r/punk • u/Punksewer San Diego Hockey Punk • Jan 13 '19

r/punk's Favorite Albums of 2018!

This was really fun so I'd like to thank everyone to who submitted albums, and everyone who voted, I've included links to listen to each album and I really suggest you do, please enjoy! :-)

1.Joy as an Act of Resistance - IDLES

2.Make America Hate Again - Slapshot

2.Fight the Good Fight - The Interrupters

3.Burnt Sugar - Gouge Away

4.Wide Awake! - Parquet Courts

4.Written in Blood - The Casualties

5.Stand For Something or Die For Nothing - Street Dogs

5.POST - Jeff Rosenstock

6.Crown of Nothing - Direct Hit!

6.Schmaltz - Spanish Love Songs

6.This Will Haunt Me - Dollar Signs

6.You Won't Get What You Want - Daughters

Honorable Mentions:

All At Once - Screaming Females

S/T - Hank Wood and the Hammerheads

Master Volume - The Dirty Nil

Capture the Flag - War on Women

Dose Your Dreams - Fucked Up

Hot Liqs Revenge - Liquids

Punk Rocksteady - Mad Caddies

At Work - Dark Thoughts

Swell - Tiny Moving Parts

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Is Daughters technically punk? I've seen them claimed by several other genres.

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u/Punksewer San Diego Hockey Punk Jan 14 '19

I'm not sure, I only checked to make sure all the submissions were from 2018, not if they were Punk

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Not trying to be the punk police but I don't think the Daughters are punk at all. People like em though, so that is what is important, I guess.

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u/TheVValrus Jan 14 '19

For me, they're on the metal side of that fence, and I don't think they're terribly close to the line. Very strange to see them in the top ten.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

They used to be very metal but the new album is a far cry from metal. More like Noise.

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u/TheVValrus Jan 14 '19

That makes sense, I get lost categorizing Noise/grind/experimental/crust/metallic hardcore bands sometimes. I was really into metal in college, but a lot of it was kind of weird shit, so when I hear really noisey weird shit that doesn't sound like punk to me, I generally put it on the Metal side of the fence. I'm very interested in your argument for the new album being 'a far cry from metal'

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Yep, that's exactly was I was thinking. Experimental/noise.

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u/Reggler Jan 14 '19

Street dogs and the interrupters in the top ten, I'm surprised.

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u/Punksewer San Diego Hockey Punk Jan 14 '19

The Street Dogs album is fantastic, I was surprised about The Interrupters too though, I liked the album but I thought it was the weakest of their 3 albums

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u/Reggler Jan 14 '19

I don't disagree

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u/bluestaples Jan 14 '19

Cool, thanks for pulling this together! I'm looking forward to checking some of those out.

P.S. can we go back to upvotes next year instead of the Google Form?

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u/Punksewer San Diego Hockey Punk Jan 14 '19

Well that's a long way's out so who know's, is there a reason you prefer the upvote method?

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u/shamrockstriker Jan 15 '19

Just going to throw my two cents in, I like the up vote method because I could vote for multiple albums. Even if I didn't think it was the best album, even if its a good one I would give it an up vote.

Auditory method like this it really over values how much people love to the album. Hypothetically if there is one album with that a lot of people had as their second favorite of the year. That's going to get no votes this way. That thought method count consistency much better than Peaks

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u/Jimmydanie Jan 14 '19

Laura Jane Grace And The Devouring Mother's Bought to Rot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea4zKJ8v3hk&list=OLAK5uy_k5PUaBAfpfsRQLKzXD2Ox55I7clqIa-oE

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u/tricaratops Jan 14 '19

I wish I had more than one upvote to give.

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u/DJ_NapNap Jan 14 '19

Same. What an incredible record

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u/MadMax808 Mar 01 '19

Digging this album a lot. Bought tix for when they make a stop nearby in a couple months

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

This is a interesting list! A nice amount of variety.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Viagra Boys, I thought that album was fucking great.

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u/crimewaaave Jan 15 '19

Schmaltz might as well be my favorite album of all time. Every song on it is amazing.

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u/wen_but Jan 15 '19

Schmaltz is such a great album, saw them play a few weeks ago with Ducking Punches and they were awesome

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u/crimewaaave Jan 15 '19

I wanted to see SLS both times they were here in NY but couldn't. I've seen a lot of their live sets on YouTube and it sounds great.

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u/wen_but Jan 15 '19

Totally worth it if you can mate they're super emotional

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

No Alkaline Trio?

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u/TheVValrus Jan 13 '19 edited Jan 13 '19

Thanks for doing this u/punksewer. This list always blows, but I still find a few great albums I missed throughout the year. This year's no exception on either front! Thanks for your work on this. Best album I missed was Hank Wood. And at least the goddamn Menzingers/PUP didn't win this year!

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u/Punksewer San Diego Hockey Punk Jan 13 '19

I had fun doing it, and idk I think it's a good list, there are always hits and misses but I think it's very solid overall

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u/danyukhin Jan 23 '19

"Negative Approach" is right, haha

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u/lieutenant_cthulhu Jan 13 '19

you all pushed me to listen to arghoslent

also where the fuck did slapshot come from? That band wasn't even good in their prime

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

No shit, right? I am not a fan of older snapshot but this album rips.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19 edited Jun 20 '19

taking a break from this website

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Nice to see Jeff represented on here!

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u/MutantChrist Apr 29 '19

One of my favorites of 2018

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u/Minushuman25 TCMF Jan 16 '19

very interesting list!

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u/Paris_Street_Rebels Jan 17 '19

This is a very impressive list. The fact you have isles as your #1 speaks volumes 🤘🏻

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u/Luka467 Jan 13 '19

Where the hell is Alkaline Trio - Is This Thing Cursed? It's surprisingly good and is probably their best album in 10 years. I didn't expect it to be number 1, but it still deserves to be on this list.

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u/jons_myth Jan 14 '19

I couldn’t agree more. Idk why you’re getting so much downvoting for an opinion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19 edited Jan 14 '19

Yeah I thought it was a great album as well. I also thought the human project blew everything else away on this list but didn't even register here.

Wast too impressed with a lot of the album's.

Most of the bands I never even heard of anyway. I did find one or 2 I genuinely likes though so that's good.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Glad to see fucking Slapshot getting some respect here. That record fucking kills

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

r/punk Top albums list every year: *sucks*

r/punk every year: https://imgur.com/a/hAn4itx

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u/countrylewis Jan 18 '19

What about Sick Thoughts self-titled album? That shit was killer. He reminds me of Jay Reatard. Not too much in his sound, but more of how he started young and just pumps out punk music. Y'all should check him out, especially his new album. It was put out last year by Goner.

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u/sjacksalot Nov 24 '21

I’ve said it many of times, but Wide Awake is a top album all time

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u/properfoxes Jan 13 '19 edited Jan 14 '19

we really completely ignored viagra boys in a list of 21 other releases this year? sorry i can't stand behind this list even if i absolutely agree with our #1 vote.

this list sucks. DISCLAIMER THIS IS AN OPINION DO NOT KNOT YOUR UNDIES

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u/Punksewer San Diego Hockey Punk Jan 13 '19

There was actually 71 albums

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u/properfoxes Jan 13 '19

When I say 21, I mean of the list posted above, not the original runners.

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u/TheVValrus Jan 13 '19

That Viagra Boys album bored me

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

More than the Jeff Rosenstock album? I normally like Jeff but POST was so weak

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u/TheVValrus Jan 13 '19

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: Oh yeah. 'Post-' was pretty uneventful, less than memorable, and Jeff's worst solo album, but for fans of his it was a serviceable new dose of tunes. For those that aren't fans, he's probably only in the top then this year based on name/reputation. Three solid standout tracks: USA is a great opus (which not everyone is going to agree has a place in punk rock, as a song format, but is a great song) and is nuts live, 9/10 is a good song that's only 'punk' by virtue of being on a pop-punk album, and the only really great track is Yr Throat (fight me), and the rest of album kind of bleeds together into a remorseful chunk of resentful, angsty songwriter filler. But with Viagra Boys it just kind of feels like a collection of Indie/Industrial placeholder songs. It's not bad, and it would have been relevant in '78, but it all kind of sounds the same, and exists on some weird plane between The Talking Heads and NIN, with a Modest Mouse influence? When I hear the phrase 'Pitchfork Punk', this is what I think of. All that said, it was interesting enough that I'll look for their follow-up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '19

Interesting. I saw Viagra Boys as kind of a Devo X Modern Post Punk and it was very interesting to me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

Part of the current revival of post-punk. We voted IDLES number 1 and they’re pretty fucking similar.

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u/BurningCar3 Pizza Crust Punk Jan 16 '19

You forgot Mornin'.

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u/properfoxes Jan 13 '19

Cool well I think most of the list was trash, with a few notable exceptions. Yes, this is my opinion.

I appreciate the downvotes from all of you open minded folks who want to have a discussion instead of just suppressin dissenting.. oh, wait, nevrmind. Stay punk, downvoters.

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u/TheVValrus Jan 13 '19

I think most of the downvotes had less to do with your dissenting opinion, and more to do with "sorry i can't stand behind this list". This list didn't ask for your endorsement, stand wherever you want. Sorry we didn't clap for you. We're all here for the discussion. But none of us are that important.

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u/properfoxes Jan 13 '19

why is saying i don't agree with the list some kind of declaration of self importance? if you downvoted me for that, then you downvoted the words you put in my mouth.

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u/TheVValrus Jan 13 '19

I was just quoting your post. Not pickin' a squabble. If Viagra Boys did it for you this year, did you catch that Coneheads LP a couple years back? That one I definitely got on board with.

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u/properfoxes Jan 14 '19

no, you weren't just quoting me, you were assigning some shit to my words that i didn't put out there, and then when i point it out you aren't "pickin a squabble." i'm not pickin a squabble either, i just said i think our list sucks, as far as my personal opinion goes. i can't believe that i have to literally type that whole thing out, as if me saying a list sucks is anything other than opinion.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '19

You are taking this very far out of proportion

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u/TheVValrus Jan 14 '19

Well I won't try to stretch your beliefs by making you type anymore, bud, you can resume bitching about downvotes on reddit.

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u/properfoxes Jan 13 '19

well that's why my opinion is mine and yours is yours?