'TIL WRONG FEELS RIGHT.

• Author: Gillespie, Nick

"Can I come over, tonight?" asks Iggy Pop in an early song with the Stooges, the late '60s/early 70s band from Michigan that directly inspired many later wild rock music movements, especially punk. "We will have a real cool time, tonight."

Like most Stooges songs, it's more of a chant, a primal mood set to grinding, twangy, sludgy guitars that sound like a factory assembly line, or maybe a military sortie in Vietnam, to name the two things Pop was desperately trying to escape in his early 20s.

Iggy and the Stooges reduced rock to its essence of sex and drugs--of sensual, nihilistic escape from a dreary everyday life that seemed to be their birthright as members of the white working class. "Dope, dope, dope. Fucking Vietnam... Joy and insecurity of being young... Oblivion necessary to escape America," Pop writes in 'Til Wrong Feels Right, a brilliant collection of lyrics and photos documenting his life's work...