Read Junk has decided to break from the recent trend of ranking punk albums by producing an interesting list of albums that "you've never heard." The site explained:

Lists on punk sites that detail “The 25 Best Punk Albums” or “The Most Essential Punk Bands” are always identical: Ramones, Clash, Sex Pistols, Green Day, a couple of crappy new bands, and marginal stuff, like Patti Smith and The Talking Heads, who don’t belong there. The staff at ReadJunk dug into their personal collections and spoke to music historians and veteran musicians to put together a REAL punk list. We wanted to ensure that these are in fact not only the best unknown punk albums, but the rarest and most influential. These are the albums that time has forgotten.

The site lists bands including the colorfully named Cock Smugglers, Skeezy, Fux Capacitor and many others and odds are that they're right about one thing. You've never heard of most of them.You can check out the entire list with explanations and lyrics here.

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