Where the Debris Meets the Sea: Iggy Pop and James Williamson in Kill City
Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, September 2006
IGGY POP remains rocks ultimate protopunk – the "worlds forgotten boy" who took the menace of the MC5 and the demonic danger of the Rolling Stones to newfound levels of extremity and thereby spawned Sid Vicious, Stiv Bators, Darby Crash, G.G. Allin, Kurt Cobain, and every other two-bit dysfunctional problem child who ever waged three-chord war on 9-to-5 life in the name of P.U.N.K.
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