10 Best Punk Records 

Nice list! Here's a few more personal favorites of mine you should look into. Misfits - Walk Among Us The Descendants - Milo Goes To College Minor Threat - Out of Step Adolescents - Adolescents(blue album)

Singles Going Steady counts because that was the only way to get those songs if you didn't have all the 45s. Wire's evolution from tight punk band to avant-garde post punk over three albums was unprecedented. And I agree that first Clash album and Rocket to Russia are the right choices

Wow. Thank you so much. I love the variety of your pics and the explanation behind each one. I’ve watched a few of these “Top Punk” vinyl videos and this was the first one that didn’t seem picked from a previously composed list. I loved the personal connections to the albums.

Thanks for walking us through your list. I was especially chuffed you included The Saints (a coffee shop, convivence store and apartments now occupy what used to be the studio where they recorded the album in). They're a mixture of Punk, Garage, Blues and Horror, but *Shakes Fear & The Skeleton Gang* are a great Australian band well worth listening too.

Great list Hanna. There are a couple of bands here I need to check out! I have followed your videos and made a couple of purchases after. I am enjoying the first two X albums, and also some Soft Boys albums. Thanks, keep these vids coming!

As a 60 year old British punk this list is on point, would have liked to have seen The Crack by The Ruts in there but excellent choices.

awesome list- I'm a So-Cal punk guy, so X is my fave- and you picked the right one, Wild Gift is amazing. Also The Damned are especially great. I see that Black Flag peeking out from behind you- great tastes!

Cool list. I would have The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus for sure and probably a Jam album. Road to Ruin is my favorite Ramones album but I think you made the right pick.👍

Great to see a fellow Nebraskan with exquisite taste! Those are all great albums. I first heard "Machine Gun Etiquette" as a teen and it blew my tiny little mind. Cool to see The Saints in there as well. Hell, they're all great records! Have you seen the live set Amyl and the Sniffers did for KEXP a while back? They've got it! Today I bought the "Punk Note" reissue of one of the records in my top 10, the first Bad Brains album.

The best album I heard in 1977 was rattus norvegicus by the stranglers. I was only 14 at the time and the bass and the keyboards were totally awesome. As far as I was concerned at that time the stranglers were classed as a punk band but my honest opinion was they were a great band who could write great tunes. Their follow up album no more heroes was equally superb. They were also the best live band I'd ever seen, and I've been watching the stranglers live from the first time I seen them in 1979 till this year 2022 and they are still a superb live band.

Old rocker from England here. Just to say you have a super cool taste in music. Great stuff. And I'm just loving seeing all that vinyl!

Yup - your choices 2-4 were definitely in my list. I haven't heard much other punk...but at least now I have some suggestions. Great vid as usual!

I don’t know how you do it, to be honest. There are so many punk records from each generation, from each year of every decade …phew!! I gravitate toward the obscure like Vacants “Television Viewer”, Ivy Green “S/T” and Nipple Erectors for the 70s pile. You should check out Abi Ooze, M.A.Z.E. (Japan), and Star Party (all are on bandcamp). I’ve been into “Lady Punk” bands, lately, and these may be a couple you might like.

Good Day Hanna 🌞 ! - Have a wonderful 4th of July weekend 🎆 .Top notch list 👌. I was just listening to 154 by Wire & amazed by how well its aged. The 15th is one of my all time favorite songs. Played the classic 12" of Captain Sensible WOT the other day. The video is awesome. Buzzcocks , Pistols , X , The Clash .. Can't go wrong all though Something Gone Wrong Again 🤷 for The Buzzcocks a great song ! When Joy Division ➗️ were opening for The Buzzcocks they had a night off in London & booked a gig as headliners with The Cure as opening act .. imagine having been at that show 😳 ! ✌️

Some of my favorites are the Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Misfits, The Ramones...you mentioned several different bands I've never heard of. Thanks for a great video. And my absolute favorite band The Replacements!

Great list! Pink Flag would be my number one. Such an awesome album in many ways.

Awesome list Hanna. Happy of course to see Wire and the Ramones on there and glad that you are digging their 80's stuff. Too Tough To Die has become my go-to Ramones album to listen to over the last couple of years, and Brain Drain is super underrated, heck Pleasant Dreams doesn't deserve the hate it gets either. The Gits was a pleasant surprise, and after seeing it I started kicking myself again; I had a chance to buy it two years ago at a shop in Massachusetts, but for some reason thought it was readily available, so put it back. I later discovered it was virtually impossible to find on any format!

Love the video! The Husker Du album in the background kicks ass. One of my favorites. You couldn’t go anywhere in my college years without hearing Green Day. Great album. I need an album by The Damned. Sex Pistols! Yes! Anything by the Clash is great. Sandinista is my favorite but you’re right, that debut kicks ass. Love Ramones! I need to pick up that box set. Wire is a band I was late to, but they kick ass!

Great list. I have same aus copy of machine gun etiquette I found at a thrift shop, love that album. Really happy to see the saints mentioned also, I have a 7” signed by Chris Bailey which I found at a garage sale here in brisbane Australia. I love that they get attention overseas now.

Cool wavering with the Ramones, I was pulling for RtR, my fave from them, I played that record alot back in the day. Also cool to see New Day Rising on the wall, my fave from Husker Du.

Great list, Machine Gun Etiquette is my favorite Damned album too. (I'm) Stranded is a top tier garage punk album, lots of Stooges influence from those guys. I think Pink Flag is one of the best from the class of '77 as well

Machine Gun Etiquette definitely deserving of the top spot--can't think of a punk album that tops it. And like you said, the Black Album and Strawberries are also gems.

Good day to you Hannah... Hand for another entertaining video. It really does warm my heart to see how passionate your getting with Punk / post punk. That was my Generation and have been collecting Punk LPs ever since. I'm glad to see you appreciate all these bands that I grew up with. It's really cool to see you showcase these artist . It actually Sparks an interest in me if I haven't heard the group in a while. Hanx so much you Rock Sister 😎😝👍

Great video and I agree on The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette. I saw them play the album in full in St Louis in 2019. It was awesome! Also, I am very jealous of The Gits album. Love Mia and The Gits. My brother's band Social Ritual opened for them just a week before she died. Such a tragic loss of such an amazing person and musician. I wish I had a copy of it on LP.

The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette is grossly underrated and missing from most best punk list. Great that it's in yours!

My jaw dropped when I saw that Gits vinyl! Their stuff is extremely hard to find. Even their CD'S. Mia was also a very talented painter / artist. She painted all their album covers. 7 Year Bitch put out an album after Mia passed called "Viva Zapata!" which was dedicated to her and the back cover is one of her paintings. I think they were all friends. Hopefully The Gits catalog will be repressed soon. They only did 2 or 3 albums I think. I definitely need to buy more "X" albums! I only own Los Angeles as you well know. Lol. Thanks for the Ramones box review! Sounds like I need to own it. Lol. Loved this video Hanna! ❤✌😁

Awesome list of punk albums, Hanna! Nice to see The Damned and The Sex Pistols in there. But, there were a lot of punk bands that are unknown to me.

Good Choice! Just Yesterday I've found Amyl and the sniffers here on YT... thats the "old spirit"! (my first Punkbands in 1981 were stiff little fingers, the Clash and the Exploited) Greetings from Germoney (where excellent Punkrockband come from too...)

Great list, love your choices...yet I would have The Dead Boys "Young, Loud, and Snotty", Fear "The Record", and maybe Black Flag "Damaged" or Discharge "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing" ! Oh, "Can't Stand the Rezillos" too

Excellent choices and well articulated by you. I just recently discovered The Saints and the song I'm Stranded and it just burnt a hole right through me!! Loved how you ended with Amyl and the Sniffers who are carrying on the energy of punk in their own idiosyncratic, manic way. For me I would have included something by the Stranglers, Ian Dury( Laughter?), The Cramps "Songs the Lord Taught Us", Dr Feelgood, The Bags, any of the three Birthday Party albums with Nick Cave, so many more. It's all a matter of personal taste, there is no definitive, from the Gods on high list. Great review!!

Great video! You sure love your 70's punk. As do I. As someone whose collection is probably over 90% punk I surely saw some old favorites and your #10 was a surprise. I don't have anything by The Gits, but it's something I will check out. Thank you. I also appreciate your choices of records behind you especially Bikini Kill. And I think you said it best, " That's pretty..... Whoa".

Hi Hanna, You've got a great top 10 there. Machine Gun Etiquette is for me, when The Damned even touched psychedelia with a few on there, esp I Just Cant Be Happy Today. I love that gigantic boom the drums have in the intro too. . I was right there as it came out, and Love Song was Number 1 on the UK charts. Love Song right through to Melody Lee is sheerly breathtaking, its one hell of a ride. Their cover of MC5's Looking At You is a killer too with Smash It Up to close it out, superb. Wire's Pink Flag i agree and their 2nd and 3rd albums are superb, with 154 one of my fave albums ever. What makes me happy Hanna, was your number 1 choice and love for this album shows what a music intellect you have. Great video, well done.

I'm starting my 52nd birthday today with your cool video!! Thank you for being an introvert and being cynical. My friend called me cynical the other day and I just shrugged at him.

I consider Eddie & The Hotrods early UK punk although others label them pub rock. Whatever the category their "Teenage Depression" and "Life On The Line" albums are essentials for fans of early UK punk. Bassist Paul Gray later joined the Damned.

Great list. And even better album collection! I’m always skeptical when clicking on these kind of lists but I was pleasantly surprised.

Thanks, I just watched this video an hour ago and am already hooked on X ray Spex, The Saints, and Wire, I have pretty much everything by everybody else you mentioned already. Off to Pirate Bay!

Great selection, many of them are in my top 10 as well. Damned is definitely one of the greatest and while I might have gone for the debut I really see your point chosing Machine gun etiquette too as it’s right up there. Amazing songs on that LP. Saints were probably more popular in Europe, their albums are fairly easy to find in Sweden although prices has gone up in later years. Buzzcocks run of 45s were really brilliant so I totally understand you chose Singles going steady. A couple I think is missing in your list is The Heartbreakers and Dead Boys. 😉

Cool list. I am a huge fan of the band over your left shoulder- The Undertones. The first record is still on my frequently played list (along with the Pistols, Ramones, and the Clash.)

This is really awesome and takes me back to my high school years when I first got into punk. Very crucial and revolutionary in the course of my musical journey. Anyway, here's my top 10 for you in no particular order: DESCENDENTS Liveage, Minor Threat Full Discography, The Clash London Calling, Rancid ...And out come the wolves, Operation Ivy (S/T?), Bad Brains I Against I, Gorilla Biscuits Start Today, AFI Black Sails in the Sunset, Fugazi Repeater, Ghoti Hook Sumo Surprise. Those are the punk albums that sealed my affinity for the genre. Thanks for sharing a great list! Cheers.

Great list! I too love the Ramones s/t album and Rocket the Russia and both go neck to neck as my favorites but these days I gotta go also go with Rocket to Russia as my fave.

Thanks! This was a great list. All those records and bands are worthy of any top 10 list. On my personal list I would have the first Record by the Jam. I know not everyone considers them fully punk but they meant a lot to me at the time. I would also rate the Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers album ”L.A.M.F” highly; again not considered real punk by all but a great record. Then of course The Richard Hell album you had in the background is wonderful. Anyway I could probably come up with loads of others. The question is also if the Slits made punk music per se? Their album is fabulous too and a great influence. Just to say that was a great era and all those albums are splendid.

All excellent picks! For me, Chairs Missing is my favorite Wire album. When my kids were little, they used to like to sing along to "I am the Fly" really loud. Take Care, Frank

Great video Hanna. I am not much of a punk music person, but really enjoyed your passion for the genre here. Rock on!!

Love the vid. I've been re-listening & deep diving punk & pronto punk as well. Stooges, MC5, Bad Brains etc. Anyway, a new punk- psych indie band I'm really into is The Mary Veils. If you like Thee Oh Sees. Also The Sparklers. Killer Minneapolis rock n roll, early Soul Asylum, Replacements. Great songs!

👍. Hi Hanna: Bullseye! I will need some punk rock after my presentation later today. Have a great weekend! - Heather

Thank you for giving the Damned AND MGE the props they deserve! Totally agree. Such an awesome band.

Cool list, enjoyed the video. Lotta great records in the background too. Cheers

You absolutely NAILED it with MGE!!! YEAH!!!!! THE BEST! And the fact that you included WIRE is a great thrill for this dude. Best wishes to you. I just found your channel and subscribed. Cheers, from near Boston.

Nice choices especially Wire. I would of had Richard Hell & The Viodoids but no complaints. I would recommend "Ha Ha Ha" by Ultravox which is probably my favorite punk album. It was a short time in their career between when they wanted to a Bowie/Roxy art band and after when they became a wimpy synth pop band.

Great list (with a couple I need to check out based on your recommendation). My Top Ten would be: 1. In The City - The Jam 2. The Clash - The Clash 3. Damned, Damned, Damned -The Damned 4. Pink Flag - Wire 5. Another Music In A Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks 6. An Ideal For Living - Joy Division 7. Another Wasted Night - Gang Green 8. Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers 9. Zontar Must Die - The Wombats 10. This Is The Modern World - The Jam Love to see you have the Virgin Records pressing of My Generation which is probably one of the (if not THE) best sounding versions of that album. Thanks for the video and keep ‘em coming!

This video was so worth watching all the way until the end! That Gits record is rarely mentioned in the VC and hard to find. I'll have to check out the documentary. If you watch Shaun Spins he did a review of "Frenching the Bully" about 6 months ago. Have a nice weekend!

Hi Hanna, Some great choices on your top 10. My number 1 album is on the wall behind you. Rattus Norvegicus by the Stranglers. To be honest its a lot more than just a punk album. Have to agree with on the Pistol tv series. Very enjoyable. Carmelo.

Minutemen Double Nickels on the Dime, Descendents Milo Goes to college, the new Redd Kross Neurotica reissue. I think all of these are very important records but I grew up very near and during the Black Flag church era. Documentaries on them: the Decline of western civilization, we jam econo, the slog movie and desperate teenage love dolls. Thanks Hannah! You may be angry like I was at your age but give it time everything gets better. Punk is good for survival and for me it helped. Take Care!

Thank you for choosing Wire's Pink Flag! Ever since that came out, it has been in my all-time top 10. REM does a cover of "Strange", and Elastica's "Connection" uses the riff from "Three Girl Rhumba".

Solid list, had not heard The Gits before. Def right on the soulful vocals, reminds me a lot of The Detroit Cobras singer Rachel Nagy. Nice wall of wax behind you as well.

I love these selections. For those with short attention spans I would reccomend Minutemen and The Raincoats. Great job Omaha.

Love, love, love X. They’ve been one of my faves since my youth. Saw them in concert in 1982 and 2018. They still rock.

Hannah.....it was me who told you about saying Chiswick wrongly. I was born in chiswick,london 😁 This was a fantastic video,I really enjoyed it 👍👍👍 It was great to see LPs I already own and a good few I want to own too . The two stars of the show for me were Los Angeles (behind you on display) and Frenching the bully. I remember when you originally showed that Gits LP in a video. It was truely horrifying what happened to that young lady,I need to try and find their documentary to watch. I've seen the Pistol biopic type series,I think the jury is going to be out for a long time on that one 🤔 I'm clueless when it comes to actors names etc... but both Johnny Rotten & Malcolm Maclaren were portrayed ok. They're mannerisms were pretty good. Great video....take care,all the best 👍👍👍

Great list, I'm an old punk rocker from Orange County. The Adolescents played in my living room when I was in high school. Glad to see them on your list as well as X and the Germs 👍.thanks for making the video. Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄

Awesome picks, Hanna! I’ve never heard that album by The Damned but judging by a quick run through on Spotify, it sounds right up my alley. Totally agree with you about Wild Gift. Always preferred it to Los Angeles!

Yes! I love the damned the debut and machine gun etiquette are amazing but the black album is my personal favourite

Thanks for the great list. My list would have The Adverts in there. Although Crossing the Red Sea is a punk classic I would go for Cast of Thousands.

As a man who lived my senior high school years during the birth and growing pains of punk , then loving post punk, ska, wave & more I think you did an awesome job with your collection, picks & tastes. 🎉

I liked it that you kept your list old school except the Gits record, if it were me me I would swapped Siouxsie and Banshees Ju Ju in place of the Gits but Another Shot Whiskey buy the Gits is a pretty rockin song. Liked the video and you and Chris made a really cool music room.

Machine Gun Etiquette is a glorious album and you are completely correct. The best punk album!

Good call with the Gits, such a great album! Here are my 20 best punk albums in no particular order: Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade Squirrel Bait - s/t The Gits - Frenching the Bully Bad Brains - Rock for Light Slits - Cut Meat Puppets - s/t Butthole Surfers - Psychic… Powerless… Another Man's Sac Dicks - Kill from the Heart MDC - Millions of Dead Cops Germs - GI Mission of Burma - Vs. The Saints - Prehistoric Sounds The Fall - Live at the Witchtrials Crucifucks - Our Will be Done Gang of Four - Entertainment! Big Black - Songs about Fucking Black Flag - My War Gun Club - Fire of Love Fugazi - 13 Songs Wipers - Youth of America

Awesome video the fact that you mentioned my home town band the saints makes U one and your age so cool to C onya for keeping punk relavent peace and love lloydy

Just saw this ,I was there in 77 it's my year of expertise,found your selection great 7 of the albums are on my list which I've had since 78 - good work 😎👍

Very solid list love all your picks. My number one would be Bad Religion and any album really can't pick one. Descendents- Milo Goes To College, Minutement - Double Nickels, anything by Social D, Operation Ivy(punk with ska). X- Under the Big Black Sun which is one of my favorite albums. Both of The Gits albums are awesome. It was gut wrenching hearing what happened to that poor girl especially when most musicians demise is self inflicted. 7 Year Bitch - Viva Zapata is a wonderful album that came out after that incident.

I saw the Damned in Brussels around 1988 or 1989 & it was one of the most exceptional gigs i ever witnessed in my life among the ones from TOOL in the 93/94 era . Great that u brought them up first . Dead Kennedys ( can't remember which album ) was the first pUnk Band i had an LP record of in the 88/89 period .

Great list, I love the LP's on your wall. The inclusion of Wire made this special along with your choices of the first Clash LP . I wish you were able to fell the vibe of NY in 1976 when The Heartbreakers ruled along with early Television, Mink DeVille, Dead Boys and Pere Ubu. Many punkers went to CBGB but Max's had a constant flow of bands they were known enough not to prove themselves at CBGB which was a proving ground for many bands. Glad to see no Talking Head LP's on your list. Great job for crawling back in time and coming up with the cream of the crop.

As a 59 year old U.K. fella who started taking an interest in Punk when I was 13 .. you’ve got yourself a Subscriber! I look forward to looking through your videos 🍻

Ray Manzarek produced X's first 4 albums. Great stuff, cheers!

Wire Pink Flag is a great classic, love it. The Strangers Black and White is great

Great list. I agree with you on The Clash, my favourite will always be the first album and I love Amyl and the Sniffers too.

IMO,Buzzcocks "Singles.... is an album. If I hear an isolated track from it I still wait for the next track in the order! Great choices as usual! Congratulations on the new house and music room!

A band from that era that rarely gets their due is ‘The Dictators’. Manifest Destiny (1977) is brilliant and unlike many of their peers they could actually play well live.

The count up from #1 was genius! lol, Short attention spans for the win! Not a weak album on the list. I might debate London Calling over The Clash, but it is not a punk album, and Janie Jones alone means The Clash s/t makes the list. Lots of love for The Damned. Great #1. Nice call on Bodies. A perfect anthem for the last week. I will give the Pistol show a watch. The chatter around it had put me off. You got to see I am A Cliche! I loved it. A great insight into Poly Styrene's life. Love the X-Ray Spex album. Singles Going Steady 100% deserves to be on the list. It transcends your typical compilation. Simply perfect. Wire and The Saints both kind of balked at being lumped in with punk. But both need to be on the list. I am glad to see you giving The Saints so much praise. Being from Australia and not having the punk look seems to have hurt them. As Bob Geldolf said,, "Rock music of the Seventies was changed by three bands -- the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and the Saints." Music was moving so fast during those years. Pub Rock, Punk, Power Pop, New Wave, Post Punk, etc. But you really nailed the best of first-wave punk. The album list can be challenging as so many threw out a handful of amazing singles and then disappeared. A couple of more recent bands you might like are - Post Pink - their 8-track 13-minute EP I Believe You, OK is great. I saw them open for the Breeders and they carried it all live. Krupoviesa - From Argentina. Their EP Default is great. They cover 4 classic Fall tracks, in Spanish. Maybe pushing the punk categorization a little but worth checking out. And Ghost World is amazing. Thanks for another great video and for giving me somewhere to ramble about wonderful music.

Yay, great list Hannah, the first Clash album had such a massive impact in the U.K. at the time cos everyone could relate to those lyrics so much and musically they were spot on. The Clash had so much energy as a live band it was like an electrical charge in the room! Have a listen to Crass maybe their first album from ‘79 Feeding Of The Five Thousand is a good starter, raw lo-fi punk and lyrically so insightful. Great video 😎

Awesome ranking video. I don’t have the Ramones box set but I’m familiar with all the 80’s albums. I have a combination of vinyl, cd, and cassette. Too Tough to Die is my favorite out of the 80’s. Subterranean Jungle is also great. Halfway to Sanity is killer.

Oh The Damned...I am on board with you about "Strawberries," "Machine Gun Etiquette," and the "Black Album." I also would add "Phantasmagoria" to that as well. All stellar albums. Of course I loved "Damned Damned Damned" too. Sex Pistols...love 'em. So obnoxious! Lydon really made the band. I didn't know you liked Suicidal Tendencies. I love their self titled! Wire "Pink Flag" is excellent! I've got a reissue as well. Maybe one day will get an OG. I haven't listened to The Saints much at all. Must revisit them. The Buzzcocks I love! Must get some of their vinyl pressings. I have one 7 inch by them but I do not see it in my Discogs list. X is another fantastic choice. The Gits!!! YES! Rest in Power, Mia! I had an OG press of "Enter: The Conquering Chicken" on white vinyl but sold it to a friend in the early aughts. Regrets, regrets! Just discovered Amyl And The Sniffers too. Really, really outstanding band and I agree about Amy Taylor's punk style. Enjoyed the video, keep up the great work as always! ~ Nicola

This made me cry. Machine Gun Etiquette is a stunning record. I heard it in 1981 at a party aged 14. It was the beginning of the rest of my life. You are not only right to put it at No1, you are TOTALLY right.

Buzzcocks is a great pick in your Top 10 and the backdrop reminded me,Husker Du New Day Rising what an absolute classic.Nice one

Hi Hannah I Love You video a lot of those records bring back a lot of memories for me back when I lived in New Jersey

Hi Hanna, my list probably would be similar to yours. What sucks is if you didn't buy those records some years ago you'll probably have to pay a lot of money for a punk record nowdays, like I don't have The Saints for example and everytime I look for it price is too high. Other genres as expensive as punk and in high demand are post punk, metal (specially things like trash) and rock en español. I'm always looking for anything I can get my hands on from those 4 genres. So I made a list, not of my top ten punk albums but of something you might not see very often, the top ten punk bands with the best discographies, for me tose are: Damned, Ramones, Bad Religion, Fugazi, Clash, X, Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Crass , Green Day and Sleater Kinney. Well, Crass would be an honorable mention lol.

Machine Gun Ettiquette would be a major contender for #1 on my list as well. Great selections all around. The Gits is a nice atypical pick. Happy to see Penetration and Vice Squad on your wall, both underrated (or under-discussed?) in my opinion. Seeing Bikini Kill in a few weeks after several postponements! My top 10 would include nearly all of yours. Other bands with albums in contention: The Stranglers, The Adverts, The Ruts, Dead Kennedys, Agent Orange and Television (if they're still considered punk). - Scott

Love your videos. Great to see that someone appreciates the golden triumvirate of Damned albums. Punk fans often talk like they did nothing except 'New Rose.' The general public know them as the band that did the cover of 'Eloise.' And Captain Sensible is a comedy novelty act who did 'Happy Talk.' Machine Gun Etiquette, Black Album, and Strawberries are all fantastic albums. Captain Sensible is one of the finest guitarists ever to walk this planet.

Pretty good list, mine would be quite similar but I would need a Stiff little fingers record on there. Never even heard of your number 10 record but I shall have a wee listen. Thanks

Good day. Enjoyed listening to your choices. All good albums. No question. The Wire's "The 15th" is a wonderful song which was remade into a brilliant electronic single by Fischerspooner in the early 2000's. The 2000's was an interesting period in music when bands such as The Hives, The Stripes, and Franz Ferdinand revived a new interest in music that influenced their sound such as The Gang of Four and The Pretenders among many others from the 70's and early 80's. I see in the background a Stranglers album. That band always baffled critics, music lovers, and radio stations. They were too melodic (and God forbid used keyboards) to be punk, too rakish for rock & roll, and lyrically offensive to play on radio or t.v. (and in some of their concerts strippers parades on stage). If any band checked all the boxes of what it means to be "punk" it was those guys. Best to you from Texas.

Yep, "chizzick" is right! I was a teenager in London when Punk emerged and Never Mind The Bollocks captures the times perfectly for me. A lot of social strife and the reason I consider Britain's "generation X" to be earlier than the official definition (Britain's lost, angry generation didn't create Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet!). I think the playing on NMTBx is great - a rebellion against the meaningless musicality of British rock at that time (as much as I love Pink Floyd, ELP, etc, rock had become safe and parent-friendly). The lyrics on that album contain so much of the things people from older generations would say at that time. In a way it's similar to the way Monty Python picked up on things people would say in everyday speech in the early 70s like "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition" and "layabouts" (as captured in their Hell's Grannies skit mocking the way people talked about the youth of the day).

HI! Nice to see yer back out there! VC Punk Chapter has been quiet for a while! Nice to see the Gits on your list as I'm from Seattle. I didnt personally know her but lots of my employees at the time did! Devistating loss. I agree with your list most of those records would be on mine too...missing to me is Elvis Costellos Classic This Years Model (just a personal preference) but the Big Deal is nobody ever seems to mention Australia's Radio Birdman/ Radios Appear!! If you havent heard this record I highly recommend getting ahold of it , it is classic and amazing!!

Awesome list. I have every album on my ipod right now!

Great picks. My top 5 would be: 1) Ramones - Ramones, 2) X-Ray Spex - Germ-Free Adolescents, 3) Plasmatics - New Hope For The Wretched, 4) Germs - (GI), 5) Avengers - Avengers

Thx for your reviews and insight. The PUNK genre will always have strong opinions. Personally I love Naked Raygun, Dead Kennedys, Ramones and Sex Pistols. Also FEAR and even early B-52s. Buzzcocks definitely Top 10!

Your taste is amazing. I followed "Clash" around in the 70s..luckily i have two of Topper Headen's drumsticks.

1st time viewer. Love your back wall. Love your top tens. No arguments with wall or list , our libraries are similar. Your passionate explanations of each inspires me to revisit Machine Gun. Sniffers are a great new find. Thankful nod to the Saints. Old: The Fall-Live at the Witch Trials, The Skids - Scared to Dance. New(ish): Eddy Current Suppression Ring - s/t, Sprints - A Modern Job EP. Great vid!

Great list Hanna. My top ten would be 10-Dead Boys-Young. Loud and snotty.9-Bad Brains-Rock for Light.8-Circle Jerks-Golden Shower of Hits.7-Naked Raygun-Basement Screams.6-Stranglers-No More Heroes.5-Minutemen-The Punch Line.4-Discharge-Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing.3-Dead Kennedys-Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.Clash-Black Market Clash.And my number 1 Favorite punk album of all time is Stiff Little Fingers-Inflammable material.

punk rock is one of the few genres where quality over quantity doesn't matter because the output is enormous and there are still many many great albums

Great list Omaha, especially Pink Flag and Germ Free Adolescence. Two female led punk albums that i may of included are Cut, The Slits debut and The Scream, Siouxie and the Banshees first album.

Just stumbled upon your channel, wow, a woman who loves Punk/Hardcore as much as I do? You seem like a total vibe when it comes to music, looking forward to checking out the rest of your videos. Ah and by the way, great list. I love each and every album you mentioned, no, my attention span is not short like those people you referenced. Haha!