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My Top 25 Albums Of All Time

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exliontamer:
Yeah, Link 80 is fucking great and it was awesome that they were able to bounce back from Nick's suicide with an album like The Struggle Continues. That album just oozes hardcore/ska goodness...shit like Unbroken, Peril After Peril, and Right Hook. Throw in a Madness cover for good measure, and the re-recording of Nowhere Fast and Nothing New (from Ryan's band Blast Bandits) and you've got a fucking solid release in my opinion. I wish they would come back from "hiatus" and finish the album they were working on. Also I wish they'd do one last tour for old time's sake.

And what can I say about Billy? He and Ted Leo are my heroes/role models/etc.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: SuperSUGA ---Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
It's been said... dark etc.
Highlight: Showing the album to people who've only heard "love will tear us apart" and think they like Joy Division.
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I've only got Substance - is Unkown Pleasures the first one, or was that Closer?

Either way, yeah, they were a lot different in the beginning. "Warsaw" is a far cry from "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

3 5 0 2 1 5 GO

Tinjessla:

--- Quote from: Praeserpium Machinarum ---

isn't it called Coming up?
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Gaa! Yaar, it is. Hmm..that's a very strange typo for me..

Inlander:

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--- Quote from: exliontamer ---5. Billy Bragg - Back To Basics (I know its a compilation...so sue me)
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Forgiven, especially as Spy vs. Spy is only 7 tracks long. Also, awesome!
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Agreed, agreed . . . And agreed!  I can't believe I left Spy vs. Spy off my list.  Am I allowed to make another "top" 25?

sketchyjoe:
Here's my Top 25 at the moment. I'll finish the reasons later.

25 - Billy Bragg - Back to Basics
I know it's a collection but it's brilliant.
24 - The Toy Dolls - Absurd Ditties
The Toy Dolls had been putting out music for a decade when they recorded their best album with Absurd Ditties. It was filled with brilliantly catchy songs featuring cheesy yet hilarious lyrics, Olga's distinctive vocals and mammoth solos as Toy Dolls songs always were but on Ditties there were differences with the acoustic intro to My Wife's A Psychopath, the redneck jaunt in Drooling Banjos and the hard rocking, pseudo-classical Toccata in Dm sitting comfortably alongside more traditional TOy Dolls songs like the dual-solo Sod The Neighbours or Alec's Gone. Absurd Ditties showed that The Toy Dolls were, and are, one of the most under-rated punk bands around.
23 - The Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
22 - Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
21 - Chris Murray - The 4 Track Adventures Of Venice Shoreline Chris
20 - Defiance Ohio - Share What Ya' Got
19 - The Rudiments - Circle Our Empire
18 - The Undertones - The Undertones
The Undertones self-titled debut album is 100% pure pop-punk. Ignoring
the sectarian troubles that surrounded them they instead focused on a
subject that was very close to their hearts: girls. A vast majority of
the 23 songs on this album (none of which exceed 3 minutes) deal with
the bands teenage loves and lusts which are perfectly articulated by
Feargal Sharkey's distinctive lead vocals which fit perfectly over the
simple pop-punk music and airy background vocals, The Undertones
created a classic album featuring many classic songs such as Here
Comes The Summer, Jimmy Jimmy and the eternal Teenage Kicks. This
album proved that teenage dreams really are hard to beat.
17 - Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are DEVO!
16 - Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
"Inflammable Material planted in my head, It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead". So starts Stiff Little Fingers classic debut album. The 'Irish Clash' summed up what it was like to be young in Northern Ireland during the troubles. With killer riffs, great basslines and socially conscious lyrics that attacked the IRA and the army (Wasted Life), record labels (Rough Trade) and displayed a witty bitter humor (Barbed Wire Love). The first independent album to breach the UK Top 20 this album is a both an important landmark in music history, a great record and gave a whole generation new hope for an Alternative Ulster.
15 - Mojo Nixon - Whereabouts Unknown
14 - The Dead Milkmen - Beezlebubba
13 - World/Inferno Friendship Society - East Coast Supersound Punk Of Today
12 - Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
11 - Bad Brains - Bad Brains
10 - Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty Eight
9 - Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
8 - Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops
7 - Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tommorrow's Ashes
6 - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
This album always sounds like the soundtrack to a Raymond Chandler novel to me. Waits' underworld stories and nonsensical lyrics combined with brilliant music that sounds like a carnival gone mad make this a great album.
5 - The Clash - London Calling
The Clash's greatest album. This album combines more genres than I care to mention and blends them all together into one great album.
4 - Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
The ultimate break-up record of all time. Dylan has a lot of great songs and albums but this is his best in my opinion. Every song on this album is brilliant.
3 - Johnny Cash - American IV (The Man Comes around)
Johnny Cash's last proper album. This is possibly the saddest album in existence. You can hear Cash's life story in his voice in every song. From great covers like Hurt and I Hung My Head to original songs like the title track. This album is one of the few that can make me cry repeatedly. It finishes with an incredibly meaningful version of We'll Meet Again.
2 - Bill Hicks - Arizona Bay
Bill Hicks is the funniest and most insightful man who ever existed and this is his crowning glory. Filled to he brim with amazingly funny routines like Officer Nigger Hater and Pussy-Whipped Satan backed-up by music that fits in perfectly. Bill ruthlessly skewers any and all people that deserve it.This album makes me think what could have been if Bill had lived any longer.
1 - Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
When Jello Biafra answered East Bay Ray's advert in a local music paper few could have predicted the outcome would be the greatest punk album of all time. Fresh Fruit is a half-hour minute rollercoaster ride through the harsh underbelly of the american dream. From the bouncy Let's Lynch The Landlord, to the barely controlled chaos of Chemical Warfare, from the classic Faux-fascist anthem California Uber Alles to the haunting screech of the timeless Holiday In Cambodia, this album delivers. The songs are often gloriously offensive such as I Kill Children and Kill The Poor but all contain the bitter sarcastic edge of Jello's lyrics which are perfectly complimented by Ray and Klaus' guitar work. This is an album that sounds like it was written for a forthcoming apocalypse or mental breakdown, the perfect mix between the minimalism of In God We Trust Inc and the expansiveness of Frankenchrist where all the songs can provoke, educate and make you want to rock out like a crazy fool. My favourite album of all time, the best punk album of all time and definitely not one for the idiots.

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