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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
Basically, you have to draw a line as to how far back you're going to trace it. I'd call Trout Mask Replica a proto-punk album, and all they did was take free jazz aesthetics and apply it to rock n' roll. From there you could trace it back to Coltrane and Coleman and all those crazy cats, but is there really a point? I mean, Stravinsky was one of the first to include atonal and abrasive passages in his music, but I wouldn't really say The Rite of Spring was a proto-punk symphony...
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If you trace musical influences back far enough you get back to a man in a cave banging bones together.
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