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Originally Posted by elphenor
then what are you distinguishing from with the prefix "pop", something that wasn't used until the 90's describing commercial bands influenced by punk
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There are a lot of terms that are applied retroactively to bands. For example, The Stooges are now referred to as protopunk but obviously nobody referred to anything as protopunk until after punk became a well known genre. Likewise, the Ramones may not have been called pop punk back in the 70s, but their sound was heavily influenced by early 60s pop such as The Beach Boys and they were a major influence on pop punk bands that came later. So they're arguably the original pop punk band.