Instead, they were catnip for the underground, and that photograph featured on their first album has gone down in punk ...

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They found their Johnny Rotten in Stiv Bators, a vocalist with truckloads of attitude and just enough actual talent to front ...

But for our chronological list of the 40 Best Punk Albums, we're starting with the one that pretty much kicked off punk rock as we know it today: the Ramones' self-titled debut record from 1976.

The Uncut team have dug out their leather jackets and Converse sneakers and compiled a Top 50 of the greatest American punk albums. But what constitutes “American punk” in the first place?

Never mind the bollocks - here's the greatest punk albums that have raged against austerity, Trump and so much more ...