Guide to essential proto-punk

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Can you guys help me put something like this together, with proto-punk styled albums that are absolutely essential listening? This is probably my favorite genre/subgenre of music, but so much of it is generally undiscovered and rarely talked about that it's hard to come across a lot of it.

I'll start by listing two of my favorite albums of all time, and you guys can just add on to this as needed:

1. Stooges - Funhouse
2. Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited

― Reatards Unite, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

MC5 Kick Out The Jams
Modern Lovers Modern Lovers
New York Dolls New York Dolls
Neu Neu 75

― Alex in SF, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

but so much of it is generally undiscovered and rarely talked about that it's hard to come across a lot of it.

you're kidding right?

― Edward III, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

ohio express - the best of the ohio express: yummy yummy yummy
1910 fruitgum co - the best of the 1910 fruitgum co: simon says
tommy james & the shondells - anthology
banana splits - we're the banana splits
archies - absolutely the best of the archies

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

alice cooper - school's out
slade - slayed
radio birdman

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

the Sonics!!

― will, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

RU, no offense, i love this shit far, far more than the children i will someday neglect and embitter, but this is one of the most pored over w/fine-toothed comb genres in the history of the universe

― teenagequiet, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Eddie & the Hot Rods - Teenage Depression
Dr Feelgood - Down By The Jetty

Not proper albums as such (i.e. compilations released much later):

Hollywood Brats - s/t
Electric Eels - Their Organic Majesties Request
Rocket From The Tombs - The Day The Earth Met...
VA - Those Were Different Times
Modern Lovers - The Original Modern Lovers

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

everything by Stooges MC5 Velvet Underground NY Dolls.
Alice Cooper: Killer
Grand Funk Railroad Grand Funk Live
Flaming Groovies Flamingo or Teenage Head
Blue Cheer Outsideinside
Brownsville Station Yeah!
Lou Reed Metal Machine Music
Mott the Hoople Rock & Roll Queen
Roxy Music s/t
The Dictators Go Girl Crazy
Rocket From The Tombs The Day The Earth Met The...
Heartbreakers Live at Mothers

― m coleman, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

actually Love It To Death is the superior Alice Cooper album
John Cale Guts
Neil Young Tonight's The Night

― m coleman, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

13th Floor Elevators, Count Five, the seeds, and MC5-specific: Back in the U.S.A.

― outdoor_miner, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

the Sonics!!

will on Monday, 5 March 2007 21:52

the Sonics!!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

BLACK MONK TIME

― jaxon, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://991.com/newGallery/Pink-Fairies-Kings-Of-Oblivion-335332.jpg

― m coleman, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.quizilla.com/B/bluemoonbaby/1052322327_shangrilas.jpg

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.readingeagle.com/blog/music/PEOPLE%20PHIL%20SPECTOR.jpg

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

its like a planet on his hed

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

what's the diff between an influence on punk and proto-punk? where do you draw the line? are they one and the same thing?

― QuantumNoise, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

d00dz I lready solved this thred for the n00b

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

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― Rotgutt, Monday, 5 March 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

jimmy mod otm

― will, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKFyJPKC3_o

― funereal sneezeguard (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

credit to the Bull Tongue. but wow.... 1974!!

― funereal sneezeguard (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 9 November 2009 21:07 (sixteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHO7OEzHQk

ooh yeah, as the vocal hits the wall and slides down it enough for the listener to decipher what's being sung the group runs in to join in. & it's Link Wray and the Wraymen. So there's lovely for you.

― Stevo, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 12:45 (two years ago)

Los Saicos - ¡Demolición! is a great compilation of Peruvian garage-rock singles

― vexingvexillologist, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 11:05 (two years ago)

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