Top 25 punk rock albums

These are the 25 best punk rock albums of all time, as voted by users of RateYourMusic.com. #26 has been added as a bonus.
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Rank
Year
Artist
Answer
1
1979
The Clash
London Calling
2
1977
Television
Marquee Moon
3
1979
Talking Heads
Fear of Music
4
1977
Wire
Pink Flag
5
1977
The Clash
The Clash
6
1976
Ramones
Ramones
7
1980
Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
8
1978
Wire
Chairs Missing
9
1977
Ramones
Rocket to Russia
10
1984
Minutemen
Double Nickels on the Dime
11
2000
At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
12
1984
Hüsker Dü
Zen Arcade
13
1981
Wipers
Youth of America
Rank
Year
Artist
Answer
14
1978
Talking Heads
More Songs About Buildings and Food
15
1979
Wire
154
16
1983
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
17
1998
Refused
The Shape of Punk to Come
18
1978
Pere Ubu
The Modern Dance
19
2001
Converge
Jane Doe
20
1990
Fugazi
Repeater
21
2001
Unwound
Leaves Turn Inside You
22
1977
Talking Heads
Talking Heads: 77
23
1977
Suicide
Suicide
24
1977
Ramones
Leave Home
25
2001
Fugazi
The Argument
26
1977
Sex Pistols
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
8 Comments
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Level 68
Nov 3, 2017
No Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Damned, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bad Brains, Black Flag? Oh my.
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Level 89
Mar 25, 2020
Yeah, I can't say I agree with some of the choices on this list.
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Level 28
May 16, 2020
He's going off of a list that was pre-made by some pretentious music nazis, so I wouldn't give it too much thought.
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Level 32
Jul 21, 2022
That's not true at all. First of all, it's not "pre-made" by anyone. It's an automatically generated list based on user ratings.

Secondly, it's not really a list of the best punk albums on that site because if you just search their charts for punk, it's going to include any subgenre of punk like post-punk and metalcore unless you are more specific. Really they should have just searched the top albums listed under punk/punk rock/hardcore punk and excluded sub-genres.

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Level 26
Dec 21, 2017
nice quiz. missed two of the ramones albums cause not particularly fond of them. annoyed that i missed 154 considering map ref is one of my favorite wire songs.
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Level 66
Apr 30, 2018
21/26, RYM are such elitists though lol
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Level 84
Apr 22, 2020
ridiculous quiz.at least 12 of these album's are not punk . no black flag .circle jerks .damned .exploited. bad brains.talking heads were a great band but no way a punk band.
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Level 67
May 12, 2020
Most of these albums aren't even good. Music people always treat punk like some fad that existed from 1976-1981, so anything released during that period automatically gets bumped on any list. A handful of those bands were really good, but a lot of it was just noise. The Sex Pistols in particular were really important from a historical and philosophical perspective, but that album has three good songs on it. The absences of the Damned, the Buzzcocks, Rancid, NOFX, the Bouncing Souls, Cock Sparrer, Green Day, Social D, and Bad Religion are pretty baffling when you consider some of the albums that made this list.