Timeline of Punk Rock - 1981

1981

• Bands formed
  • Crimpshrine (under previous name, "S.A.G.")
  • Diverse Opera
  • The Faith
  • Government Issue
  • JFA
  • Negative Approach
  • RIOT 111
  • SNFU
  • Violent Apathy

• Albums
  • The 101ers - Elgin Avenue Breakdown
  • The Adolescents - The Adolescents
  • Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
  • Anti-Pasti - The Last Call ...
  • Bad Religion - Bad Religion (EP)
  • Black Flag - Damaged
  • Crass - Penis Envy (EP)
  • Dead Boys - Night of the Living Dead Boys (Live)
  • Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust Inc. (EP)
  • Descendents - Fat (EP)
  • Dictators - Fuck 'Em If They Can't Take a Joke
  • Discharge - Never Again (EP)
  • The Exploited - Punks Not Dead
  • The Exploited - On Stage
  • Flux of Pink Indians - Neu Smell (EP)
  • Métal Urbain - Les hommes morts sont dangereux
  • Minutemen - The Punch Line
  • Plasmatics - Beyond the Valley of 1984
  • Public Image Ltd - The Flowers of Romance
  • New Order - Movement
  • The Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
  • The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
  • The Scientists - S/T
  • 7 Seconds - Socially Fucked Up (tape)
  • 7 Seconds - 3 Chord Politics (tape)
  • Slime - Slime I
  • Splodgenessabounds - Splodgenessabounds
  • T.S.O.L. - T.S.O.L. (EP)
  • T.S.O.L. - Dance with Me
  • The Undertones - Positive Touch
  • Vice Squad - Resurrection (EP)
  • Vice Squad - No Cause for Concern (EP)
  • Vice Squad - Live in Sheffield (Tape)
  • X - Wild Gift

• Disbandments
  • Buzzcocks
  • Cardiac Kidz
  • The Screamers
  • Throbbing Gristle
  • The Weirdos

• Events
  • Epitaph Records is formed as "just a logo and a P. O. box."
  • Henry Rollins becomes lead singer of Black Flag.