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Artist: The StoogesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Ada
Soundtracks:
- 1969
- I Wanna Be Your Dog
- We Will Fall
- No Fun
- Real Cool Time
- Ann
- Not Right
- Little Doll
Music reviews of The Stooges
Music Review: A solid album which channels Hendrix, The Doors, Jagger. 75/100
Rating: 4 Stars
This is a review of the version of the cd bundled into a "2 in 1" with "Fun house". The sound quality is excellent. Listening to this album bits of it would remind me of The Doors, or The Jimi Hendrix Experience, or the singing of Mick Jagger or Jim Morrison. There is a 1950's style rock'n'roll influence to this music as well. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the songs on this album:
The best song:
We will fall - comes in at an epic 10:18 minutes. Early in the piece, you hear Iggy coughing in the background, I think (perhaps this was the first band to include this case of incidental noise? Pink Floyd have done it for songs like "Wish you were here). Musically, it's an eerie track, with what might be described as 'black' buddhist chanting, if that makes sense (well, maybe the chants sound sort of sinister, if that helps). Iggy sings in intervals, with a Jim Morrison (of The Doors) style/sound. Song has handclapping and a violin appears too.
The next best song:
I wanna be your dog - I'd describe this as a heavy metal kind of a song. It has an evil sounding riff to it. A while back I bought Iggy's 2 cd anthology, and it's my impression that on that cd, this song sounded a whole lot more evil, so maybe this particular cd has had its mix altered. Anyway, I probably heard this song first as a cover in speed metal band Slayer's covers of its punk influences. That is itself a pretty good cover, though it didn't introduce the evil sounding riff to their version. They mainly changed some lyrics to be more forward than The Stooges dared to be, perhaps. The bass guitar is noticeable in this song, and you hear what sounds like sleigh bell jingling or something, which works. A single piano note, perhaps, is also used throughout, to good effect. Not that I am a familiar with the following genres, but the labels are quite evocative and seem to be relevant to this song: stoner rock; doom metal. I'd be happy to nominate this song as a kind of heavy metal, beating the likes of Black Sabbath to that particular punch, but I do acknowledge hearing a metal band playing this song first, from memory.
The rest:
No fun - The Stooges are often described as 'proto-punk' or as an influence on the first wave of punk. Can't say that I have really heard that to a great extent, but I would count this song as being proto-punk. It has cool, 1950s style handclapping. The rhythm guitar and singing style also have a proto-punk feel to them. The outro has Pop and the guitar screeching. Probably first heard this song on The Sex Pistols debut, so that might explain why I'm happy to call this song 'proto-punk'.
1969 - having 'slacker' type lyrics, it would be possible, I think, to view this as being proto-punk too. The intro features Hendrix style guitar, then moves onto 1950's style rock'n'roll and handclaps. Iggy channels The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger in this song, for his singing style. Lyrically, this isn't a strong effort, but if you like alt.rock, you might like this song...it has screechy guitars and they just get better, or worse, depending on you like screechy guitars.
Real cool time - the intro to this track is mildly similar in atmosphere to "I wanna be your dog". There is some Jimi Hendrix type lead guitar. Lyrics are repetitive, but the song has a real groove to it.
Ann - Iggy gets to channel The Doors in this song, with his Jim Morrison style singing (the song itself has a Doors sound to it too)...I'm probably thinking of Doors type tracks like "The crystal ship". A slower tempo track, it gets noisier towards the end...more a noise rock kind of sound to it.
Not right - lyrics are a bit of a downer, has a guitar riff to it.
Little doll - the drumming has an interesting pattern and tone to it. Intro features a very deep bass guitar. Song has a 50's style vocal rhythm to it, but just a bit slower.
Overall, having only previously heard Stooges songs via my Pop anthology, I have to say that with this kind of music, it's better to get the studio albums instead of these kinds of anthologies. Personally, having heard this album, I'd say that a track like "We will fall" would have been a good inclusion on Iggy's anthology. The Amazon editor's review marks this song as the band's weakest. I like it the best, of their first two cds so far, but then again, I like The Velvet Underground, which the editor says influenced that particular track. As for my comment that this album draws on 1950s rock'n'roll influence, I suppose I have in mind the kind of vibe in songs such as "Born to hand-jive", featured in the Grease original motion picture soundtrack...that kind of feel.
Recommendations:
I'm not personally a big fan of The Velvet Underground's second album, "White light/White heat", but it does have some alternative sounding music and lyrics on it, which you may like. Australian punk pioneers Radio Birdman also cite The Stooges as a source...they named themselves after what I think was a misheard song lyric in a later Stooges song. They also name drop The Stooges in one of their songs. So, check out their debut album "Radios appear". I've got the re-issue, with the bonus tracks on it, but now I wish I'd gotten the original, as the re-issue has messed with the track order, and not limited themselves to merely tacking on bonus songs at the end of the cd.
Description of The Stooges
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Warner.Everything the peace and love vibe of the '60s wasn't the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop's monotone birthday lament, "1969" ("War across the U.S.A. / Another year for me and you / Another year with nothing to do"), pretty much sums up the band's coldly disaffected outlook. Producer and Velvet Underground second banana John Cale lends the proceedings an appropriately ominous feel, although his attempt to transform the Stooges into V.U. clones on the 10-minute-plus "All Fall Down" is the band's weakest studio moment. But Iggy Pop and company more than make up for that misstep with the mind-numbingly ugly-and-great "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and the distortion-drenched "Real Cool Time." --Percy Keegan
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