Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes provided this list to Spin Magazine for their 1995 Alternative Record Guide. Perhaps it's telling how many of the band featured had vocalists who considered themselves poets who weren't afraid to investigate their darker impulses.
1. Heartbreakers : Live at Max's Kansas City
2. Television : Marquee Moon
3. Velvet Underground ( all)
4. Richard Hell and the Voidoids : Blank Generation
5. Sex Pistols : Never Mind the Bollocks
6. Lou Reed : Berlin
7. Ramones : Ramones
8. Iggy Pop : Lust for Life
9. Captain Beefheart: Mirror Man
10. Patti Smith : Horses
Not many duffers in that list
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