Punk
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the punk artistic movement. Combine with other tags for subgenres.
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Killing Joke – “The Singles Collection 1979-2012” (2013)
‘The Singles Collection’ is probably the best introduction to Killing Joke but falls short of providing enough value for existing fans. (read more)
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Rancid – “…And Out Come the Wolves” (1995)
The easiest way for me to describe …And Out Come the Wolves is “basically the first album by The Clash but better.” Of course, The Clash surpassed their first album with subsequent releases. The bratty boys, the broad Latin music influences—it’s all there. Rancid’s guitars have more of a ’90s fuzz to them, but there’s not many… (read more)
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Alice Cooper – “Love It to Death”
History hasn’t been kind enough to Alice Cooper band, who stand alongside fellow Detroit-rockers The Stooges as the true progenitors of punk rock. Alice Cooper don’t have as high a threat level as The Stooges’s out of control mayhem, but they make up for it in intelligence, as their melodramatic teenage introspective classic “I’m Eighteen” makes perfectly… (read more)
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Wipers – “Land of the Lost” (1986)
Despite its mild reception, Land of the Lost is a good album. It doesn’t have the cohesiveness or distinct identity that the previous three Wipers albums had, such as Is This Real?‘s punk-inspired new wave, Youth of America‘s perfect bridge of punk rock and post-punk, or even Over the Edge‘s raw energy and killer riffs,… (read more)
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Gang of Four – “Solid Gold”
Gang of Four were one of the pioneering dance-punk bands of the post-punk scene. It’s easy to see why on Solid Gold, with its funky bass and catchy, repetitious guitar riffs. While the album is a consistently high quality, nothing reaches the heights of “What All We Want,” which is now one of my favorite… (read more)
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letlive. – “Fake History” (2010)
Post-hardcore is pretty much a dead genre now, but there are some bands that keep the torch burning. One of those bands is Glassjaw, who have been playing since around the genre’s conception and still occasionally release new material. Another one of those bands is a much more recently formed one named letlive., a band… (read more)
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The Sonics – “Here Are the Sonics!!!” (1965)
Here Are The Sonics!!! is the 1965 debut album by The Sonics. Considered very influential to both punk music and garage rock, the album receives near universal acclaim. But helping to pioneer some burgeoning genres does not alone make this a great album. For starters, 8 out of its 12 songs are covers, and while… (read more)
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Fugazi – “Steady Diet of Nothing”
How can anyone not love "Steady Diet of Nothing?" Like every Fugazi album, it’s in the running for their best, for its own unique reasons. (read more)
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Sex Pistols – “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols” (1977)
The Sex Pistols were a mostly manufactured band designed by their manager Malcolm McLaren to capitalize on the burgeoning punk movement. As such, he dictated their image, names, and attitude to create both the embodiment of punk yet, at the same time, the antithesis of punk. With so much of the Sex Pistols image being… (read more)
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Sonic Youth – “Daydream Nation” (1988)
The youthful energy pervading much of Sonic Youth’s music spoke a lot to me in my early adulthood. Detached, rebellious, and a yearning to express some kind of stronger emotion that you’re not yet quite sure of. The noise sections have a reckless abandonment to them, but also seem calculated, fitting in with the songs… (read more)