I figure broken glass and peanut butter was dangerous enough, but what do I know?
207. Stooges "Gimme Danger"
By the 1970's, after overdose deaths, Keith Richards perpetual chicken-fight with his own demise, and Altamont, the Rolling Stones began to pull back somewhat from the edge they had made a career of dancing on, an action first alluded to with the song "Gimme Shelter." This left the field wide open for someone new to throw themselves on the fire for us.
Enter a bunch of miscreants from Michigan led by Iggy Pop, a madman fond of smearing peanut butter on himelf on stage and leaping chest first in the shards left by the bottles hostile audiences threw at them. This record explicitly answers the Stones and announces that there's a new sherriff in town. The music they made was completely equal to the task. Opening with an elegantly menacing guitar strum from James Williamson and a perfectly ominous bariton vocal from Iggy, the song that follows dosen't so much build to a peak as it simply boils over into a storm of frenzied noise like an unwatched pot, which is kind of how the Stooges and the punk rock that followed came into being if you think about it.
The Stooges never reached the commercial heights the Stones did, but their influnce over what came after them looms just as large and here you can hear the reasons why.
By the 1970's, after overdose deaths, Keith Richards perpetual chicken-fight with his own demise, and Altamont, the Rolling Stones began to pull back somewhat from the edge they had made a career of dancing on, an action first alluded to with the song "Gimme Shelter." This left the field wide open for someone new to throw themselves on the fire for us.
Enter a bunch of miscreants from Michigan led by Iggy Pop, a madman fond of smearing peanut butter on himelf on stage and leaping chest first in the shards left by the bottles hostile audiences threw at them. This record explicitly answers the Stones and announces that there's a new sherriff in town. The music they made was completely equal to the task. Opening with an elegantly menacing guitar strum from James Williamson and a perfectly ominous bariton vocal from Iggy, the song that follows dosen't so much build to a peak as it simply boils over into a storm of frenzied noise like an unwatched pot, which is kind of how the Stooges and the punk rock that followed came into being if you think about it.
The Stooges never reached the commercial heights the Stones did, but their influnce over what came after them looms just as large and here you can hear the reasons why.
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