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Originally Posted by Il Duce
the poll is wrong
The Who and The Kinks invented punk
listen to I Can't Explain and You Really Got Me
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Like most of these who invented "whatever genre" the argument can keep on going way back.
The two essential punk groups from the mid 70`s were the Ramones and the Sex Pistols.
The Doors, Velvet Underground, MC5, The Kinks, The Who, Rolling Stones etc and any other group with some type of attitude can be cited as an influence. In my opinion though, Iggy and the Stooges were probably the single most important influence on the genre.
In reference to antithesis, prog rock and the whole polished rock scene of the time, such as the Eagles and Supertramp etc were the antithesis of punk.