ok - I invented punk

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Il Duce - I was thinking posting that but decided against it:laughing:

You should ask him.

After watching a documentary on him, I'm going to have to say William S. Burroughs. :laughing:

Ramones were the first to exhibit the music, life and clothing style of what we call punk music. The Sex Pistols were manufactured as well.

Stooges, Velvets.
Punk was around before it was called Punk.

It may have been around in some forms before it was around as Punk. But still, until it has an identity all its own and a definitive image all its own, it is not around.

So the question would be who was the first to brand it as punk.

Stooges, sure. The Monks, maybe.

But none of them are punk, only given the title in hindsight. So have to figure out who it was that caused them to go back and be labeled as punk, and then you find the inventor of punk.

The Ramones surely, put their debut out in 1976 and this was closely followed by all the well known punk albums (labelled punk in 1977)

I didn't vote on this because the idea that either of those bands invented punk is preposterous. Sure they were two of the earlier, most influential, and pioneering acts, but a lot of people on this thread have rightfully mentioned plenty of other artists who deserve consideration and should've been included in the poll.

All of the early 70s punk rock bands(Sex pistols, Ramones, Stooges) are just Rock and Roll groups, protopunk at the very most. The Velvet Underground is pretty rad, but pretty damn far from being anything even remotely punk rock. The earliest legitimate punk group that I know of is the Germs, both in terms of vocal melody and instrumentation. There could be some that came before that were actual punk rock groups, I'm not really a punker, but Johny Rotten, Iggy Pop, Dee Dee, and certainly Lou Reed had nothing to do with them.