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From 1976 the Stranglers became associated with the burgeoning punk rock movement, due in part to their opening for the first British tours of American punks The Ramones and Patti Smith.

Notwithstanding this association, some of the movement's champions in the British musical press viewed the band with suspicion on account of their age and musical virtuosity and the intellectual bent of some of their lyrics.

However, Burnel was quoted saying, " I thought of myself as part of punk at the time because we were inhabiting the same flora and fauna ...

I would like to think The Stranglers were more punk plus and then some.