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And then there's this, regarding the Reflected which morphed into Elected: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elected_(song)

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Thanks so much for acknowledging the beginnings of punk music and mostly not calling it proto punk!

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Well, there are things that are protopunk, like Link Wray, The Sonics and bands like that.

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Exactly. Alice Cooper's first album Pretties for You on Frank Zappa's label had some very punklike songs on it. I maintain to this day that the Ramones

I Wanna be Sedated was always a ripoff off of Reflected from that album

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gTBKZrQUSwM. If you listed to Reflected you'll see what I mean.

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