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It was a raw, obviously unskilled sound — pre-punk without any self-consciousness about it.
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The Swedes' 10th album, Heritage, is a brave, melancholic and often beautiful heavy rock record that revels in the warm, analogue tones and shimmering mellotrons of the pre-punk 70s while still exuding a sense of wonder at new ideas.
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Reggae gets a shout out in the ragged but visceral, pre-punk indie The Harder They Come, and Madchester is covered in the wonderful 24 Hour Party People.
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Dylan sings to the rooftops, without any Dylanisms to cloud the collective joy in the very large room, way back there in the pre-punk Pliocene past.
Living With Music: A Playlist by Michael Shilling - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Dylan sings to the rooftops, without any Dylanisms to cloud the collective joy in the very large room, way back there in the pre-punk Pliocene past.
Living With Music: A Playlist by Michael Shilling - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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It was a raw, obviously unskilled sound — pre-punk without any self-consciousness about it.
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NWFF presents another view of the 1960s with Monks, a documentary about the Monks, a pre-punk band formed as a conceptual art piece in the form of a pop group labelled the “anti-Beatles”.
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PESCA: Sonic Youth came out of the New York rock scene, or new wave scene, or kind of pre-punk scene, in the late '70s, early' 80s.
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White mice pre-punk phase of daughter #1 are good sauteed as appetizers with hoisin sauce.
Foods That Make Your Children Cry: A Participatory Thread « Whatever 2007
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And I swear I saw a young, pre-punk Billy Idol in the audience.
Archive 2005-09-01 K. A. Laity 2005
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