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Free Music Review: Three stars for the music plus a bonus star for the influence
Hit: 4 Stars
"So it's 1969, Okaaaaaay?" howls Iggy Pop in the first song on one of the most notorious albums ever released. The Stooges were the anti-band, the angry answer to hippie-lovefests and Woodstock. There was no peace and love vibe to be found here. The result was, to underplay the influence somewhat, a revolution. Other than fellow underground types, "The Stooges" was either ignored or derided.
Personally, I didn't discover them until I was in college. It's easy to see why 1969 listeners blew their noses all over this album. John Cale treated them like they were arty like the Velvet Underground, but no-one in The Stooges was that sophisticated. Ron Ashton wields a primal guitar, heavy of fuzz and wah-wah, long of unruly solos. Iggy sneers and snarls like a million bored and angry teenagers; both "1969" and "No Fun" are as basic an Eff-You to the world as it gets. It would take The Sex Pistols, The Ramones and The Clash to pull Iggy and The Stooges after them in their wake, but for good reason. Nobody was making records like this then. The hypnotic sleigh-bells that drive "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog" finds drummer Scott Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander pounding out some kind of mutant Bo Diddly beat while Iggy barks
"So messed up, I want you here
In my room, I want you here
Now we're gonna be Face-to-face
And I'll lay right down
In my favorite place.
And now I wanna Be your dog."
I always wondered if the Ramones swiped "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" from "Now I Wanna Be Your Dog." The fact that it's taken almost 40 years to get the full Stooges discography updated and re-issued tells you how long their influence gestated among the Punks in the late 70's You still have to listen to some really off the wall tracks even by The Stooges standards, like the ten minute psychedelic drone of "We Will Fall" to get to the good stuff, but the best of what's here shows just how far ahead of their time "The Stooges" is.
Free Music Review: A Real Cool Time
Hit: 4 Stars
Overlooked and under sold, I too as a youth might have snubbed this record for its complete lack of artifice, particularly in the era it was released. Ironically, I am now old enough to appreciate its directness. I have never laughed as much listening to a record the first time as I did to this unfashionably disaffected (in the 60s) seemingly inane, and insightful Rock n' Roll explosion. Oh yeh, it's fantastically noisy too! Opening with the wa-wa guitar licks of "1969," I wondered if Iggy Pop (a.k.a. Iggy Stooge) had a time machine. Who'd have thought that tune (the song culled for single release backed with "Real Cool Time" and of course a complete flop in that year) would become more and more relevant with each passing decade? An album of pure adolescent innocence and ferocity, THE STOOGES was accused of being "dumb" but is in fact a return to rock roots instinctively informed by the passing decade of its release as well as the masters of the 50s. The record exerted enormous influence despite extremely low sales and inadvertently revitalized Rock in conjunction with just a few other bands (like The MC5.) This record looks forward in a way these guys could not have foreseen. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" is at turns fabulously compelling, revolting, and hilarious, and my own favorite "Not Right" bares the obsessive motives of youth. I can see why THE STOOGES are referred to as the proto-punks. Docked a point for the long theatre piece "We Will Fall," which isn't bad, but seems to be a bit filler, the re-mastered release, including a bonus disc, is well worth the price of admission. You will swiftly move on to The Stooges' second album FUN HOUSE if you truly love Rock n' Roll.Free Music Review: Not the Best Stooges, but Pretty Awesome
Hit: 4 Stars
I agree with the people who said that this isn't the best Stooges album. It isn't. And out of the big three (this, Raw Power, and Funhouse), it's definitley the worst. But it's still good music. The thing I love about The Stooges was that they were so original for the time (and superior to MC5, who we're they're "big brother" band apparently...whatever). They're music was sloppy, distorted, whiny, but there's something inventive, spontaneous, and melodic about it too. Whether or not The Stooges (and other bands like them) fueled the fire for the punk rock movement is arguable, but they definitely drove rock into a direction that it hadn't yet explored. And I think that alone should merit respect from all rock fans.
As for the album itself, the highlights are definitely I Wanna Be Your Dog, Real Cool Time, 1969, and Little Doll. But the other songs aren't terrible either. Even the 10-minute track We Will Fall, which I am not a fan of, is still an interesting experimentally creative effort to do something different (almost sounds like Pink Floyd) and again they deserve respect. The Stooges made great music. Period. It was like nothing else anyone heard of, and has as much rock pioneering credibility as Led Zep, Black Sabbath, and The Doors. If you like Funhouse and Raw Power, get this. But if you don't have any Stooges, get the other albums first.
Free Music Review: Oh My & A Boo Hoo, ITS 1969 BABY!!!!!!!!
Hit: 4 Stars
What can be said? 1st off nice job by Rhino on the remaster & the out takes from the LP or alt mixes. Good product & value. I wished other labels would take heed with how to do a proper reissue. The Stooges debuet was hated by the critics & most liklely anyone outside of Ann Arbor MI. This was a cold slap in the face of everything hippy & groovy. Yes, the times were changing & Iggy was one of it's main catalysts. The Stooges really didnt have it all together & some of the songs were actually written "on the fly" in the studio (Real Cool Time comes to mind). These guys were in your face DIY way ahead of its time. I liked the vibe that Cale created & they found a "sympathetic" producer in John Cale. This lp was only a hint at what was to come on thier Fun House. This release is raw but a bit "restrained" if that is possible. The band was pissed when they couldnt turn up to 11 but that fuzzy sound more than makes up for it. This is a great ground breaking "proto- punk" album if there ever was one. Buy it now!Free Music Review: Good debut
Hit: 4 Stars
Raw Power is what got me interested in the Stooges. I eventually was able to listen to this album for the first time at my college's library. I was so bored I fell asleep. I thought it all droned on and wasn't very creative and all sounded the same. But for some reason I was drawn to it and so for my birthday I recieved this album plus "Funhouse."
Knowing that I usually like an album more the more I listen to hit I wanted to give this another shot. During my second listen I came to realise that this was great music! It was simple, but fun. The songs that really stuck out were the first two tracks, "1969" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog." I also like "Ann" and, unlike most people here, "We Will Fall." All the other tracks, though good, all kinda sound the same to me.
The Bonus Disc is interesting, but I definatly think the bonus disc for "Funhouse" is much better.
If you like this I recommend "Funhouse" if you do not already own it.