MC5 "Kick Out the Jams" [1969]

When did hippies trade in their peacenik flower power for blowing up Science Hall on the college campus? You just found out. The late 60s were always embarrassingly unkempt, but by the time the MC5 brutalized their way onto the scene, all those Jew-fro losers who couldn't get laid during the era of "free love" now had a vessel with which to direct their anger, laced with left-wing radical politics which I'm convinced was some sort of Nixon-era FBI jujitsu. After these hairy, marauding noise freaks were sufficiently lauded in issue after issue of Rolling Stone and Creem, there hasn't been a true liberal anywhere near the Democratic Party nomination for president since. Nicely done, moles. Aside from which, you can basically blame these guys for the existence of Kiss: testosterone-overload to the point of actual retardation, except the MC5 were too slovenly to bother themselves with costuming, which I'm sure they thought was for sissies. Even further, the amateurish execution of guitars at ear-splitting levels is the albatross which ultimately brought down the punk movement of the mid-late 70s. That's a lot of apple carts being turned over -- I'm sure even the heads of the National Security Council must have been impressed.