Punk debut albums

Order these Punk acts by the year of their debut album. You place all 26 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Punk debut albums
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How to play the punk debut albums timeline

These cards are punk acts, and under each name you'll see the title of their first album. You put them in order by the year that debut came out. One act is already down on the timeline with its year showing. Every card you draw after that, you slot into a gap. Choose well and the year is revealed; choose badly and the act still lands in its real place, costing you one of your three lives.

The list runs from the proto-punk bands through the New York and London scenes, California hardcore, skate punk and the pop-punk boom. Bands that broke big later often had a low-key first record well before, so don't date a debut by the band's famous album. The years of the first punk explosion are crowded, and bands from either coast in the same stretch are easy to swap.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 13 times. An average run places 6.5 cards, and 69% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • The Offspring missed 67% of the time, usually by a single place
  • NOFX missed 57% of the time, usually by a single place
  • The Clash missed 38% of the time, usually by about 2 places

What's in the deck

Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Ramones Ramones
  • Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
  • The Clash The Clash
  • Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen
  • Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  • Black Flag Damaged
  • Bad Religion How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
  • Descendents Milo Goes to College
  • NOFX Liberal Animation
  • Green Day 39/Smooth
  • The Offspring The Offspring
  • Rancid Rancid
  • Blink-182 Cheshire Cat
  • Sum 41 All Killer No Filler
  • The Stooges The Stooges
  • New York Dolls New York Dolls
  • Patti Smith Horses
  • The Damned Damned Damned Damned
  • Television Marquee Moon
  • The Germs (GI)
  • Misfits Walk Among Us
  • Social Distortion Mommy's Little Monster
  • Minor Threat Out of Step
  • Fugazi Repeater
  • Pennywise Pennywise
  • Rise Against The Unraveling

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