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Tag: Hardcore Punk
Downset – Downset: #52 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Anger: hostility towards the opposition.
Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables: #131 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a holiday in Cambodia. It’s tough, kid, but it’s life.
Murphy’s Law – The Best of Times: #418 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This crowd is tight, tight. Gonna party all night, night.
Descendents – Milo Goes to College: #494 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I wanna be stereotyped, I wanna be classified, I wanna be a clone – I want a suburban home.
Descendents – I Don’t Want To Grow Up: #513 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If growing up means being like you, then I don’t want to be like you.
Downset – Do We Speak A Dead Language?: #533 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Graffin’ up in L.A. you can’t act stupid and play, striking up in the hood could mean your last day.
Bad Religion – How Could Hell Be Any Worse?: #554 of best 1,000 albums ever!
In this world today, there ain’t nobody to thank. Just blame it on the kids and toss ‘em in the tank.
Minor Threat – First Two Seven Inches: #570 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I don’t want to hear it – all you do is talk about you. I don’t want to hear it, ‘cause I know that none of it’s true.
Black Flag – Damaged: #620 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are tired of your excuse. Try to stop us – it’s no use!
Bad Religion – Suffer: #715 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t suffer the fools who refuse to get enough-er of this construct of musical performances.
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime: #723 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A sprawl of 43 eclectic gems add up to a greater whole, and that price is right on.
Idles – Ultra Mono: #763 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Points to the future of aggressive music generally in some small but important way.
Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising: #771 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Listen to this on a battered cassette player for maximum effect.
Descendents – Cool To Be You: #798 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Houston, we have a problem indeed. But not with this record.
Bad Brains – Rock for Light: #808 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You (and you) might be able to survive without this album, but why (and why)?
Descendents – Everything Sucks: #824 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So much that is so great (and so right) about punk rock.
The Murder City Devils – In Name and Blood: #904 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Spooky cool carnivalesque organ against Misfits-ish dirty, fast-paced hardcore punk? Uh, yes please.
Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade: #947 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Variety and range, from hardcore punk to an acoustic jam that you could almost imagine being on a 1980s-era Midnight Oil record.
Agent Orange – Living in Darkness: #1,000 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s fresh, indie, passionate, and punk, all the more remarkable for an album produced some four decades ago