nice to see Negative Approach continues to slowly gather much deserved recognition. I used to see the original lineup circa 82/83 quite regularly at the Freeze Theatre and Greystone Hall in Detroit. For any newer NA fans check out Johns project after original NA split, formed i 1986, the Laughing Hyenas. Not hardcore but really sludgy, loud and dare I say blues influenced music. They put on a fantastic live show. Had a brilliant female guitarist named Larissa, who sadly passed away effectively ending that band.
Props for trying to include Death - they are the biggest "what might of been" for me. If only the record label could of had the vision to put the album out a the time, I think they could have been bigger than the Stooges or New York Dolls. I was also hoping you'd include Christian Death - despite the later incarnations of the band, for me the only one that counts is the line up that released "Only Theatre Of Pain" before imploding in drug fuelled carnage.
Christian Death are cool. But I just didn't want to play semantics with "Yeah, but the other albums don't count!". It just makes it easier, or at least easier until I realized some people don't know the different between an EP and an LP lmao.
Deaths only released 7 inch(politicians in my eyes/keep on knockin) is a classic but i just never really felt like the unreleased album was that great. I mean it's cool and all but i dont think its anywhere near the dolls or stooges. I do think Keep on knockin is an all time classic.
I first saw the germs in the Decline. I researched them and watched some other live performances, and after listened to their music enough I began to love it. Today the Germs are my favorite punk band.
Since I just picked it up on vinyl and it's great, I have to shout out The Exploding Hearts who had a classic early punk with power pop flavor sound even though they were briefly active in the early 2000's. They only made one album (Guitar Romantic) because three of the members died in a car accident not long after releasing their debut. Sad but true story. R.I.P.
I'd like to add the S/T Embrace LP as others have mentioned. That LP was as important to me as the Rites Of Sprng LP when it came out and has not aged at all. I'd like to add The Necros -Conquest For Death LP. Seriously underrated band and album. And the Icons Of Filth -Onward Christian Soldiers LP. Hands down the best album released by any British anarcho band in the early 80s, and were great live too (not something you could always say about that genre) All the only full length releases they did, if i!'m not mistaken.
I'm stoked to see more videos about punk rock on youtube. Just a quick heads up. The sex pistols, minor threat, Negative approach, Op Ivy, and the Germs (as far as I know) did have more albums... Or are we just counting full length albums, what about greatest hits albums? 'Cause I know those don't really count. In which case I could name a shit ton of other bands that are wayyy better and debatably "more punk" than some of these bands. Like I'm bummed Choking Victim wasn't on this list, would have been a perfect fit. Please don't take this as "gatekeeping" or anything stupid like that. Another note is that Greenday admitted in a documentary about the punk subculture that "We aren't really a punk band". Just cause they're labeled "pop punk" and some punkers may like them does not make them a "punk" band. Pop punk is a highly debatable topic in the underground punk scene. Have a great day.
TL;DR: A decent amount of bands on this list had more than one physical recording of songs. Also it's highly questionable to call some of these bands "punk" bands.
"I fail to recognise Emo as a musical genere" I've been saying that for years. Emo was little more than a dress code, 3rd rate sound engineering, and the fine art of making a perfectly good guitar amp sound like dog shit. Hillarious that even the band creditied with inventing emo felt the same way.
@@ScoopedMids The first time I heard the term emo someone was talking about Pedro the Lion, which I'm not even sure is emo but I had to admit it was its own thing. A few years later it was describing the Getup Kids, which just sounded like shitty punk. From there on it continued to get less destinct.
@mildred714 that's like saying pirates of destiny is a sex pistols album... it does have my favorite sex pistols song though school's are prisons. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UeSJ9loxFgI.html
@jesusgavemeaids Toxic Narcotic were nowhere nearly as influential as Nausea. Even people who didn't pay attention to the genre took notice of them during their existence.
@@framtidcomesalive influential?? No. But still great. I've know metal heads who don't necessarily like punk say TN was a Cool band. Also Zygote. The Smartpils. ...maybe not as well known as the others but still amazing bands.
The Drunk Injuns. They had an EP called "My Dad Butch" and then release their one and only full length studio album called Frontside Grind". There is also a live EP called "Crimes Against Humanity ". These guys appeared on many of the early Thrasher Magazine punk compilations. Most of the songs on "My Dad Butch" were re recorded and released on Frontside Grind. My Dad Butch was also re released by Alternative Tentacles records years later. However, Frontside Grind has never seen the light of day as far as reissues or even Spotify goes. And it's a damn shame too, because that album is an absolute masterpiece!
Spot on about "Start Today". My favourite guitar based album of all time, and my second favourite of all time only behind Public Enemy's "It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back". People of my age group wax on about how great the nineties were, forgetting that 95% of what they were listening to was set up by those bands and musicians that stuck at it through the worst of the Eighties.
What are you talking about? Davey Havok has screamed like this on every album starting with Sing The Sorrow all the way until their latest. And since I've actually been seeing AFI since the 90s I think I know what I'm talking about.
Gorilla Biscuits actually have 2 albums. Their debut album titled Gorilla Biscuits, is only 2 songs, and 5 minutes shorter then their second album Start Today. I prefer their first album more than Start Today, it's faster and a bit angrier then Start Today, which has more melody than I prefer my hardcore.
@@DunnMike1 It's considered their fist album. It's seriously on 2 songs shorter than Start Today. It's longer than DRI-Dirty Rotten LP and Agnostic Fronts-Victim In Pain and those are both considered full length debut albums, so yeah they have 2 albums
@@ScoopedMids If people are going to say their first album is only a 7inch, then I'd say that their second album is only a 12 inch and they never released an album at all. They are both just EPs
The CD reissue is basically a compilation of the original EP, a much worse sounding version of "Hold Your Ground" with different lyrics, the same cover of "Sitting around at home" from start today, and an extended version of one of the previous songs GM2. A Studio album is supposed to be a clear concise statement. Not hodge podge of different material, which is what the CD reissue is.
The germs,minor threat,operation Ivy,sex pistols,gorilla biscuits and negative approach were my fav in this list I’d add No policy by SOA and Minor Disturbance by Teen Idles even tho they are EP’s they are great
As someone who progresses very very slowly through discography listens in order to savor the albums more, this topic is perfect for recommendations for the punk genre. Cool, do I get my paycheck now?
Not including X-Ray Spex on here is ridiculous. Germ Free Adolescents is not only one of the ten best albums by a punk band that only had one album, it's one of the ten best punk albums, period. That band is legendary and unique. We might also say The Rezillos album Can't Stand The Rezillos is another one, if we don't count their live album "Mission Accomplished" which was released after they broke up, or the reunion album they made "Zero." But, like, if you aren't going to count The Great Rock and Roll Swindle and reunion live and demo tape albums like "Spunk" by the Sex Pistols, you might as well not count the other Rezillos albums either. Certainly, we shouldn't forget, "The Album" by Eater, which is a excellent.
@@ScoopedMids I guess sort of. That group, while credited as "X-Ray Spex" did not include BP Hurding, Rudi Thompson, or Jak Airport. Instead they had Red Spectre and Pauli OhAirt, new guys who'd never been in X-Ray Spex before. It did include Dean and Lora, which is how it came to have some sort of a claim to the "X-Ray Spex" name, but to fans of X-Ray Spex it is "X-Ray Spex" in name only. Because it didn't much sound like X-Ray Spex. Musically, it was more like Poly Styrene's solo albums. And unlike Germ Free Adolescents, which got to #30 on the UK Album chart and which produced four charted singles on the UK chart, "Conscious Consumer" didn't chart on any chart. I mean, it seems weird to count that, if we're not even going to count Great Rock And Roll Swindle as the second Sex Pistols album, even though Swindle got to #7 on the album chart and it produced more singles that charted on the UK singles chart than even Bollocks did. Four singles charted from Bollocks, but six singles taken from Swindle charted. People always seem to forget that, even though four out of those six went Top Ten. Granted, we don't judge greatness in punk rock by what charts, but still... with the exception of Steppin' Stone which was taken from a demo/practice tape, the others actually were new, studio recordings. From Bollocks: Anarchy In The UK - #33 God Save The Queen - #2 (disputed to actually be #1!) Pretty Vacant - #6 Holidays In The Sun - #8 From Swindle: My Way - #7 Something Else - #3 Silly Thing - #6 C'Mon Everybody - #3 The Great Rock And Roll Swindle - #21 (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - #21
Whether you think it counts or not is irrelevant, and so are chart positions. CC is a studio album at the end of the day, and swindle is a soundtrack album. It has mostly songs they already released, and half baked covers. Sure, there's some new stuff but not enough to justify calling it a "studio album". It's a glorified compilstion album, like a greatest hits with some new cuts. I didn't want to play semantics with this video. I only considered Studio albums, because if I included albums like swindle then there's not much reason why I can't include live albums, EPs, Demos, compilations, etc. It's a slippery slope. And it's unfair to write off some albums and say they don't count because it's pure bias.
@@ScoopedMids I disagree because all such "best of lists" are subjective in the first place. A critique of my critique based on its being "biased" is an improper word to used, because "best of" list by there very nature reflect a predisposed bias.
You can ask why Pat Smear is in Foo Fighters, but Dave Grohl was in Scream before Nirvana, and Craig Shifflet was in No Use for a Name, so there are a lot of old punks hanging around that outfit
There was a band out of Arizona in the early 80s called Conflict. (NOT to be confused with the British Anarcho-Punk band of the same name) They had an album out called Final Hour which was released in 1982. And then there was Circle One out of southern California who had one album called Patterns of Force. They were one of the first "Christian" punk bands, and actually preached about Jesus in quite a few of their songs. also, out of Portland Ore. was The Fartz who had one album on Alternative Tentacles called World Full of Hate, which had Duff McCagan in it, who would go on to be in (WAIT FOR IT!) GUNS N ROSES! Another bad with one album that comes to mind would be Sado-Nation, also out of Portland, Ore. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 45 Grave were also a one album wonder. Oh, wait. Before I forget, there were The Chords out of South London who had one album called So Far Away. Now, technically The Chords were a MOD band, but they had a very hard edge to their music that actually borderlined on Oi! In fact, I would go so far as to say that if The Business were a Mod band, they easily either would've been The Chords, or they would've given The Chords a good run for their money.
I saw John Brannon and one of his other bands, Easy Action, open for Dinosaur Jr. He's a real nice guy and a good sport. I'd never heard of Easy Action and didn't know what John Brannon looked like, so I told him "Hey you guys sound like Negative Approach" and he replied "Well that's good considering we're 3/4ths of Negative Approach."
Adolescents blue album, the Stains st, and there is some amazing less known (mostly)LA punk compilations. The Tooth and Nail compilation from 79(Flesh Eaters, Germs, UXA, Negative Trend, Middle Class) is one of the best Punk compilations of all time. American Youth report from 81(Bad Religion, Adolescents, Modern warfare and tons of other bands) Beach Blvd(Simpletones, The Crowd and Negative Trend) The Who Cares compilation is quite unknown but a total classic(Civil Disobedience, Shattered Faith, Political Crap, the Cheifs and the Suspects) The original 1978 What records Comp(the controllers original neutron bomb, the eyes dont talk to me and the skulls victims) The Yes L.a. comp from 79(Germs, the Eyes, Black randy, alleycats, and the bags) The SF underground EPs from 1980(flipper, vktms, the tools asexuality in the 80s and no alternatives johnnys got a gun are absolutely classic punk songs) Theres a bunch more but those are just off the top of my head right now...oh yeah... New york Thrash!!! The Mad I Hate music is one of the best opening tracks on a comp. Check then out. The Lewd Kill yourself 7" from 77 is a classic Also
Darby is the only singer that I know of to use the word _inculcated_ as a lyric. While I'm at it, might as well give Peter Steele a shout out for using the word _Nosferatu._
Mind you ive 100 bootleg sex pistols, seen them 6 times on reunion tours, ive got pistols demos, soundcheck, when theres all this to collect one studio album does not worry me, ive 250 items in my pistols collection, one album was far better than most, sex pistols are the best.
Negative Approach is one of many reasons I still say punk rock was bred and has it's real roots. Detroit is the most unrecognized in the origin stories of Punk Rock Music. Death, The Stooges, MC5, etc.
Also, consider that The Germs had TWO albums, or do you not consider What We Do Is Secret a legitimate Germs album? Oh, sure it was released after Darby's death, and side one is previously unreleased material, but, I still consider it their second album.
Was afraid clicking your vid, but have been surprised w/ your eloquent words. While I disagree w/ some of your points, you bring an interesting & intellectual discussion. Can't wait to watch some more vids. Cheers!
Technically the sex pistols have two albums. The one with black leather forget it's name right now, I know it never was supposed to be a pistols album. But it was released as a pistols album due to a contractual agreement.
How about the new york punk metal band called rest in pieces from like 1991 from the album "under my skin" great cd.check them out.killer band with only one album that I know of cuz I've had that cd since the early 90's.
I can't remember if the Blatz had only 1? Or if the Shitsplit LP was it? They fuckin ruled regardless. And Op Ivy had some of the most talented musicians in all of punk, especially for back then IMO. And idk what genre Pailhead (Ian MacKaye and Al Jourgensen side project) would fall under...punk industrial I guess...but that album had some pretty kickass catchy songs
@@ScoopedMids ahhh...yes. good call. Didnt even think about that. I will say this, I got more respect for Ian MacKaye than any other person in music. That dude has stayed solid from beginning to now. Also...I saw Fugazi a buncha times back n the day. And after every show I'd fan boy my way to the stage while they'd b breaking down. And proceed to b such a annoying 13 yr old kid by just asking every question i could think of and him and Guy would shoot the shit with ya like they knew ya. He let me mispronounce his name til they had to leave. I was saying Mac-kye instead of Mac-Kay. As we walked off he told me. Guy corrected me right away. I didn't know it was pronounced the French way or whatever. I saw em 4 times...and I did that every show. Sorry...gotta little nostalgic on ya
I respect the guys in Fugazi way more than most bands. They were a band who held to their convictions like no other. I saw Brendan Canty with MC50 when they opened for Alice Cooper a few years back.
@@ScoopedMids It was originally released as an Ep, but it's considered their first album. And really given that it's only 2 songs(it still has 12 tracks) and 5 minutes shorter than their second album they could both qualify as EPs or full lengths, it's just a matter of how someone wants to label them. It's longer than Agnostic Front's Victim in Pain, and DRI-Dirty Rotten LP, and those are considered a full lengths.
Germs all in all are the best.....I seen them many times but could never decipher the lyrics....it was like Darby was allergic to the mic....it was so funny Darby would start singing n then remember oh I gotta sing into the mic....when the album came out we were blown away by Darby's lyrics....all his drunked, heroin induced rambling actually had a point...who would have thunk.....R I P Darby n Lorna
Germs were the American Sex Pistols, that's what most people will say... I disagree entirely. Germs were much better at their instruments and Darby's lyrics hit you like a bullet to the chest. My favorite 3 on this list are Rites of Spring, Box Car Racer and Germs.
