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The Stooges (album)

• Garage rock
• proto-punk

The Stooges is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock band The Stooges. It was released on August 5, 1969 by Elektra Records. Two songs, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "1969", were released as singles and the album peaked at number 106 on the Billboard album chart.

It is considered a landmark proto-punk album.[1] With Ron Asheton's walls of distortion, and distorted wah wah solos, textures and power chord riffs, it is also considered to have had an impact on hard rock.

Recording

For their first album, the Stooges had intended to record five songs: "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "No Fun", "1969", "Ann" and "We Will Fall". The five songs were staples—and essentially the basis—of the Stooges' live set at the time. A typical Stooges song of the period would involve two minutes of composed song followed by several minutes of improvisation. Having assumed that the five songs as normally performed would cover requirements for the album, the Stooges were told by their record label Elektra that they needed more material. According to Iggy Pop, "We handed [the five-song version of the album] in and they refused it. They said, 'There aren't enough songs!' So we lied and said, 'That's OK, we've got lots more songs.'"[2]

In reality, the Stooges were about a day ahead of themselves when Iggy made that statement to Elektra; overnight, the group wrote three more songs, "Real Cool Time", "Not Right" and "Little Doll", and played them for the first time in the studio.[citation needed]

An initial mix by producer John Cale, apparently resembling ex-Velvet Underground bandmate Lou Reed's "closet mix" of that band's eponymous third album of the same year, was rejected by Elektra. The mix as heard on the final product was done by Iggy Pop and Elektra Records president Jac Holzman. Four of Cale's original mixes would later appear on the bonus disc of a 2005 reissued version, with pitch correction applied to them. Five years later, all eight Cale mixes were released unaltered on the first disc of a 2010 collector's edition release of the album.[3]

Content

Music journalist Will Hodgkinson called The Stooges "charged and brutal garage-rock".[4] Rolling Stone commented at the time: "the album cover shows the Stooges to be four nice middleclass-kids-gone-wrong wearing brand-new synthetic leather jackets and pouting at the camera in a kind of snot-nosed defiance".[5]

Release

The Stooges was released on August 5, 1969 by record label Elektra.

Mark Deming of AllMusic writes "[The Stooges] didn't really sound like anyone else around when their first album hit the streets in 1969."

Reception and legacy

The Stooges is "disavowed" by most critics, according to music historian Denise Sullivan, who nonetheless called it "a rock'n'roll classic".[11] In a contemporary review, Edmund O. Ward of Rolling Stone said it is "loud, boring, tasteless, unimaginative and childish. I kind of like it."[5] Robert Christgaugave it a backhanded compliment, calling it "stupid-rock at its best" in his column for The Village Voice.[10]

The Stooges is considered an influential proto-punk record, and its influence on punk rock has been noted.[12][8][13] In his retrospective review of the album, Daryl Eslea, writing for BBC Music, called the album "rock at its most primordial. [...] [the] album is the original punk rock rush on record, a long-held well-kept secret by those in the know."[12] Mark Deming of AllMusic commented, "Part of the fun of The Stooges is, then as now, the band managed the difficult feat of sounding ahead of their time and entirely out of their time, all at once."[6]

In 2003, the album was ranked at number 185 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[14] The same magazine included "1969" in their "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time" list.[15]Robert Dimery, writing in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, said that the album was "a collection of brilliant curios, which were neither full-on garage rock, nor out-and-out dirge."[16]

In March 2005, Q magazine placed "I Wanna Be Your Dog" at number 13 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by The Stooges (Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton and Iggy Stooge (Iggy Pop)).