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In the vast array of music, there is none more debatable than punk rock. The subject of who is the greatest punk band has fueled argument and debate for decades. Punk and punk inspired musical acts are more common than ever but the underground punk acts of the 70's and 80's will always be remembered for creating a culture for rebellion. Add your list of your favorite punk bands here or vote up the punk acts you love and help create the definitive list of the greatest punk bands of all time.

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  1. 1
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    Rock music, Punk rock, Pop punk
    New York City, Forest Hills
    Acid Eaters, Rocket to Russia, Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits, The Chrysalis Years, Blitzkrieg Bop, Animal Boy, Weird Tales of the Ramones, Anthology: Hey Ho, Let's Go!, Halfway to Russia, Lifestyles of the Ramones, All the Stuff (and More), Volume 2, It's Alive 1974-1996, Poison Heart, R.A.M.O.N.E.S., Mondo Bizarro, We're Outta Here, The Best of The Ramones, Subterranean Jungle, Ramones Mania, You Don't Come Close, Leave Home, Loco Live, Greatest Hits Live, All the Stuff Volume 1, It's Alive, Best of the Chrysalis Years, Too Tough to Die, Halfway to Sanity, NYC 1978, Weird Tales of the Ramones, Europe 1992, Ramones, Ramones Mania Vol. 2, Masters of Rock, End of the Century, Pleasant Dreams, ¡Adios Amigos!, It's Alive, Birthday Bash, Road to Ruin, Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits, Essential, Sheena Is a Punk Rocker, Real Cool Time, Masters of Rock: Ramones, Brain Drain, Do You Wanna Dance?, Hey Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology, Ramones Mania 2, Greatest Hits More
    Controversial
  2. 2
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    Rock music, Punk rock, Pop punk, Ska punk
    Notting Hill
    Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, This Is England, The Call Up, I Fought the Law, The Cost of Living E.P., The Singles, Complete Control, Return to Brixton, Super Black Market Clash, Know Your Rights, Train in Vain, The Singles, Should I Stay or Should I Go, Should I Stay or Should I Go?, The Clash, Sandinista!, Combat Rock, The Essential Clash, Bankrobber, English Civil War, Black Market Clash, Singles Box, London Calling, The Story of the Clash, Volume 1, Live at Bond's Casino, Clash on Broadway, Capital Radio One, The Magnificent Seven, Il grande Rock, The Vanilla Tapes, Rock the Casbah, The Singles, From Here to Eternity: Live, Remote Control, The Singles, The Call Up / The Magnificent Dance, The Ultimate Collection, Crucial Music: The Clash Collection, Hitsville U.K., Should I Stay or Should I Go? / Rush, London Calling, The Clash: Live At Shea Stadium, Clash City Rockers, Solid Gold, Tommy Gun, The 12" Mixes, This Is Radio Clash, Cut the Crap, 1977 Revisited, Train in Vain / Bankrobber, (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais, White Riot, Give 'Em Enough Rope More
    Most Listed
  3. 3
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    Rock music, Punk rock
    London
    Pretty Vacant, Anarchy in the USA, We Don't Care, Sex Pack, Chaos, No Future U.K.?, Pistol Whipped: The Sex Pistols Live, Better Live Than Dead, No Feeling, No Fun!, Anarchy in the UK, The 76 Club: The Complete Burton-on-Trent Recordings, Silver Jubilee, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols, The Sex Files I, Live at Chelmsford Prison, Raw, C'mon Everybody, God Save the Queen, Flogging a Dead Horse, Spunk, Anarchy in the U.K. - Live at the 76 Club, There'll Always Be an England, Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols, Holidays in the Sun, Jubilee, Agents Of Anarchy, Raw and Live, The Best of & the Rest of Original Pistols, Filthy Lucre: Live, Sex Pistols Box Set, Live at Winterland 1978, Early Daze, We've Cum For Your Children (Wanted: The Goodman Tapes), Pirates of Destiny, The Original Pistols: Live, Back and There Again, Anarchy in the U.K., Kiss This, The Swindle Continues, Live at Chelmsford Top Security Prison, God Save The Queen, Filthy Lucre: Live, The Sex Pistols, Pretty Vacant, Spunk/This is Crap, The Filth and the Fury, The Filthy Lucre Tour: Live in Japan, The Original Pistols Live, Better Live Than Dead, Anarchy World Wide, Spunk, The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, Anarchy Live at the 76 Club, The Biggest Blow / My Way, My Way / Something Else / C'mon Everybody, Something Else, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Pretty Vacant, There Is No Future, Alive, Platinum Collection, Raw, Live & Filthy More
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    Punk rock, Anarcho-punk, Hardcore punk, Skate punk, Psychobilly, Thrashcore More
    San Francisco
    Nazi Punks Fuck Off, Milking the Sacred Cow, The Early Years Live, Plastic Surgery Disasters, Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust, Inc., Bedtime for Democracy, Live at the Deaf Club, Bleed for Me, A Skateboard Party, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Kill the Poor, Halloween, Mutiny on the Bay, The 1978 Demos, Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death, Live at DMPO's on Broadway, Too Drunk to Fuck, In God We Trust, Inc., Skateboard Party '82, 1982: Germany, Holiday in Cambodia, Best Of, Frankenchrist, California über alles More
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    Heavy metal, Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Horror punk
    Lodi
    Project 1950, Monster Mash, Static Age, Bullet, American Psycho, Box Set, Psycho in the Wax Museum, Land of the Dead, Walk Among Us, Legacy of Brutality, Heroes of Danzig, Bullet, Untitled Misfits Album, Day the Earth Caught Fire, Collection II, Famous Monsters, 3 Hits From Hell, Beware, Night of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Die, Die My Darling, Collection I, Earth A.D., Don't Open 'Til It's Doomsday/Day the Earth Caught Fire, Cuts from the Crypt: 1996-2001, Horror Business, Halloween, Evillive II, Evilive, 12 Hits From Hell, Music From the Upcoming Famous Monsters, Earth A.D. / Wolfs Blood / Evilive, Beware, Cough/Cool, Box Set, The Devil's Rain, Beware and the Rest More
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    Heavy metal, Punk rock, Hardcore punk
    Hermosa Beach
    Loose Nut, Damaged, I Can See You, The First Four Years, Wasted Again, Who's Got the 10½?, TV Party, The Process of Weeding Out, Spray Paint (Live), Everything Went Black, Annihilate This Week, Family Man, Louie Louie, Live at the On Broadway 1982, Slip It In, Minuteflag, My War, In My Head, The Complete 1982 Demos Plus More, Damaged / Jealous Again, Six Pack, Nervous Breakdown, Live '84, Who's Got the 10½?, Jealous Again More
  7. 7
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    Rock music, Hard rock, Blues-rock, Punk rock, Experimental rock, Glam rock, Psychedelic rock, Punk blues, Garage rock, Acid rock, Protopunk More
    Ann Arbor
    Live in Detroit, Night of Destruction, Open Up and Bleed!, Michigan Palace 10-6-73, Rough Power, Original Punks (disc 1), 1970: The Complete Funhouse Sessions, Metallic K.O., Original Punks (disc 2), Original Punks, Metallic K.O. (disc 1), (I Got) Nothing, The Stooges, I'm Sick of You!, Metallic K.O. (disc 2), Head On, Secret Plan, My Girl Hates My Heroin, Year of the Iguana, Escaped Maniacs, Night of the Destruction, Gimme Some Skin, Double Danger, Studio Sessions, The Weirdness, Open Up and Bleed, Wild Love, Raw Power, Telluric Chaos, Live At Whiskey A Go-Go, California Bleeding, Search and Destroy: The Detroit Studio Out-takes, Raw Power, I Got a Right, Fun House, Penetration: The Best of the Legendary Demo & Rehearsal Recordings, I Got a Right, Heavy Liquid, Rubber Legs, I'm Sick of You!, 1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans, The Stooges: Deluxe Edition, You Don't Want My Name... You Want My Action More
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    Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Straight edge
    Washington, D.C.
    Complete Discography, First two 7"s on a 12", Out of Step, First Demo Tape, Minor Threat, Salad Days, Minor Threat, In My Eyes, First Demo Tape, Screaming at the Wall More
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    Alternative rock, Hard rock, Blues-rock, Rockabilly, Punk rock, Pop punk, Hardcore punk, Skate punk, Cowpunk More
    California, Orange County
    White Light White Heat White Trash, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes (Deluxe Edition), Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll, Mainliner, Live at CBGB's, Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell, Prison Bound, Social Distortion, Greatest Hits, 1945, Live at The Roxy, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, Social Distortion, Social Distortion's seventh studio album, Live in Orange County, Mommy's Little Monster, Sick Boys - Live at the Country Club, Reseda, CA - 23 June 1990, Greatest Hits More
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    Punk rock, Pop punk, Hardcore punk, Ska punk, Skate punk, Melodic hardcore, Alternative More
    Los Angeles
    Liza and Louise, Pump Up the Valuum, 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records, Maximum Rocknroll, The Longest Line, Surfer, 7" of the Month Club, HOFX, Timmy the Turtle, Louise and Liza, Never Trust a Hippy, The Longest EP, E Is for Everything, Untitled NOFX album, S&M Airlines, So What If We're on Mystic!, Punk in Drublic, Eating Lamb, Fuck the Kids, Eat or Die, NOFX 7" Club (April), NOFX 7" Club (August), Liberal Animation, So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, Fat Club, Fat Club 7, The Album, Ribbed, Cokie the Clown, The P.M.R.C. Can Suck on This, White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean, NOFX 7" Club (September), NOFX 7" Club (January), Wolves in Wolves' Clothing, NOFX 7" Club (May), Regaining Unconsciousness, Don’t Call Me White, My Orphan Year, 13 Stitches, They've Actually Gotten Worse Live!, 22 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records, The Demo, 1996-08-18: Bizarre Festival, Cologne, Germany, The Decline, NOFX 7" Club (July), Ten Years of Fuckin' Up, NOFX, Leave It Alone, The Greatest Songs Ever Written, All of Me, I Heard They Suck Live!!, NOFX 7" Club (December), Drowning Roses/NOFX Split, So What if We're On Mystic!, BYO Split Series, Vol. 3, Pods and Gods, NOFX 7" Club (June), NOFX 7" Club (March), The War on Errorism, Coaster, NOFX 7" Club (November), NOFX / The Spits, Heavy Petting Zoo, Eating Lamb, Bottles to the Ground, Cokie the Clown, The Myspace Transmissions, Vol. 11, NOFX 7" Club (February), NOFX 7" Club (October) More
  11. 11
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    New Wave, Punk rock, Pop punk, Power pop
    Manchester, Bolton
    BBC Sessions, The Peel Sessions, All Set, Sell You Everything, The Complete French Suites & Overture in French Style (disc 1) (feat. Glenn Gould), Driving You Insane, Live At The Roxy Club April '77, Product, A Different Kind of Product, I Don't Mind the Buzzcocks, Spiral Scratch, Alive Tonight, Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Harmony in My Head, A Different Kind of Tension / Parts 1, 2, 3, Reconciliation, Wish I Never Loved You, Part 1, Orgasm Addict, Do It, Live, Ever Fallen in Love? Buzzcocks Finest, Beating Hearts: Manchester Apollo 1978, Buzzcocks, Love You More, Singles Going Steady, Modern, Flat-Pack Philosophy, Live Tension, Small Songs with Big Hearts: London Rainbow '79, French, Songs in a Different Time, The Complete Singles Anthology, A Different Kind of Tension / Singles Going Steady, A Different Kind of Tension, Chronology, Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?), Everybody's Happy Nowadays, I Don't Mind, Operators Manual, Parts 1-3, Paris: Encore du pain, Entertaining Friends: Live at the Hammersmith Odeon March 1979, Lest We Forget, Time's Up, 30, Operator's Manual: Buzzcocks best, Promises, What Do I Get?, Part 2, Part 3, Love Bites / Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites, Trade Test Transmissions More
  12. 12
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    Hard rock, Progressive rock, Punk rock, Indie rock, Pop punk, Psychedelic rock, Hardcore punk, Crossover thrash, Skate punk, Melodic hardcore More
    Woodland Hills
    The Empire Strikes First, Into the Unknown, Streets of America, All Ages, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Back to the Known, Stranger Than Fiction, The Dissent of Man, Tested, The Process of Belief, Along the Way, Recipe for Hate, Eat or Die, Los Angeles Is Burning, Generator, Broken, Dream of Unity, Infected, A Walk, New Maps of Hell, Suffer, No Control, Bad B-Sides, Bad Religion, Public Service, Against the Grain, New America, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Raise Your Voice, 80-85, Stranger Than Fiction, The Devil in Stitches, The Gray Race, 30 Years Live, Live at the HOB Orlando, Live at the Palladium, No Substance Radio Concert, Turn on the Music (live USA '93), Punk Rock Songs: The Epic Years, No Substance, 21st Century (Digital Boy), The New America, Punk Rock Song, 30 Years Live More
  13. 13
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    Alternative rock, Jazz fusion, Heavy metal, Roots reggae, Punk rock, Thrash metal, Hardcore punk, Crossover thrash, Reggae More
    Washington, D.C.
    Rise, Black Dots, Rock for Light, Spirit Electricity, Build a Nation, I Against I, Love Is the Answer, Pay to Cum!, Quickness, Live, Live at CBGB's 1982, I & I Survived (dub), Bad Brains, The Youth Are Getting Restless, The Omega Sessions, Live, Banned in D.C.: Bad Brains Greatest Riffs, The Early Years, God of Love, A Bad Brains Reunion Live from Maritime Hall, Attitude: The ROIR sessions, Live at the Fillmore 1982, Omega Sessions, Pay to Cum LP (1979-1981) More
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    Alternative rock, Punk rock, Pop punk, Hardcore punk, Ska punk, Skate punk, Street punk More
    Albany, Berkeley
    ...and Out Come the Wolves, B Sides and C Sides, Rancid, Rancid, Indestructible, Single One, Let the Dominoes Fall, Radio, Radio, Radio, Rancid, Rancid's seventh studio album, Life Won't Wait, Hooligans, Let's Go, Rancid, Time Bomb, Fall Back Down, Let me go, BYO Split Series, Vol. 3, Roots Radicals, Ruby Soho More
    Controversial
  15. 15
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    Alternative rock, Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Post-hardcore
    Minneapolis-St. Paul
    Flip Your Wig, In a Free Land, Zen Arcade, Metal Circus, New Day Rising, Ice Cold Ice, Ice Cold Ice, Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely, Sorry Somehow, Land Speed Record, Warehouse: Songs and Stories, The Living End, Eight Miles High / Makes No Sense at All, Everything Falls Apart and More, Could You Be the One?, Could You Be the One?, Candy Apple Grey, Everything Falls Apart, Eight Miles High, Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely, Makes No Sense at All, Statues / Amusement More
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    Punk rock, Pop punk, Hardcore punk, Skate punk, Melodic hardcore
    Hermosa Beach
    I'm the One EP, Live Plus One, Cool to Be You, Two Things at Once, I Don't Want to Grow Up, Milo Goes to College, ALL, Everything Sucks, Liveage, Fat, Bonus Fat, 'Merican, Sessions, Clean Sheets, Hallraker, Somery, When I Get Old, I'm the One, Enjoy+, Ride the Wild / It's a Hectic World, Enjoy! More
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    Post-punk, Punk rock, Gothic rock
    London
    Damned, Damned, Damned, The Collection, Eternally Damned: The Best of the Damned, The Light at the End of the Tunnel, The Black Album, Fun Factory, Live Shepperton 1980, Final Damnation, Anything, Light at the End of the Tunnel, Lively Arts, Little Miss Disaster, Totally Damned, The Best of the Damned, I'm Alright Jack and the Beanstalk, Boxed, Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976–1987, The Best of the Damned, MCA Singles A's & B's, New Rose, Live Anthology, Play It at Your Sister, Molten Lager, Testify, Gigolo, Neat Neat Neat: The Alternative Anthology, The Super Best of The Damned, Punk Generation: Best of Oddities & Versions, The Shadow of Love, The Chaos Years: Rare & Unreleased 1977-1982, Tales From the Damned, David Vanian and the Phantom Chords, Wait for the Blackout, Best of Volume 1½: The Long Lost Weekend, The Worst of The Damned, Damned Busters, Dozen Girls, Smash It Up, Live: The School Bullies, The Radio One Sessions, Live at Newcastle, Eloise, Anything, The Best of the Damned: Total Damnation, From the Beginning, Generals, The Peel Sessions, In Dulce Decorum, Disco Man, Not of This Earth, Not the Captains Birthday Party?, White Rabbit, Grave Disorder, The Damned discography, The Peel Sessions, I Just Can't Be Happy Today, Alone Again Or, Shut It, Phantasmagoria, Sessions of the Damned, Strawberries, The Captain's Birthday Party: Live at the Roundhouse, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Looking at You, Neat Neat Neat, Friday 13th EP, Live, Machine Gun Etiquette, Gun Fury, The Peel Sessions, Problem Child, Thanks for the Night, Live at the Lyceum Ballroom 1981, Live at Woolwich Coronet, Live at the 100 Club, Ballroom Blitz - Live at the Lyceum, Mindless, Directionless Energy: Live at the Lyceum 1981, Noise: The Best of the Damned Live, Fiendish Shadows, Love Song, Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976-1987, The Black Album, Music for Pleasure, The Best of the Damned: Marvellous, Lovely Money, The Black Album, Chiswick Years, Live At The 100 Club, Chiswick Singles, Grimly Fiendish, Is It a Dream, There Ain't No Sanity Clause, The Pleasure and the Pain, Super Best Collection, Born to Kill, So, Who's Paranoid?, Skip Off School to See the Damned, The Pleasure and the Pain (Disc 1), Damned But Not Forgotten, Neat Neat Neat, Prokofiev More
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    Alternative rock, Rock music, Hard rock, Folk rock, Punk rock, Roots rock, Punk blues, Psychobilly, Folk punk, Cowpunk, Punkabilly More
    Los Angeles
    More Fun in the New World, Beyond and Back: The X Anthology, The Future, Under the Big Black Sun, Ain't Love Grand, Hey Zeus!, Los Angeles, Blue Spark, Wild Gift, The Best: Make the Music Go Bang!, Live at the Whisky A Go-Go, Merry Xmas From X, Live in Los Angeles, Unclogged, See How We Are, X - Live in Los Angeles, White Girl, Los Angeles / Wild Gift, Adult Books More
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    Alternative rock, Rock music, Heavy metal, Punk rock, Hardcore punk
    Hermosa Beach
    Wild in the Streets, Gig, Golden Shower of Hits, Group Sex / Wild in the Streets, Group Sex, Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities, Wonderful, I Wanna Destroy You, VI More
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    Rock music, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Blues-rock, Punk rock, Psychedelic rock, Rock and roll, Garage rock, Acid rock, Protopunk More
    Detroit
    Kick Out the Jams, Back in the USA, Looking at You / Borderline, Purity Accuracy, Power Trip, Big Bang: The Best of the MC5, The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5, '66 Breakout!, Extended Versions: The Encore Collection, Teen Age Lust, Greatest Hits Live, Live 1969/70, Starship, Ice Pick Slim, Thunder Express, Looking At You, High Time, Black to Comm, Babes in Arms, American Ruse, Vintage Years, Power Trip More
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    Punk rock, Pop punk
    Huntington Beach
    When in Rome Do as the Vandals, Look What I Almost Stepped in..., Hitler Bad, Vandals Good, The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes, Hollywood Potato Chip, Internet Dating Superstuds, Sweatin' To the Oldies: The Vandals Live, Peace Thru Vandalism, Live on KFPK, Slippery When Ill, Shingo Japanese Remix Album, Fear of a Punk Planet, Sweatin' to the Oldies: The Vandals Live, Live At The House Of Blues, Peace Thru Vandalism / When in Rome Do as the Vandals, Live at the House of Blues, When in Rome Do as the Vandals / Peace Thru Vandalism, Fat Club 7", BBC Sessions and Other Polished Turds, Sheena Is a Punk Rocker 7", One For The Ages, The Quickening, Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes, Look What I Almost Stepped in..., Live Fast Diarrhea, Oi to the World!, The Vandals / Assorted Jelly Beans split 7", Christmas With The Vandals: Oi to the World! More
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    Alternative rock, Punk rock, Pop punk, Comedy rock, Folk punk
    Philadelphia
    Punk Rock Girl, Big Lizard in My Backyard, Smokin' Banana Peels, Death Rides a Pale Cow, Sour Milk, Soul Rotation, Eat Your Paisley, Beelzebubba, Somebody Shot Sunshine, Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything), Metaphysical Graffiti, So Long Seventies, Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig), Raging Cow, Death Rides a Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection, The Thing That Only Eats Hippies, Bucky Fellini, Now We Are 20, Chaos Rules: Live at the Trocadero, Now We Are 10, Funky Farm, The Dead Milkmen Take the Airwaves, Not Richard, But Dick, Wisconsin, If I Had a Gun, Folk Songs for the 80's, Purgatory Beat, Rare Slab of Cow, Paradise Lagoon, Cream of the Crop: The Best of the Dead Milkmen, Dr. Talcum's Studio of Fear More
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    Punk rock
    Belfast
    Get a Life, Go for It, Suspect Device, Hope Street, See You Up There!, Live In Aberdeen 1979, Gotta Gettaway, Inflammable Material, Flags & Emblems, Complete John Peel Sessions, Wasted Life, All the Best, Live and Loud, Fifteen and Counting... Live at the Barrowland 17th March 2006, Greatest Hits Live in the UK, Tinderbox, Fly The Flags, Just Fade Away, Nobody's Hero, Song by Song, Broken Fingers/Live in Aberdeen, The Price of Admission, Greatest Hits Live, Tin Soldiers, Back Against the Wall: The Essential Fingers Collection, Anthology, Guitar & Drum, Handheld & Rigidly Digital, Silver Lining, Pure Fingers Live - St. Patrix 1993, Hanx!, No Sleep 'Til Belfast, Anthology [3] Live at Brixton Academy Theatre, London, BBC Radio 1: Live in Concert, The Christmas Album, BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert, Fly the Flags, Live, Bits of Kids, Now Then..., Straw Dogs, At the Edge, Nobody's Heroes, £1.10 or Less, Hope Street/All The Rest, B'S, Live, Unplugged & Demos, Alternative Chartbusters, Alternative Ulster, Anthology [1], Back to Front / Mr. Fire Coal-Man, Gotta Gettaway, The Peel Sessions Album, Talk Back, The Radio One Sessions, Beirut Moon, Guitar and Drum, Nobody's Heroes More
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    Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Ska punk
    Berkeley
    Energy, Seedy, Plea for Peace, Greatest Hits, Ramones EP, Lint Rides Again, Plea for Peace, Unreleased Energy, Hectic E.P., 69 Newport, Unity: The Complete Collection, Lint Rides Again More
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    Alternative rock, Punk rock, Pop punk
    Berkeley
    Live Tracks, Time of Your Life (Good Riddance), Holiday, Welcome to Paradise, More Noize for the Boys, 1,039/Smoothed out Slappy Hours, Redundant / Time of Your Life, Transmissions, Kerplunk!, Live at Gilman Street, 21 Guns, 21 Guns Live EP, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, American Idiot, The Simpsons Theme, Pop Disaster Tour 2002, 2004-10-02: Potsdam, Germany, Jesus of Suburbia, 1,000 Hours, Bullet in a Bible, Warning:, Wake Me Up When September Ends, Nimrod, Tune In, Tokyo..., Awesome as Fuck, Nice Guys Finish Last, 1994-08-14: Woodstock '94, Saugerties, NY, USA, 2001-04-26: Surprise Gig at CBGB: CBGB Studio, New York, NY, USA, When I Come Around, Brain Stew / Jaded, 21st Century Breakdown, 1998-11-01: Live in Buenos Aires 1998: Parque Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sweet Children, Longview, 39/Smooth, Slappy EP, Geek Stink Breath, Basket Case, Cigarettes and Valentines, American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording, 21 Guns Salute, Dookie, Insomniac, 1995-09-03: It's a Green Day in Gothenburg 1995: Lisebergshallen, Göteborg, Sweden, 1995: Limited Edition: Chicago, IL, USA, International Superhits, Woodstock 1994, Last Night on Earth: Live in Tokyo, Green Day, 1998-02-03: A Day Out in Paris: Élysée Montmartre, Paris, France, Warning, Stuck With Me, Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking, Foot in Mouth, Hitchin' a Ride, Minority, Shenanigans, Shoplifter, Redundant, Waiting, American Idiot, International Superhits, American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording, Insomniac, American Idiot, I Fought the Law, Know Your Enemy, Green Day: Rock Band Soundtrack, Greatest Hits, The Saints Are Coming, Working Class Hero, Lo nuevo y lo mejor, 1992-05-28: Radio Daze: WFMU studios, East Orange, NJ, USA, 1994-04-18: Boring Days in Paradise: Satyricon, Portland, OR, USA, Anyway, Having a Blast, Oooh What a Green Day!, God Bless Amerika, Spitting, 1998-05-06: Nice Guys Finish Last: House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA, School Daze, 1992: Live at Gilman St.: 924 Gilman St., Berkeley, CA, USA, 1994-03-15: Washington, DC, USA, 1994-11-04: Kiss My Green Ass: Olympic Velodrome, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1995-09-02: Attack of Insomnia: Johanneshaov, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004-08-27: Bramham Park, Leeds, UK, 2005-01-15: Böblingen, Germany, Egocentric Plastic Men, Live at Zeche in Bochum, Germany, Live in Vancouver, Live on Air, More Boring Days More
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    Hard rock, Folk rock, Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Oi!, Celtic music, Celtic punk, Folk punk, Celtic rock More
    Boston, Quincy
    Sing Loud, Sing Proud!, Unity, The Singles Collection, Volume 1, Do or Die, Face to Face vs. Dropkick Murphys, The Gang's All Here, Curse of a Fallen Soul, The Early Years, Boys on the Docks, The Meanest of Times, Walk Away, Blackout, The Warrior's Code, Live on St. Patrick's Day From Boston, MA, Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA, Going Out in Style, DKM/Bruisers Split 7 inch, Back to the Hub, The Wild Rover, Singles Collection, Volume 2, Tessie, One For The Ages, Mob Mentality, Tattoos and Scally Caps, The State of Massachusetts, DKM/Ducky Boys Spilt 7 inch, The Early Years More
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    Alternative rock, Rock music, Punk rock, Art rock, Protopunk
    New York City
    Dream of Life, Gone Again, Horses, Land (1975-2002), Peace and Noise, Land, The Coral Sea, Gung Ho, Trampin', Horses Horses, Twelve, Twelve, The Patti Smith Masters: The Collective Works, Set Free, Hey Joe / Radio Ethiopia, Because the Night, ITunes Originals – Patti Smith, People Have the Power, Because the Night, Exodus, I Never Talked to Bob Dylan More
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    Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Punk blues, Oi!
    Los Angeles, California
    More Beer, Have Another Beer With FEAR, I Love Livin in the City, The Record, Live For the Record, American Beer More
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    Punk rock, Pop punk, Hardcore punk, Crossover thrash, Skate punk, Melodic hardcore More
    Hermosa Beach
    Down Under, Same Old Story, From the Ashes, Home Movies, Unknown Road, Full Circle, About Time, Reason to Believe, The Fuse, Wildcard / A Word From the Wise, Pennywise, Straight Ahead, Fight Till You Die/Final Day, Land of the Free?, Live at the Key Club, Reason to Believe, Free for the People, Tomorrow, Wildcard, A Word from the Wise More
  30. 30
    Rock music, Hard rock, Punk rock, Glam rock, Rock and roll, Protopunk, Glam punk More
    New York City
    Dancing Backward in High Heels, Lipstick Killers: The Mercer Street Sessions 1972, Rock 'n' Roll, Seven Day Weekend, Rock'n Roll, Too Much Too Soon, Red Patent Leather, Cause I Sez So, One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, New York Dolls, Live in Concert, Paris 1974, A Hard Night's Day, Live From Royal Festival Hall, 2004, Night of the Living Dolls, Live in NYC, 1975, Live at the Fillmore East, The Glamorous Life LIVE, Great Big Kiss, The Glam Rock Hits, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of New York Dolls, Endless Party More
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    Alternative rock, Rock music, Hard rock, Punk rock, Pop punk, Hardcore punk, Post-grunge, Ska punk, Skate punk, Grunge music, Melodic hardcore More
    Garden Grove
    Smash, Ixnay on the Hombre, Million Miles Away, Original Prankster, Gotta Get Away, Americana, Want You Bad, Baghdad, Different Hits, 2001-01-20: Wembley Stadium, London, UK, Live USA, Gone Away, I'll Be Waiting, Huck It, Come Out and Stay, 1999-07-23: Woodstock '99, Rome, NY, USA, Come Out and Play, Pretty Fly (For a White Guy), Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace, 1994-12-12: Smash Tour: Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, USA, Punk Esteem, Ignition, (Can't Get My) Head Around You, Happy Hour!, Totalimmortal, 2004-03-16: Paris, France, Self Esteem, The Kids Aren't Alright, Defy You, Americana, Greatest Hits, All I Want, She's Got Issues, The Offspring Collection, 2008-06-06: Rock in Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, Conspiracy of One, Splinter, I Choose, Super Punk, Sudamericana, 1991-01-19: Pico Riviera, CA, USA, 2001-01-19: Manchester, UK, 1999-11-13: London Highbury Garage, London, UK, Anti-Depressivum, 2001-02-07: Paris, France, 2003-12-13: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA, The Revenge of the Nerds, Powerheads Live, The Offspring, The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection, A Piece of Americana, Why Don't You Get a Job?, Hammerhead, Club Me, Hit That, They Were Born to Kill More
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    Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Skate punk
    Fullerton
    Live 1981 and 1986, Adolescents / Welcome to Reality / All by Myself, Naughty Women in Black Sweaters: The Complete Demos 1980-1986, OC Confidential, Adolescents, Balboa Fun Zone, The Fastest Kid Alive, Return to the Black Hole, Unwrap and Blow Me, Welcome to Reality, Live at the House of Blues, Brats in Battalions More
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    Anti-Nowhere League

    Punk rock, Crossover thrash, Metalcore
    Royal Tunbridge Wells
    Pig Iron, Animal! The Very Best of the Anti-Nowhere League 1981-1998, I Hate... People, We Are... The League, The Road To Rampton, The Perfect Crime, Punk Singles and Rarities 1981 - 1984, Out of Control, Scum, The Perfect Crime, Return to Yugoslavia, The Best of Anti-Nowhere League, Live in Yugoslavia, So What?: Early Demos and Live Abuse, Anthology, Long Live The League, Kings and Queens, Kings & Queens, Anti Nowhere League - Anthology, So What?, Live and Loud, The Horse Is Dead, Live Animals, So What, The Punk Rock Anthology, Punk Singles & Rarities 1981-84, We are... the League, Pig Iron - The Album, Complete Singles Collection, Streets of London, Secret Radio Recordings, Woman More
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    G.B.H.

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    Propaghandi

    Controversial
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    Alternative rock, Rock music, Punk rock, Pop punk, Skate punk
    San Diego, Poway
    Cheshire Cat, Dude Ranch, Always, I Miss You, Down, Buddha, Enema of the State Demo, Neighborhoods, First Date, Josie (Everything's Gonna Be Fine), Flyswatter, 2nd Demo, Blink-182 Greatest Hits DVD, Adam's Song, The Mark, Tom & Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back), Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Blink-182 discography, Greatest Hits, blink-182, Short Bus, The Rock Show, Dammit (Growing Up), Up All Night, Blink-182: Greatest Hits DVD, Dick Lips, They Came to Conquer Uranus, Time, Stay Together for the Kids, The Urethra Chronicles, Feeling This, Blink-182's 2nd Demo, All the Small Things, Not Now / Dammit, Apple Shampoo, What's My Age Again?, Buddha Promo, I Won't Be Home for Christmas, Man Overboard More
    Niche
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    The Adicts

    Punk rock, Indie rock, Hardcore punk, Oi!, Punk Pathetique
    Ipswich
    This Is Your Life, Sound of Music, Lunch With The Adicts, Chinese Takeaway, Ultimate Adiction: The Best of the Adicts, Rollercoaster, The Complete Adicts Singles Collection, Fifth Overture, Live and Loud, The Complete Adicts Singles Collection, Rollercoaster, 27, Live and Loud, Smart Alex, This Is Your Life, Rise and Shine, Viva La Revolution, Twenty-Seven, Totally Adicted, Triple B Sides, Made in England, Rockers Into Orbit, Joker in the Pack, Joker in the Pack, Totally Adicted, The Very Best of the Adicts, Rockers into Orbit, Bar Room Bop, Life Goes On, Songs of Praise, The Sound of Music / Smart Alex, Falling In Love Again 12 Inch, Rise and Shine, Joker in the Pack More
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    Alternative rock, Punk rock, Pop punk
    New Brunswick
    The Gold Record, Maniacal Laughter, Gone, Ghosts on the Boardwalk, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, The Bouncing Souls, Live 2, Complete Control Recording Sessions, Tie One On, The Good, the Bad, and the Argyle, Live, The Green Ball Crew, The Bad. The Worse. And the Out of Print., 20th Anniversary Series, Pipeline Café Honolulu, Anchors Aweigh, The Argyle e.p., Hopeless Romantic, Neurotic., Johnny X, Ugly Bill, Split album, The Greenball Crew More
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    Punk rock, Thrash metal, Hardcore punk, Crossover thrash, Oi!, Street punk More
    Scotland, Edinburgh
    Totally Exploited Live in Japan, War Now, The Massacre, Live At The Whitehouse, Punk Singles & Rarities 1980-83, Singles Collection, Twenty Five Years of Anarchy and Chaos, Death Before Dishonour, Troops of Tomorrow, Let's Start a War, Punk's Not Dead, Fuck the System, On Stage, Totally Exploited, Horror Epics, Dead Cities, Beat the Bastards, Dead Cities, Let's Start a War / Horror Epics, Live and Loud, Live Lewd Lust, Live on Stage/Live At The Whitehouse, Let's Start a War (Said Maggie One Day), Attack / Alternative, Don't Forget the Chaos, The Singles, Army Life, The Best of The Exploited, The Massacre, Best of the Exploited: Totally Exploited More
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    Punk rock, Oi!
    Hersham
    Rarities 1977-80, Hersham Boys, The Complete Sham 69 Live, Live at the Roxy Club, The Best of, Unite and Win, The First, the Best and the Last, Live, Live and Loud, Tell Us the Truth, Volunteer, The Punk Singles Collection 1977-80, You're a Better Man Than I, The Albums, The Punk Singles Collection 1977-1980, Greatest Hits Live, The Adventures of the Hersham Boys, The Best of Sham 69: Cockney Kids Are Innocent, Soapy Water & Mister Marmalade, Information Libre, Western Culture, Angels With Dirty Faces, Rare and Unreleased, The A Files, The Adventures Of Hersham Boys, The Best of & The Rest of Live, Borstal Breakout: The Complete Sham 69 Live, Kings & Queens, The Complete Collection, Borstal Breakout, Live in Italy, If the Kids Are United, That's Life, The Game, If the Kids Are United: The Best of Sham 69, I Don't Wanna, BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert, Angels With Dirty Faces, Hollywood Hero, Angels With Dirty Faces, At the BBC, There's Gonna Be a Borstal Breakout, The Very Best of the Hersham Boys, Direct Action: Day 21, Questions and Answers More
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    Post-punk
    Greater Manchester, Salford
    Unknown Pleasures, The Complete BBC Recordings, The Peel Sessions, Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979, An Ideal for Living, Transmission / Novelty, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Closer, Atmosphere, Substance, Permanent, Heart and Soul, Preston 28 February 1980, Atmosphere, Remains, Testament, Words and Music, Let the Movie Begin, Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes, Joy Division The Complete BBC Recordings, Preston Warehouse, The Warsaw Demo, The Best of Joy Division, The Peel Sessions, The Peel Sessions, Licht und Blindheit, A Means to an End, Still, In the Studio with Martin Hannett, The Peel Sessions, The Peel Sessions, Live in Amsterdam 1980, Atmosphere / She's Lost Control, +−, +- Singles 1978-80, Warsaw, Total from Joy Division to New Order More
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    Alternative rock, Rock music, Post-punk, Punk rock, Hardcore punk, College rock, Indie folk, Jangle pop More
    Minneapolis
    Don't Tell a Soul, All for Nothing, Stink, I'm in Trouble, Tim, Let It Be, I Will Dare, All for Nothing/Nothing for All, Hootenanny, Maniac: Live: 1986-02-04: Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, USA, Boink, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, The Shit Hits the Fans, All Shook Down, Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best of The Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me, Nothing for All More
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    Cockney Rejects

    Heavy metal, Punk rock, Oi!, Street punk
    Bad Man, Greatest Hits, Volume II, The Wild Ones, Greatest Hits, Volume 3: Live & Loud, Greatest Hits Volume 1, Lethal, Unheard Rejects, The Punk Singles Collection, Greatest Hits Vol. 2, The Power and the Glory, Unforgiven, Quiet Storm, The Power & The Glory, Flares n Slippers, Greatest Hits, Volume 4: Here They Come Again, Greatest Hits, Volume 1, Oi! Oi! Oi!, Out of the Gutter, Back on the Street, Flares'nSlippers and Unreleased Rejects, Unforgiven, The Very Best of Cockney Rejects More
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    Heavy metal, Punk rock, Thrash metal, Funk-rock, Funk, Speed metal, Hardcore punk, Crossover thrash, Metalcore, Rapcore, Nu metal, Funk metal, Skate punk More
    Venice
    Freedumb, Suicidal Tendencies, The Art of Rebellion, FNG, How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today, Friends & Family, Vol. 1, Live at the Olympic Auditorium, Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu, No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family, Free Your Soul... and Save My Mind, Prime Cuts, Year of the Cycos, Join the Army, Love vs. Loneliness, Suicidal: Friends & Family (Epic Escape), Controlled by Hatred / Feel Like Shit... Deja-Vu, Six the Hard Way, Suicidal Tendencies: Friends & Family 2, Still Cyco After All These Years, Lights... Camera... Revolution!, Friends & Family, Vol. 2, Playlist: The Very Best of Suicidal Tendencies, Suicidal for Life More
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    New Wave, Punk rock
    United Kingdom, London
    Conscious Consumer, Obsessed With You: The Early Years, Identity, Oh Bondage Up Yours! / I Am a Cliché, The Day the World Turned Dayglo, Let's Submerge: The Anthology, Highly Inflammable, Live at the Roxy, Germfree Adolescents: The Anthology, Germ Free Adolescents, Germfree Adolescents, Germ Free Adolescents More
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    Alternative rock, Post-punk, Punk rock, Experimental rock
    London
    A Bell Is a Cup Until It Is Struck, It's Beginning to and Back Again, Behind the Curtain: Early Versions 1977 & 78, So and Slow It Grows, Read & Burn 02, Eardrum Buzz, Coatings, Third Day, The Ideal Copy, Life in the Manscape, Pink Flag, Turns and Strokes, Dot Dash, A Question of Degree, Snakedrill, 1985-1990: The A List, The First Letter, Send, Read & Burn 03, Mannequin, 154, The 15th, Wire Play Pop, Chairs Missing, Ahead, Vien, Silk Skin Paws, PF456 Redux, Kidney Bingos, Manscape, The Scottish Play, Read & Burn 01, Document and Eyewitness, The Peel Sessions Album, Wire on the Box: 1979, Live at the Roxy / Live at CBGB Theatre, Map Ref. 41°N 93°W, Object 47, Our Swimmer, Outdoor Miner, In Vivo, Ambitious (Middlesex Gorge), Red Barked Tree, On Returning (1977-1979), The Drill, Crazy About Love More
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    Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Post-hardcore
    Free Shit!, All Rise, Jettison, Basement Screams, Throb Throb, Throb Throb, What Poor Gods We Do Make, Free Shit! (Live in Chicago, 2 Final Shows), Raygun...Naked Raygun, All Rise, Last of the Demohicans, Jettison, Understand? More
    Controversial
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    Punk rock
    The Kid With The Replaceable Head, Blank Generation, Time, Destiny Street, Funhunt More
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    The Dead Boys

    Rock music, Punk rock
    Cleveland
    Young Loud and Snotty, Younger, Louder & Snottier: The Rough Mixes, Night of the Living Dead Boys, All This and More, Search and Destroy, We Have Come for Your Children, Younger, Louder & Snottier, Tell Me, 3rd Generation Nation, Sonic Reducer More
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    Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers

    Rock music, Rhythm and blues, Punk rock, Rock and roll
    New York
    L.A.M.F., What Goes Around..., Live at Max's Kansas City, L.A.M.F. Revisited, L.A.M.F. The Lost '77 Mixes, L.A.M.F. < Special Edition> (: The Lost '77 Mixes) (disc 1), Chinese Rocks, Live at Mothers, L.A.M.F. < Special Edition> (: Demos, Altermative Mixes & Rehearsals) (disc 2) More
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    1. the ghost spider
      The Best Punk Bands Of All Time at 5/28/2011 6:27 PM
      How the Hell is anti-flag not on here
      1. The Doctor
        The Best Punk Bands Of All Time at 6/05/2011 3:05 AM
        A user needs to add it in a list.
    2. mynameaBORErat
      The Best Punk Bands Of All Time at 4/27/2011 3:24 PM
      idk what you consider punk, but if korn or disturbed is considered then they should both make top 10.. & i know Parkway Drive isn't punk, they're much heavier but check them out if you like breakdowns ;)

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