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Gabba Gabba Hey

By Steven Wishnia

In the beginning was the Ramones. You can still hear impassioned barroom arguments about where punk-rock started—New York? London? the Stooges? any of a thousand obscure ’60s garage bands?—but the Ramones indisputably codified the sound of the fury, a blitzkrieg of eighth-note guitar downstrokes and bass hammer-ons. Buried under the noise—and all the hype about punk being a lot of negative,… return to article

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