Eight essential songs, spanning 1967-1974. Though the mid-1960s garage rock that some called "punk" is absent here, some of the most direct predecessors of the 1975-1980 explosion appear. Note the glam rock of Miss Quatro and Mark Bolan, the experimental oddness of Lou Reed, and the noisy metal (by the day's standards) of Iggy Pop and the Motor City 5. Stick around for the whole playlist.

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