Old School Punk Essentials

[Ian Morales]

A Primer

Crumbsuckers - Life Of Dreams
youtube.com/watch?v=1TAS7KBtkzU

Jerry's Kids - Is This My World
youtube.com/watch?v=RB-mzxHTvyU

Battalion Of Saints - Second Coming
youtube.com/watch?v=bQH8glVfnmA

Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
youtube.com/watch?v=P5q8SCpAO0Y

SNFU - Better than a Stick in the Eye
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eB34NVoTgU

D.O.A. - Hardcore '81
youtube.com/watch?v=VXeWoiESbPI

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
youtube.com/watch?v=-se-eytObhU

The Accüsed - The Return of Martha Splatterhead
youtube.com/watch?v=wym-w3FmXtU

Minor Threat - Out of Step
youtube.com/watch?v=sVCT941jSXg

Poison Idea - Kings Of Punk
youtube.com/watch?v=51W617X1BAM

Bad Brains - Bad Brains
youtube.com/watch?v=Ga5ZbMMZ6Hk

Suicidal Tendencies - Self Titled
youtube.com/watch?v=ZTlkpQJo_hs

Circle Jerks - Group Sex
youtube.com/watch?v=AZzd5s1KOOI

Dayglo Abortions - Feed us a Fetus
youtube.com/watch?v=iv3LjbWDTFc

Black Flag - Damaged
youtube.com/watch?v=om6ho37eSYE

Misfits - Misfits
youtube.com/watch?v=ww6dJot6mU4

Descendents - Milo Goes to College
youtube.com/watch?v=JytO0DFxzis

7 Seconds - The Crew
youtube.com/watch?v=BMy-cxFDINM

The Freeze - Rabid Reaction
youtube.com/watch?v=JNTjdlF1iec

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
youtube.com/watch?v=U3VXiyS6zl0

Youth Youth Youth - Sin
youtube.com/watch?v=XXG9B8N8dM8

Agnostic Front - Victim in Pain
youtube.com/watch?v=OAHHdAiUljE

Youth Of Today - We're Not In This Alone
youtube.com/watch?v=4Fpg8xvvLLA

Bad Religion - No Control
youtube.com/watch?v=5I5L6Ib57Cw

Gang Green - Another Wasted Night
youtube.com/watch?v=F9W5vVnnJZY

[Brayden Brooks]

Rate, Rec, Comment, Add.

[Blake Parker]

Pretty good list

Here is a few I would add

D.I. - Horse Bites, Dog Cries
youtube.com/watch?v=-T12xbeKxsY

Dr. Know - Best of
youtube.com/watch?v=nvFPL-4TQcg

Circle One - Patterns of Force
youtube.com/watch?v=agaSTjakzzI

Reagan Youth - Collection of Pop Classics
youtube.com/watch?v=ix9VCgrJY98

Wasted Youth - Reagan's In
youtube.com/watch?v=800nOUpIOZA

[Dylan Turner]

>No Ramones or Sex Pistols
Strange

[Matthew Harris]

Cool, Some stuff I never heard before.
Digging D.I. so far.

[Jaxson Ramirez]

I wouldn't consider either of those bands punk essentials.
I see them as just rock essentials.

[Joshua Bell]

I wanted to put in (mostly) bands that people probably never heard of.

[Matthew Roberts]

D.I. and Circle One still play shows occasionally if you happen to live Southern California

Another band I forgot was TSOL

youtube.com/watch?v=XkU9D0EFQCo

[Benjamin Rogers]

30+ years later...crazy!
Too bad I'm on the wrong coast.

[Colton Jenkins]

They still play pretty damn ferocious as well!

[Isaac Evans]

A few more

Germs - GI
youtube.com/watch?v=sm8Z9V8I0cA

Fear - The Record
youtube.com/watch?v=tvPiTLLiYmA

SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say
youtube.com/watch?v=DVS0ZAux2Ho

[Leo Nelson]

Half of this is crap and none of it is the truly classic first wave/New York punk

I don't even see the Ramones

Fuck off hardcore kiddie

[Christian Carter]

checked.

GI almost made it onto my chart there.

[Connor Rodriguez]

Then why Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Misfits, Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies, Stiff Little Fingers, and DOA?

All are known by anyone with even a cursory RYM knowledge of punk

[Alexander Myers]

wow. You're such a cool kid.

[Jordan Evans]

Says the Dayglo Abortions fan

[Jonathan Thompson]

What part of (mostly) did you not understand?

You got any suggestions or are you just gonna shit up the place?

[Noah Brooks]

Also forgot Bad Brains
So that's 14/25 bands that aren't obvious af fuck essentials
wew laddy

[Easton Butler]

any Oi! recs?

[Charles Wilson]

checked

How about Macc Lads?
youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LrDzOwuOU

[Brandon Barnes]

anything faster?

[Luis Myers]

so if we were putting together a list of lesser-known essentials, sticking within 80s punk/hardcore (so not delving into emo, post-hardcore, crust, etc) what would go on it?

i'd add (some of these are more well-known than others):

Crucifucks - S/T
Flipper - Generic
Icons of Filth - Onward Christian Soldiers
Toxic Reasons - Independence
B.G.K. - Jonestown Aloha
M.D.C. - Millions of Dead Cops
Rattus - WC Räjähtää
Reagan Youth - Youth Anthems for the New Order

Gary Bushell's series of Oi! compilations has some solid stuff, there's Oi! the Album, Strength Thru Oi!, Carry On Oi!, and Oi! Oi! That's Yer Lot

[Jackson Bennett]

Faster Oi?

hmmmm... how about

Infa-Riot
youtube.com/watch?v=_mRdSq4fVZQ

Blitz
youtube.com/watch?v=B4mazigQLGU

[Zachary Young]

checked

Good recs. Flipper were freaking great.

[Eli Rivera]

Sex Pistols are laughable trash for middke schoolers and not punk, Ramones are just okay

[Nicholas Garcia]

fun fact: bruce loose officiated jello biafra's wedding

[Nathaniel Reed]

Gutter Gods from Australia
Cinderblock from Boston

[Nolan Gutierrez]

Also

Angelic Upstarts
youtube.com/watch?v=npRtbV-Pq1k

Splodgenessabounds
youtube.com/watch?v=vGZxWkNe3WE

[Brandon Wood]

I'm not surprised by this. heh.