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The following list is a bunch of essential albums for your Punk Rock Prom. The list has been compiled by uber-poet Ryan Quinn Flanagen and was birthed after late night chats about music over in Eliot Lake. Epic stuff. Feel free to add your own tracks to the list in the comments. Check it out!

Bad Listening 101 : The Unofficial Top 40

By Ryan Quinn Flanagan

1) Tepid Peppermint Wonderland : A Retrospective – The Brian Jonestown Massacre

2) Fun House – Iggy and the Stooges

3) Kick Out the Jams – MC5

4) Ramones – the Ramones

5) Never Mind the Bollocks…Here’s the Sex Pistols – Sex Pistols

6) Berlin – Lou Reed

7) New York Dolls – New York Dolls

8 ) The Velvet Underground & Nico – Velvet Underground

9) The Stooges – Iggy and the Stooges

10) Damaged – Black Flag

11) Marquee Moon – Television

12) The Velvet Underground – Velvet Underground

13) Give it Back – The Brian Jonestown Massacre

14) The Piper at the Gates of Dawn – Pink Floyd

15) Doolittle – the Pixies

16) The Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits

17) Dummy – Portishead

18) White Light/White Heat – Velvet Underground

19) A Saucerful of Secrets – Pink Floyd

20) Bossanova – the Pixies

21) Bleach – Nirvana

22) Broken – Nine Inch Nails

23) Sublime – Sublime

24) Back in the USA – MC5

25) Get Behind Me Satan – the Whites Stripes

26) Surfer Rosa – the Pixies

27) Rain Dogs – Tom Waits

28) L.A.M.F – Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers

29) …And Out Come the Wolves – Rancid (also check out Let’s Go)

30) Dos Dedos Mis Amigos – Pop Will Eat Itself

31) Homogenic – Bjork (also check out ‘Post’ and ‘Debut’)

32) Superfuzz Bigmuff – Mudhoney

33) the White Stripes – the Whites Stripes

34) Blank Generation – Richard Hell and the Voidoids

35) Young Loud and Snotty – the Dead Boys (check out ‘Ain’t it Fun’ off next album)

36) Damned Damned Damned – the Damned

37) Out Of Their Heads – Rusty

38) The Brown Album – Primus

39) Odelay – Beck

40) Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables – Dead Kennedys

* Not definitive, don’t laminate or anything…but a good [bad] place to start!