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Rank   Name Genre(s) Career Began Albums Nationality
  1. 1
    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
  2. 2
    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
  3. 3
    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
  4. 4
    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
  5. 5
    Blues-rock, Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Punk blues, Queercore
    Austin
    Hungry Butt: Dicks Live, Peace?, 1980-1986, These People, Peace?, The Dicks Hate the Police, Big Boys and The Dicks: Recorded Live at Raul's Club, Ten Inches, Kill From the Heart, These People, Hog More
  6. 6
    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
  7. 7
    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
  8. 8
    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
  9. 9
    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
  10. 10
    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
  11. 11
    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
    United States of America
  12. 12
    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
  13. 13
    Alternative rock, Post-punk, Punk rock, Funk-rock, Hardcore punk, Experimental music More
    San Pedro
    Double Nickels on the Dime, My First Bells, The Punch Line, Georgeless, Post-Mersh Vol. 1, What Makes a Man Start Fires?, Post-Mersh, Volume 3, Paranoid Time, Post-Mersh Vol. 3, Bean-Spill EP, Ballot Result, 3-Way Tie (for Last), Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat, Introducing the Minutemen, Joy, Post-Mersh, Volume 1, Post-Mersh, Volume 2, Project: Mersh, The Politics of Time, Tour-Spiel EP, Post-Mersh Vol. 2, Minuteflag More
  14. 14
    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
  15. 15
    Rock music, New Wave, Post-punk, Punk rock, Experimental rock, Art punk, Industrial rock, Art rock, Protopunk More
    Cleveland
    Datapanik in the Year Zero, Pennsylvania, One Man Drives While the Other Man Screams, Cloudland, Why I Remix Women, Dub Housing, Worlds in Collision, Love, Love, Love, Terminal Tower, Story of My Life, 390° of Simulated Stereo, Volume 2, Final Solution / Cloud 149, Song of the Bailing Man, 390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo: Ubu Live, Volume 1, Apocalypse Now, New Picnic Time, We Have the Technology, Beach Boys See Dee +, Breath, The Tenement Year, The Art of Walking, Datapanik in the Year Zero, The Modern Dance, The Shape of Things, Street Waves, Why I Hate Women, Folly of Youth See Dee Plus, I Hear They Smoke the Barbecue, St. Arkansas, 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Ray Gun Suitcase, The Fabulous Sequel (Have Shoes Will Walk) More
  16. 16
    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
  17. 17
    Punk rock
    The Kid With The Replaceable Head, Blank Generation, Time, Destiny Street, Funhunt More
  18. 18
    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
  19. 19
    Post-punk, Punk rock, Reggae
    London
    Return of the Giant Slits, The Peel Sessions, Y3LP: The Official Bootleg, Animal Space, Trapped Animal, Cut, In the Beginning: A Live Anthology 77-81, Earthbeat, Revenge of the Killer Slits, Peel Sessions, Live at the Gibus Club, Man Next Door, Typical Girls, Bootleg Retrospective, The Peel Sessions More
  20. 20
    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
  21. 21
    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
  22. 22
    Rock music, Post-punk, Indie rock, Art punk, Noise rock
    Boston
    Signals, Calls, and Marches, Trem Two, Dirt / Falling, Vs., Snapshot, Innermost, The Horrible Truth About Burma, The Sound the Speed the Light, The Horrible Truth About Burma, The Obliterati, ONoffON, Peking Spring, Academy Fight Song, Let There Be Burma, Mission of Burma, Signals, Calls & Marches, Forget, A Gun to the Head: A Selection From the Ace of Hearts Era More
  23. 23

    The Stains

    Punk rock
  24. 24
    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
  25. 25
    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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