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Originally Posted by Forward To Death
They aren't punk though, they're proto punk. If it was punk, we would call those bands the first punk rock bands, and not the Ramones or The Sex Pistols or The Clash.
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Television and the Ramones started out at the same time, in the same place, playing in the SAME CLUB. Why on earth should you need to call one punk and one proto-punk?
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Punk is not just music, not that those bands sound very punk anyways, but it's also an image that none of those bands had.
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You're right, it's a media created catch word, like "grunge", with it's own made up fashion sense and group of mindless followers. Separating bands that were contemporaries and that played the same places and that were in the same scene and that evolved on similar musical lines into different musical categories is just silly.