2000's

1. Fugazi - The Argument
2. Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
3. McLusky - Do Dallas
4. Boris - Pink (Has that punk fury quite often)
5. Liars - Drums Not Dead
6. Icarus Line - Mono
7. Shellac - 1000 Hurts
8. Future of the Left - Curses
9. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
10. Hunches - Hobo Sunrise

Good lord that took a lot of thought.

damn! now i see i forgot to write down at least 5-6 more.

I feel like i totally forgot something, and think that as soon as someone says it i will feel like a dummy for not including it on my list.

Hm... Honorable mention time:

At the Drive In
This Heat (Are they punk though?)
Pop Group
Nirvana's Bleach was great and dirty
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Killing Joke - Self-Titled and Night Time
Adolescents s/t is essential
Unwound - Fake Train
Rapeman
Quicksand
The Ex
Jawbox
Bikini Kill

Man, i wish i could look at my iPod and just pound out a comprehensive list.