Whats your favourite albums from the first Punk era 76-80 ?

[Andy Butler]

I love the first Clash album...so much damn energy...and it sounds today more like an English garage band than so called punk.

[Johnny Quid]

again, never heard them. scotish i presume??

[John AKA Lard]

Johnny Quid said:

again, never heard them. scotish i presume??

Yeah, but they were signed to Rough Trade and played shows in London back in the day...

[Angelo Vicente Jr]

I'll just say the magic word: Ramones.

[Garage Boy]

Lard
I do beleive I cannot decide from The Clash's first album and The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus. So many good ones eh?

[Hallogallo]

first Clash is a masterpiece and Ramones are Religion..
but I think my favourite one is Heartbreakers' L.A.M.F !!

[Ivan Andreini]

F3rro,
The Undertones's first album is called the Undertones and not Teenage kicks; maybe it's my favorite, after all; I bought the first edition w/o Get over you and Teen kicks when it came out, I even remember ordering it from my local store; I only got the second version a couple of years later; Yo, it's my favorite, over LAMF and Ramones;
Their second Hypnotized is great too and i've just seen a live video of Julie Ocean on LastFm which is too beautifull for words; hum...
To John Peel
Ivan

[Plastic Pathetic]

I have to add Skrewdriver-Antisocial and All Skrewed up. Killer killer shit!! Don't worry both are long before the disbanding then reforming into a shitty white power band!

[Angelo Vicente Jr]

People tend to forget the importance and quality of Public Image Ltd. To me, they are the greates Punk band of them all. At leat while Keith Levene was there. The understanding and the living of the true Punk ethos. Going forward, forging ahead, being individuals rather than just another Clash or Vicious copycat armed with 3 chords and some used cathfrase. Punk was really all about destroying rock n roll, hence all the true players in the scene moving on to Post Punk and stuff. In one word, "Poptones".

[Toni Moonster]

Not one but two, The clash / The clash and The wire / Pink flag.

[Toni Moonster]

Ho lord i forgot, one of my inspirations, one of the best albums ever... Pere ubu / Modern dance

"Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 3/18/78
It's a devastating debut...this album has struck me with a vengeance. Because it delivers such a powerful, complex and open-ended punch, it's almost impossible at such an early stage to explain why or how in full detail."

[Toni Moonster]

... And so what about the fucking Raw power, The STOOGES wooow the ultimate fucking and destroy Rock`n`roll album... Ho ho 1973!

[Mr Yates]

I am re-reading Jon Savage's England's Dreaming book and getting reacquainted with some of the great music from that period.
I still dig the Sex Pistols, the Damned, The Ramones, Television etc.
How can I choose my favourites?
They were all fucking ace.