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Ramones. Ramones. Rhino/Warner Bros. R2 74306, 2001.
The arguments over who invented punk rock are endless, and will probably never be fully resolved. The standard story line--according to which punk was born in England with the first Sex Pistols album in 1977--has long been dismissed as too simplistic; some historians credit mid-1970s rockers like the New York Dolls with the first real punk innovations, while others look further back to the MC5 in the 1960s. But nearly everyone agrees that the first and best encapsulation of the American punk ethic came in 1976, in the form of the ...