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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.19 — 37,853 ratings — published 1996
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.21 — 383,640 ratings — published 2010
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.07 — 7,461 ratings — published 1991
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,496 ratings — published 2001
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
by (shelved 10 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,109 ratings — published 2021
American Hardcore: A Tribal History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,010 ratings — published 2001
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,261 ratings — published 2015
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,330 ratings — published 2016
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,885 ratings — published 2014
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,309 ratings — published 2010
We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,772 ratings — published 2001
The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise! (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.68 — 742 ratings — published 1995
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,726 ratings — published 1993
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.00 — 827 ratings — published 2009
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,962 ratings — published 2024
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,134 ratings — published 2013
Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,255 ratings — published 1997
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,247 ratings — published 1994
Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books)
by (shelved 5 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.73 — 6,025 ratings — published 2004
In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.84 — 765 ratings — published 1993
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.70 — 256,539 ratings — published 2010
Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,052 ratings — published 2001
Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,830 ratings — published 2025
The High Desert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,609 ratings — published 2022
Punk Paradox: A Memoir (Audiobook)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.06 — 980 ratings — published
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.42 — 174,159 ratings — published 2021
The First Rule of Punk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.06 — 8,258 ratings — published 2017
Face It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,744 ratings — published 2019
More Fun In The New World: The Unmaking And Legacy Of L.A. Punk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.22 — 615 ratings — published 2019
Lonely Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,094 ratings — published 2017
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,275 ratings — published 2017
My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,251 ratings — published 2016
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,956 ratings — published 2016
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,236 ratings — published 2015
Fat Kid Rules the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,298 ratings — published 2003
Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.03 — 587 ratings — published 2009
Punk Rock: An Oral History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.03 — 672 ratings — published 2006
Pretty in Punk: Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.76 — 465 ratings — published 1999
Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,607 ratings — published 2005
We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet : The Collected Interviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,302 ratings — published 2001
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,771 ratings — published 1989
Banned in D C: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.25 — 357 ratings — published 1988
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,245 ratings — published
Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.96 — 513 ratings — published 2017
Girl in a Band (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.68 — 33,107 ratings — published 2015
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,573 ratings — published 2013
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,378 ratings — published 2008
Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.81 — 297 ratings — published 2004
Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 4.23 — 402 ratings — published 1999
Dharma Punx: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as punk-rock)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,555 ratings — published 2003
“There is a long tradition of snobbish individuals attempting to derive social status from the cult of obscurity, and the results are at times hilarious. Series of punk compilation albums such as Killed By Death, or Back To Front appeal to the elitism of those who enjoy listening to records that their neighbours don't own. Of course, a lot of the music is damn fine but the fact that no one has heard of the bands enables those buying the records/CDs (or cassettes in the case of the Hardcore History series issued by Destroy Tapes of Hackney, London) to feel that they aren't part of the herd and are capable of searching out rare gems of culture.”
― Cranked Up Really High - Genre Theory & Punk Rock
― Cranked Up Really High - Genre Theory & Punk Rock
