One of MTV's top performers is Punk'd, which ran for eight seasons beginning in 2003.

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With this year's album Country Club, the punk veteran dove headlong into a genre he'd always listened to, but was never quite ready to make his own.

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He was buying every punk rock and new wave record issued, taping them, and turning me onto tapes which I'd then play on my ragtag stereo.

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