Bikini brunettes with machine guns : ten albums you have to listen to before you can claim to like "punk" music
Submitted by mogane on Thu, 11/03/2005 - 12:56
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- London Calling The Clash (hard-edged rock album that keeps influencing many bands today, their third release)
- Stay Sick The Cramps (the most mainstream-friendly album from the creators of psychobilly rock, released in 1990)
- Suicide Suicide (this pioneering duo mixed raw energy with machines and were the first to use the word "punk" to qualify their music, this is their first album)
- New York Dolls New York Dolls (this missing link bridged glam aestethics with punk music and remains therefore an important name in rock, this is their first album)
- Minor Threat (collected discography) Minor Threat (Noone ever went as far as they did in hardcore punk -all the 29 songs they ever recorded fit on a 50-minute CD)
- Raw Power Iggy and the Stooges (rightfully considered as the godfathers of punk, the Stooges were at their peak on this, their third album)
- Punk's not dead The Exploited (they really believe in punk rock and are still going strong twenty-five years after their debut album, listed here)
- Pink Flag Wire (shouldn't be classified as any particuliar kind of music but the energy and the artistic freedom makes it punk in many ways)
- Damned Damned Damned The Damned (forerunners of the english scene, they have since unjustly been overshadowed by more commercially-successful bands)
- Horses Patti Smith (a definitive founding figure of what punk turned out to be, Patti also was one of the first assertive women in a male-dominated music genre, this is her first album)
This list is mostly aiming at today's kids who would tell you they like "punk" but never bothered listening to anything prior to Green Day's Dookie or Offspring's Smash... I have no doubt that anyone over twenty with a real interest in rock music has at least listened once to the albums on this list