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.

[Andy Butler]

blink 182...haha....good one

[Andy Butler]

I think we should collect all our faves records together and have a party..haha...lots of great music being mentioned....this era was...and is.. a great time in music!

[Andy Butler]

also a quintessential punk single, it really sums up that english punk vibe...although not many people know it..
Life / Love Lies Limp - Alternative Television (ATV)

All my punk comp. cd's I make include Life

[Lost Soul]

I don't really see that. I'm sure Mr Childish would be the first to admit that originality of styel is not quite top of his list but I don't really hear The Clash coming through. On The Buff Medways stuff I got a lot of The Who.

[Chris]

Damned Damned Damned - the Damned
Young Loud and Snotty - the Dead Boys
Black Generation - Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Im sorry, but I dont see whats so great about the clash, I never really got into them

[Mr Yates]

I have to agree with 90% of the bands mentioned, I still listen to heaps of those albums.
One artist that really turned me onto punk rock was Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
I bought New Boots and Panties sometime round 1978/79 and it opened up a world of alternative / underrepresented / underground rock to my young tender ears. From there it was a very easy progression to the Stranglers, The Damned (Damned,Damned,Damned is one of my top 10 LPs), the Jam, Black Flag and more.
More punk in attitude than sound but I have to chuck it into the mix.

[Lost Soul]

I'm in full agreement on The Clash, and then some. Thank God it's not just me- I was beginning to think there was something wrong with my ears.

[Ivan Andreini]

Drop out with the Barracudas's from 81 i fink;
A marvellous record!
I was a surfer once...
Ivan Exhausted
PS Von Bondies last night, grrrreat!

[Fonsz]

Eater
The Sex Pistols
The Damned
The Ramones
The Boys
The Stranglers
The Heartbreakers
New York Dolls
Blondie
God I'm old. Some of these I have seen perform in their original line up...
I didn't mention the Clash because they were too "political" for me. Too thought out or how do you call it. That they were trying hard to be smart and political correct.

[Lost Soul]

If only more bands were politically progressive. I just didn't like The Clash because they were dull. Bring back The Redskins, The Blaggers and The Upstarts.

[Thee Strawberry Mynde]

The Redskins now there was a top band. I put out a tribute album to them a few years back - http://www.cdbaby.com/redskins

The Redskins were big fans of The Clash, infact the Redskins frontman Chris Dean used to play a tele that was originally owned by Joe Strummer. They also covers 'Coplete Control' which I put up on the Redskins MySpace page a few weeks back - http://www.myspace.com/redskinsunofficial

[Lost Soul]

Bravo! I thought I had it but I just dug it out and it's just the EP on vinyl with The Power is Yours, Lean on Me, Kick Over the Statues, Bring it Down and Whether.