The Stooges
“Professional” bands of the time would have sanded off all those rough edges to make their sound more palatable. But the Stooges intuited that raw and rowdy could be the essence of their craft a decade before it became voguish to do so.
Rock
In Space
The result is a net negative for the band’s legacy (hence why I prefer to pretend that this doesn’t exist).
Radio City
Bell seemed to be a catalyst for Chilton that allowed Big Star’s songs to jell into fully realized miniature masterpieces.
