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Originally Posted by All_Nite_Dinah
I dont care if there was a lou Reed article proclaiming the Velvet Underground as punk rock. I've read plenty of articles about how punk rock good charlote are and thats still not the truth. Music journalism fails again.
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No no no no , you`ve got the wrong end of the stick.
Thats where the name comes from. They were not saying Lou Reed was 'Punk' , you have to remember there was no punk movement in 1974 when this fanzine was written. What they were suggesting was that Lou Reeds music appealed to 'punks' as in people on the streets , junkies & social outcasts , hence the music was called 'punk rock'. It`s got nothing to do with the sound of punk or what became punk. Thats just where the phrase was coined.