Rocknroll_Animal

Blondie were called punk because they had no other name for them. The term 'new wave' wasn't invented, and they were edgier than the other pop groups out.

Lower East Side 1977... you had a group of groups so diverse as to include The Cramps, Suicide, Blondie, Talking Heads, The Ramones, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Mink DeVille, Patti Smith and the Dictators. Obviously, the Cramps and the Ramones sound nothing at all like Talking Heads or Blondie. But they were all performing in CBGBs, that was their scene. The Blank Generation.

For me that's the true definition of punk -- when you can have Debbie Harry standing next to Lux Interior watching Joey Ramone. When it's all so liquid that you can't pin the concept of punk to a single sound. Like Richard Hell said:

"The point isn't to do it the way I did it or any other person did it. It's to escape classification. Once they can successfully label you, you're their property".

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