 | Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book) by Legs McNeil
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.11 Takes you in the heart of Punk and the origins of it. It also explains how the label Punk gave this music and culture a name. The author Legs McNeil, a former journalist for the newly resurrected magazine Punk,is the author. So it is like taking you back in time without the time machine.
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 | Sid & Nancy
Buy used from: $8.88 A great independent film that not only has a phenomenal cast and soundtrack, but makes the viewer feel as if they are right in the heart of Sid and Nancy's exploits.
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 | Land (1975-2002) by Patti Smith
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.75 Basicly, any of her albums I recommend and would add to the list...Why the hits collection? Well this is kind of like all those albums in one.
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 | A Million in Prizes: The Anthology by Iggy Pop
Buy new: $15.97 / Used from: $6.38 With Iggy/Stooges albums I do not know which one is best because they are all the best!
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 | London Calling by The Clash
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.70 Great Band,Great Album, Great Price. Prehaps some of the greatest songs ever in the history of rock.
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 | The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.93 Possibly the band that started it all. Some people think that this music started with The Doors, but I don't think so. I think Andy Warhol had it in the bag here.
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 | The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.18 |
 | Rock N Roll Animal by Lou Reed
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.00 |
 | Blank Generation by Richard Hell & the Voidoids
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.49 One of the first anti establishment music artists to perfrom at CBGBs.
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 | Electro Convulsive Therapy by Rollins Band
Buy used from: $34.00 The greatest man of my generation and perhaps one of the few performers out there who refuses to give way to mainstream. Think all the artists on this list, living or deceased. I am stating a fact, not opinion.
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 | CBGB and OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $7.75 This is the place where these rockers could perform, since studio 54 or anyother venue would let them perform. This pub has not been running since 2003. Hilly Kristal rest in peace.
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 | Blondie - Greatest Hits by Blondie
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.56 The band that still remains to have one of the hottest, most taltent women in the world!
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 | Manic Panic Flash Lightening 40 Volume Maxium Lift Kit
Buy new: $9.28 |
 | Manic Panic Amplified Pillarbox Red 4oz
Buy new: $15.99 Tish and Snooky were once back up singers for Debbie Harry, before founding this sucessful hair color and cosmetic line thirty years ago.
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 | New York Dolls by New York Dolls
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.50 |
 | The Runaways by The Runaways
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.00 This is the band that produced at least two solo acts, Joan Jett and Lita Ford.
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 | Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $0.31 |
 | Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols by The Sex Pistols
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.24 This band was one of the casualties of hype blown hype, for rock bands. Yet, this album in my opinion is great. However I don't know if you would like Sid Viscious' solo album.
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 | The Stooges by The Stooges
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.70 Alright, I couldn't resist!
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 | Easter by Patti Smith Group
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.29 |
 | The Meanest Of Times by Dropkick Murphys
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.97 |
 | Icky Thump by The White Stripes
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.71 |
 | Greatest Hits by Social Distortion
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.95 I must admitt, I never actually heard their material until I attended a live concert featuring Social D, The Street Dogs and The Drop Kick Murphys at a Boston show in 2005. Nothing quite like it or any of these bands.
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 | Fading American Dream by Street Dogs
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.89 |
 | Loud, Fast Ramones: Their Toughest Hits by The Ramones
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.86 This is the ultimate greatest hits album for fans of the Ramones.
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 | Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death by Dead Kennedys
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.31 Track 2 happens to be one of my favorite songs. This is a great band to listen to no matter what mood you are in.
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 | ...And Out Come the Wolves by Rancid
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.41 The album's spectacularly done! Ruby Soho, Roots Radicals and Olympia WA are some of the greatest songs this band has ever written.
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 | Static Age by Misfits
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.49 Last Caress, Hollywood Babylon.. Another great ablum by the Misfitst is Walk Among us.
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 | Dookie by Green Day
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.11 I remeber watching their video for Longveiw when I was in the 4th grade. Needless to say, this is the band that got me hooked on Punk Rock.
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 | Across the Broad Atlantic by Shane Macgowan's Popes
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $2.94 As Henry Rollins once said, he is one of the greatest song writers of all time.
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 | Whiskey on a Sunday by Flogging Molly
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.00 |
 | Fucked Up & Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement by Bryan Ray Turcotte
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $17.99 |
 | Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye by Brad Warner
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.32 |
 | Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook by CrimethInc. Workers' Collective
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $9.88 From the people who denounced The Anarchist Cookbook as an actual.... Well, Anarchist Cookbook. Although being a punk does not necessarily mean that you have to be an Anarchist to hate establishment. But this is a must DIY book..
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 | Evasion by Crimethinc.
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.50 |
 | Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.57 Well, this is it for me, if this list did not have an item that should have been on this list,I wouldn't blaime you if you think it sucks.
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