2. Iggy & The StoogesRaw Power
I could have just as easily picked the first record but Raw Power, again, like the Dolls, everybody was referencing it in the punk movement and doing covers. The Pistols did ‘No Fun’. And you go back and you listen to these things, and it just was punk. It’s not like it was like punk, it was punk before punk existed. This is an album that plays like a greatest hits. You don’t want to lift the needle up. Every song could have been a single, and every song seemed to be better than anybody else’s music. Again, it’s like, why aren’t they huge? Iggy was just like God. I mean the cover of that record; I remember just staring at it in a record shop window and just thinking ‘Who the fuck is that?’ I would have bought that record just for the cover but it was just a great record anyway. Iggy was like Mick Jagger without the showbusiness.
