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                                             June 11, 2010

  I often feel like I'm on the other
  side of a dividing line from people
  who want to take The Ramones as             As opposed to one
  the canonical punks.                        of a number of
                                              strains of punk.
  They're people who want punk
  to be a celebration of stupidity.                  NEOPUNK

  There are more nuanced views                       PLEASE_KILL_ME
  out there:

     "The Ramones were sort of playing
     with the concept of being dumb but
     not dumb, and being all American
     but yet alien mutant, you know
     feeling different, an outsider and
     yet yearning for that all
     American cars, girls surfing and
     all that when you couldn’t even
     drive."

       -- an interview with Lester Bangs
          [ref]


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