Broken Glass Handjob: Iggy & The Stooges

One of my sacred cows. The Stooges were BY FAR the rawest band of the late 60's "classic rock" era, projecting the dirt and squalor of late 60's Detroit where a burning building took the place of an organized "love in." The hellish din of the Stooges music, along with the MC5, juxtaposed the go-go-free-lovery of the trust fund hippies, with dirge and howl, with a handful of drugs and nowhere to go home to. Not that they didn't project love- Iggy's love was more ravenous, out of his mind and horny, he had to find that special one. If that meant some mud soaked flower child or a pill popper with a nice ass and a rotten tooth, it was all the same.

If you've never had your brain warped to The Stooges, here's to breaking yr. cherry. As essential as Dylan. The next logical step from the Stones. The precursor to shit and piss punk rock and metal, blah blah blah, just look and listen. 1969's self titled debut, 1970's Fun House and 1973's Raw Power are three of the most essential records in all of rock and roll.