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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Nah. You had the Ramones sure, but other than that it was just an art rock scene. There may have been bands that had some punk rock sensibilities, but I think that's more down to there being a sort of underground, art rock/alternative rock/whatever-you-want-to-call-it zeitgeist that existed in many places all over the world, from New York to Britain to Cleveland to Australia and god knows where. True, the London and the New York scenes had some links, but I think that was just because they both had dedicated fanzines that got the word out.
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I was going to list every capital city the world but thought better of it.
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I mean, you wouldn't call Patti Smith or Television or Blondie punk rock would you? And anyone who calls the Heartbreakers or the Voidoids punk is fooling themselves. The Heartbreakers just sounded like the New York Dolls Mk II and the Voidoids were just pub rock.
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I always remember the first Blondie album sounding very punk and also there was a very thin line between punk, new wave and art rock at this time and Television because you've mentioned them were usually labelled as all three of the above labels. For this reason the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, early Clash and the Damned to name just a few were the first pure proponents of punk, as these bands were hardly art rock or new wave in 1976 and 1977.