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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Robert Johnson was the great, great, great grandfather of them all, but none of them were "punk". Like I said, there were definitely some contributions, but none of them earn the actual label.
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Well, I'm not much a one for labels anyway...and, personally, I don't think The Sex Pistols earned the right to be called the original anything. They were pre-dated by almost an entire decade by MC5 and the Stooges...and technically, The Ramones.
But many people consider bands like The Kinks and The Who to have been the precursors of it all. And considering the fluidity of musical evolution, I have no problem associating them with the punk movement. They definitely shared much of the working-class malcontent and anti-social values that became the warcry of the punk rock movement.