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Greatest Song At This Moment - The Stooges “No Fun”
"No Fun" is primal. I could romanticize the Stooges and tell myself they couldn't read music, and they just came up with riffs and they made noise as close to elemental neanderthal sounds as an electric guitar can get... so I will. Their image begs for it more than any other band I can imagine. Only "Louie Louie" approaches the level of heightened, sincere idiocy in which the Stooges wallow. Played in a loop, "No Fun" develops a kind of sonic gravity. It's a black hole of music from which nothing can escape and everything gets broken down to its basic elements. After an hour or two of continual "No Fun", time becomes insignificant. It's just like Southern California: you could be here 5 months or 5 years, but you can't tell because it always feels like the same season save for a few random irregularities.
