"Search & Destroy" (Iggy and The Stooges)

After recording just two albums (1969's The Stooges and 1970's Fun House), The Stooges were dropped by their label, Elektra, because their records weren't selling.  By 1971, the band had all but disintegrated, and frontman James "Iggy Pop" Osterberg was devoting most of his time to heroin instead of music.
Cue long-time fan David Bowie to the rescue.
No one else wanted anything to do with Iggy or his fellow Stooges; however, Bowie took the the troubled singer under his glittered wing and somehow convinced Columbia Records to sign him as a solo artist.
The first step in resuscitating Iggy's career was to get him out of Los Angeles and away from drugs.  So, in late 1972, Bowie flew Iggy to London with three goals: keep him (relatively) clean, make a record, and turn him into a household name.
After a rocky start auditioning a slew of British backing musicians who didn't pass muster, Bowie and Iggy decided to reassemble the 1971 iteration of The Stooges: brothers Ron and Scott Asheton on bass and drums, respectively, James Williamson on guitar, and Pop on lead vocal.  The brief sessions that Fall yielded the seminal album Raw Power (1973), which ended up being credited to "Iggy and the Stooges" because Iggy technically was the only one in the band with a recording contract.
The opening track on that 8-song collection of danger-filled proto-punk is the incendiary "Search & Destroy."  Pop wrote the song with Williamson after reading an article in Time magazine about the U.S. Military's "search and destroy" tactics in the Vietnam War—hence the lyrical allusions to napalm and Williamson's eighth-note assaults on each verse, which were meant to resemble machine gun fire.
As Pop explained in a 2010 interview with British music magazine Clash, the song was less about the war in Vietnam and more about the culture war at home and his feelings of being a "forgotten boy": the pawn of an industry that didn't care what he or the youth of America wanted.

"Once you find out how the people at the top of politics or at the top of the music industry or at the top of anything, how they begin to overvalue things and think that they can push any shit down the throats of the youth, and they just don't care if it's something that kids would like or not…It was very upsetting to me, so I sort of picked sides in that song.  I said, 'I'm not with you, I'm with the other side'."

In the end, Raw Power wasn't the career boost for Iggy that Bowie or Columbia had bet on.  Its uncommercial subject matter and muddled sound quality didn't exactly send it flying up the pop charts.  But, better than chart success, it planted the seeds of a rock and roll movement that erupted a few years later with Stooges' fans like The Ramones and The Sex Pistols, leading the charge.