| | |  | The Stooges | Home » » Stooges | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| October 25, 1990 | | Studio:
| Elektra / Ada | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 73 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | 1969 | | 2. | I Wanna Be Your Dog | | 3. | We Will Fall | | 4. | No Fun | | 5. | Real Cool Time | | 6. | Ann | | 7. | Not Right | | 8. | Little Doll | |
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 I was thereJan 16, 2003
By johnblooze
This album still thrills me, lo these many years later. When Iggy barks at Ron Asheton to "tell 'em how I feel!" with the heavy emphasis on the "I", Asheton reels off into one of my favorite guitar solos of all time: desperate, fuzzed-out and wah-wah heavy, spiraling and spinning until you KNOW how Iggy feels!This stuff sounds utterly spontaneous, almost as if they made it up on the spot, which is probably not far from the truth. I saw these guys right after Fun House came out, and they were the loudest, most intense dada-like band imaginable. Sonic Youth later stole their act. If you like your rock and roll primal, this one is it. Ron Asheston steals the show from the Ig.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Changed music for the betterOct 03, 2004
By Carter
There is a good reason why this is a bit of a mish mash compared to Fun House and Raw Power. It would probably be pretty fair to say that this album was pretty much rushed together, and after reading some stuff here and there you may discover that the initial version of the album had a few less songs, and those there were significantly longer than they ended up here. Has anyone noticed that when the songs end on this album, the song is kind of still going, they just fade out? (even in a couple songs just as a solo is starting)? Ron Asheton has said, for example, that Ann, in it's initial version, was over 8 minutes long, and here it has been cut to less than 3. I really hope those tapes still exist and we'll get to hear them some day. Anyway, the record company didn't like it (usual reasons, not commerical enough), so according to Ron, Real Cool Time, Not Right and Little Doll were written in the space of about 3 hours, rehearsed once and recorded on the first take. This isn't bad stuff though, by any means. It's just when compared to the classics (I mean Fun House, Raw Power) that followed it, it comes up a little short.
We Will Fall gets a lot of criticism, clearly because it's so inaccessible and different to the rest. If you're in the right frame of mind and prepared for what it has to offer though, I think it's great. Lie down, close your eyes and take it all in and it's damn eerie and addictive.
There's not much else to add really. A lot of these reviews are recycling the same information, but it's all true (well the good bits are).
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
The Stooges are GodMay 23, 2000
By morgan engle
Amazing... One of the best records of all time. buy this and funhouse.. Quit your job, form a band and live your life.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
legandary wailing trailer park gritAug 25, 1999
When Iggy pop muttered his distain for the 60s at the beginning of this landmark album he perhaps was unaware of the angst ridden fetus he gave birth too. That child was punk rock, which has been so pillaged and diluted through the years that now it's a mere shell of it's primal self. However, in it's inception, it was a visceral, foaming, distortion soaked creature spewing the off key, blue collar pespective of troubled youth in Detriot. Envision incoherant, slurred vocals about loose woman, casual dope abuse and teenage shiftlessness and you have the stooge's debut album. The beauty about this ignored relic is it's simplicity.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Pure dirty rock n' rollSep 21, 2004
By Rob Walsh
In the late 60's while "La La" peace n' love hippie tunes dominated the west coast's music scene, in the cold and somewhat tumultuous Midwest a totally different sound was beginning to emanate. Particularly around Detroit, home of the MC5 and the Stooges. These bands, while it might be far fetched to call them outright "punk", where instrumental in punk's creation.
I don't quite consider these bands punk because there is a distinct element of bluesy rock n' roll that most punk bands of the 70's where trying to eschew. But the social outcast attitude, dirty guitar tones and smart-assed vocal stylings that would later be the hallmark of punk where definitely evident in these proto punk bands. The Stooges notoriety stems from the fact that they have one of the greatest frontmen of all time. Combining Mick Jagger's vocal swagger, Jim Morrison's ambiguous attitude, a hint of androgny(later emulated by David Bowie and Lou Reed, among others) and an amazing and energetic stage presence, Iggy definitely owns the Stooges. Coming in close behind is guitarist Ron Ashford, who's rusty-chain-being-dragged-through-a-dirt-road guitar stylings influenced countless 3 chorders to follow.
Stemming at 8 tracks, this isn't the Stooges finest work. That would either be Funhouse or Raw Power. But it's definitely recommended for those just wanting to touch onto the early proto punk scene. The summer boredom anthems 1969 and No Fun still speak the language of teenage life today. I Wanna Be Your Dog proudly displays what is perhaps the first grunge riff ever written. And the somewhat long but kinda hypnotic track We Will Fall proves that Iggy and his boys, as anti-hippie as they where, still could not resist injecting a little psychedelia in the mix.
A milestone album from a truly golden age of rock n' roll.
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