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All Fall Down is the third studio album by English post-punk band The Sound, recorded from March to August 1982 and released in November 1982 on record label WEA. After being pressured by their record label to release a more commercially successful album, since their previous records failed to attract the attention of the public, The Sound rebelled and recorded All Fall Down, which has been called "distinctly uncommercial".

And between all the sounds of summer splendor and rainy day ballets, they even managed to spawn a surprise hit with atheist anthem Dear God in the process. 24. Magazine – Real Life (1978) Magazine may be the most post-punk band on this list in the most literal sense of the phrase. Together with guitarist John McGeoch (who went on to play in Visage, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL), he wrote a collection of adventurous songs that incorporated keyboards and saxophone without losing his punk fury.

Where punk had been dense, this was spacious. Its sound was post-punk and its name was Public Image. Initially given a merciless thrashing on release, the album has now, rightly, claimed its place as one of punk’s most influential albums, thanks in no small part to its pioneering effect on the then nascent post-punk movement. 34) Television – Marquee Moon (1977). It’s flattering, but it makes me feel uncomfortable because I don’t see us in the same categories that I see our idols, said Holland of the album’s legacy. And this album still sounds like the future.

Falling somewhere between punk rock and new wave, the album highlighted that punk music functioned at its best when it dared to experiment, leading Trouser Press to dub the band a blast of fresh air compared to the more serious bands of new wave’s first charge. High-octane goofballs Rezillos mixed surf rock, garage, glam, rockabilly and New Wave quirko-costumes into a punk-rock band that feels like the B-52’s if they listened to more Cramps than Chic, wrote Rolling Stone in 2017. At the same time, the accents definitely didn’t stray across the pond. Never has the Northern Irish twang been so thrust into the face of our pop kids. This album is very special to me, as it has truly stood the test of time and still sounds like nothing else. Genya did a great production job on it – thank God it wasn’t re-recorded as planned! If only she had done the second album, too.

Anyone who listens to pop radio regularly has probably been hit with this realization at one point or another – a ton of pop music sounds very similar. So if you're wondering why the top 10 features two Meghan Trainor songs that sound exactly the same and two Taylor Swift songs that sound exactly the same, scientists think they finally have the answer.

Punk rock has a tendency to lie about its age. There’s endless debate over what the first punk recording is: The Ramones’ self-titled debut? The Damned’s debut single, New Rose ? Or perhaps something even older, by The Stooges or MC. Their second album is their most potent statement, a punchy garage-punk half-hour that nods to old-schoolers like The Wipers while injecting their own sense of ironic humor into snarling screeds like I Hate the Kids. If punk is a teenager’s game, nobody bothered to tell these bruisers. The combination of sounds creates an angry whirlwind for the Colin Abrahall’s husky vocal bellows, while its guitar solos are like a swarm of meth-crazed bees. Filled with rowdy gang vocals and an unstoppable pace, the songs on City Baby still manage to be earworms amid the intensity.

Punk rock started in 1976 on New York’s Bowery, when four cretins from Queens came up with a mutant strain of blitzkrieg bubblegum. Ultimately, we found ourselves pulled toward records that embodied punk’s spirit, and even stretched it a little. Punk rock should mean freedom, said Kurt Cobain in 1991, just as Nevermind was exploding punk values across the middle American mainstream. Here’s a map to where that freedom has gone

Who would have thought punk rock was, in part, kickstarted by a girl? Poet, misfit and New York ligger, Patti channelled the spirits of Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Rimbaud into female form, and onto an album whose febrile energy and Dionysian spirit helped light the touchpaper for New York punk. The Robert Mapplethorpe-shot cover, in which a hungry, mannish Patti stares down the viewer, defiantly broke with the music industry's treatment of women artists (sexy or girl-next-door) and still startles today.

With that said, punk rock does have a story, and that’s what we’re here to tell. Our version may be incomplete, and there may be other, equally valid versions out there, but we think we’ve done right by punk by letting the music speak the loudest. What follows is the story of punk in 50 albums, each serving as a different chapter in the evolution of the genre and subculture. Take note that we aren’t calling these the greatest punk albums of all time (though some of them certainly qualify). When The Kinks released their self-titled debut album in 1964, plenty of critics dismissed them as just another cheap coin in the Mersey Beat jukebox. What they failed to see is that tracks like the rollicking So Mystifying and the smarmy, sarcastic I’m a Lover Not a Fighter are cut from a leaner, meaner cloth than the rest of the British Invasion.