I need a change in my life, and I need it right now. Good or bad, it doesn’t really matter how.
Tag: Punk Rock
Mad Caddies – Duck and Cover: #509 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Gotta watch those corners in the stretch of danger, a problem could arise eventually. I’ve walked this earth for twenty years and now my mind is floating out to sea.
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.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – The Band Geek Mafia: #515 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The doctor says to take it easy because this isn’t healthy, but I need things a doctor can’t prescribe. I’m running the race on a treadmill going nowhere fast; I need an outlet in my so-called life.
Green Day – Uno!: #522 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are the vultures, the dirtiest kind. We’ll cut you once in your heart and your mind.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell: #534 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I got a date with the night, burnin’ down my finger.
The Damned – Damned Damned Damned: #536 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No crime if there ain’t no law, no cops left to mess you around, no more dreams of mystery chords, no more sight to bring you down.
Patti Smith – Easter: #547 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take me now baby here as I am. Pull me close, try and understand. Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe. Love is a banquet on which we feed.
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.
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown: #561 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well, I’ve got a fever, I’m a non-believer, I’m in a state of grace, for I am the Caesar, I’m gonna seize the day.
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.
The Distillers – Sing Sing Death House: #583 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are kids, we play punk rock ‘n roll. If we didn’t, we got no soul.
Various Artists – Class of 77: US Punk Nuggets: #592 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m a lexicon devil with a battered brain, and I’m lookin’ for a future, the world’s my aim.
Mad Caddies – Quality Soft Core: #603 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s only human nature, pollutes temptation. We have reserved bookings for the fathers of our nation.
X-Ray Spex – Germ Free Adolescents: #613 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s dark and eerie and it’s really late, come on kids don’t hesitate.
Black Flag – Damaged: #620 of best 1,000 albums ever!
We are tired of your excuse. Try to stop us – it’s no use!
Blondie – Blondie: #626 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Adicción, Tradición, Y Revolución: #660 of best 1,000 albums ever!
She don’t like The Toasters or The Skeletones, she’d rather pound some beers and listen to The Ramones.
Patti Smith – Horses: #681 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Sopra i cieli, ancor più su. Dolci canti di angeli.
Transplants – Haunted Cities: #683 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are true sonic gems hiding on these streets, in this shadowy world.
7 Year Bitch – Viva Zapata!: #694 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An exquisitely executed dose of grungy riot grrl punk rock.
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out: #696 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s the riot grrl drama you’ve been craving.
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake!: #697 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Easily one of my favorite “new” finds of this decade.
Voodoo Glow Skulls – Steady As She Goes: #711 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’d have to have nada en la cabeza to not get moving to this album.
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.
Slant 6 – Soda Pop * Rip Off: #716 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Some bands and some albums hit a bunch of my musical sweet spots at once.
Frank Black – The Cult of Ray: #718 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Another tremendous album from the cult of Frank Black.
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.
The Clash – Sandinista! #731 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The high highs make it well worthy of being in the magnificent seven… hundreds on the best 1,000 albums ever list.
Mad Caddies – Just One More: #733 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Drink smoke drink smoke this is what we do. Well, not what I do necessarily but… you get it.
Pretenders – Pretenders: #736 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A self-assured, unique, and uniquely good debut album from Chrissie Hynde and crew.
Ramones – Road to Ruin: #738 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A thoroughly non-sedating blast of old school punk rock.
Wipers – Over the Edge: #748 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An early ‘80s gem with a super unique sound from the gloom of the Pacific Northwest.
Catch 22 – Keasbey Nights: #758 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Day in day out and on and on and on, *this* is the version of Keasbey Nights you’ve been looking for.
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.
Catch 22 – Alone in a Crowd: #806 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t point the blame – just check out this frantically upbeat ska punk album.
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)?
Le Butcherettes – Cry Is for the Flies: #817 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly and gloriously weird punk-y art-meets-garage rock. Just dig it.
Generation X – Generation X: #821 of best 1,000 albums ever!
One hundred wild youth punks agree: this one is ready steady go.
Swell Maps – International Rescue: #823 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Incredible raw energic punk that sounds both of its time and timeless.
Descendents – Everything Sucks: #824 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So much that is so great (and so right) about punk rock.
The Suicide Machines – Steal This Record: #829 of best 1,000 albums ever!
May the record show that The Suicide Machines have stolen their way into my heart (and another entry on the best 1,000 albums ever list).
Wire – Pink Flag: #851 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly inventive and intriguing punk rock from the UK circa 1977.
The Saints – (I’m) Stranded: #854 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Legit punk rock circa 1977 from Down Under.
Liam Lynch – Fake Songs: #860 of best 1,000 albums ever!
More than a one-hit wonder album? Whatever.
Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution – A Call to Arms: #863 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A short and incredible acoustic ska punk album.
NOFX – Ribbed: #875 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Insanely energetic punk rock with surprisingly agile music dynamics. But also, you know, fun.
Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles: #894 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A freight train of pioneering grungy punk rock energy.
The Offspring – Americana: #896 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I can think of, say, uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis reasons…
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.
The Jam – Sound Affects: #920 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Driving energy and pop hooks that helps to carry the initial British punk music wave forward.
The Suicide Machines – Revolution Spring: #925 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Upbeat ska and punk, expertly mixed with great hooks and strong musicianship overall.
Death – …For the Whole World to See: #931 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A great big blast of proto-punk angst and passion and loud crashing guitars.
Various Artists – Wanna Buy A Bridge? #935 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A stunning collection of post-punk (but mostly leaning into the punk side, and thankfully so) artists out of the UK.
The Dazes – Just Dreamy: #942 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ebullient spirit imbued with punk (Ramones-y) energy and great pop hooks.
The Slits – Cut: #944 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s out there and it’s freaky and it’s punk and it rocks and it all works marvelously well.
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.
Madness – One Step Beyond…: #957 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From ska to punk to new wave to pop, all performed with the extreme exuberance and confidence of youth and with tongues firmly planted in cheeks… I guess you can only describe it as Madness.
Human Switchboard – Who’s Landing in My Hangar? #961 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Early ‘80s new wave-meets-garage rock with fantastic keyboards.
Descartes A Kant – Paper Dolls: #967 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s kind of weird and disturbing and great. Come take the trip.
Sham 69 – Angels With Dirty Faces: #970 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delirious blast of UK punk.
Wimps – Garbage People: #974 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Aggressive yet upbeat, fast paced super fun power poppy punk by way of Seattle, Washington.
Brainiac – Hissing Prigs in Static Couture: #978 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Uh… this album is crazy. Good crazy, but crazy. Dig it.
The Gits – Frenching the Bully: #980 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Mia Zapata’s vocals matched with urgent raucous punky Seattle grunge energy.
The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus: #994 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Conjures the feeling of being inside a gritty, indie British gangster flick and/or hanging out in a pub on a dreary English afternoon.
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