Best Album On This List of Punk Sellout Albums

Probably between LTJ, Blink 182, Rancid, and AFI for me

Have only ever heard the Jehu, Bad Religion and Cave In records - awesome, decent and completely shite respectively.

Dookie or Enema

the answer to most questions is drive like jehu

Voted Cave-In, Antenna's severely underrated.

Everything else apart from Drive Like Jehu I haven't even thought about since 2003 or so

yank crime in a landslide

Feel like voting Yank Crime is not seriously engaging with this poll

Used to love that Jawbox album, so that.

xpost it's true, tbh i didn't look at the other options after yank crime

voted jawbox but could've easily gone w/ AFI, green day, thursday, jawbreaker, distillers.

kinda surprised war all the time is the "sellout" one seeing as how it's kinda difficult as far as early 2000s emo goes

Feel like voting Yank Crime is not seriously engaging with this poll

― 龜, Thursday, April 2, 2015 7:01 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in the UK it was on a not v big, now defunct indie label called Elemental but even ignoring that this feels otm. it will probably win tho

i rate dookie, dear you, sing the sorrow and new wave, but war all the time is one of my fave albums ever so thursday is my vote

In the end, went with Rancid. Hello Rockview imo is LTJ's big sell out album, STF is 'eh' for a BR album, and I didn't get into Blink until after my pop punk years

very surprised that people have listened to indestructible

most of these records are great though, i think only that ataris record is truly awful

personal favorite is in reverie, objective best (that hasn't already been absorbed into the post-hardcore canon like yank crime and fyoss) is new wave

very surprised that people have listened to indestructible

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, April 2, 2015 4:07 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

I have it on CD :(

hmm, punk albums...

Didn't see Dear You on there, so i voted incorrectly for Dookie, though Jawbox or Thursday were high on my list.

Feel like voting Yank Crime is not seriously engaging with this poll

Yeah, this. I've listened to Yank Crime way more than anything else on this list. but it doesn't feel like it falls in line with a lot of what else is here.

I really like Coral Fang, so Distillers it is!

Kinda wanted to vote for AFI but feel like StS wasn't really a big anything after they had already switched up their aesthetic for Black Sails

That might be my favorite Jawbox record.

At the time it felt like Jawbox saw way more major label $s than Jehu. That may just have been a UK thing though.
The correct answer is of course Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record.

The correct answer is of course Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record.

Phew! You made me scroll back up to the list thinking I missed that!

question: was yank crime poorly received at the time by anyone?

i voted for it, jawbox close second

Was Swami Recordings part of a major label?

Oh it was on Interscope, right

ignoring yank crime for the reasons listed, voting new wave over coral fang and dookie

i kinda get why coral fang is here but ironically it feels (and was) far less commercial than sing sing death house - part of my disappointment with it!

dear you

Dookie is Green Day's best album but that is one band whose ticks got annoying.

Yank Crime is way better than the S/T. I don't think they were really all that well known. Rocket from the Crypt was more known.

Novelty is good but I think For Your Own Special Sweetheart is Jawbox's best and most distinctive music.

At least from my 90s midwest POV in Bloomington at the time, the band that went from cool to 'I HATE THOSE GUYS' over the course of like a summer was Urge Overkill. Jesus Lizard got dogged a bit too but the guys that would dog them would still go to the shows and say "they were better when..." I don't know, I kinda hated indie/punk snooty bullshit back then.

Against Me, easily. I can't stand anything they did before that record.

Some odd choices in here. Tempted to vote Dear You just because of the savage reception it got.

dear you is a great record that i think is rightfully considered a classic now

its initial reception both makes total sense and no sense to me, it only sounds a little more polished than 24 hour revenge therapy

list made more sense when i clicked thru - they're all major label debuts

haha or if i'd looked at the link in the opening post, that was also a clue this wasn't an opinion-based list

Gaunt - Bricks and Blackouts would have been a good one for this list but maybe people don't remember Gaunt but I tell u what pal Gaunt rules

the whole "first/only albums on a major" thing is a weird criteria. Like in that case Burn Piano Island Burn should be on there (and I'd have happily voted for it as I do whenever possible)

though of course ArtistDirect Records tanked pretty much immediately afterwards, quite possibly because they gave bands like The Blood Brothers a recording budget

yank crime, but i might vote for jawbox anyway

lol i had no idea that blink 182 were considered pure enough to sell out. but i also tend to confuse them with sugar ray, so

Jawbox is a sell out? That's a fantastic record!

blink/afi or green day

Was somehow able to restrain from instinctively voting for Yank Crime and read the whole list first. Voted Dear You.

Hard to choose, but finally went with Jawbox.

the whole "first/only albums on a major" thing is a weird criteria. Like in that case Burn Piano Island Burn should be on there (and I'd have happily voted for it as I do whenever possible)

― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Thursday, April 2, 2015 11:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Ugh same

Feel like BB were never considered 'punk' - pretty squarely emo/hardcore

Nah not even emo

None of them are on the list, but I remember X's Under the Big Black Sun, Husker Du's Candy Apple Grey, and the Replacement's Pleased to Meet Me all getting charged with the same thing at the time, or at the very least of cleaning up their sound, which is probably true. Commercially, I doubt they sold more than 100,000 copies between them, and probably well under.

I meant to say Tim--that was their first one on Sire.

Under the Big Black Sun made it to #76 on Billboard, Tim to #183, and Candy Apple Grey to #140. Not sure how that translates into sales--not very well, I would think.

at least w/huskers it would not suprise me if the major label ones sold worse than some of the sst ones

Jawbox/Jehu/Jawbreaker all incredible albums that I still play on the reg
"Savory" remains the most transcendent moment on all three for me to this day. An unreal single.

oh man it didn't even occur to me that this was list of "sellout" punk albums that had nothing before 1990 on it

that like, you can say "punk" over and over and people will assume you're talking about the green day era

Otm

Voting End of the Century

I still listen to that Jawbox one, so easy pick for me

Write-in vote for "Hit to Death in the Future Head"

I feel like Shape of Punk to Come kinda fits in here too.

honestly the only kelly clarkson songs i can name are "since u been gone," "stronger" and "a moment like this" but i'm sure i've unknowingly heard tons more...

Shape of punk wasn't on a major?

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Jawbox no hesitation

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