I really like Ron Ashton's insane, jagged, nasty fuzzed out guitar solos. And if John Cale was responsible for suggesting they had that insistent, bleak one note piano and sleigh bell parts on "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and the cello on "We Will Fall", he deserves kudos as their producer. Favourite song from this album would be "Not Right", but "I Wanna Be Your Dog" is up there too.
Marc Fedak Absolutely. Many have used Cale's repetitive piano chord in their own songs such as Bowie, Eno, Roxy Music, Modern Lovers, QOTSA, LCD Soundsystem etc. So simple, yet pure genius!
Back in the day, I was at the last Stooges show to be performed by the original line-up. i was about three feet from Iggy, and kept waiting for something unfortunate to happen to me. A very energetic performance of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" was one of the true highlights of the show!
i've always felt we will fall was too much Cale, not enough stooges........but, really, like others i heard 1969, wanna be your dog, and No Fun echoing in a stairwell once....and life was much different. same with VU's I can't Stand it. no complaints, here.
@@Onemore59 you mean Scott Ashton -- Ron was on guitar. But in any case, what you said sounds right, because I believe on Metallic KO (their live album), Iggy had everyone in the band "take it down" so he could single out Scott and give him some pointers on how the drum part was supposed to go, ha, ha.
Reviled in 1969 Revered in 2019 The Stooges were a class act, although very people recognized them at the time. At least they lived long enough to see their long-overdue glory.
@@chazchuckyboyz4733 no one was being called punk until Ramones played CBGB I could be wrong, this is proto punk along with velvet underground ny dolls and maybe modern lovers
Absolutely brilliant. A true masterpiece. Sounds just as good today as it did back then. Truely the most dangerous Band in the world. God save The Stooges. 🧷🧷🗡️🚬🍺🤘☠️👹😈
The LP is just the bomb. Classic lineup: Iggy Pop - lead vocals (1967-1971, 1972-1974, 2003-2016), keyboards (1972-1973) Dave Alexander - bass guitar occasional backing vocals (1967-1970; died 1975) Ron Asheton - lead guitar, backing vocals (1967-1971, 2003-2009; his death), bass guitar, backing vocals (1972-1974) Scott Asheton - drums, backing vocals (1967-1971, 1972-1974, 2003-2014; his death)
Saw the Stooges once at crosley field in Cincinnati in 1970 I was 16 that was crazy crowd went nuts when Iggy started smearing peanut butter on his body I never experienced anything like that ever again but I did go buy the stooges and fun house LP's. A few years later you could find the eight track tapes in the markdown section for a .50cents. I obviously couldn't pass that deal up.
They had it all figured out. 3 albums with all the feeling, the sweat, the guts, the energy, the groove, the sound, the wildness, the weirdness that make Rock n Roll the most awesome entertainemnent ever to be.The most joyfull releaving breathtaking thrill there is. And The Stooges are its best servants.
I'm 51, and I grew up on this music. My old ex-hippie dad came home with the lust for life album on vinyl, when I was about 14or15, and explained that iggy was punk before they were calling it punk. That was about a hundred years before the term proto... was a thing. Anyway sucky part is that all these years later, I got all the old iggy albums, and my dad isn't around to listen to them with me, kuz he died when he was four years younger than I am now!
@@genohskn440 We said Iggy was the "godfather of punk" back then for shocking the world out of its hippie stupor. Right after the failed "summer of love." I think their first Stooges show was fall 1968.
@@paulvanreesch2493 Nobody much had heard of Ann Arbor back in the day, Detroit was something they could identify with. Also, the militant wing of the antiwar movement started in Ann Arbor, even moreso than Berkeley.
1. 1969 0:00 2. I Wanna Be Your Dog 4:08 3. We Will Fall 7:20 4. No Fun 17:39 5. Real Cool Time 22:58 6. Ann 25:32 7. Not Right 28:31 8. Little Doll 31:23
Um, I wouldn't go That far. It's cool and kickass and sexy, yeah - but Greatest? Maybe you're a bit drunk... oooohhh drinking and listening to Stooges...🥳🥳🥳 laters*
Ron Asheton (a guy who lived his whole life with his mom, nothing wrong with that, but he never made any money off the Stooges) proving what a genius he is on the first track, 1969. One of the great players in rock history. I saw him about five times in late 70s/early 80s in ChiTown playing with Niagra in Destroy All Monsters. I guess Ron always went for the eccentric singers.
I’ve been a fan of this record for a while, but this mix sounds great! All the parts are clear, not muddy, and the hand claps are great. Iggy’s voice has depth and nuance, not just raw passion.
Great lp but i find a lot of the reissues have too much high end tint. Could just be 40 years of loud music damaged my ears! But i think in general they bring up too much of the highs
Any feeling !!!!!! I am French !! Discovered by Felling, Osmose, .... Chance if it exists, in 1971, in a nightclub of the Saint Mary of the Sea, in the Gard, I was 17, vacation, bike, Yamaka 250 yr d " time ..... no musical knowledge, !!!!!!! I asked the GM of the moment WHAT ???? .... it was, he gave me the name of the group and I went to another world !!!!! I discovered music and Iggy !!! The iguana came from another world and I have no regrets !!!! Patrick !!!!😍😍😍
moi je n'avais que 5 ans, alors il m'a encore fallut 20 ans de plus et ma petite soeur pour découvrir les Stooges ; je ne le regrette pas non-plus !! François
@@patricktupin1858 et par rapport à moi, bien mieux que le chat ; une petite Minette a réussie à se faire adopter, il y a 11 ans ; je peine toujours pour la causette avec elle
Who would have predicted that Iggy would still be alive and thriving when so many who came after him fell by the wayside long ago. He's the punk rock O.G.!
I like all incarnations of the Stooges, and its interesting to see how they metamorphasized over 3.5 albums: their excellent debut, "Funhouse" (with such classics as "TV Eye", "1970", "Dirt"), "Search And Destroy" (the title track, "Your Pretty Face is Going To Hell", the more subdued "Gimme Danger") and the intense yet lesser known EP on Bomp Records, "I Got A Right".
55 Just discovering IGGY AND THE STOOGES They’ve kinda hung out in the background of my music faves and now they’re front and center.. Anyone wanna gimme their best worst effort?
The stooges three albums (yes there's only three,shut up) are perfect rock n roll music,with my personal order being Funhouse first,Raw Power second and this one third,but they're all classics
Like another poster said, there was only 2 initial releases from the original Stooges lineup. Raw Power is different. So much misinformation on the net, I’m glad I don’t believe everything I read.
yeah cux the lyrics are so sophisticated and witty in their intricate wordplay and ambiguous paradoxes. 2 chords. dumbass teen angst. that's all u need
@@michaelbaker3920 So how many globally classic albums do you write a day as it's so easy? 2021 and there are still dipshits who think complex equals good.
@@michaelbaker3920 Again you miss something huge, complex does not equal good and simple doesn't equal bad, ever heard Louie Louie or You Really Got Me? Clearly you don't get rock n roll that and also that I couldn't give a shit that you don't like the Stooges. If I did give a shit I'd only pity you anyway, you're the one missing out dear.
@@MidnightStorm4990 That's because this prick deleted a comment. These trolls tend to do that once you demonstrate they're talking shit. Basically he attemted to make out I am praising something simple and complex equals quality. Rather ironic as he proved to be extremely simple himself.
Got this LP for a dollar at a pawn shop in 1980.. best find ever! Still have it. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" may be the best Punk song ever @ 4:08 , and "Little Doll" @ 31:23 is kick ass too..
The Doors is just one of many influences. The guitar riff from 1969 is lifted from the Byrds song Tribal Gathering. Listen to the last minute of that song. The drums from 1969 are Bo Diddley.
With the Stooges, Iggy Pop made music so innovative that it was borderline irrelevant. It surely had nothing to do with 1969. The label dropped the band to prevent them from recording a third record. They'd failed to provide any viable commercial product for their corporate overlords. Almost nobody listened to those records when they were released. ...Almost.
My older sis, had this LP., when it came out, she was 18. myself, 11..use to play it on her turntable, like the music so much, that i became a DJ in radio ( Detroit, Miami )..
Damn you must of had a cool sister. Wish I could get my sister into this... though she is only 8 and doesn't understand it. Hope she gets it how amazing this album is when she is older loll
@@crazyprayingmantis5596 and you just realised that the record companies contradict themselves with every new remaster almost every year??^ all you need is one proper mastering for an album. and that is often done with the first pressing. it is really a shame what those record companies are doing. but it's all a business, you know^^
I was in on the ground floor with this one, because I lived in metro Detroit and had a friend who dug a lot of the local talent, like The Frost, Rare Earth, and The Stooges. 14 years old in '69 and trying to make sense of 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'! Didn't know what to think, but LOVED the sound!
Clarity Dreamsleeves 8 days ago .. We're about the same age. Born in 1956. I was just 13 in 69' .. ( too young for Woodstock according to my pops ) .. I grew up about an hour outside of Manhattan and I was lucky enough to catch the Stooges at CBGB and Max's Kansas City in 72, 73, 75. Iggy was the undisputed 'King of Punk' at that time. We thought little of seeing Lou Reed, David Bowie, Debby Harry, John Cale at their gigs. Mink 'Willie' DeVille' was a really nice guy who would talk with us and sneak out for a smoke and bump from time to time and he introduced us to some really cool New Yorkers and musicians. Right around 79' we started a band of our own out of the Bridgeport CT. area named 'Raw Power' !!! We played many covers of Iggy's stuff as well as the others, and some originals. Bridgeport is a lot like Detroit in a lot of ways.
I fully agree. I will always Funhouse best, but this record is still killer sounding with great songs. The Marble Index by Nico is cool companion piece to this record. We Will Fall & that record intersect perfectly.
@@hasanabir115 I was watching the Jarmusch documentary the other night... paraphrasing from memory, but Iggy said his voice sounded too clean or studio-sounding or something like that.
I was in 10th or 11th grade when I first heard "the Stooges" in its entirety. To this day, it still blows my mind. Saw Gimme Danger play Stooges set last nite in S.F. before Dead Boys took stage. Took me right back to why I still love this band.
Did Star Wars get their font from this album? Lol. (Still, even if they didn't, in all seriousness and deep-seated, academic honesty, one really must wonder as to the origins of the particular font that seems largely to be peculiar to The Stooges and Star Wars only, apparently.)
one of the most important records of all time Ron wrote and recored many of these songs all first take and wrote many in a couple hours. Ron wore a lot of Nazi stuff which Malcom later adopted for the Pistols Dave is a fantastic bass player and scott is amazing on the drums. Jim or iGGY is one of the greatest frontmen almost like Jim Morrison always full of energy
Anda few years earlier the artist Alton Kelly and Pigpen for the Dead wore swastikas and stuff. You see it around san fran in early 67 or so. Of course it wasnt in support of the ideology behind it, but was for shock and and a commentary on the political system
Only the greatest band ever... These guys didn't even know how to play their instruments when they started out. They went on to change the face of music forever with 3 albums....
I'm Billy's brother James and I loved seeing MC5 in Chicago and the Stogges in Kansas city . Good old crazy shit and I like it live n Loud. Lo🎉all day n night long till the lights go out and the Blues to.
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