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Best Punk Albums (85-89): Voting Time! The Branching Off Era
by Michele Christopher

This was a weird time in music. Hardcore was moving everywhere and anywhere. People felt the "No More! No More!" attitude that was dripping thru the hands of the older generation. They wanted it too. If they can say life is fucked, why can't we? The race was on and the styles were mixed. Fishbone was going out of control, Operation Ivy was going out of control. Bands that you wouldn't typically consider punk were coming out. As I said, this time everything was taking over. We said we would take all nominations. We did. Cause that was punk.Punk is an attitude not defined by one style of music. We don't care where you come from or what you did. You want to be with us, we will take you. End of the story.

This is the vote from 85-89

Vote early and vote often. The results form the previous votes can be read below as well as what the hell we are doing here.

UPDATE: THIS POLL IS NOW CLOSED

Results will be posted later tonight (7/9)

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Comments

Wow. This one's hard. There is so much good stuff here.

Posted by: Cullen | July 8, 2006 8:04 AM

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cullen, when you say misfits anthology do you mean legacy of brutality?

cause we can't find a pic of it anywhere. If thats what you do mean we can kill the one and toss all the votes into the other.

Posted by: the turtle | July 8, 2006 8:34 AM

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we changed the name

it's called misfits collection 1

Posted by: the turtle | July 8, 2006 8:40 AM

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i knew there was one i wanted to nominate but was too brain-dead to do it. Didnt the Offspring's "Ignition" come out in '89? Could've been later, because i recall seeing those guys play at a party without Dexter in '89 or '90. Those years are foggy. Anyway it was a killer album. I have to dig up my tape sometime.

Posted by: pril | July 8, 2006 4:54 PM

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The Pogues are punk? I had no idea.

Posted by: Shawn | July 9, 2006 1:34 AM

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