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cardboard adolescent · 10-26-2006, 06:26 PM

I dunno, VU songs like "I Heard Her Call My Name" sound borderline punk to me. I would agree with Terminal Tower/The Modern Dance era Pere Ubu (for the most part) to be kinda proto-punk but as soon as you get into Dub Housing I think they're too far detached from punk to really retain that genre.

10-26-2006, 06:26 PM	#6 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	I dunno, VU songs like "I Heard Her Call My Name" sound borderline punk to me. I would agree with Terminal Tower/The Modern Dance era Pere Ubu (for the most part) to be kinda proto-punk but as soon as you get into Dub Housing I think they're too far detached from punk to really retain that genre.