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  1. 1
    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
    Philips Records, Beggars Banquet Records, Sire Records, Chrysalis Records, Radioactive Records More
  2. 2
    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
    Atlantic Records, Epic Records, Atlantic, Epitaph Records
  3. 3
    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
    Roadrunner Records, Caroline Records, Plan 9
  4. 4
    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
    Alternative Tentacles, I.R.S. Records, Cherry Red, Manifesto Records
  5. 5
    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
    EMI, I.R.S. Records, Cooking Vinyl, ROIR
  6. 6
    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
    Nitro Records, Stiff Records, Bronze Records, Chiswick Records
  7. 7
    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
    Columbia Records, Elektra Records, Virgin Records
  8. 8
    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
    Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Columbia Records
  9. 9
    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
    SST Records, Warner Bros. Records, New Alliance Records
  10. 10
    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
    Mercury, Relativity Records, I.R.S. Records, Mercury Records, Frontier Records, Combat Records More
  11. 11
    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
    Elektra Records, Slash Records, Big Life
  12. 12
    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
    Fat Wreck Chords, Epitaph Records, Mystic Records
  13. 13
    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
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, EMI, Warner Bros. Records, A&M Records, Virgin Records More
  14. 14
    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
  15. 15
    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
    Dischord Records
  16. 16
    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
    Sony Records, Epic, Epic Records, Epitaph Records, Posh Boy Records, Restless Records, Time Bomb Recordings, Sony 550 Music More
  17. 17
    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
    SST Records, Epic, Warner Bros. Records, Maverick Records, Victory Records, Epic Records, Caroline Records, Megaforce Records, ROIR More
  18. 18
    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
    Hollywood Records, Restless Records
  19. 19
    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
    Warner Bros. Records, Hellcat Records, Fat Wreck Chords, Epitaph Records, Lookout! Records More
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  1. jdemo23
    The Best Punk Bands Of All Time at 4/07/2011 9:52 AM
    Ramones were the first to lead the way in punk rock. That gives them every right to be first on this list.
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