"(I'm) Stranded" by The Saints is the greatest punk rock album ever...

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...I've decided. What I can't work out is how a bunch of pudgy dweebs wearing the wrong clothes, with the wrong hairstyles and living 10,000 miles away from New York and the King's Road managed it.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

By having no restrictions or precursers.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

besides, in 1976 that's how all the punks were. Check the pics in Sniffin glue...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

punk? album? there's a problem here. the only good punk albums are compilations of punk singles

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

pah, the best punk album ever made is machine gun by brotzmann! and done with no guitars!

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I was being ironic with the "dweebs" part of my post.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

jim OTM

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

pah, the best punk album ever made is machine gun by brotzmann! and done with no guitars!

Bollocks, to lapse into punk terminology.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 January 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, i like the punk + horn sections of the 2nd and 3rd albums too, though i guess "stranded" does have that nice airplane speed noise thing to it, but that 2cd compilation, i'll take it all (oh, would program out five ?)

guitars and horn sections, a compromise ?

― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 22 January 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Machine Gun has PLENTY OF BOLLOCKS and has NOBLE AIM so don't try it.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Thursday, 22 January 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I should have said that "(I'm) Stranded" by The Saints is the greatest punk rock album ever, that is punk rock as in the high-energy guitar based rock music produced specifically in the period 1976-79"... except it wouldn't have fitted in the wee box - as indeed the Saints didn't... in a strange way... in their wee box... fit, I mean...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

better than Stiff Little Finger's Inflammable Material? Tossup I say and I like Eternally Yours more anyways.

― sucka (sucka), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd meet you a quarter of the way there and say that "(I'm) Stranded" by the Saints is the greatest punk rock SINGLE ever, but I can't go whole hog on the album.

Greatest Punk Rock album ever? Shit, that's tough. My personal pick would be It's Alive by the Ramones, but y'know....that's a live album, ain't it. Inflammable Material is another fine choice. I'd cite the first Generation X album as a contender as well. Fuck, I don't know.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Static Age is another contender.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I stand by the US version of the first Clash album.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 22 January 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Another fine choice (and making the point of the US version is an important distinction!)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I say 'Damaged'. ('I'm Stranded' has too much breadth and depth and heart to be truly effective for me)

― dave q, Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Damned Damned Damned!" Or anything at all on Sire Records (North America) from 1976-78

― Scott (who coincidentally just purchased "Machine Gun" but hasn't played it ye, Thursday, 22 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, the best punk album of all time is The Image has cracked by Alternative TV.

― Dave Vomit, Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

'Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts'

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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