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Having earlier said that US punk outstrips UK for 60s/70s and late 80s, I've now gone and voted UK because of the sheer brilliance of a lot of what I consider to be early 80s punk, e.g. anarcho-punk (culturally, not necessarily musically), Banshees, Killing Joke.
Thinking about it, the reason that the US outstripped the UK as far as punk in the late 80s goes is that the UK's punk spirit redirected itself to rave culture. If you looked at punk in the late 80s as US grunge vs UK rave, then the UK wins in that period.
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