Iggy & the Stooges "Raw Power" [1973]

So basically David Bowie propped up his drug-shooting partner Iggy Pop and attempted to rescue his burnt-out group of depraved garage rockers who couldn't sell any records. They still couldn't sell any, even after "Raw Power" came out; Bowie could only do so much with Iggy's bipolar retarded monster schtick. He brought to the Stooges a guitarist who wasn't completely hopeless, but in an era of endless guitar solos it was merely another way in which the Stooges were woefully deficient. Apologists like to say "Raw Power" is one of the main precursors to the punk rock movement, but scraping nails on a chalkboard has more commercial appeal than this album. Perhaps the worst example of sound mixing in human existence, it's a drug-fueled conglomeration of trailer trash crudeness, unchecked psychosis and pure musical ignorance. As some sort of compensation for the band's "glue-sniffing cavemen" approach, somebody decided to throw some amateuristic keyboard filler over the top of a few songs, but it's done so monotonously it only adds to the brain-dead tedium. Lame as Bowie can be, this probably wasn't his idea; in fact, there's only one rocker in history with a low enough IQ to try and get away with something that stupid -- Iggy himself.