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                                             June 11, 2010

  I often feel like I'm on the other
  side of a dividing line from people
  who want to take The Ramones as             As opposed to one
  the canonical punks.                        of a number of
                                              strains of punk.
  They're people who want punk
  to be a celebration of stupidity.                  NEOPUNK

  There are more nuanced views                       PLEASE_KILL_ME
  out there:
                                        
     "The Ramones were sort of playing with      
     the concept of being dumb but not dumb,     
     and being all American but yet alien        
     mutant, you know feeling different, an      
     outsider and yet yearning for that all      
     American cars, girls surfing and all        
     that when you couldn’t even drive."         
                                                 
       -- an interview with Lester Bangs        
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