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VINYL_PUNKS

                                             April 23, 2010

A loose chronology of first album
releases from the punks and the          If one wanted to go back in time
punkish:                                 further, we might include the
                                         Rolling Stones, the Doors, the
  The Fugs               1965            Troggs, the Animals..
  Count Five             1966
  Velvet Underground     1967
  Iggy & the Stooges     1969
  New York Dolls         1973
  Patti Smith            1975
  The Tubes              1975  ("White Punks on Dope")    SF-based.
  The Dictators          1975                             Warmed-up for
  Ramones                1976                             The Dolls & Iggy
  Blondie                1976                             in '73.
  The Runaways           1976     RUNAWAYS
  The Saints             1976
  Television             1977
  The Damned             1977
  Talking Heads          1977
  The Clash              1977
  Sex Pistols            1977
  Richard Hell           1977
  Stiff Little Fingers   1979
  The Cramps             1980
  X                      1980
  Dead Kennedys          1980  (1st single)
  Minor Threat           1981  (1st ep)
  Butthole Surfers       1984



     If you're going to use this as
     your criterion for First Punk       This might work as a critereon
     you've got to pick one of the       for "First Punks That
     pre-1977 releases.                  Mattered".  In those days,
                                         without an album release, there
     Myself, I think                     was little chance for a band to
     that Patti Smith                    influence a suburban kid such
     was certainly punk                  as myself who knew little of
     enough, and the                     CBGBs-- (even though I lived
     attempts at writing                 only an hour away).
     her out of punk
     history are                         The neo-punks of the nineties
     distinctly suspect.                 apparently decided that the
                                         Ramones were the first true
                                         punks.

     But there are other                 But going by a subjective
     criteria...                         standard of who managed to
                                         get their record into my
     FIRST_PUNKS                         hands first, Patti Smith
                                         was the winner.


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