Cover The Rolling Stone Magazine's 40 greatest punk albums of all time

The Rolling Stone Magazine's 40 greatest punk albums of all time

Punk rock started in 1976 on New York's Bowery, when four cretins from Queens came up with a mutant strain of blitzkrieg bubblegum. The revolution they inspired split the history of rock & roll in half. But even if punk rock began as a kind of negation — a call to stark, brutal simplicity — its ...

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Ramones
7.3
1.

Ramones (1976)

Sortie : 23 avril 1976 (France). Rock, Punk, Rock & Roll

Album de Ramones

BoldBoy a mis 8/10.

Annotation :

When the Ramones recorded their debut album for $6,400 in February 1976, the agenda was simple: "Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance," as Tommy put it in 1999. But the brilliance of punk's most influential and enduring record — how four disparate outcasts from the American adolescent mainstream made such original single-minded fury — remains hard to define. Stork-like singer Joey was a pop kid chanting "Hey ho, let's go!" at the start of "Blitzkrieg Bop." Guitarist Johnny pared Dick Dale and Bo Diddley down to the airtight, bluesless staccato of "Beat on the Brat" and "Loudmouth." Bassist and primary lyricist Dee Dee wrote about what he knew (drugs, despair, hustling) with telegramatic wit. And drummer Tommy, a former recording engineer on Jimi Hendrix sessions, co-produced Ramones, guarding its brevity and purity. "We thought we could be the biggest band in the world," Johnny recalled. In a way, they would be. This is where it began.

The Clash
7.6
2.

The Clash (1977)

Sortie : 8 avril 1977 (France). Rock, Punk

Album de The Clash

BoldBoy a mis 8/10 et l'a mis dans ses coups de cœur.

Annotation :

On April 3rd, 1976, a London pub-rock combo, the 101ers, played a show with gnarly urchins the Sex Pistols. The future was "right in front of me," recalled 101ers singer-guitarist Joe Strummer. A year later, Strummer was the battle-scarred voice of the Clash and in the U.K. Top 20 with his new band's self-titled flamethrower debut, a brittle-fuzz volley of politicized rage and street-choir vocal hooks that transformed British punk from a brawling adolescent turmoil to a dynamic social weapon in songs like "White Riot," "London's Burning" and "I'm So Bored With the U.S.A." Strummer and his co-writer, guitarist Mick Jones, were not born debaters; manager-svengali Bernie Rhodes pressed them to go topical. But the effect — propelled by bassist Paul Simonon and original drummer Terry Chimes — was pivotal. CBS in America did not issue the album until 1979, adding later singles. The original remains the sound of a riot being born.

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols
7.1
3.

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)

Sortie : 27 octobre 1977 (France). Punk, Rock

Album de Sex Pistols

BoldBoy a mis 8/10.

Annotation :

"If the sessions had gone the way I wanted, it would have been unlistenable for most people," Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten said. For millions, it was. But when the Sex Pistols' only official album made a frontal assault on the U.K. pop charts, Rotten's snarled lyrics about abortion and anarchy terrorized a nation. The result remains punk rock's Sermon on the Mount, and its echoes are everywhere.

Fun House
8
4.

Fun House (1970)

Sortie : 7 juillet 1970 (France). Rock, Punk, Experimental

Album de The Stooges

BoldBoy a mis 8/10 et l'a mis en envie.

Annotation :

"The Stooges were the perfect embodiment of what music should be," said Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. On the Detroit band's second album (produced by Kingsmen keyboardist Don Gallucci), that meant primal garage chaos nearly a decade ahead of its time. Guitarist Ron Asheton hammered as few chords as possible ("T.V. Eye" is just one), while Iggy Pop channeled bad-trip psychedelia and metallic R&B into hormonal meltdowns that inspired generations of pent-up noise fiends.

Entertainment!
7.5
5.

Entertainment! (1979)

Sortie : 25 septembre 1979 (France). Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk

Album de Gang of Four

BoldBoy a mis 7/10.

Annotation :

Fusing James Brown and early hip-hop with the bullet-point minimalism of the Ramones, Gang of Four were a genuine revolutionary force in their pursuit of working-class justice. The Leeds foursome bound their Marxist critique in tightly wound knots of enraged funk and avenging-disco syncopation, slashed by guitarist Andy Gill's blues-free swordplay.

Pink Flag
7.6
6.

Pink Flag (1977)

Sortie : novembre 1977 (France). Rock, Punk

Album de Wire

BoldBoy a mis 7/10.

Annotation :

No album summed up the infinite possibility in punk's radical simplicity better than this 35-minute, 21-song debut. R.E.M., Spoon and Minor Threat are just a few of the bands that have covered songs from Pink Flag, which ranges from the hardcore Rubik's Cube "1 2 X U" to the 28-second tabloid nightmare "Field Day for the Sundays" to "Fragile," punk's first pretty love song. "A perfect album," said Henry Rollins of Black Flag.

Double Nickels on the Dime
7.3
7.

Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)

Sortie : juillet 1984 (France). Rock, Hardcore, Punk

Album de Minutemen

BoldBoy a mis 8/10.

Annotation :

Three blue-collar corn dogs from the port town of San Pedro, California, with zero pretensions and a gift for gab, and a hilarious taste for no-bullshit political analysis like the "The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts." All over this sprawling, 45-song double-album classic, guitarist D. Boon and bassist Mike Watt spiel back and forth about a lifetime of friendship rooted in shared punk values — as Boon says in "History Lesson, Pt. 2," "Our band could be your life." They also stretch out into jazz noodling and folkie picking, along with Creedence Clearwater Revival, Steely Dan and Van Halen covers. The combustible eclecticism would have an impact on bands from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Pavement. But just when they were starting to get some national attention, Boon was tragically killed in a 1985 car accident, just after the band's final album, 3-Way Tie (For Last), was released.

Damaged
7
8.

Damaged (1981)

Sortie : 16 novembre 1981 (France). Rock, Hardcore, Punk

Album de Black Flag

BoldBoy a mis 6/10.

Annotation :

"We! Are tired! Of your abuse! Try to stop us! It's! No uuuuuuse!" Black Flag walked it like they talked it, perfecting the L.A. hardcore form, with Greg Ginn's demented guitar and Henry Rollins' muscle-bound toxic rage. Damaged got them mixed up with a major label, which refused to release it and denounced it as "an anti-parent record." Which it is — not to mention anti-cop, anti-TV, anti-beer and, what else you got?

Los Angeles
7.1
9.

Los Angeles (1980)

Sortie : avril 1980 (France). Rock, Punk, Rock & Roll

Album de X

BoldBoy a mis 8/10.

Annotation :

X were way too arty to fit in with the L.A. hardcore scene — married couple John Doe and Exene Cervenka sang about L.A. as a surreal nightmare full of psycho speed freaks and burned-out Hollywood directors, over Billy Zoom's junkshop rockabilly guitar. Their producer was the Doors' Ray Manzarek; they paid respects with a version of "Soul Kitchen" that would have scared Jim Morrison right out of town.

Nevermind
7.8
10.

Nevermind (1991)

Sortie : 24 septembre 1991. Grunge, Alternative Rock

Album de Nirvana

BoldBoy a mis 9/10 et l'a mis dans ses coups de cœur.

Annotation :

"Punk rock should mean freedom," Kurt Cobain said in an interview just as he was becoming alt-rock's self-canceling messiah. Though he was embarrassed by its slick sound, Nevermind went o­ff like a grenade in the American mainstream, turning junior-high dances into mosh pits with music that embodied Cobain's dream of punk rock that the metal kids he grew up around in rural Washington could love

Singles Going Steady
7.9
11.

Singles Going Steady (1979)

Sortie : 17 septembre 1979 (France). Pop rock

Compilation de Buzzcocks

BoldBoy a mis 8/10.

Annotation :

These Mancunians broke through pop-punk barriers with insanely catchy gems about hormonally charged angst, from "Orgasm Addict" to the remarkably mature breakup song "Oh Shit!" ("Admit admit you're shit you're shit"). Not-remotely-secret weapon John Maher, the ultimate punk drummer, crashes through "Ever Fallen In Love?" like he's leading a human-sexuality seminar gone horribly wrong.

Horses
7.7
12.

Horses (1975)

Sortie : novembre 1975 (France). Rock, Art Rock

Album de Patti Smith

BoldBoy a mis 8/10.

Annotation :

Before punk even existed, it already had its queen — a Lower East Side poet fusing Sixties garage rock and Rimbaud to create her own ecstatic vision. Working closely with guitarist Lenny Kaye, pianist Richard Sohl and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty (as well as CBGB buddy Tom Verlaine, who co-wrote the Jim Morrison tribute "Break It Up"), she made the New York scene's first major statement. Her record company hated Robert Mapplethorpe's classic cover photo, an image as boundary-shattering and beautiful as the music inside.

Zen Arcade
7.5
13.

Zen Arcade (1984)

Sortie : juillet 1984 (France). Hardcore punk, Punk

Album de Hüsker Dü

BoldBoy a mis 8/10.

Annotation :

The Minnesota power trio broke all the rules of three-chord hardcore with this double-vinyl concept opus — the story of a young guy escaping a broken home and making his way in the city. Bob Mould and Grant Hart traded off­ spit-and-growl vocals in savagely emotional hardcore blasts, but the music expanded into psychedelia, acoustic-folk rage and the closing 14-minute feedback instrumental, "Reoccurring Dreams."

Dig Me Out
7.1
14.

Dig Me Out (1997)

Sortie : 8 avril 1997 (France). Indie Rock, Rock

Album de Sleater‐Kinney

BoldBoy a mis 7/10.

Annotation :

When Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein proclaimed "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" on 1996's Call the Doctor, they were laying down a dare to themselves and the Nineties indie-rock scene. The band's next album, Dig Me Out, made good on that promise. Adding powerhouse drummer Janet Weiss, the Olympia, Washington, trio's feminist punk hit hard — from the elated rush of "Words and Guitar" to the raw romantic torment of "One More Hour."

New York Dolls
7
15.

New York Dolls (1973)

Sortie : 27 juillet 1973 (France). Glam, Rock

Album de New York Dolls

BoldBoy a mis 7/10.

Annotation :

"What the Dolls did to be influential on punk was show that anybody could do it," singer David Johansen said. Aggressive, sloppy, androgynous and loud, they blazed through the gutter glam of "Trash" and "Personality Crisis" like a demented Rolling Stones. The Dolls' Todd Rundgren–produced debut exudes sleazy swagger, one reason punk impresario Malcolm McLaren managed them before assembling the Sex Pistols.

Milo Goes to College
7.5
16.

Milo Goes to College (1982)

Sortie : 15 novembre 1982 (France). Rock, Punk

Album de Descendents

BoldBoy a mis 9/10 et l'a mis dans ses coups de cœur.

Annotation :

L.A.'s Descendents thought their debut would be their only record because singer Milo Aukerman was, in fact, heading off to school. He earned his degree in biology, but the Descendents still managed to become a pop-punk institution, turning stunted rage toward their miserable middle-class existence on "I'm Not a Punk" and "Suburban Home" to pave the way for Green Day and every Warped Tour band that followed.

Marquee Moon
7.9
17.

Marquee Moon (1977)

Sortie : 8 février 1977 (France). Art Rock, Post-Punk

Album de Television

BoldBoy a mis 8/10 et l'a mis dans ses coups de cœur.

Annotation :

Television spent years woodshedding at CBGB, to arrive at a sound as thrilling in its ambition as Ramones was in its simplicity. Marquee Moon drew on surrealist poetry and free jazz, connecting Sixties psychedelia with a more aggressive brand of derangement. The result was punk rock's first — and greatest — guitar landmark, making New York's mean streets seem like a mystic playground.

Dookie
6.6
18.

Dookie (1994)

Sortie : 28 janvier 1994 (France). Pop Punk, Punk

Album de Green Day

BoldBoy a mis 6/10.

Annotation :

Green Day's major-label debut exploded across teenage America in the wake of Kurt Cobain's death like sweet, manic relief. Dookie was an irresistible paradox: 14 songs about despair detonated with Who-ish zeal and radio-tight pop craft. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong called it his "journal about what it's like to live as a street kid" — desperate for connection and frustrated to an atomic degree.

Bad Brains
7.5
19.

Bad Brains (1982)

Sortie : 1982 (France). Roots Reggae, Rock, Hardcore

Album de Bad Brains

BoldBoy a mis 6/10.

Annotation :

The African-American Rastas in Bad Brains had roots in jazz and reggae, yet they helped found the D.C. hardcore scene with their self-proclaimed "P.M.A." — positive mental attitude. Named after a Ramones song, they were already local legends by the time they dropped their 1982 cassette-only debut, with its terrifyingly fast thrash-dervish attack "Pay to Cum."

Germfree Adolescents
7.2
20.

Germfree Adolescents (1978)

Sortie : 10 novembre 1978 (France). Rock, Punk

Album de X‐Ray Spex

BoldBoy a mis 7/10.

Annotation :

Teenage multiracial London girl Poly Styrene had braces on her teeth and wore Day-Glo rags, screeching anthems like "Oh Bondage Up Yours!" over saxophone blasts, and chanting, "I am a poseur and I don't care! I like to make people stare!" X-Ray Spex's explosive debut went criminally unreleased in the U.S., but it became a word-of-mouth cult classic, influencing Sleater-Kinney, the Beastie Boys and many others.

Blank Generation
7.5
21.

Blank Generation (1977)

Sortie : septembre 1977 (France). Rock, Punk

Album de Richard Hell & The Voidoids

BoldBoy a mis 8/10 et l'a mis dans ses coups de cœur.

Annotation :

Television co-founder Richard Hell pretty much invented what he called the "patchy raggedness" of punk fashion and hair care. When he went solo on Blank Generation, he enlisted Robert Quine, a Velvet Underground fanatic whose appropriately jagged guitar style was ideal for anti-love songs "Betrayal Takes Two" and "Love Comes in Spurts." And with the title track, Hell gave us what might be punk's ultimate anthem of liberation ripped from the void.

Bikini Kill (EP)
7.4
22.

Bikini Kill (EP) (1992)

Sortie : 9 octobre 1992 (France). Rock, Punk, Indie Rock

EP de Bikini Kill

Annotation :

Bikini Kill demanded "Revolution Girl Style Now" on their cassette-only debut in 1991, and delivered just that as leaders of the Nineties riot-grrrl movement. The highlight of this singles collection is "Rebel Girl," featuring riot foremother Joan Jett on guitar and vocals; when singer Kathleen Hanna hollers "in her kiss, I taste the revolution," thousands of rebel girls were ready to storm patriarchy's barricades.

Terminal Tower
7.4
23.

Terminal Tower (1985)

Sortie : 19 décembre 1985 (France). Rock, Garage Rock, Art Rock

Compilation de Pere Ubu

BoldBoy a mis 4/10.

Annotation :

As punk was heating up in New York and London, it was also percolating in Cleveland, where Pere Ubu created an "industrial folk" that sounded post-punk in 1975. This archival set peaks with the chillingly anthemic heartland noir of "Final Solution," where singer David Thomas yowls over Peter Laughner's rustbelting guitar. The hard-living Laughner drank his way into an early grave by the time he was 24, but the band he co-founded is still at it today.

All Mod Cons
7.5
24.

All Mod Cons (1978)

Sortie : 3 novembre 1978 (France). Mod, Rock, New Wave

Album de The Jam

BoldBoy a mis 7/10 et l'a mis dans ses coups de cœur.

Annotation :

Dubbing himself "the Cappuccino kid," the Jam's Paul Weller channeled punk fervor into a Mod revival, inspired by the Kinks and the Who. Their third album is a snapshot of London life, from "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" to "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," a salvo against rightwing punkers.

Vs.
7.3
25.

Vs. (1982)

Sortie : 1982 (France). Rock, Post-Punk

Album de Mission of Burma

BoldBoy a mis 6/10.

Annotation :

"I think we're just a closet prog-rock act that happened during punk," Mission of Burma's Clint Conley once said. But the Boston avant-screech band pioneered an arty approach to punk with its 1980 debut indie single, "Academy Fight Song." Vs. is a complex headphone record, yet it's also a festering racket — with the anti-Reagan screed "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate," and the throbbing tremolo trance of "Trem Two."

Album: Generic Flipper
7.2
26.

Album: Generic Flipper (1982)

Sortie : 1982 (France). Rock, Experimental, Punk

Album de Flipper

BoldBoy a mis 4/10.

Annotation :

Named after a dead dolphin their singer found at the beach one day while tripping on acid, San Francisco's Flipper had two bassists and played long, crushingly slow improv jams like the eight-minute "Sex Bomb," which caps off Generic. Their fuck-you freedom inspired Kurt Cobain, who often sported a homemade Flipper T-shirt.

Complete Discography
8
27.

Complete Discography (1989)

Sortie : 1989 (France). Hardcore punk

Compilation de Minor Threat

BoldBoy a mis 7/10.

Annotation :

Minor Threat defined a new hardcore code with their anthem "Straight Edge" — down with drugs, down with booze, up with keeping your wits about you and fighting the power. The D.C. scene leaders didn't stay together very long, but they remain hugely influential thanks to Ian MacKaye's true-believer intensity, as he spread the straight-edge gospel of how to bring revolutionary values to everyday life.

(MIA) The Complete Anthology
8
28.

(MIA) The Complete Anthology (1993)

Sortie : 3 août 1993 (France). Rock, Punk

Compilation de Germs

Annotation :

The Germs only released one album before waste-case singer Darby Crash killed himself in December 1980. But the Joan Jett–produced (GI) set a standard for spoiled L.A. nihilism, masking surprisingly nuanced lyrics in a hilariously sloppy blur.

Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
7.5
29.

Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash (1981)

Sortie : 25 août 1981 (France). Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Rock

Album de The Replacements

BoldBoy a mis 7/10, l'a mis dans ses coups de cœur et l'a mis en envie.

Annotation :

Definitive proof that Midwestern drunkards could be as fast, loud and sloppy as any New York junkie, with resident poet Paul Westerberg croaking about booze and despair over the band's "power trash." What truly set them apart was the humor that came through in lyrics like "I hate music!/It's got too many notes!"

EVOL
7.6
30.

EVOL (1986)

Sortie : mai 1986 (France). Noise rock, Rock expérimental, No Wave

Album de Sonic Youth

BoldBoy a mis 6/10.

Annotation :

With their third album, the New York crew set themselves on a course to becoming the most important noise band of the past three decades. Amp-torture clinics like "Starpower" and "Expressway to Yr Skull" explore what bassist Kim Gordon had called "the darkness shimmering beneath the shiny quilt of American pop culture."

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