Proto-Punk

Protopunk is a term used to describe a number of performers who were important precursors of the punk rock movement of the mid-1970s and later, or who have been cited by early punk rockers as influential. Their varieties of music span the spectrum from the avant garde pop of the Velvet Underground, the dirty Detroit rock n roll of The Stooges and the MC5 to the political messages of Patti Smith. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: MC5

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FreakumDress wrote:
last month

Best music EVER.

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nepriyatel wrote:
last month

хуй

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handmeups wrote:
last month

Fuck the punk rock teleology.

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ana_subway wrote:
last month

me too.

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shadow__myst wrote:
May 2009

theonlyroc i agree one hundred percent. ;)

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
May 2009

juliano40 you are an idiot

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juliano40 wrote:
April 2009

stupid term, allmusic bullshit, don't mean anything truly. except for "music cool to like" that was made between 1963 and 1976 tsc tsc... like the world circle around punk anyway...

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ihavesoldout wrote:
April 2009

Fuck you all

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
March 2009

no zzottt just no

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ciuchcia wrote:
March 2009

butrom4ik fuck ya too! arght

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zzottt wrote:
February 2009

Wouldnt Syd Barrett be in that top list? Was he not one of the triggers that made Johnny Rotton hate Pink Floyd and didn't the Damed want him to produce their first record? Many other punk bands have sited Syd as a influence. The Soft Boys, Brian Eno sh!t even David Bowie.

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Okietokie88 wrote:
January 2009

Seriously Proto punk is the Beez knees.....Rip Ron

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butrom4ik wrote:
December 2008

Fuck you all

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Menace77 wrote:
November 2008

Proto Punk is my fucking dick, that bastard! hahahha Fuck you all

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Robert_P_Yorke wrote:
November 2008

I just love Velvet Underground (Ba-ar-hut-no-ye Pod-pol-ye on russian). Especially with Nico

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kraut-x wrote:
October 2008

Mojo compiled a great CD with proto-punk: Various - TRASH! - The Roots Of Punk http://www.discogs.com/release/689731

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