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Originally Posted by The Batlord
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?
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.
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When and where they started isn't even going to factor in. Television just doesn't sound like a punk band to me. I don't know what I'd classify them as, but it doesn't sound like punk. Post-punk pre-dates punk?
And punk is nothing like grunge. There are so many punk sub-genres, and grunge was much more popular than punk, it broke into our pop radio formats and eventually just died. Punk is as alive as it ever was, and is pretty legit as a genre.