Is this the first punk band?
The Sonics
The Sex Pistols were the earliest and the best
the kinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWNwHof0kc
New York Dolls
>>65062656
Ramones > Sex Pistols
VU - Sister Ray
>>65062656
>earliest
lol the sex pistols came after the ramones
Les Blousons noirs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeSj2lebgY
1961
>>65062665
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVWAE6n_G4Q
Link Wray - Rumble (1958)
>>65062613
I Wanna Be Your Dog is the first punks song. Everything else is protopunk
>>65062728
The Shaggs have met their match
nirvana
first commercially successful punk band? yes.
There were garage bands in the '50s and early '60s that were surf-punk, etc, but they didn't do much.
>>65062656
lol
>>65062954
The Stooges weren't commercially successful at all, actually.
Their records didn't sell, most of the critics hated them, most of the crowds they played to hated them. For a long time the best-selling Stooges album was a live bootleg, actually, because their studio albums sold so poorly that their record labels didn't have a reason to promote or reissue them. For a long time The Stooges were only known as a footnote in Iggy Pop's career, it wasn't until the 80s that their work started getting critically reappraised and reevaluated.
The saints pretty sure were relevant and before stooges.
>>65063266
The Stooges formed in 1967
>>65062656
this
>>65062656
this is what Britbongs actually believe
>>65062613
It's proto-Metal
>>65064745
I think Stooges sound more like early metal than punk
>>65064772
yeah me too
>>65062613
No. That distinction belongs to The Fugs.
Fugs, Blue Cheer, MC5, the Monks, those are just top of mind. but kind of putting it all together with the punk attitude? that may have been the Stooges.
>>65062623
this nigga knows what's up
>>65065453
I feel like a lot of the bands labeled protopunk just sound like grimey garage rock, while if the Stooges made the exact same music they did except 5 years later they'd unquestionably be considered punk.
>>65062623
The Sonics
Let's figure this out once and for all.
http://www.strawpoll.me/10276847
>>65062676
He said first, not best
When I google first punk band, this message comes up.
VU-White Light/White Heat
The Sonics-Here Come the Sonics
What about Joy Division you asshats
