The Stooges (Deluxe Edition)

IGGY AND THE STOOGES CREATED PUNK!!! NOT THEM

It's all about wanna be your dog, 1969, no fun and little doll

I am not much on rock but more country. but i wanna be your dog is awesome

Though I was (unfortunately) not born early enough to experience the magical wonders of Iggy Pop & Crew at the time that they were performing, but I guess iTunes makes it possible for me to experience them now. Iggy Pop's melodic and repetitive vocals creep through your whole body and gives you chills, while the music is just as amazing. So I say...BUY THIS! Why WOULDN'T you? Favorite song: I Wanna Be Your Dog

In their self titled debut album, the Stooges define their their highly influential punk sound. Though the album was not exactly a best seller in 1969, many legendary punk rockers have cited the band as a major inspiration. The album has a great raw sound to it, the song structure is so simple but at the same time so primal and evocative. The lead guitarist's (Ron Asheton, R.I.P.) part sounds best on the album's racous opener 1969. This track is immediately followed by the masterful I Wanna Be Your Dog, a song about adolescent lust to be every woman's sex slave. Iggy Pop's vocals are rough and sincere, while The Velvet Underground's John Cale rocks the sleigh bells. The downer on the album is the out of place ten minute We Will Fall. Apparently inspired by Iggy waiting for his girlfriend (Nico of the Velvet Underground's debut R.I.P.) at a hotel. What follows are some great tracks that perfectly exemplify the sound of the Stooges. This album is a must have for fans of punk & rock, but iTunes should really have the album's original 8 tracks available seperately without all the attatched remixes. But this is truly an essential album. Best Track: I Wanna Be Your Dog

A great protopunk album that used the garage rock of the mid-late 60s and shaped it into a new form, a form that would soon go on to create the punk scene of the 1970s. Very overlooked at its time, just like The Velvet Underground, this band and this album in former decades would recieve the cult status and recognition it deserved for the amount of influence it had on future music. The only thing that, IMHO, downplays the album is the unneccesary "We Will Fall"...it is way too long and completely anti-climatic (the entire song is in the same tone). It is completely out of format with the other gritty, fast paced songs. But the rest of the songs are complete masterpieces! Absolutely irresistable, a must for any garage rock, metal, hard rock, classic rock or punk fan.

Ron Asheton made me want to play guitar. I hope he rests in peace. This album with the John Cale originals was the first album I bought on iTunes and it still gets regular play as much today as it did the day I bought it. Fantastic music. Let's hope it loses DRM soon, because I will gladly spend the extra to upgrade this masterpiece of an album.

This is essentially The Book Of Genesis as far as punk, new wave, grunge, and alternative music is concerned. In these primal, three chord, garage bangers lay the seeds of one of the most massive musical movements ever. I Wanna Be Your Dog is punk rock ground zero...period. Ron Ashton's metallic assault of feedback and wah-wah still sounds cutting edge. And of course Iggy sneers and chants about lust and boredom. 40 years later....this album remains epochal.

...of all time. I put this up there with the debut albums by the Velvet Underground and Nico & Black Sabbath. In my mind, this is the best of the three. Eschews the hippie aesthetic; goes deeper darker and heavier. The greatest American Rock n Roll band of all time. Long live the Stooges!

One of the most influential bands of all time, and it's a shame that they are the most unrecognizable bands of their era. Buy this album. It will change your whole perspective on music, and how music should be made. It also doesn't hurt that Iggy is hot either.