Essential punk/hardcore albums?

[Hong Kong Fulci]

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Dead Boys - Young, Loud And Snotty

Two of the greatest albums ever recorded!

[magnus jansson]

Don´t know if these are essential, but some favorites (and i tend to prefer HC on 7"s):
Hardcore:
Discharge - Why 12" + 3 first 7"s
BGK - Jonestown Aloah
Tervet Kädet - Halloween (+ pretty much everything up to late 80s)
Neos - Hassibah gets the Martian Brain Squeeze 7"
Deep Wound - i saw it 7"
Hüsker dü - Land Speed Record
HHH - A por ellos
Disorder - Under the Scalpel Blade
Septic Death - Now I got Your Attention
Mob 47 - Kärnvapenattack 7"
Circle Jerks - Group sex
MDC - 1st

P.E.A.C.E. comp
Cleanse the Bacteria comp
Welcome to 1984 comp
Grito Suburbano comp
etc etc etc...........

Punk:
Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops
Heartbreakers - LAMF
GG Allin - Always Was Is and Always Will Be (+ Boozing and Pranks live lp)
Dead Boys - Young, Loud and Snotty
Crass - Penis Envy
Misfits - Livevil
Dwarves - Are young and Good Looking
Flux of Pink Indians - Strive to Survive
Richard Hell & Voivods - Blank Generation
Rude Kids - Safe Society
Poison Girls - Hex
etc etc etc....
could go on a bit longer but i´ll spare you all...

[Nocturnaloner]

Well, hell. I am just so thrilled to see all these bands mentioned in one thread, that my faith in humanity is almost restored.

Hope no repeats, but here are some I remember fondly:

Bullet Lavolta, Swandive
Battalion of Saints, Second Coming
Raw Power, Screams from the Gutter
Corrosion of Conformity, Animosity
D.R.I., Dealing With It

[drterror666]

Battalion Of Saints! Now there's a band I haven't listened to in donkey's!

[thehamish]

have you heard a band called Melt-banana? japanese etc...started as "squeakcore" (my name) now a formidable beast...id recommend the albums TEENY SHINY, CELL-SCAPE or BAMBI'S DILEMMA. ENJOY!!

[Timmy Lea]

I'm a huge fan of Babes In Toyland and Kat Bjelland in general- in fact I promoted her band Katastrophy Wife a couple of times. Believe it or not, she's now a mum (which may explain her going quiet on the music front recently): she had also been, for the last few years, living in the UK, Wolverhampton to be exact, but I don't know if she's still there or not.

Recent punk outings that have found their way onto my stereo inbetween my prog escapades have included Fear's "Live- For The Record", Bad Brains' "Rock For Light" and "Black Dots" and Refused's "The Shape Of Punk To Come". I am also pissed off that Flipper seem to have cancelled their forthcoming tour dates, because drummer Krist Novoselic has left them!! Fuck him!! He wasn't an original member anyway, so why not get someone else? Bloody Nirvana, they ruin EVERYTHING!! Sweet 75 were a good band though. Whatever happened to Yva Las Vegas?

[tobiaswragg]

I attended a Babes in Toyland show in Weegieland circa 1990. No 'amusing' anecdotes come to mind, I'm afraid, and I can remember very little about it, however I kept my ticket.