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Iggy Pop/The Stooges
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Forget everything you’ve ever heard about punk rock starting with the Ramones in the mid-’70s. The Stooges had them beat by years, as they kicked out the jams like a more destructive version of their Detroit Rock City housemates the MC5. And by that we mean the Asheton brothers whipping up a windstorm of buzz-saw riffs and sucker-punch beats while doing their best to stay out of Iggy Pop’s way. Which might explain the 34-year gap between [i]Raw Power[/i] and [i]The Weirdness[/i] — a period of time Pop filled with the piston-powered grooves of “The Passenger,” the twisted Top 40 turns of “Candy” and “Real Wild Child (Wild One),” and the robo-funk experiments of [i]The Idiot[/i] — an absolutely [i]essential[/i] album that’s influenced by both James Brown and Kraftwerk. And, hey, did we mention that Henry Rollins has “Search and Destroy” plastered across his shoulder blades? Well, he does — and you might feel the need to have similar bodywork done after hearing our [i]Iggy Pop/The Stooges[/i] Essentials.