The one hundred seventy-second album: #172 The Stooges - The Stooges
We're seeing punk approach as one of the genres that follows 60s rock. The Stooges live in this era, taking off the route the Stones took, mixing in garage rock and generally have a raw, dirty sound. Iggy Pop's clear vocals sit on top of it, creating a contrast that works especially well in We Will Fall, a darker number that has dark vocals and very constrained guitars playing as Iggy Pop performs over it. It's all a lot more focused and prepared than the looser style from punk and garage rock and it creates something with more of a vision through that. It may sound wrong to some, but this level of polish is the way I prefer my (proto) punk to sound.