Please Pump my Punk Pile

[wasp_f15ting]

After really enjoying Parquet Courts I went on a bit of a journey and found my old Dead Kennedys records / CDs and have been really enjoying the energy and vibrancy that Punk offers. Recently found the Idles - Brutalism and love their music too. I had Bodega delivered the other day and enjoy that too..

I really want to beef up my collection of Punk. I have the old Sex Pistols stuff, but do realise that I am missing loads! - Your Punk top 5 or 10 would be most welcome so I can Pump up my Pile!

Wrong section admins - Please move to Oscillations!

[Paaaaul]

First three Ramones albums.
First three Buzzcocks albums.
Pink Flag by Wire.
Blood Visions by Jay Reatard.

[bgmnts]

Rita Ora.

[chveik]

I'm not a big punk aficionado, but I can recommend:

The Stooges - 'Fun House'
Buzzcocks - 'Singles Going Steady'
Dead Boys - 'Young, Loud And Snoutty'
Bad Brains - 'Bad Brains'
The Gun Club - 'Fire of Love'
Husker Du - 'Zen Arcade'

Blood Visions by Jay Reatard.

Good choice. You can add 'Watch Me Fall'.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Zeke - dirty sanchez

[Rizla]

Rudimentary Peni - "Death Church"
Swell Maps - "A Trip To Marineville"
Oi Polloi - "Duisg!" (This is a modern masterpiece of the genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7lz-K86c0)

[Dog Botherer]

Off the top of my head, that haven't been mentioned yet;

X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

[Dr Rock]

Every Damned album up to Phantasmagoria, including Phantasmagoria.

[Gregory Torso]

Dwarves - Blood, Guts And Pussy
Flipper - Generic Flipper / Public Flipper Ltd
(early) Half Japanese especially the Calling All Girls 7"
Minutemen - double nickels on the dime
Electric Eels
Pere Ubu
(don't know if all of these are strictly punk, I don't get hung up on genres, but they're in the general arena)

[newbridge]

Radio Birdman - Radios Appear

[easytarget]

Midwestern Songs of the Americas - Dillinger Four
Perfect pop punk.
It's a shame that no more pop punk can be created because all the riffs and hooks were used on this one album.

[BeardFaceMan]

NOFX - The Decline. Not an album but a single 18 minute long punk song that actually works.

[Pinckle Wicker]

Minor Threat - Out of Step
Black Flag - My War
Spermbirds - Something to prove
Nomeansno - Small parts isolated and destroyed
Suicide - suicide 1977

[Head Gardener]

The Damned : Damned Damned Damned
Ian Dury : New Boots & Paunties
Wire : Pink Flag
Devo : Are We Not Men?
Ramones : Rocket To Russia

[chveik]

I just thought of another one:

The Replacements - Let It Be

[Kane Jones]

The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts

[LORD BAD VIBE]

Big Black - The Rich Man's 8 Track Tape
Television - Marquee Moon
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
The Undertones - the first three albums

[hermitical]

Spermbirds - Something to prove

there's a blast from the past, I bought the album when it came out and saw them, maybe 88/89?

[Endicott]

The first two Ruts LPs.

[wasp_f15ting]

I cam across undone last night they are nice too, but shall be trying all of these. Black Flag are a bit hectic for me, but thanks for the suggestion :)

[im barry bethel]

Cro Mags for something a bit more shouty

Age of quarrel and Best wishes

[hermitical]

Naked Raygun

[wasp_f15ting]

The Damned : Damned Damned Damned
Ian Dury : New Boots & Paunties
Wire : Pink Flag
Devo : Are We Not Men?
Ramones : Rocket To Russia

I love all of these, bought all of them!

[jobotic]

Another thumbs up for Flipper and NoMeansNo and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUC1TDPe0o

[jobotic]

Also...Crass.

I'd pick Christ - The Album as my favourite.

The perfect start in Have a Nice Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sBUTGPFuFc

One of the bleakest songs I know in Reality Whitewash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMRtjv9G79k

And this horrible and beautiful portrayal of the threat we felt as kids from nuclear armageddon in 1982. Sentiment (White Feathers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lELTIY7wak

[Pinckle Wicker]

there's a blast from the past, I bought the album when it came out and saw them, maybe 88/89?

Yep, it was from around then. I was really into my punk/hardcore at that time. I guess they may fit more in the hardcore genre though really.

[hermitical]

Yep, it was from around then. I was really into my punk/hardcore at that time. I guess they may fit more in the hardcore genre though really.

Yeah but they definitely have a punk spirit and on that album they covered Bloodstains, by another early US punk band the OP should check out - Agent Orange

[Pinckle Wicker]

Yeah but they definitely have a punk spirit and on that album they covered Bloodstains, by another early US punk band the OP should check out - Agent Orange

Yes, Agent Orange are def worth a listen. That also reminds of a few others at that time. JFA(Jody Foster's Army), TSOL and Wasted Youth. I take it you may have been a skateboarder too Hermetical, possibly?
I want to recommend The Butthole Surfers too, that's if you haven't heard of them already OP. Not sure how they would go as punk category per se, they are pretty hard to put in any sort of descriptive genre when I think about it.

edit: need to add a fantastic band of that era called MDC (millions of dead cops) the lead singer dressed as Elvis as I recall. They did a great few albums but John Wayne Was A Nazi is a fanstastic punk song. I have the Elvis - Live in the Rheinland LP, it's great.

[hermitical]

Yes, Agent Orange are def worth a listen. That also reminds of a few others at that time. JFA(Jody Foster's Army), TSOL and Wasted Youth. I take it you may have been a skateboarder too Hermetical, possibly?

Ha! No, afraid not - I was/am too lily-livered. But I did used to buy Skate Muties from the 5th Dimension.....
I wasn't into good old fashioned punk as much as I was noise and hardcore, this is around the late 80s and early 90s. I thoroughly approve of your NoMeansNo recommendation - monumental marathon gigs

[Dog Botherer]

Yes, Agent Orange are def worth a listen. That also reminds of a few others at that time. JFA(Jody Foster's Army), TSOL and Wasted Youth. I take it you may have been a skateboarder too Hermetical, possibly?
I want to recommend The Butthole Surfers too, that's if you haven't heard of them already OP. Not sure how they would go as punk category per se, they are pretty hard to put in any sort of descriptive genre when I think about it.

edit: need to add a fantastic band of that era called MDC (millions of dead cops) the lead singer dressed as Elvis as I recall. They did a great few albums but John Wayne Was A Nazi is a fanstastic punk song. I have the Elvis - Live in the Rheinland LP, it's great.

Got really into MDC last year, great stuff.