When the hardcore aesthetic was getting increasingly metal along to correspond with the genre’s stylistic shift, Fucked Up managed to not only buck the trend among the genre, but also within their own band. If it’s true that the most punk thing punk bands can do is to not be punk at all, Fucked Up’s 2008 epic is the most punk rock album since Black Flag’s My War. Hysteria looked back over the annals of punk rock album covers to arrive at a list of the five most punk album covers ever released. Over the years, what punk bands were rebelling against mutated, but that spirit of finding an image that blatantly communicates ‘we’re not like you’ has remained as steadfast as ever. ![]() When the Ramones donned matching leather jackets and stood in front of a brick wall in 1976, an unwritten tenet of punk rock came to be.
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