Quote Originally Posted by Helen Wiggy View Post
Some people have said that the New York Dolls were the first punk band but you could go back as far as Syd Barrett and early Who/Stooges.
I'd say you can go back further than that - this is a punk record as far as I'm concerned;-



Punk is an attitude I think, but whatever it is and whether the bands referred to above were punk or not, they were like a breath of fresh air in the mid to late seventies - the world had heard more than enough from pompous prog rock bands by then.