Timeline of Punk Rock - 1982

1982

• Bands formed
  • Agnostic Front
  • The Blood
  • Cholera
  • Crimpshrine
  • Crucifucks
  • D.I.
  • Die Ärzte
  • Die Toten Hosen
  • Suicidal Tendencies
  • Tales of Terror
  • The Vandals
  • The Pogues

• Albums
  • Angry Samoans - Back from Samoa
  • Anti-Nowhere League - Anti-Nowhere League
  • Bad Brains - Bad Brains
  • Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (full-length debut)
  • Black Flag - Everything Went Black
  • The Blood - False Gestures for a Devious Public
  • Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets
  • The Clash - Combat Rock
  • Crass - Christ The Album
  • The Damned - Strawberries
  • Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
  • Descendents - Milo Goes to College
  • Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
  • The Exploited - Troops of Tomorrow
  • Faith/Void - Faith/Void Split
  • Fear - The Record
  • Flipper - Album - Generic Flipper
  • Flux of Pink Indians - Strive to Survive Causing the Least Suffering Possible
  • MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
  • Misfits - Walk Among Us
  • The Replacements - Stink (EP)
  • Teenage Head - Some Kinda Fun
  • Sonic Youth -Sonic Youth
  • Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
  • Vice Squad - Stand Strong Stand Proud
  • X - Under the Big Black Sun

• Disbandments
  • Adam and the Ants
  • The Adolescents
  • The Slits

• Events
  • December 18- Members of Crass, The Mob, The Apostles and others squat the Zig Zag Club in west London and put on a free all day event featuring a number of anarcho-punk bands.