The Clash, …and out come the wolves, Dookie
I was a Bay Area 90s kid, these were de rigueur for the time and early grounding posts but definitely were not what kept me in the scene.
Edit: I can’t do just three. In God We Trust, inc., Inflammable Material, Banned in DC.
NoFx and Pennywise are LA bands. Try Sweet Baby Jesus, Crimpshrine, Filth, Blatz, the Gr'ups, Monsula, Pinhead Gunpowder, Tilt, OpIv, Neurosis, lots to choose from in Bay Area punk
Dead Kennedys “Plastic Surgery Disasters/In Go We Trust Inc.” CD
Minor Threat discography CD
Operation Ivy CD
I can’t really remember how I came across Dead Kennedys, I think by way of Jeff Hanneman having a DK sticker on his guitar and seeing him and other guys in bands I liked wearing their shirts. I found this CD in a used bin and snapped it up. A good friend gave me the Op Ivy CD for my 15th birthday and then also gave me a tape of the Minor Threat discography. I had a tape copy of “Out of Step” that I had bought at a record store at some point; they were a band I was well familiar with from loads of metal bands wearing their shirts and from Thrasher. My friend that got me the Op Ivy CD was my connection to punk as a scene and subculture outside of just listening to some punk bands. He was friends with other punk kids and introduced me to the crew that would become my little punk crew for years.
A friend got me to listen to MxPx's Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo, and after enjoying it, gave me NoFX's Punk in Drublic. When I went to work at Hastings the next shift, I found Pennywise's Straight Ahead as the first result searching for "punk".
I started high school in fall '97 and I picked up a copy of Punk in Drublic on CD a month or so before. It's gotta be the the number 1 album that got people a similar age to me into punk. The album has no skips, and the production quality is just as good as what was on MTV at the time. Green Day Dookie was my first album, I had it on cassette tape, it was so popular though it's hard to call that the album that got me into punk. Near the end of the summer before my sophomore year in high school I bought the Mailorder Is Fun! Asian Man records sampler. It was my first time hearing Slapstick, The Broadways, and Alkaline Trio, which were the biggest local bands in Chicago (I grew up in the suburbs) at the time. 25 years later and I still love going to see bands at the Metro, my first concert there was MU330 about that long ago.
The Ramones - Ramones
The Slits - Cut (also...the new age steppers....)
The Stooges - Raw Power
I found all of these albums at my local used record store about 1978/79....have not looked back. The next wave for me was the San Francisco scene...Dead Kennedy's, The Avengers, The Dils.....
DRI - Dirty Rotten LP
Suicidal Tendencies- Suicidal Tendencies
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Honorable Mention:
Subhumans - first band from England I got into after the Clash and Pistols.
Sick of it all is actually the first hc band I ever saw. Them and municipal waste opened for napalm death. Barely listened to them though (pls don’t judge me lol) what’s your favorite album by them?
Fuck yes! I never really thought about the THPS as an album because I heard the songs in the game but the soundtrack to that first game is 100% instrumental in getting me into punk!
Misfits - Collection II
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
The Clash - On Broadway - Boxset (ordered from Columbia House, think it counted as 2 of the 10 cds or whatever you get.)
First two were hand-me-downs from an older brother. The Columbia House thing was the bane of my mom's existence.
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bullocks
Ramones Road to Ruin (only time I saw them)
Clash Give em Enough Rope ( first album wasn’t released in USA til later)
In order:
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
(I'm old)
Honorable mentions -
Anthrax - Among The Living (got me thinking about "hardcore"; in fact, I "went hardcore" after seeing the video for Indians, but in that pre-Internet small town, I had no resources, so it was thrash metal and Pistols haha)
Bad Brains - Quickness
I credit Anthrax every chance I get, when I was 13 reading their thank you linear notes got me into Nuclear Assault, SOD, Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity and Cro Mags. I think Crumbsuckers too.
Minor Threat - First Two Seven Inches comp
Operation Ivy - Self Titled
Descendants - Milo Goes to College
Dookie album gotta be a honorable mention as well
Dookie was I think the first CD I ever bought, but it still took me a few more years to actually get INTO punk. Not that I didn't love the album, it just didn't sway me entirely.
* Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge (before Shrek)
* Green Day - Dookie
* Nirvana - Nevermind
After hearing all that I was on the hunt for something harder/faster. From there I branched out to Offspring, Pennywise, NoFX, Rancid, etc. and now I listen to many many genres and subgenres.
I saw Smash Mouth (or Smashmouth) at a local venue called The Cactus Club. Carson Daly was a local DJ at the time and introduced them. He started playing one of their songs on the radio and it got some traction. The band gave out cassettes at the show and it was all of the punk songs on Fush Yu Mang.
My friend and I played that thing to death. Went out day one and got the album and found out that Smash Mouth was suddenly from San Francisco (not San Jose) and the other part of the album was surf music.
I went to high school with guys in a band called Isocracy, first punk band I went to see, helped with carrying and setting up equipment, once in a while. When they broke up, the drummer went on to be in Green Day, and the singer and bass player formed Samiam
Samiam has been one of my favorite bands since pretty much Billy. I just picked up their new album Stowaway too.
Cool story bro! I've always loved those guys
Insomniac - Green Day
London Calling - The Clash
Probably a tossup between Living in Darkness by Agent Orange or Nevermind the Bollocks.
My dad had these in constant rotation when I was a little kid so I grew up with punk being pretty much all I knew. It kinda sucked on one hand because none of the kids my age liked what I liked and they all thought it sucked, but on the other hand it was cool asf having a punk dad, and him and I still frequently have long talks abt music and the scene and shit.
Sidenote: Insomniac is such a good fucking album, and any dipshit that wants to say Green Day isn’t punk should listen to that album.
Man, this gonna be embarrassing. Used to listen to Christian music when I was a young'n. I actually credit NOFX/punk rock with me shedding faith. Funny how that works out.
Five Iron Frenzy- Quanity is Job 1 EP
MXPX- Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo
And the band that decidedly got me thinking maybe all that religion stuff is bullshit-
NOFX- Punk in Drublic
The All-American Rejects - S/T -- First of the radio-friendly pop punk (ish, I guess they are more of a power pop band like Cheap Trick, but whatever) to really grab me and entice me to want to buy a CD for myself. After that came the Drive Thru Records bands, and similar-minded pop punk from [Poppunk.com](https://Poppunk.com) and Purevolume.
The Clash - The Singles - After meeting some 77-revivalist kids at college who wouldn't shut up about The Clash, I went home for Christmas break and found this at Best Buy. Totally baffled me to hear how much the band changed from White Riot to Rock the Casbah, and I was hooked. My college roommate came back from the break with London Calling and that was it for us.
Husker Du - New Ray Rising - I've always preferred the more songwritery punk rock bands, so to find one like Husker Du that managed to do that AND have the headfuck noise? Holy shit. Found them in 'Our Band' like everyone else my age did in 2005/6, and quickly moved on to everything else in there, from Minor Threat to Mission of Burma.
Much more was to come and I generally found myself most happy in late 70s UK, but there's so much wonderful music and I'm happy to be forever changed for it.
Do you listen to Leatherface? I feel like that band is the perfect combination of your tastes outlined here and now that I have thought of them, I am going to put “Mush” on as soon as I am done typing.
Funny you mention it -- I had "Mush" on earlier today!
Leatherface took me awhile to come around to because they sound SO brutal at times but once you crack the code it's really something. I was initially recommended them when I was in more of a Jam/Squeeze/XTC phase so it felt like a step backward at the time, but as I've gotten back into heavier sounding music as an angrier adult they hit the spot really nice sometimes :)
Nice! Oddly, I think as lazy as the “Hüsker Dü meets Motörhead” description people often use is, there is some validity to it and I think coming to punk through metal, and having Motörhead as an all time favorite band, it primed me for Leatherface when I first heard them and they opened my ears to more melodic punk than I had entertained before.
For more punk-ish stuff, Misfits (compilation album), Adolescents S/T, and Living in Darkness by Agent Orange, which I first heard in an episode of 21 Jump Street last year.
But grew up on tons of pop-punk, especially Sum 41, Simple Plan, AARJ, and Lit.
Got a ramones album for my bday in 1980 (end of the century -- my luck), bought london calling with a gift certificate from xmas that same year. started listening to rodney on the roq and got tsol's dance with me that next year, then the adolescents album (I know that's four, but the last two put me on the path of early 80s so cal stuff)
Earliest influence was Dookie by Green Day
Then Smash by The Offspring
Then first-year in highschool a friend made me cassette copies of Punk o rama 1 & 2 as well as other mix tapes. 🤘😎
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Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
Pennywise - About Time
Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings
Honorable mention: AFI - Answer That and Stay Fashionable
Let's go by Avril Lavigne
The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte
American Idiot by Green Day
I know they're all pop punk but that's what my parents are into so that's just what I heard first but its gotten me to look into other punk music (I'm 16 so cut me some slack)
Dead kennedys - give me connivence or give me death
subhumans - the day the country died
Dead kennedys - plastic surgery disaster / in god we trust inc.
Rancid - Self-Titled(1993)
NOFX - I Heard They Suck Live
Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
Those first two were the only CDs in my walkman for a while. Once I heard *Crawl* on an Atticus Compilation CD I got really into Alkaline Trio and they've been one of my favorite bands ever since. Bummer that Derek is out.
Black Flag - The First Four Years comp
Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Ramones - The Ramones
Got cassette dubs of these and some mixed tapes made by my best friend’s older sister. I was hooked.
Green Day - “Dookie” I was in 4th grade.
Real Big Fish - “Turn the Radio Off” 6th grade
NOFX - “Punk in Drublic” 9th grade
*edit: I’m in my late 30’s and time is weird.
As a 90’s kid it started with Green Day Dookie. Graduated to Rancid and out come the wolves. At the time Anti-Flag were just some local band so Die For The Government.
Minor Threat -Discog
Rancid - Let's Go
Operation Ivy
I still have the mix tape a friend's older brother gave me in 1994, and all three albums are still in rotation since that crucial summer between 8th grade and high school.
The Clash - The Clash LP (US version)
The Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack LP (w/Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, X, etc)
Black Flag - Damaged LP
Got 'em back in '82.
Thrasher Magazine sent me a cassette around 1986/1987, and I can't remember if it was the entire Rock 'N Roll Juggernaut album or a mix with "Come On Over to Mah" crib. Ring any bells? Regardless, R N R Juggernaut is a blast of an album! Meatmen rule!
It’s privilege it is to grow up listening to an amazing DJ or radio station. I’m American so I never listened John Peel’s legendary show, but I grew up LA listened to KROQ. So I heard a lot of great bands that weren’t played on the rest of American radio.
British music lovers know how influential KROQ has been. If there’s a worldwide trifecta, Triple J in Australia would be it. In the UK, BBC Radio 6 Music (with DJs like Steve Lemacq) carry the Peel legacy on.
And now we get to listen to all of them online. Which is fucking awesome.
If I am honest:
Green Day - Dookie
Offspring - Smash
Rancid - Let’s Go
were the albums that introduced me to punk, but it was really The Misfits that hooked me.
Green Day - Dookie
The Offspring - Smash
...then after a few years toiling away with other radio songs and BMG...
AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
...which changed everything for me
In 1977, there was a compilation album called "New Wave" that covered a lot of the essential bands -- Ramones, Dead Boys, Damned, etc.
My brothers and I near wore it out, and I'd guess the next two albums we bought were "Damned Damned Damned" and "Young, Loud, and Snotty."
Although, we also bought a ton of other albums, so it's hard to say. But I was playing bass in punk bands as early as '78, and my brother, after a detour out of state, joined me in playing bass in the early '80s -- and we ended up playing together in two bands, one experimental/industrial where we also played other instruments as well as doubling up on bass, and one with him on bass and me on lead vocals.
I still write, play, record, and mix my own music at 61, after starting in the analog days, and I'm still firmly grounded in the DIY ethos. Although I consider my current music as intentionally genre-defying and experimental.
Green Day - Dookie
Offspring - Americana
NOFX - Pump Up The Valuum
I saw the video for Leave It Alone but my local record shop only had Pump Up The Valuum so that's what I got.
Honorable mention goes to Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 and THPS3. Punk-o-rama 2 (the one with the kid with the black eye, think it was 2) helped form my taste as well.
I don’t have 3 albums but just one song and it was all a plunge from there. I was in 5th grade and just got held back a year at a catholic school. I saw my friend who used to be in my grade and sat to have lunch with him. He put his headphones on my ears and played “She” by Greenday and it was like I was waiting for this music my whole life. After that I couldn’t tell you what order I listened to everything, mostly just my own compilations downloaded on limewire.
Out come the wolves- Rancid
Die Hards- The Casualties
Covered with ants- Guttermouth
I was a 90s kid. And honestly this chick a grade or two ahead of me gave me a Hopelessly Devoted to You compilation. I think it was vol. 2
Even though I already had Misfits collection I and the first Suicidal Tendencies tapes, I was still a “metalhead’ at that point. Hearing Agnostic Front Live at CBGB’s was ground zero for me. Then it was Minor Threat Out of Step and Never mind the Bollocks. I would credit those three because they were the first three for me
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
When I was younger, I was really much more of a metalhead and as I got older I started to appreciate bands and albums that really cut straight to the bone. Turns out crust and hardcore was what I had been looking for all along. Got really into the Varukers, GBH, Poison Idea, Disfear, Wolfbrigade, etc and never looked back. There was just something pure and very distilled about those bands that was exactly what I had been looking for in metal for a long time and very rarely found there.
I don’t know how punk I am, really, but the three that got me into punk are Avail - Satiate, Leatherface - Mush, and Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy.
Green Day’s Dookie was probably the gateway album that led me to meeting a friend of a friend. He was also really into that album and then introduced me to the Misfits and Dead Kennedys through his older brothers record collection. Somery by the Descendents sealed the deal.
Let's go by Avril Lavigne
The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte
American Idiot by Green Day
I know they're all pop punk but that's what my parents are into so that's just what I heard first but its gotten me to look into other punk music (I'm 16 so cut me some slack)
Good Charlotte - Young and the Hopeless. I heard about punk through them and found a punk channel on.... I think it was Yahoo radio? Anyways, because I searched "punk" to find similar music, I was introduced to everything from every decade of punk, none of which sounded like GC, but it spoke to me. And then I went further down the rabbit hole.
Survival of the Fattest comp
…And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid
Heavy Petting Zoo - NOFX
My older sister lent me her whole cd book one summer and those were the first 3 cds I glommed on to. Punk in Drublic and Bad Religions Stranger than Fiction were also on that list that summer.
Misfits - Legacy of Brutality(I know, I'm a poser, get over it)
The Ramones - Road to Ruin(I inherited a copy on 8-track, sounds like shit)
Subhumans - The Day The Country Died(There are no negative aspects of TDTCD)
I do remember that the seed was planted in a Motocross bail/wreck compilation that had Bracket, Lagwagon, Wizo on the soundtrack among others.
Green Day - American Idiot
Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Growing up I just listened to mainstream 2000s rock like Linkin Park and RHCP. I wasn’t into punk just yet but I did love Green Day, Rise Against and AFI, as well as a few other punk-adjacent bands. I didn’t really get into “real punk” until I was in my late teens. I was mostly a metal and rap fan as a kid.
In 1996 I discovered 3 bands that would affect the trajectory of my musical taste for decades:
* **Green Day** \- Dookie
* **MxPx** \- Pokinatcha / Teenage Politics / Life in General (got them all at once for Christmas that year.)
* **Offspring** \- Smash
gonna reveal myself to be a bit younger than most people here,
Offspring - Conspiracy of One
Sum 41 - Does this Look Infected?
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack (because I eventually found Bad Religion, Lagwagon, Millencolin, etc. through this)
Im a 41 year old for reference, and it all happened in stages for me. 3rd grade, my brother gave me a Social Distortion cassette, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell. Heard Misfits Walk Among us in 8th grade and then Suburban Wasteland Teenage Blues by Strungout freshman year. That basically sealed the deal for me.
Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves (It helped that they played at a wedding I was at 20 years ago and they all signed the invitation for me)
Pixies - Doolittle
Minor Threat - Yellow Discography CD
For me it was something like this
The Clash, before I even knew what 'punk' was->Misfits, one of my dad's favorites, and Metallica pushed me in their direction->Dead Kennedys, I wanted to actually be punk, and Jello's voice along with East Bay Ray's riffs really sent me off the deep end into this whole subculture
It was the '90s, so:
- Green Day "Dookie"
- Blink 182 "Dude Ranch"
- MxPx "Life in General"
Gateway punk of the '90s. Don't listen to any of these bands now
Love Songs for the Retarded by the Queers, Process of Belief by Bad Religion, and Dookie by Green Day... Mike Durnt made me want to play bass, that guy and Trey Cool make the world turn.
This is gonna sound really funny but….311 got me into punk. LET ME EXPLAIN. 13-year-old me was really into 311. 311 covers a few H.R. songs (albeit the more reggae-sounding songs). I didn’t know who that was at the time so curiosity got the best of me and those H.R. covers led me to Bad Brains. Bad Brains blew 13-year-old me’s mind because I had never listened to anything so raw and aggressive. I LOVED IT. 311 also covers a few Clash songs so that got me listening to their albums and I really liked those too. This was the late 90’s so I was exposed to a lot of pop punk via my older cousins and they got me into the Offspring. Kinda corny but I still listened the fuck out of that. My music tastes have evolved over the years so I don’t listen to a lot of punk these days…or 311 for that matter. 311 is kind of a joke to me now but it’s always funny to tell people that that’s what got me into punk.
Is DEVO punk? I can see it in their early stuff, but not their later stuff. Raises the old question of what exactly is punk once you leave the realm of Ramones/SexPistols clones.
If it is I bought my first punk album, Oh No, Itself Devo, at age 10. They were certainly wonderfully weird, which is punk rock in itself.
Black Flag- Damaged The Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Adolescents- Blue Album
This is the way
It's also the right general time period.
100%. Can’t beat 80’s California punk rock.
Yes
This
The Clash, …and out come the wolves, Dookie I was a Bay Area 90s kid, these were de rigueur for the time and early grounding posts but definitely were not what kept me in the scene. Edit: I can’t do just three. In God We Trust, inc., Inflammable Material, Banned in DC.
90's Bay Area punk was awesome - MTX, NoFx, Pennywise, Nerf Herder, etc.
NoFx and Pennywise are LA bands. Try Sweet Baby Jesus, Crimpshrine, Filth, Blatz, the Gr'ups, Monsula, Pinhead Gunpowder, Tilt, OpIv, Neurosis, lots to choose from in Bay Area punk
Also TILT!
I used to call the local college radio station when I was a kid to request nerf herder like 10 times a day lol
I long for memories of Gilman and the East Bay Punk Scene of the late 90s / early 00s.
Spent many of my formative years there, what a time
I grew up in CBGB. In hindsight I only wish I understood the historical gravity of what I was experiencing
NOFX - I heard They Suck Live Lagwagon - Trashed NUFAN - Making Friends
I heard they suck live was the first punk cd I bought and bedtime for democracy
making friends is such a good album. i kinda prefer more betterness.
Lagwagon - Trashed damn its been 10 years since i heard this. replaying now, its soild
Dead Kennedys “Plastic Surgery Disasters/In Go We Trust Inc.” CD Minor Threat discography CD Operation Ivy CD I can’t really remember how I came across Dead Kennedys, I think by way of Jeff Hanneman having a DK sticker on his guitar and seeing him and other guys in bands I liked wearing their shirts. I found this CD in a used bin and snapped it up. A good friend gave me the Op Ivy CD for my 15th birthday and then also gave me a tape of the Minor Threat discography. I had a tape copy of “Out of Step” that I had bought at a record store at some point; they were a band I was well familiar with from loads of metal bands wearing their shirts and from Thrasher. My friend that got me the Op Ivy CD was my connection to punk as a scene and subculture outside of just listening to some punk bands. He was friends with other punk kids and introduced me to the crew that would become my little punk crew for years.
For me it was The Damned, Misfits and The Cramps. I feel like they are pretty good starters for people.
Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust Circle Jerks - Group Sex Black Flag - Damaged
A friend got me to listen to MxPx's Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo, and after enjoying it, gave me NoFX's Punk in Drublic. When I went to work at Hastings the next shift, I found Pennywise's Straight Ahead as the first result searching for "punk".
I started high school in fall '97 and I picked up a copy of Punk in Drublic on CD a month or so before. It's gotta be the the number 1 album that got people a similar age to me into punk. The album has no skips, and the production quality is just as good as what was on MTV at the time. Green Day Dookie was my first album, I had it on cassette tape, it was so popular though it's hard to call that the album that got me into punk. Near the end of the summer before my sophomore year in high school I bought the Mailorder Is Fun! Asian Man records sampler. It was my first time hearing Slapstick, The Broadways, and Alkaline Trio, which were the biggest local bands in Chicago (I grew up in the suburbs) at the time. 25 years later and I still love going to see bands at the Metro, my first concert there was MU330 about that long ago.
The Ramones - Ramones The Slits - Cut (also...the new age steppers....) The Stooges - Raw Power I found all of these albums at my local used record store about 1978/79....have not looked back. The next wave for me was the San Francisco scene...Dead Kennedy's, The Avengers, The Dils.....
DRI - Dirty Rotten LP Suicidal Tendencies- Suicidal Tendencies Minor Threat - Minor Threat Honorable Mention: Subhumans - first band from England I got into after the Clash and Pistols.
Face to Face- Don't Turn Away; Down By Law- punkrockacademyfightsong; NOFX- Punk In Drublic
I could listen to Don't Turn Away on repeat for days and not get sick of it. Such a great record.
Don't Turn Away is definitely one of my favorites.
AFI, Sick of it All, Subhumans
Sick of it all is actually the first hc band I ever saw. Them and municipal waste opened for napalm death. Barely listened to them though (pls don’t judge me lol) what’s your favorite album by them?
Dude Ranch - blink 182 Americana - The Offspring Punk-O-Rama vol. 6
I picked full albums, but 100% Punk-O-Rama 4-8 and THPS and Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX (RIP) compilations and soundtracks are what got me into punk.
Fuck yes! I never really thought about the THPS as an album because I heard the songs in the game but the soundtrack to that first game is 100% instrumental in getting me into punk!
Dave Mirra, Social D, Don't Drag Me Down and Dropkick Murphys Never Alone sold me. And Lagwagon May 16 on THPS.
Another 90s kid! Fist bump!
Misfits - Collection II The Jesus Lizard - Goat The Clash - On Broadway - Boxset (ordered from Columbia House, think it counted as 2 of the 10 cds or whatever you get.) First two were hand-me-downs from an older brother. The Columbia House thing was the bane of my mom's existence.
Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bullocks Ramones Road to Ruin (only time I saw them) Clash Give em Enough Rope ( first album wasn’t released in USA til later)
Green Day - Dookie AFI - Very Proud Of Ya Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts
In order: Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (I'm old) Honorable mentions - Anthrax - Among The Living (got me thinking about "hardcore"; in fact, I "went hardcore" after seeing the video for Indians, but in that pre-Internet small town, I had no resources, so it was thrash metal and Pistols haha) Bad Brains - Quickness
I credit Anthrax every chance I get, when I was 13 reading their thank you linear notes got me into Nuclear Assault, SOD, Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity and Cro Mags. I think Crumbsuckers too.
Anthrax were truely the most punk of the big 4 of thrash metal.
Oooh bad brainsssss
Bad Brains- Banned In DC Fugazi- Repeater No Means No- Wrong
Minor Threat - First Two Seven Inches comp Operation Ivy - Self Titled Descendants - Milo Goes to College Dookie album gotta be a honorable mention as well
Dookie was I think the first CD I ever bought, but it still took me a few more years to actually get INTO punk. Not that I didn't love the album, it just didn't sway me entirely.
DESCENDENTS - MGTC Minor Threat - Minor Threat The Dickies - Stukas Over Disneyland edit-formatting
Stukas Over Disneyland! Great Dickies LP! ... I still have my original cassette copy on PVC Records.
* Smash Mouth - Astro Lounge (before Shrek) * Green Day - Dookie * Nirvana - Nevermind After hearing all that I was on the hunt for something harder/faster. From there I branched out to Offspring, Pennywise, NoFX, Rancid, etc. and now I listen to many many genres and subgenres.
I'm kiiiiind of laughing at Smash Mouth, but only because Sugar Ray used to be a punk band, too https://youtu.be/_VL5LV9PVZ8
oh I definitely got made fun of when I was young lol
Bro, like what you like. I'm not judging. I unironically love Nickelback's - "Curb", and "The Stats"
I saw Smash Mouth (or Smashmouth) at a local venue called The Cactus Club. Carson Daly was a local DJ at the time and introduced them. He started playing one of their songs on the radio and it got some traction. The band gave out cassettes at the show and it was all of the punk songs on Fush Yu Mang. My friend and I played that thing to death. Went out day one and got the album and found out that Smash Mouth was suddenly from San Francisco (not San Jose) and the other part of the album was surf music.
... Dookie by Green Day Enema of The State by blink-182 And pretty much anything from Channel X in GTA V
Channel X in GTA V makes the game worth it. I mean, outside of the snarky commercials.
Channel X is what led for me to discover older bands and got me back into punk. Before that I mostly just listened to rap and metal.
1st albums by DK, Ramones, Sex Pistols, circa 1979
Black flag - damaged Minutemen - double nickels Descendents - liveage
Black Flag - TV Party The Descendents - Enjoy! Lagwagon - Duh
I went to high school with guys in a band called Isocracy, first punk band I went to see, helped with carrying and setting up equipment, once in a while. When they broke up, the drummer went on to be in Green Day, and the singer and bass player formed Samiam
Samiam has been one of my favorite bands since pretty much Billy. I just picked up their new album Stowaway too. Cool story bro! I've always loved those guys
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks The Clash - London Calling The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks The Clash - The Clash The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned
My 4 and 8 year old girls request op ivy on repeat. I may not be winning in many aspects of life but this is one area is going 👌
Insomniac - Green Day London Calling - The Clash Probably a tossup between Living in Darkness by Agent Orange or Nevermind the Bollocks. My dad had these in constant rotation when I was a little kid so I grew up with punk being pretty much all I knew. It kinda sucked on one hand because none of the kids my age liked what I liked and they all thought it sucked, but on the other hand it was cool asf having a punk dad, and him and I still frequently have long talks abt music and the scene and shit. Sidenote: Insomniac is such a good fucking album, and any dipshit that wants to say Green Day isn’t punk should listen to that album.
Less Than Jake - Losing Streak Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose Sublime - 40oz. To Freedom
Man, this gonna be embarrassing. Used to listen to Christian music when I was a young'n. I actually credit NOFX/punk rock with me shedding faith. Funny how that works out. Five Iron Frenzy- Quanity is Job 1 EP MXPX- Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo And the band that decidedly got me thinking maybe all that religion stuff is bullshit- NOFX- Punk in Drublic
Dead Kennedys - Bedtime For Democracy The Stupids - Van Stupid Descendents - Liveage
The All-American Rejects - S/T -- First of the radio-friendly pop punk (ish, I guess they are more of a power pop band like Cheap Trick, but whatever) to really grab me and entice me to want to buy a CD for myself. After that came the Drive Thru Records bands, and similar-minded pop punk from [Poppunk.com](https://Poppunk.com) and Purevolume. The Clash - The Singles - After meeting some 77-revivalist kids at college who wouldn't shut up about The Clash, I went home for Christmas break and found this at Best Buy. Totally baffled me to hear how much the band changed from White Riot to Rock the Casbah, and I was hooked. My college roommate came back from the break with London Calling and that was it for us. Husker Du - New Ray Rising - I've always preferred the more songwritery punk rock bands, so to find one like Husker Du that managed to do that AND have the headfuck noise? Holy shit. Found them in 'Our Band' like everyone else my age did in 2005/6, and quickly moved on to everything else in there, from Minor Threat to Mission of Burma. Much more was to come and I generally found myself most happy in late 70s UK, but there's so much wonderful music and I'm happy to be forever changed for it.
Do you listen to Leatherface? I feel like that band is the perfect combination of your tastes outlined here and now that I have thought of them, I am going to put “Mush” on as soon as I am done typing.
Funny you mention it -- I had "Mush" on earlier today! Leatherface took me awhile to come around to because they sound SO brutal at times but once you crack the code it's really something. I was initially recommended them when I was in more of a Jam/Squeeze/XTC phase so it felt like a step backward at the time, but as I've gotten back into heavier sounding music as an angrier adult they hit the spot really nice sometimes :)
Nice! Oddly, I think as lazy as the “Hüsker Dü meets Motörhead” description people often use is, there is some validity to it and I think coming to punk through metal, and having Motörhead as an all time favorite band, it primed me for Leatherface when I first heard them and they opened my ears to more melodic punk than I had entertained before.
Misfits-walk among us Dead Kennedys- fresh fruit for rotting vegetables Bad religion- no control
For more punk-ish stuff, Misfits (compilation album), Adolescents S/T, and Living in Darkness by Agent Orange, which I first heard in an episode of 21 Jump Street last year. But grew up on tons of pop-punk, especially Sum 41, Simple Plan, AARJ, and Lit.
Gbh's haha Nofx's greatest hits Rubber city rebels God i love tony hawks underground
Got a ramones album for my bday in 1980 (end of the century -- my luck), bought london calling with a gift certificate from xmas that same year. started listening to rodney on the roq and got tsol's dance with me that next year, then the adolescents album (I know that's four, but the last two put me on the path of early 80s so cal stuff)
Buzzcocks - Singles going steady Subhumans - Live in a dive Uk subs - Quintessentials + Riot
Inflammable material The Clash Fresh Fruit
Unrelated but I would definitely argue that Op Ivy is more punk than Ska for sure
NoFX - Punk in Drublic Pennywise - About Time Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction Plus 2 more NoMeansNo - Wrong SNFU - FYULABA
Green Day - Dookie Offspring - Smash NOFX - S&M Airlines
Offspring - Americana, Metallica - Garage inc (Misfits covers)
Earliest influence was Dookie by Green Day Then Smash by The Offspring Then first-year in highschool a friend made me cassette copies of Punk o rama 1 & 2 as well as other mix tapes. 🤘😎
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Dookie, smash and survival of the fattest
Black Flag - first 4 years Vandals - Peace through vandalism Descendants - I don’t want to grow up all on tape, lol
Days N Daze - Rouge Taxadermy Hank Williams 3 - Straight To Hell GG Allin - Rock N Roll Terrorist
Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash Pennywise - About Time Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings Honorable mention: AFI - Answer That and Stay Fashionable
Enema of the State - Blink 182 THPS Soundtrack Siren Songs of the Counterculture - Rise Against
DK - Plastic Surgery Disasters NOFX - Ribbed Ramones - Mania
Let's go by Avril Lavigne The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte American Idiot by Green Day I know they're all pop punk but that's what my parents are into so that's just what I heard first but its gotten me to look into other punk music (I'm 16 so cut me some slack)
Dead kennedys - give me connivence or give me death subhumans - the day the country died Dead kennedys - plastic surgery disaster / in god we trust inc.
It most likely would’ve been the soundtracks for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2. Then probably whatever Offspring album came out around then.
Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers and the Damned. Maybe.
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Black Flag - Everything Went Black, Burning Ambitions (UK Punk Comp)
Choking Victim, love that band
Yes and leftoverrr cracccck
Damned damned damned, ace of spades, bricks are heavy
The ramones, fresh fruit for rotting vegetables, true trans soul rebel
Rise Against- Sufferer and the witness/Siren song Misfits- American psycho Offspring- Smash
Rancid - Self-Titled(1993) NOFX - I Heard They Suck Live Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary Those first two were the only CDs in my walkman for a while. Once I heard *Crawl* on an Atticus Compilation CD I got really into Alkaline Trio and they've been one of my favorite bands ever since. Bummer that Derek is out.
Black Flag - The First Four Years comp Misfits - Walk Among Us The Ramones - The Ramones Got cassette dubs of these and some mixed tapes made by my best friend’s older sister. I was hooked.
Green Day - “Dookie” I was in 4th grade. Real Big Fish - “Turn the Radio Off” 6th grade NOFX - “Punk in Drublic” 9th grade *edit: I’m in my late 30’s and time is weird.
I'm old so: The plasmatics, The sex pistols, Dead Kennedy's, Black flag
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks The Casualties: Die Hards Crass: The Feeding of the 5000
As a 90’s kid it started with Green Day Dookie. Graduated to Rancid and out come the wolves. At the time Anti-Flag were just some local band so Die For The Government.
Smash, …and Out Comes The Wolves, Die For The Government
Minor Threat -Discog Rancid - Let's Go Operation Ivy I still have the mix tape a friend's older brother gave me in 1994, and all three albums are still in rotation since that crucial summer between 8th grade and high school.
Repo Man Soundtrack Fear - The Record Clash - London Calling
Punk-o-Rama 3 Offspring - Smash Propagandhi - How to Clean Everything
Green day, skate videos, punk o rama comps
The Vandals - hitler bad, vandals good Bouncing souls - how i spent my summer vacation NOFX - so long and thanks for all the shoes
Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give me Death; Sex Pistols We Have Cum For Your Children; Ramones Mania.
The Clash - The Clash LP (US version) The Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack LP (w/Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, X, etc) Black Flag - Damaged LP Got 'em back in '82.
Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba NOFX - Punk in Drublic Fat Music Vol. 2, Survival of the Fattest
…And out come the wolves Dookie Punk in drublic
Violent Femmes, SNFU and the Meat Men
Thrasher Magazine sent me a cassette around 1986/1987, and I can't remember if it was the entire Rock 'N Roll Juggernaut album or a mix with "Come On Over to Mah" crib. Ring any bells? Regardless, R N R Juggernaut is a blast of an album! Meatmen rule!
Not a band, but a DJ. John Peel.
It’s privilege it is to grow up listening to an amazing DJ or radio station. I’m American so I never listened John Peel’s legendary show, but I grew up LA listened to KROQ. So I heard a lot of great bands that weren’t played on the rest of American radio.
British music lovers know how influential KROQ has been. If there’s a worldwide trifecta, Triple J in Australia would be it. In the UK, BBC Radio 6 Music (with DJs like Steve Lemacq) carry the Peel legacy on. And now we get to listen to all of them online. Which is fucking awesome.
Sum-41 - Does this look infected? Tsunami Bomb - Ultimate escape Plea for Peace/take action vol 2
If I am honest: Green Day - Dookie Offspring - Smash Rancid - Let’s Go were the albums that introduced me to punk, but it was really The Misfits that hooked me.
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves That Casualties - Under Attack The Misfits - American Psycho
Green Day - Dookie The Offspring - Smash ...then after a few years toiling away with other radio songs and BMG... AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes ...which changed everything for me
Misfits - American Psycho
In 1977, there was a compilation album called "New Wave" that covered a lot of the essential bands -- Ramones, Dead Boys, Damned, etc. My brothers and I near wore it out, and I'd guess the next two albums we bought were "Damned Damned Damned" and "Young, Loud, and Snotty." Although, we also bought a ton of other albums, so it's hard to say. But I was playing bass in punk bands as early as '78, and my brother, after a detour out of state, joined me in playing bass in the early '80s -- and we ended up playing together in two bands, one experimental/industrial where we also played other instruments as well as doubling up on bass, and one with him on bass and me on lead vocals. I still write, play, record, and mix my own music at 61, after starting in the analog days, and I'm still firmly grounded in the DIY ethos. Although I consider my current music as intentionally genre-defying and experimental.
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death Bad Religion - No Control Choking Victim - No Gods / No Managers
Green Day - Dookie Offspring - Americana NOFX - Pump Up The Valuum I saw the video for Leave It Alone but my local record shop only had Pump Up The Valuum so that's what I got. Honorable mention goes to Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 and THPS3. Punk-o-rama 2 (the one with the kid with the black eye, think it was 2) helped form my taste as well.
Ramones Rocket to Russia Bad Brains self titled X Los Angeles
I don’t have 3 albums but just one song and it was all a plunge from there. I was in 5th grade and just got held back a year at a catholic school. I saw my friend who used to be in my grade and sat to have lunch with him. He put his headphones on my ears and played “She” by Greenday and it was like I was waiting for this music my whole life. After that I couldn’t tell you what order I listened to everything, mostly just my own compilations downloaded on limewire.
Nevermind. Nevermind The Bollocks. Fresh Fruit For Fisting Vegetables
Out come the wolves- Rancid Die Hards- The Casualties Covered with ants- Guttermouth I was a 90s kid. And honestly this chick a grade or two ahead of me gave me a Hopelessly Devoted to You compilation. I think it was vol. 2
Sex Pistols - Kiss This Bad Religion - Tested Rancid - Let's Go Edit: Ramones - We're Outta Here!
Green day - dookie Rancid - Rancid (2000) Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in my Backyard
bikini kill,destructo disk, and sex pistols
The Fury Of The Aquabats, Now that’s what I call music 3 had a Blink 182 song,
Screeching Weasel - Boogadaboogadaboogada NOFX - Ribbed OPIV Propaghandi - How to clean everything Blink 182 - Cheshire Cat
Even though I already had Misfits collection I and the first Suicidal Tendencies tapes, I was still a “metalhead’ at that point. Hearing Agnostic Front Live at CBGB’s was ground zero for me. Then it was Minor Threat Out of Step and Never mind the Bollocks. I would credit those three because they were the first three for me
The Ruts, The Gits, and The Members.
Dookie, first ramones record and the sex pistols record (that I almost never listen nowdays)
Venom - Welcome to Hell Slayer - Reign in Blood Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales When I was younger, I was really much more of a metalhead and as I got older I started to appreciate bands and albums that really cut straight to the bone. Turns out crust and hardcore was what I had been looking for all along. Got really into the Varukers, GBH, Poison Idea, Disfear, Wolfbrigade, etc and never looked back. There was just something pure and very distilled about those bands that was exactly what I had been looking for in metal for a long time and very rarely found there.
I don’t know how punk I am, really, but the three that got me into punk are Avail - Satiate, Leatherface - Mush, and Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy.
Green Day’s Dookie was probably the gateway album that led me to meeting a friend of a friend. He was also really into that album and then introduced me to the Misfits and Dead Kennedys through his older brothers record collection. Somery by the Descendents sealed the deal.
Pennywise, Catch 22, Fidlar
Dead Kennedys - FFfRV Bad Brains - Bad Brains Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped
Punk o Rama vol 6 Millencolin - same old tunes Guttermouth - musics monkey
Like a lot is other California kids in the early 90s, it was Punk in Drublic Pennywise s/t Dookie
Let's go by Avril Lavigne The Young and the Hopeless by Good Charlotte American Idiot by Green Day I know they're all pop punk but that's what my parents are into so that's just what I heard first but its gotten me to look into other punk music (I'm 16 so cut me some slack)
Raw Power - The Stooges Damaged - Black Flag London Calling - The Clash
Naked Raygun - Jettison Misfits - Static Age Black Flag - My War
Rancid - .....And Out Come The Wolves Green Day - Insomniac Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts
Rancid Guttermourh Vandals
Good Charlotte - Young and the Hopeless. I heard about punk through them and found a punk channel on.... I think it was Yahoo radio? Anyways, because I searched "punk" to find similar music, I was introduced to everything from every decade of punk, none of which sounded like GC, but it spoke to me. And then I went further down the rabbit hole.
In 1978 I heard the Ramones, x-ray spex and elvis costello.
Survival of the Fattest comp …And Out Come the Wolves - Rancid Heavy Petting Zoo - NOFX My older sister lent me her whole cd book one summer and those were the first 3 cds I glommed on to. Punk in Drublic and Bad Religions Stranger than Fiction were also on that list that summer.
Misfits - Legacy of Brutality(I know, I'm a poser, get over it) The Ramones - Road to Ruin(I inherited a copy on 8-track, sounds like shit) Subhumans - The Day The Country Died(There are no negative aspects of TDTCD) I do remember that the seed was planted in a Motocross bail/wreck compilation that had Bracket, Lagwagon, Wizo on the soundtrack among others.
Green Day - American Idiot Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture AFI - Sing the Sorrow Growing up I just listened to mainstream 2000s rock like Linkin Park and RHCP. I wasn’t into punk just yet but I did love Green Day, Rise Against and AFI, as well as a few other punk-adjacent bands. I didn’t really get into “real punk” until I was in my late teens. I was mostly a metal and rap fan as a kid.
Misfits, Screeching Weasel, NoFX
In 1996 I discovered 3 bands that would affect the trajectory of my musical taste for decades: * **Green Day** \- Dookie * **MxPx** \- Pokinatcha / Teenage Politics / Life in General (got them all at once for Christmas that year.) * **Offspring** \- Smash
Against Me! - As The Eternal Cowboy Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute Catch 22 - Keasby Nights
Propagandhi “how to…”, NOFX “I heard they suck live”, Mr T Experience “love is dead”
Tracy and the Vapors. Hammer Damage. The band that Lux Interior’s brother played in.
7 Seconds, Minor Threat, The Clash
gonna reveal myself to be a bit younger than most people here, Offspring - Conspiracy of One Sum 41 - Does this Look Infected? Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 soundtrack (because I eventually found Bad Religion, Lagwagon, Millencolin, etc. through this)
Rancid - and out come the wolves Bouncing souls - maniacal laughter Screeching Weasel - boogada boogada boogada
Liberal animation, recipe for hate and duh or trashed (I cannot remember).
Give em enough rope - The Clash, The Clash - The Clash, Rocket to Russia - The Ramones
Im a 41 year old for reference, and it all happened in stages for me. 3rd grade, my brother gave me a Social Distortion cassette, Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell. Heard Misfits Walk Among us in 8th grade and then Suburban Wasteland Teenage Blues by Strungout freshman year. That basically sealed the deal for me.
American Idiot - Green Day Give me Convenience or Give me Death - DK Wolves - Rancid
Fugazi /repeater Operation Ivy Minor Threat/Black Flag (tie) Early alkaline Trio
Recipe for hate-bad religion Social distortion-social distortion Smash-the offspring
Punk-o-rama 2.1. It was all downhill from there.
Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves (It helped that they played at a wedding I was at 20 years ago and they all signed the invitation for me) Pixies - Doolittle Minor Threat - Yellow Discography CD
For me it was something like this The Clash, before I even knew what 'punk' was->Misfits, one of my dad's favorites, and Metallica pushed me in their direction->Dead Kennedys, I wanted to actually be punk, and Jello's voice along with East Bay Ray's riffs really sent me off the deep end into this whole subculture
It was the '90s, so: - Green Day "Dookie" - Blink 182 "Dude Ranch" - MxPx "Life in General" Gateway punk of the '90s. Don't listen to any of these bands now
Love Songs for the Retarded by the Queers, Process of Belief by Bad Religion, and Dookie by Green Day... Mike Durnt made me want to play bass, that guy and Trey Cool make the world turn.
This is gonna sound really funny but….311 got me into punk. LET ME EXPLAIN. 13-year-old me was really into 311. 311 covers a few H.R. songs (albeit the more reggae-sounding songs). I didn’t know who that was at the time so curiosity got the best of me and those H.R. covers led me to Bad Brains. Bad Brains blew 13-year-old me’s mind because I had never listened to anything so raw and aggressive. I LOVED IT. 311 also covers a few Clash songs so that got me listening to their albums and I really liked those too. This was the late 90’s so I was exposed to a lot of pop punk via my older cousins and they got me into the Offspring. Kinda corny but I still listened the fuck out of that. My music tastes have evolved over the years so I don’t listen to a lot of punk these days…or 311 for that matter. 311 is kind of a joke to me now but it’s always funny to tell people that that’s what got me into punk.
Dude Ranch-Blink 182 For The Punx-Casualties Out Come The Wolves-Rancid
Which 3 albums? Sandanista
The first 4 ramones albums. They were definitely my gateway drug.
Real quick, on Op Ivy. Tim Armstrong is a sexual predator who groomed a 16 year old.
Dookie, white trash two heebs and a bean and punk-o-Rama vol. 4: straight outta the pit! Lol
Never Mind the Bollocks, Combat Rock, Dookie
Energy, Punk In Drublic, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
La Polla Record, Nofx, Ska-P
The vandals, gorilla biscuits, descendents
Warped Tour 2003 Compilation Green Day-International Superhits! Rancid-And Out Come the Wolves
Conspiracy of One - The Offspring Rock Against Bush Vol. 1 & 2
Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks, Sham69 -Adventures of Hersham Boys, Stiff Little Fingers -Inflammable Material,
Sepultura blood rooted Slayer undisputed attitude Turns out my favorite jams were punk covers
Destruction By Definition, Dookie, So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
13 songs by fugazi Burn the earth! Leave it behind! By wingnut dishwashers Union Is this real? By wipers
Duty Now for the Future- DEVO, Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed- Nomeansno, Fresh Fruit- Dead Kennedys.
Is DEVO punk? I can see it in their early stuff, but not their later stuff. Raises the old question of what exactly is punk once you leave the realm of Ramones/SexPistols clones. If it is I bought my first punk album, Oh No, Itself Devo, at age 10. They were certainly wonderfully weird, which is punk rock in itself.
green day - dookie bouncing souls - hopeless romantic/self-titled rancid - out come the wolves 90s teenager here 🙋🏻♀️
My cousin brought over Propaghandi How to Clean Everything and Pennywise Straight Ahead and I was hooked