shaking pt 2

“I’ve always found in rock’n’roll post-1962, ever since the English Invasion started, a tremendous amount of dead weight, a lot of it is just so leaden and boring. It brings you down, it does not bring you up. And I like stuff that ROARS! Like a dragster, like Jerry Lee Lewis, like Link Wray, like Little Richard, like fucking Gary U.S. Bonds  like the Orlons – like yeah, let’s get some fucking action here! Like Cannibal & the Headhunters, now that’s the kind of shit that would light a fire under my tree. And suddenly everything’s got more and more scholastic. Academic, if it’s real academic, fine. But faux-academic, nuh-uh" - Iggy Pop on "Shake Appeal"

Not sure about this as a historical statement (what about the Stones? The Who? He probably never heard John's Children).  Brit beat boom is high-energy surely...  the "leaden" bit really starts with Cream, and then Vanilla Fudge. But it's a point of view. 

One of the great disappointments, finally hearing MC5

On a par with the New York Dolls, in terms of shortfall between reading-stoked expectation and actuality

I mean, you want to talk "leaden'

Virtually Nugent

Somebody named a zine after this one didn't they? I mean, why?

People also use this one as a benchmark of their sonically radical side

Not convinced.

Plus there's the group's image.