One of the best comments RE: Punk Rock In General...

[Shaun A]

My cell count is really low. I'm slipping in and out of conciousness. Oh my gawd, Yo La Tengo have just showed up. They're like totally gonna cure me of my AIDS

[cracker]

OUCHE

[JAGUAR RIDE]

If I wanted to read morons views on punkrock I'd post on internet forums

[SSR]

Snore...I am so fucking sick of lists and a list of punk records? Like we really need another one. Fuck this Oh people need to start somewhere. Sure they do and there are hundreds of other punk lists to chose from, all of them pretty much the same. These things exist because they are easy to do and they sell. People like to look at them and they cause debate, which means more page hits and the advertisers are happy. And this list is as dull as they come. NY Dolls, Clash, Sex Pistols, Stooges, MC5 - I could repeat this shit in my sleep. Lame and predictable. "What about the Electric Eels?" you ask like some square desperate for the popular kids' approval. Yeah what about them? As trickkee stated, shit is gonna get stumbled upon eventually. Moving this to the pop punk thread now.

[erickelric]

In an old issue of The Big Takeover (late 80s I think), Jack Rabid made a list of the Top 700 (yes, 700) records from the mid-70s to late 80s. Now that was a list.

When I was a young buck getting into underground rock I basically just tried to find things that I read about in The Trouser Press Record Guide that sounded interesting. Part of the reason I have a soft spot in my heart for forgotten US 80s underground rock.

[vint]

Snore...I am so fucking sick of lists and a list of punk records? Like we really need another one. Fuck this Oh people need to start somewhere. Sure they do and there are hundreds of other punk lists to chose from, all of them pretty much the same. These things exist because they are easy to do and they sell. People like to look at them and they cause debate, which means more page hits and the advertisers are happy. And this list is as dull as they come. NY Dolls, Clash, Sex Pistols, Stooges, MC5 - I could repeat this shit in my sleep. Lame and predictable. "What about the Electric Eels?" you ask like some square desperate for the popular kids' approval. Yeah what about them? As trickkee stated, shit is gonna get stumbled upon eventually. Moving this to the pop punk thread now.

I really think they need to print a list like that about once a year just for every new generation of kids who is starting out playing guitar and picks up a copy in attempt to learn a Bush song or something. I never got much out of the punk lists, as I already liked Minutemen, and knew better than to list Double Nickles on the Dime as their best album, but some of the lists you'd find about proto-death/grind/black metal and shit were pretty informative to me as an adolescent/teen and while I was already into the Minutemen and shit like that, shit like Velvet Underground and Stooges did not click right away and it's probably lists like that hipped me to shit like that anyway. It'd have been cool if during the popularity of "industrial" in the 90's ran some list that mentioned TG, Neubauten, Swans, Foetus, Coil etc... and maybe some magazine did, I dunno, but yeah, there ain't shit for you in those kinda magazines anyway, so no reason to be jaded towards it, it's not for you, and the kids it's for deserve to learn about Electric Eels when they're twelve years old.

[vulture]

Snore...I am so fucking sick of lists and a list of punk records?

Way ahead of you on that one. Im sick of list threads, too. Part of me thinks lists like this are good for young kids, though.

[balle klorin]

and the kids it's for deserve to learn about Electric Eels when they're twelve years old.

I don't think twelve year olds should learn about the Eels. They'll have to make the grades. What's next; Brainbombs, Drunks with Guns & Dostojevskij in kindergarten?

[vint]

and the kids it's for deserve to learn about Electric Eels when they're twelve years old.

I don't think twelve year olds should learn about the Eels. They'll have to make the grades. What's next; Brainbombs, Drunks with Guns & Dostojevskij in kindergarten?

I dunno, I was jamming Grazhdanskaya Oborona when I was twelve. I doubt I'd have gotten Electric Eels then, but ya never know, I had already been listening to shit like DK and COC for a few years by that point and it wasn't long after that till I was jamming Crucifucks everyday.

[forced to frug]

His post was really about the comments on the article on digg.com, and not the actual list itself.

Here are the comments: http://digg.com/music/Top_30_All_Time_Greatest_Punk_Albums

[jmelkmann]

no GG  = useless list of punk albums no matter what the category.  Top 30 most important, Top 30 best, Top 30 worst.....

[Sukebe GG]

[closey]

It's technically not an album though. But whatever.

I don't wish to be a frightful pedant but the dictionary definition of 'album' states (and I paraphrase):"A collection or anthology of writings or selections of music". I had this argument many times with my dear grandmother back in Burma long before the days of internet message boards. On sundays, just after evensong, the family would gather round in the parlour at my grandmothers and discuss subjects ranging from "who was the most alcoholic district commissioner", "most tiresome local insurgent group" and "will the kids ever be united?" but more often than not, we'd discuss everyone's top five punk albums. My grandmother, god rest her soul, would become quite irate at my suggestion that the Buzzcocks' "Singles Going Steady" was the best punk album. "It's not a real album!" she'd thunder, "It's a compilation!" and she'd pound her fists against the table top, scattering china and servants hither and yon. Not even holding her down on the floor, forcefully holding open her eyes and placing a copy of the Oxford English in front of her, opened at the approprate page, would ever make her think otherwise. As a family in-joke, we played that particular record in it's entirety at her funeral. It still raises a smile time to time.

haha now i remember why i frequent this site, terminal boredom (forums).