Yahoo! Music recently published a top 25 list of Essential Punk Albums.
The following list reads as follows:
1. THE SEX PISTOLS – Never Mind the Bollocks…Here’s the Sex Pistols
2. THE RAMONES – Leave Home
3. X – Los Angeles
4. DEAD BOYS – Young, Loud and Snotty
5. BUZZCOCKS – Singles Going Steady
6. MISFITS – Walk Among Us
7. WIRE – Pink Flag
8. MINOR THREAT – Out of Step
9. RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS – Blank Generation
10. BEDLAM – Bedlam
11. X-RAY SPEX – Germ Free Adolescents
12. JOHNNY THUNDERS AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – L.A.M.F.
13. GANG OF FOUR – Entertainment!
14. THE CLASH – London Calling
15. BAD BRAINS – Bad Brains
16. DEAD KENNEDYS – Plastic Surgery Disasters
17. SUICIDE – Suicide
18. BLACK FLAG – Damaged
19. DESCENDENTS – Milo Goes to College
20. CIRCLE JERKS – Group Sex
21. AVENGERS – Avengers
22. THE DAMNED – Machine Gun Etiquette
23. THE GERMS – GI
24. THE DICTATORS – Go Girl Crazy!
25. THE ANGRY SAMOANS – Back From Samoa
What do you people think? We think they may have left a few off. We’re surprised they didn’t list THE ADOLESCENTS‘ first record or THE OFFSPRING‘s “Smash” or any BAD RELIGION album (like “Suffer” or “No Control“), which we consider “essential punk albums”. If you think that at least one of your favorite punk albums isn’t listed, feel free to leave a comment below.
