Their lyrics are actually quite funny, sometimes. I can't be bothered finding examples because I know you don't care either way.

Urge Overkill rocks! Sister Havana!

But how did they end up in a comparison to the Strokes???

I wouldn't consider Mr. Bungle [especially not "California"] a rock album, but glad to see them mentioned!

Anyway, the following 10 albums that fit more in a rock genre never get old:

wire - pink flag
thinking fellers union local # 282 - mother of all saints
metallica - and justice for all
minutemen - what makes a man start fires
butthole surfers - hairway to steven
the wipers - over the edge
the fall - grotesque (after the gramme)
captain beefheart - ice cream for crow
polvo - today's active lifestyles
pavement - slanted and enchanted (I'VE GOT! ONE HOLY LIFE TO LIVE!)

atsonicpark's got that shit KICKIN'!

Mellow Gold is not rock , but I like it.

'Fuckin With My Head' is a great rock song, and 'Mutherfuker' is unmistakeably hardcore.. but I know what you mean. What genre could you put this album into, though? It chops and changes far too much to be anything in particular.

sonic youth - sonic death
fushitsusha - the time is nigh
the dead c - dr 503c
bardo pond - lapsed
harry pussy - what was music?
guided by voices - alien lanes
big black - atomizer
the jesus lizard - bang
nirvana - incesticide
sleep - jerusalem

i wouldn't call cornelius rock music

Indy , folk , garage , rap ( Loser ) , Motherfucker is rather thrash or noise to me ... so many genre on one album.

Fantasma is a rock album, it spand the full spectrum of rock, from early beach boys harmony, to thrash, to loud abrasive rock.

Point is NOT a rock album in that sense.

sonic youth - sonic death -> you gotta be shitin :D

i dunno if id consider bands like the dead s, fushitsusha, or harry puss 'rock bands' in the conventional sense. but hot damn, thats a fucking list!

maybe we shouyld do a thread titled top ten RAWK albums

more (once again only rock in the conventional sense, no really experimental stuff, like krautrock, for simplicity's sake):

11. suicide-suicide
12. the minutemen-double nickels on the dime
13. black sabbath-s/t
14. the damned-damned damned damned
15. thee headcoates-beach bums must die
16. polvo-today's active lifestyles
17. eyehategod-dopesick
18. bad brains-roir
19. the birthday party-prayers on fire
20. big black-atomizer

o fuck i forgot king crimson-red

great lists but i would not consider suicide a ROCK band.
imo more experimental than some of the krauts. ie-frankie teardrop

off the top of my head gavorite list
sonic youth-sister
the stooges-funhouse
mission of burma-VS (no one else wrote this, i love thios album!)
ramones-ramones
minor threat-complete disc
minutemen-DNOTD
the monks-black monk time
dinosaur jr-yr living all over me
and 20 other albums tied for last

Nirvana "In Utero"
Grateful Dead "Anthem of the Sun"
Sleater-Kinney "The Hot Rock"
Lou Reed "Transformer"
Jimi Hendrix "Axis Bold as Love"
Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath"
Sonic Youth "A Thousand Leaves"
Shannon Wright "Over the Sun"
Radiohead "Kid A"
Subhumans "The Day the Country Died"

Stooges-Fun House (no shit)
The U-Men-Solid Action
SWANS-Filth
Meat Puppets-2
Daydream Nation
Meat Puppets-s/t
Pixies-Surfer Rosa
Joy Division-Unknown Pleasures
Wipers-Over the Edge
REM-Murmur

ok, in no order:

geraldine fibbers "butch"
helmet "meantime"
melvins "bullhead"
minutemen "3-way tie (for last)"
pavement "slanted & enchanted"
polvo "exploded drawing"
porno for pyros "porno for pyros"
sonic youth "bad moon rising"
thinking fellers union local 282 "tangle"
waldo the dog faced boy "gifts of finest wheat"