Top 10 Garage/Punk albums

[ZombieHavoc]

My list:

10. Sex Pistols- Nevermind The Bollocks (mostly bc it was the first punk tape I got...twelve-year-old metal head looking for something new)
9. The Jolt- s/t
8. The Stooges- Raw Power
7. Cock Sparrer- Shock Troops
6. X-Ray Spex- Germ Free Adolecents
5. MC5- High Time (or Back in the USA)
4. The Misfits- Walk Among Us
3. Nipple Erectors- Bops, Babes, Booze, and Bovver (really a comp of their singles, but who cares)
2. The Undertones- s/t
1. The Boys- s/t (really their whole discog)

[DrewTheXenocide]

Hmm... I don't know about a top 10, but some of my favorite albums right off the bat are:

Fugazi - Repeater
Be Your Own Pet - s/t
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Bomb the Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Q and not U - Power
The Clash - London Calling

This is, of course, as of right now. I might change everything by next month.

Edit: Would Les Savy Fav be considered punk? If so, then Inches is on that list as well.

[40footwolf]

1. London Calling-The Clash
2. Against The Grain-Bad Religion
3. Energy-Operation Ivy
4. Discography-Minor Threat
5.Everything Sucks-Descendants
6.Repeater-Fugazi
7. Frankenchrist-Dead Kennedys
8. Meat Puppets II-Meat Puppets
9. Social Distortion-Social Distortion
10. Sister-Sonic Youth

[40footwolf]

Hmm... I don't know about a top 10, but some of my favorite albums right off the bat are:

Fugazi - Repeater
Be Your Own Pet - s/t
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Bomb the Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Q and not U - Power
The Clash - London Calling

This is, of course, as of right now. I might change everything by next month.

Edit: Would Les Savy Fav be considered punk? If so, then Inches is on that list as well.
3 of our albums are the same.

Dude!

High-five for taste! :P

[berk]

I'll nominate the New York Dolls' two albums, NYD and Too Much Too Soon. But do they qualify? Is so, why? If not, why not?

[jdwrocks]

God I fuckin hate lists sometimes! I say this you say that, Jesus!! But I know I fall for the crap too often as well. But damnit I gotta vent! These friggen top 10 or top 50 lists are frickin pointless! Just another thing to get people to argue, but we disguise it as healthy debate.

OK I'm done now. Continue your lists. I think another anger management counselor is looking for me.

[leonaozaki]

The Clash, s/t
New York Dolls, s/t
Descendants, Milo Goes to College
Replacements, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
Black Flag, Damaged
Big Black, Songs about Fucking
Ramones, s/t
Mudhoney, Superfuzz Bigmuff
The Buzzcocks, Singles Going Steady
Stiff Little Fingers, Inflammable Material

[stealthwise]

God I fuckin hate lists sometimes! I say this you say that, Jesus!! But I know I fall for the crap too often as well. But damnit I gotta vent! These friggen top 10 or top 50 lists are frickin pointless! Just another thing to get people to argue, but we disguise it as healthy debate.

OK I'm done now. Continue your lists. I think another anger management counselor is looking for me.

Or it could be useful for, you know, having people discuss bands that they actually like and helping to inform those who are ignorant about some potentially enjoyable albums.

[The Black Guardian]

At this moment in time... (the top five pretty much never change)

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
3. Ramones - Ramones
4. Dead Kennedy's - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
5. The Stooges - Fun House
6. Black Flag - Damaged
7. Bad Religion - Against the Grain
8. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
9. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
10. Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster

[jdwrocks]

Or it could be useful for, you know, having people discuss bands that they actually like and helping to inform those who are ignorant about some potentially enjoyable albums.
Yeah I know. Sometimes I just gotta rant. Especially when I see all these best/worst lists on TV or other media. I gets out of hand. I will admit this type of forum is conducive for debate.

[Ullar]

10. Never Mind The Bullocks Here's The Sex Pistols-The Sex Pistols
9. Ramones-The Ramones
8. Complete Discography-Minor Threat
7. Energy-Operation Ivy
6. Destruction By Definition-The Suicide Machines
5. Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards-S/t
4. Let's Go-Rancid
3. The Clash-S/t
2. Walk Among Us-The Misfits
1. Leave Home-The Ramones

[Jonathan Bogart]

The Sonics, Here Are The Sonics!!!
The Stooges, The Stooges
The Creation, We Are Paintermen
The Monks, Black Monk Time
The MC5, Kick Out The Jams
The Deviants, Ptooff!
Zakary Thaks, Form The Habit
The 13th Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere
The Luv'd Ones, Truth Gotta Stand
Sir Douglas Quintet, The Best Of The Sir Douglas Quintet


Or did you not mean the "garage" part literally?

[DrewTheXenocide]

3 of our albums are the same.

Dude!

High-five for taste! :P

Yeah! High five! *kw-psh!" Yeah, that's my high five sound.

[ZombieHavoc]

Or did you not mean the "garage" part literally?


I did, in fact, mean it literally.

I've always wanted to hear The Deviants.

[Romero]

The Mummies- "Never Been Caught"
New Bomb Turks- "Destroy Oh Boy"
Stooges- s/t
Screeching Weasel -"My Brain Hurts"
Descendents- "Milo Goes to College"
The Saints- "Eternally Yours"
Murder City Devils- "Empty Bottles Broken Hearts"
Bad Brains -s/t (the one with the capitol hit by lightning on the cover)
Wire- "pink flag"
Smugglers "Rosie"

[Ideal.]

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
4. The Clash - The Clash
5. The Ramones - Ramones
6. The Sex Pistols - Forget the Bollocks... We're the Sex Pistols
7. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
8. X - Wild Gift
9. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
10. The Stooges - The Stooges

[hawkeye comeback]

1. London Calling - The Clash
2. Unknown Pleasures - Joy division (not entirely sure if it counts as punk)
3. The Stooges - The Stooges
4. Leave Home - The Ramones
5. The Clash - The Clash
6. The Ramones - The ramones
7. Nevermind the Bullocks - The Sex pistols
8. Raw Power - The Stooges
9. Rocket to Russia - The Ramones
10. Another music a different kitchen - the buzzcocks

[Ill Communication]

Hmm... I don't know about a top 10, but some of my favorite albums right off the bat are:

Fugazi - Repeater
Be Your Own Pet - s/t
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Bomb the Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
Q and not U - Power
The Clash - London Calling

This is, of course, as of right now. I might change everything by next month.

Edit: Would Les Savy Fav be considered punk? If so, then Inches is on that list as well.

I don't mean to derail but I had been wanting to see Ted Leo forever and I finally got to see him open up for Against Me, and I was completely underwhelmed ... and I think the man is great.

[DrewTheXenocide]

I don't mean to derail but I had been wanting to see Ted Leo forever and I finally got to see him open up for Against Me, and I was completely underwhelmed ... and I think the man is great.

I wish I could've gotten to see this tour. I've only recently been getting into Against Me!

I saw him for free over the summer, and I thought he was pretty fun. He played a cover of the Misfits' "Hybrid Moments" which made me wanna start rocking out on my guitar as soon as I got home.

[Ill Communication]

I wish I could've gotten to see this tour. I've only recently been getting into Against Me!

I saw him for free over the summer, and I thought he was pretty fun. He played a cover of the Misfits' "Hybrid Moments" which made me wanna start rocking out on my guitar as soon as I got home.

I think for whatever reason he canceled his tour dates may have been affecting him when he rolled through Chicago. He had tons of energy, but his set just seemed kinda flat. It could also have been this really lame-ass opening band that generated no excitement.

Against Me! is one of the greatest live shows I've seen, and if you get the chance to see them, do so.

[DrewTheXenocide]

That sucks. Do you remember who opened?

I'm really enjoying the crap out of Against Me!'s As the Eternal Cowboy, as well as all the acoustic stuff before. I assume they played a lot of stuff off of New Wave, right?

[jdwrocks]

Wait a second, people actually consider Against me & Ted Leo as punk/garage bands? Really? Wow i'm flabbergasted. As someone who was a teenager in the early 80's I am dumbfounded anyone would consider this. It's a lost era boys & girls never to come back again. And I love Rise Against but they are not Punk or garage or whatever, it's been over for 25+ years.

[Ill Communication]

That sucks. Do you remember who opened?

I'm really enjoying the crap out of Against Me!'s As the Eternal Cowboy, as well as all the acoustic stuff before. I assume they played a lot of stuff off of New Wave, right?

Far From Left? Something like that ... I know they were British, but that's about all I remember.

Yeah, the show was basically New Wave, but Against Me was another band I have wanted to see FOREVER, so I didn't so much care (I also really like New Wave where it's really cool to hate on it). There was so much energy, and everyone was having a great time. It's also the only show I've been to where there was a defined "parents" section. HILARIOUS.

[The Black Guardian]

Wait a second, people actually consider Against me & Ted Leo as punk/garage bands? Really? Wow i'm flabbergasted. As someone who was a teenager in the early 80's I am dumbfounded anyone would consider this. It's a lost era boys & girls never to come back again. And I love Rise Against but they are not Punk or garage or whatever, it's been over for 25+ years.
Nonsense. Musical genres only die when they cannot be heard. There have been a lot of bands keeping punk alive since those, oh so awesome 80s.

[Doodle Bob]

This not meant to be a "best of" list, so much as one trying to avoid the "usual suspects" charge. I'm emphasizing the low-fi end of the genre, i.e., albums that actually sound like they could be recreated in someone's garage.

Chicks rock:
-The Slits, In the Beginning There Was Rhythm
-Frightwig, Faster, Frightwig, Kill! Kill!
-Throwing Muses, House Tornado
-Sleater-Kinney, All Hands on the Bad One

I chose the least rocking-out of the Throwing Muses album, since it comes closest (in my ears) to what true feminist acoustic punk would sound like. The other three are straightforward, balls-to-the-wall rock and roll.


Classic Offensive Punk that doesn't devolve into Metal Over-emoting (Slipknot, I'm looking in your direction...)
-The Meatmen, We're the Meatmen and You Suck
-The Dwarves, Blood, Guts and Pussy

The Dwarves are really quite awful, but their album covers make up for it. The Meatmen on the other hand were wonderfully anti-PC and not too bad at the music-making.

Psychobilly:
-The Gun Club, Fire of Love
-The Cramps, Bad Music for Bad People

I found it curious that no one mentioned these two classic bands thus far, so I am.

Finally, there is a collection from the mid 80's which has apparently become legendary: Hell Comes to Your House. Track it down; it's a great record of what the pre-metal LA scene sounded like.

Oh, also let's not forget one of the current practitioners of the field:
-The Kills, Keep Your Mean Side.

[Romero]

-The Dwarves, Blood, Guts and Pussy

The Dwarves are really quite awful, but their album covers make up for it. The Meatmen on the other hand were wonderfully anti-PC and not too bad at the music-making.



The Dwarves! Those guys made me smile. I got to see them live back in 12th grade. They played for about 25 minutes and it ended with them getting into a fight with an audience member. Good times.

[ZombieHavoc]

I need to add Vain's No Respect in there somewhere too.

Don't know how I forgot about Vain. So good.

Also, L.A. Gun's first album.

[ZombieHavoc]

I need to add Vain's No Respect in there somewhere too.

Don't know how I forgot about Vain. So good.

Also, L.A. Gun's first album.

Totally meant to post that in the top ten "hair metal" thread.

[ninja Ross]

anybody hear of towers of london? if you like sex pistols, you'd like the towers.