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List of proto-punk bands

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This is a list of notable proto-punk artists and bands.

List

? and the Mysterians^[1]
The 101ers^[2]
The 13th Floor Elevators^[3]
Alice Cooper^[4]^[5]
The Amboy Dukes^[6]
Blue Cheer^[7]
Captain Beefheart^[8]
The Chocolate Watchband^[9]
Count Five^[10]
Crushed Butler^[11]
David Bowie^[12]
Death^[13]
Destroy All Monsters^[3]
The Dictators^[14]
Doctors of Madness^[15]
Dr. Feelgood^[16]

The Droogs^[17]
Eddie and the Hot Rods^[18]
Electric Eels^[19]
The Electric Prunes^[10]
Flamin' Groovies^[3]
The Fugs^[20]^[21]
Woody Guthrie^[22]
Hawkwind^[3]
The Hangmen^[23]
The Hollywood Brats^[24]
John's Children^[25]
Juice Leskinen & Coitus Int
Kilburn and the High Roads^[26]
The Kingsmen^[27]
The Kinks^[28]
MC5^[29]
The Modern Lovers^[30]

The Monks^[31]
Motörhead
The Music Machine^[32]
Neu!^[3]
New York Dolls^[33]^[34]
The Night Walkers^[3]
John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett^[35]
Pink Fairies^[36]
Paul Revere & The Raiders^[37]
Rocket from the Tombs^[38]
Los Saicos^[39]
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs^[3]
The Seeds^[10]
The Shadows of Knight^[40]
The Shaggs^[41]
Simply Saucer^[42]

Patti Smith^[43]^[44]
The Sonics^[45]
Chris Spedding^[46]
The Spiders from Mars^[12]
The Standells^[47]
The Stooges^[48]
Suicide^[49]^[34]
Suomen Talvisota 1939–1940
Television^[43]
Thee Midniters^[50]
Them^[40]
Third World War^[51]
The Troggs^[52]
The Tubes^[53]
The Up^[54]
The Velvet Underground^[55]
The Wailers^[27]
The Who^[16]
Ton Steine Scherben
Zakary Thaks^[3]

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