Rolling Stone recently dropped their list of 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time, and with the Ramones’ debut album just turning 50 they’ve delivered their list of the 100 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time.
Genre purists might want to stay away as there’s plenty of post-punk and proto-punk on this list, and it spans a wide variety of punk styles; a few inclusions are more on punk attitude than anything else. The list has changed a lot since they did a Top 40 punk list in 2016, and the new Top 20 doesn’t feature anything newer than 1997 (there’s one band who gets two records within that space).
Check out the Top 20 below and read the whole list over at Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone – Top 20 Punk Albums of All Time:
20 Green Day, ‘Dookie’
19 Bikini Kill, ‘Reject All American’
18 Buzzcocks, ‘Singles Going Steady’
17 Bad Brains, ‘Bad Brains’
16 Gang of Four, ‘Entertainment!’
15 New York Dolls, ‘New York Dolls’
14 X, ‘Los Angeles’
13 Hüsker Dü, ‘Zen Arcade’
12 Patti Smith, ‘Horses’
11 Black Flag, ‘Damaged’
10 The Clash, ‘London Calling’
9 Nirvana, ‘Nevermind’
8 The Stooges, ‘Fun House’
7 The Sex Pistols, ‘Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols’
6 Wire, ‘Pink Flag’
5 Sleater-Kinney, ‘Dig Me Out’
4 The Clash, ‘The Clash’
3 The Minutemen, ‘Double Nickels on the Dime’
2 X-Ray Spex, ‘Germfree Adolescents’
1 Ramones, ‘Ramones’