Originally Posted by bloodshotnow

READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY.
THE RAMONES formed in 1974
The Stooges first album was released AUGUST 5th 1969. I READ somewhere that The stooges wrote all the songs the day before they went into the studio.
THE BEATLES ABBEY ROAD ALBUM CAME OUT in SEPTEMBER. If the beatles didn't listen to the Stooges which I doubt they did from the weak albums sales. they created Punk music close to the same time with "Polythene Pam". The Beatles created almost every subgenre of rock before they where even known as genres.
Stooges created it slightly before Beatles but Beatles sent it into millions of peoples homes.
But you also can't say Velvet Underground started it either.
Velvet Underground + Stooges + Beatles + MC5 = THe true beginnings of Punk