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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
I don't see how anyone can say the band that recorded Raw Power wasn't punk, nor the band who the Sex Pistols ended their career with a cover by. Arguably all of the best punk bands could also be deemed rock 'n roll as they were actively bringing life back to that corpse. The Stooges were at it well before the rest of the pack, but that doesn't make them anything but the leaders. They set the standard for what would be considered punk by bringing a new primitivism to the rock form that bordered on minimalism and backing that up with an energy and intensity that hadn't really been seen before.
That said, they will always be considered more "proto" than simply "punk" as the godfathers they were, and the Pistols will always be the punk rock archetype.
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Punk was a term coined after the stooges...there you go. punk wasn't even a genre of music when the stooges were around, so why go back in time trying to label them something they were never to begin with?
people have their ideas of punk. me, i grew up in skating and hardcore, so for people who never were really into hardcore, punk or skating, their ideas of punk seem to be more homogenized.