What are the essential punk albums?

This is like saying: "What are the essential food groups? Please, no meat, dairy or wheat products!"

That said, you're a fucking poser if you don't have or at least know:

Damned Damned Damned by the Damned
Rattus Norvigicus by the Stranglers
Another Music in a Different Kitchen by the Buzzcocks
Static Age by the Misfits
I'm Stranded by the Saints
Inflamable Material by the Stiff Little Fingers
Blank Generation by Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Young, Loud & Snotty by the Dead Boys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by the Dead Kennedys
Pure Mania by the Vibrators

...oh, fuck, and loads more.

The Modern Dance--Pere Ubu
Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts
Generic Album--Flipper
Milo Goes to College--Descendents
Trip to Marineville--Swell Maps
Fun House--The Stooges
Parallel Lines--Blondie
Los Angeles--X
The Record--Fear
1/2 Gentlemen Not Beasts--Half Japanese
Teenage Depression--Eddie & The Hot Rods
Vs.--Mission of Burma
Penis Envy--Crass
Live at the Witch Trials--The Fall
The Undertones s/t

X-Ray Spex, Germ-Free Adolescence
The Minutemen, Double Nickles on the Dime

p.i.i. - metal box/second edition
the adverts - crossing the red sea...
the pop group - y
the slits - peel sessions and cut
raincoats - raincoats
elvis costello - this year's model
the fall - dragnet
buzzcocks - spiral scratch ep and singles going steady
kleenex/liliput - anthology
essential logic - fanfare in the garden (someday i will meet the other person on earth who loves this)

hell, just buy england's dreaming and load up on the entire discography!

You mean me?

And something by Gang of Four.

not albumz
pre 78
fuk u

OMG!! Totally Bad Brains, most of all!! Black Flag and Circle Jerks, yes. I don't know the others.

that being said:
the only ones - darkness & light

black flag - damaged

and I suppose whatever vic goddard and the subway sect you can find

and hell, if people are going to be posting all kinds of post punk shit then I have to mention:

Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain

Well Rikk Agnew was Social D and Adolescents. Right?

Yes, I was going to mention the Adolescents but I don't think they're really essential. Only Theatre of Pain on the other hand is essential and deserves to be in the post-punk canon along with the other stuff people mentioned.

Chrome -- Half Machine Lip Moves
Husker Du -- New Day Rising
Replacements -- Sorry, Ma
M.O.B. -- Vs.

That Urinals comp. -- does that count as an album?
The first Dangerhouse singles comp. (or is that a cheat)?
The "Wanna Buy a Bridge" comp. (ditto)?

...and what about "White Light White Heat" or the Monks/ Outsiders/ Stooges/ Radio Birdman/ Mirrors/ E. Eels?

I was about to say! Also add Los Angeles. (I even like that Unclogged CD a LOT.)

anti nowhere league - we are the league
fartz - because this fuckin' world still stinks
gg allin & the jabbers - banned in boston
icons of filth - mortarhate projects
lewd - kill yourself… again!
subhumans (uk) - the day the country died
suicide commandos - make a record

Fartz & Icons Of Filth are a maybe a bit hardcore, depends on your taste (although someone already suggested DRI so I guess hardcore is ok!)

Hi!

and me... TS: essential logic vs. Lora Logic solo?

My friend bunked off school to interview Lora around the time of 'Aerosol Burns' for his fanzine. Apparently it was her first ever interview.

And actually I won't bring up The Dictators' Go Girl Crazy cause it's a)borderline metal and b)not as good as its reputation IMHO.

It is as good as its reputation but it's not a punk album

yeah that's what I meant (cause really I do like the Dics).

Adam & The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox
Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
The Heartbreakers - LAMF
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
The Jam - In The City
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Magazine - Real Life
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
The Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique
New York Dolls - New York Dolls, Too Much Too Soon
Pentration - Moving Targets
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream, Once Upon A Time
Patti Smith - Horses, Easter
The Stoges - The Stooges, Raw Power
Talking Heads - '77, More Songs About Buildings & Food, Fear Of Music
Television - Marquee Moon, Adventure
Ultravox! - Ultravox! Ha Ha Ha, Systems Of Romance
The Vibrators - V2
Wire - Chairs Missing, 154
XTC - White Music

[/"fucking poser"]

There's some truth to this. Get the Rhino "No Thanks" box that came out last year and then start trawling through the catalogs of the bands you like the most.

Hmmmmm...not sure I agree with this, being that I can think of full albums that are glorious in their entirety. But, yes, I suppose it's more singles oriented than, say, Prog rock (obviously).

the Rhino "No Thanks" box
What did people think of those Rhino DIY comps?

I have a few of them. Rhino are getting a bit carried away with the re-releasing (most of the stuff on the DIY box is included in No Thanks).

There's the understatement of the century. Rhino has re-re-repackaged punk/new wave/70s soul/disco compilations so many times that the people who work there probably can't keep it all straight.

Wipers?

What's it like? More punkish or noisy Christian Death style stuff?

As for comps, how about the Killed By Death series?