![]() After the first Ramones album, there was an almost instant sea change within the genre. ![]() "Search and Destroy" was as punk as it gets, but "Gimme Danger" wasn't. Even the one "ballad" ("I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend") sounded more like today's definition of punk than like the '60s girl groups that inspired it. ![]() On the Ramones' debut album, almost every song was delivered with the short, fast, and loud formula that went on to define punk. (And of course, from The Who and The Kinks to The Velvet Underground to The Sonics, there are plenty of clear predecessors to punk that go back even further.) But there is a good argument to be made that the Ramones' 1976 debut album solidified the formula that punk still uses today. The term may not have existed at the time, but bands like The Stooges and the New York Dolls were making music before the Ramones even formed that would still qualify as punk - not proto-punk - today. I never like to credit one band with starting an entire genre, and if I credited the Ramones with doing so, I wouldn't even be right.
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