The Stooges

This, The Stooges self-titled, dirty, distorted, and fantastically loud album, released in 1969, is an exercise in a band defining and then definitively marking their territory. It would be a fair bet to claim that without this, their debut album and seminal hit, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - the likes of The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Television, and even Blondie may never have risen to their own, punk-rock glory.