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Essential Punk CDs
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Minutemen – Project Mersh Vol 1
HEAR SAMPLES 36 Tracks Year: 1981-83 This is actually Punch Line (1981) and What Makes a Man Start Fires (1983) on one CD. These songs will stay with you forever. |
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Flipper – Album – Generic Flipper
HEAR SAMPLES 9 Tracks Year: 1982 Vocalist Will Shatter died in 1987 Nothing new added to this from the vinyl version, but this is one of those CDs that you will listen to forever. |
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Social Unrest – Volume 1 – Social Unrest
HEAR SAMPLES 26 Songs Year: 1981-86 This starts from their first release in the early 80′s. Volume 2 is more of their less hardcore stuff. |
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Husker Du – New Day Rising
HEAR SAMPLES 15 Songs Year: 1985 Essential to own at least ONE CD by this band. Not completely ‘old school’, but more of a very aggressive college rock band. Came out on SST Records. You may also want the one that came out before this called Zen Arcade (23 tracks) |
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Government Issue – Complete History Volume One – 2 CD Set
HEAR SAMPLES 80 Songs Year: 1981-86 Includes ‘Make An Effort’ EP, ‘Boycott Stabb’ EP, songs from the ‘Flipside’ LP, ‘Joyride’ LP, The ‘Fun Just Never Ends’ LP, ‘Give Us Stabb Or Give Us Death’ LP, ‘Live’ LP, Self Titled LP and more. This is all their earlier stuff. |
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B.G.K. – The Complete Works of B.G.K.
HEAR SAMPLES 46 songs Year: 1982-1987 Fast, loud, and intense. One of the lesser known ’3-letter acronym bands’. |
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Black Flag – Everything Went Black
25 songs Year: 1981 This is all the pre Henry Rollins Black Flag songs. All recorded from 1978 to 1981 and released in 1983. |
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The Freeze
Token Bones 30 songs Year: 1980 – 1996 This is a compliation of assorted tracks from the band from the Boston hardcore scene. |
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Mission of Burma – Vs.
16 songs Year: 1982 An ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE punk recording. Very different from anything else in that time period. |
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Minutemen – Doubles Nickles on the Dime
43 songs Year: 1984 Pretty much ANYTHING by this band is good. |
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Government Issue – Complete History Volume Two 2 CD Set
51 Songs Year: 1986-1989 ‘You’, ‘Crash’, ‘Finale’, rare stuff, and unreleased live tracks. This is all their more melodic stuff from the late 80′s. |
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Also recommended – Painted Willie – Mind Bowling – Read our review here |
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Additional Recommendations
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TSOL Dance With Me CD 1981 |
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7 Seconds
Walk Together… CD |
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Circle Jerks Golden Shower of Hits CD 1983 |
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Angry Samoans Back from Samoa CD 1982 |
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JFA We Know You Suck CD 1982-83 |
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Crucif*cks Our Will Be Done - CD – Discography (awesome) |
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Crass Christ the Album 2 CDs – 1982 |
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X Los Angeles |
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Ramones 1986 Animal Boy |
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Die Kreuzen 34 Tracks October File + 1 |
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Adicts Songs of Praise 18 Tracks |
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NoMeansNo The Day Everything Became Nothing |
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Fang Landshark + Where the Wild Things Are 21 Tracks |
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MDC MDC 1982 – 27 Tracks |
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False Prohpets Blind Roaches and Fat Vultures: Phantasmagorical |
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The Misfits Legacy of Brutality |
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Here are even more records that have been reissued on CD: P.E.A.C.E. / WAR Not So Quiet on the Western Front Samhain – |
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Essential Punk
