Uncut 50 Greatest American Punk LPs

"The loudest, fastest, sweatiest records ever!" That's how British monthly magazine Uncut introduces its list of 50 Greatest American Punk Albums, available on March 2014 issue with Ramones on the cover. Forty of them are available on Spotify and I collected them in this double playlist (full albums + three tracks each album). I could finish with a banal "Gabba Gabba Hey!", but I'm not so banal.
Hey ho, let's go!

Previously on the punk & Uncut side of Spotirama:

Uncut 50 Greatest Singer/Songriter Albums

Mucchio Classic Rock #1 - Punk '77 Top 10 Albums

UNCUT 50 GREATEST AMERICAN PUNK LP's

(full albums)

(3 tracks each album)

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Full list

Strikethrough albums (10/50) are not available on Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries.

1. The Dictators – Go Girl Crazy!
2. Patty Smith – Horses
3. Ramones – Ramones
4. The Runaways – The Runaways
5. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
6. Television – Marquee Moon
7. Talking Heads – Talking Heads ‘77
8. Chrome – Alien Soundtracks
9. Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation
10. Heartbreakers – LAMF
11. Iggy Pop & James Williamson – Kill City
12. Suicide – Suicide
13. Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance
14. Lou Reed – Street Hassle
15. Dead Boys – We Have Come For Your Children
16. Devo – Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are Devo!
17. Blondie – Parallel Lines
18. Johnny Thunders – So Alone
19. Germs – (GI)
20. The Contortions – Buy
21. The Dickies – Dawn Of The Dickies
22. Black Randy And The Metro Sound – Pass The Dust, I Think I’m Bowie
23. The Jim Carroll Band – Catholic Boy
24. Wipers – Is This Real?
25. The Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us
26. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
27. X – Los Angeles
28. Half Japanese – Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts
29. Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit From Rotting Vegetables
30. Circle Jerks – Group Sex
31. The Db’s – Stands For Decibels
32. Big Boys – Where’s My Towel?/Industry Standard
33. Really Red – Teaching You Fear
34. MDC – Millions Of Dead Cops
35. Husker Du – Land Speed Record
36. Descendents – Milo Goes To College
37. Bad Brains – Bad Brains
38. Misfits – Walk Among Us
39. Redd Kross – Born Innocent
40. Fear – The Record
41. Replacements – Stink
42. Angry Samoans – Back From Samoa
43. Flipper – Generic Flipper
44. Ss Control – The Kids Will Have Their Say
45. Mission Of Burma – VS
46. Minutemen – What Makes A Man Start Fires?
47. Black Flag – The First Four Years
48. Minor Threat – Out Of Step
49. Dicks – Kill From The Heart
50. Avengers – Avengers

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Punk '77 top 10 albums (Mucchio Classic Rock #1)

Swindlin' London

Time for a bit of Italy. 

Don't worry, not italian music (not yet...): Italian music journalism and critics' choices. Some years ago I started writing for a rock magazine called Il Mucchio Selvaggio, a rather venerable one in Italy. At that time Il Mucchio was a weekly mag (today, it's monthly) and had a great insert called Classic Rock, about, well, classic rock. The central pages of it were occupied by historical charts. Top 10 punk albums, Top 10 blues albums, Top 10 indie-rock albums, and so on. It was the end of the Nineties: Napster, P2P, iTunes (and Spotify, of course) were just dreams in some brilliant and geeky minds. And in my mind, too. I daydreamed the chance of listening to those albums, quickly, easily, without having to rob a bank for buying all the cds. Exactly what I can do right now, thanks to Spotify. 

Some days ago I dared to take a look in the deepness of my closets, and I found the full collection of Classic Rock inserts. So... 2 + 2 = 5... a new Spotirama series was born! Periodically, I will create Spotify playlists from Classic Rock charts. Rock critics from Il Mucchio are very good. Trust me. I'm not one of them. :o)

So, let's roll.

From Classic Rock #1: Punk '77 - I dieci album fondamentali

Here's what Eddy Cilia wrote about it (awful english translation is mine):

"Some things happened in the october of 1977...

In UK Sex Pistols, after the 4th scandalizing single (Holidays in the Sun), published their first (and only) true lp, Never Mind the Bollocks. It changed rock music, forever. At the same time, X-Ray Spex got out the schizoid Oh Bondage Up Yours. In France, it was the debut of brilliant Metal Urbain. In the U.S., first album for Stiv Bators' Dead Boys. And in Italy? On the newsstands, local music aficionados found a new magazine, bizarrely named with the title of a western masterpiece by Sam Peckinpah (Il Mucchio Selvaggio = The Wild Bunch), with Neil Young on the cover, 32 pages, homemade design. It featured blues, country, folk. And punk? The only clue something important was happening in rock territory was an ad page, bought by RCA, to promote - among the others - Ramones' Leave Home. 

Since then, Il Mucchio Selvaggio, abundantly made amends for that incredible underestimation of punk. Since 1980, it started promoting loudly every important new act. Never forgetting that in music - like in chemistry - nothing starts from nothing: you can't understand the present and imagine the future without knowing the past. This monthly feature, that begins in this publication, is meant to give young readers an easy tool to get the basis of history of rock (and not only rock). And to give expert readers a nice recall, some thorough examinations and the chance to get angry for the exclusions in the charts we will regularly compile. No problem, we're all national football team's managers.

We liked the idea to start from the year of birth of Il Mucchio. Punk quickly burned its revolution, melting with other sounds, evolving in hardcore or decaying in a way that finally showed its reactionary nature. Just few albums from the contemporary punk scene deserve the ink used to write about them. But classics are classics. And... well... actually 1977 began in '76 and ended in '78. Following punk, even the good one, is something different. We'll talk about it, later."

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10 Pivotal Albums

Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts (Anchor, 1978)

Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (United Artists, 1979)

Clash - The Clash (CBS, 1977)

Damned - Damned Damned Damned (Stiff, 1977)

Dead Boys - Young, Loud and Snotty (Sire, 1977)

Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation (Sire, 1977)

Radio Birdman - Radios Appear (Trafalgar, 1977)

Ramones - Ramones (Sire, 1976)

Saints - I'm Stranded (EMI, 1977)

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Virgin, 1977)

10 Albums More

Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked (Deptford Fun City, 1978)

Generation X - Generation X (Chrysalis, 1978)

Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. (Track, 1977)

Jam - In the City (Polydor, 1977)

Metal Urbain - Les hommes mort sont dangereux (Byzz/Rough Trade, 1981)

Sham 69 - Tell Us the Truth (Polydor, 1978)

Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia (Arista, 1976)

Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (United Artists, 1977)

Wire - Pink Flag (Harvest/EMI, 1977)

X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents (EMI, 1978)

The Spotify Playlists

The Mammoth (15 full albums out of 20, about 10 hours): HTTP link, URI. (SR0202)

The Lite (3 songs each from 16 albums*, about 2 hours): HTTP link, URI. (SR0203)

* In the lite playlist I added three songs from Sham 69's Tell Us the Truth, taken not from the original album but from a collection available on Spotify.