Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Overall not my specific vibe, songs seemed a bit too slow with the instrumentals giving off a “slow/sad” kind of vibe. The vocals were cool but I’m not one for more of a screaming type vocals. Decent album but not for me.
Raw and lousy with energy. The music often feels like it's about to fall apart which fits perfectly under Iggy's lyrics which are barely held together. Understandable why it was so influential to the punk scene
3.5
ну такое
Iggy obvs a legend and some good stuff here.not so much the 10 minute long art piece but 1969 and I want to be your dog are great
Raucous. OK
Surprisingly bleak and unusual. Definitely interesting considering its from the 60s, but not sure if I really *enjoyed* it
This was good. I liked it a lot less than Raw Power. The worst part was We Will Fall. Never understood 10+ minute songs in the middle of an album that are just so boring and slow.
Too Hard
Iggy makes me proud to be an American. Other countries may be better in governance, diplomacy, unity, equity, deep history, or supporting basic social and economic rights, but we produce some of the best weirdos, outcasts, and nutjobs and pay them lots of money to express themselves. The way Iggy's vocals are recorded on this album has always seemed a bit tame to me, like he's recording a voiceover, or calling in from a separate state. I had to look up a live performance for a reminder of how wild he was, and found footage of him standing on a crowd and flinging peanut butter everywhere. I Wanna Be Your Dog pretty seems to have created the template Queens of the Stone Age (just swap in smoother melodic vocals). The droning tracks drag on. Great album, but even better things are to come from Iggy and the boys. If Funhouse comes up on 1001 I'm ready to drop big stars. B
Gonna give this one extra credit because it basically created punk (though Beatles Helter Skelter the year before probably had a hand in it too). The Ramones owe this album everything. Some great songs, original vocal delivery and some great rifs. Nice pared down 3 piece sound. But also, a few velvet underground ripoffs that are too minimal and, frankly, boring. “We Will Fall” is a skip and so is Ann. I want to give a 4 for creating punk, but I’m thinking 3. I’ll sleep on it though.
String start, not so impressed by the last 70% though...
I quite enjoyed some of The Stooges. No Fun & I Wanna Be Your Dog are very good songs. They're an obvious influence on punk/ new wave bands, who improved on them.
Good listen, raw Iggy
A generous 3
Grand
It is fun Iggy
Some great, some gash, above average
Decent, let down by 1 or 2 poor tracks though
Sounds a bit like Iggy Pop
Some good stuff in there
Starts off really well, just doesn't maintain through whole album
This was OK, but probably not something I'll ever listen to again.
Solid and some classics. Not sure what track 3 is about.
bu ilk punk rock mı? sanırım öyle. vokalist iggy pop. albümün en iyi şarkısı "i wanna be your dog". sebebi: riffleri iyi ağır bir şarkı gibi ama yumuşak aslında. yaratıcı ve nıt predictable. şarkıya puanım 7/10
What a curiosity. An album that seems stuck in between times and genres. It has the mindless chugging immaturity that would later become punk, with a smattering of drawn-out guitar work that makes me think of early Pink Floyd. Not bad, but kinda vapid...if you can describe and album that way.
Fairly amateurish and repetitive music, which is where the charm lies and soothes. Gets better with age
I've heard about this band a lot and while some of the songs on this album were enjoyable it wasn't my favorite. I can see how they might have been an influence for other bands that I like though.
Their stories are better than their songs 😂
Not bad
Like
"I Wanna Be Your Dog" and most of side B are great, but it's an uneven listen with some misses.
Interesting for the similarity to earlier rock and the move to a more raw voice and style
I dig
Didn’t really like it, was too punk rock for my liking.
The songs were good, just not my taste
Better than I thought it would be. Definitely some Doors influence
Distinct Vietnam era sound that blends together too much sometimes but has its moments of greatness
The first two songs were the only good ones.
Grungy goodness. I want to be your dog.
Grainy voice, distorted guitar, loud and very energetic.
Better than I thought, a bit slow, but good anyway
Really not my style...
can listen again but i wont
Im your dog is a good song, the rest is a bit meh.
Samme nummer 9 gange... Men godt
Liked the fast punky tracks but less so the hippy stuff
3/5 Good music, poor lyrics. Best song was I wanna be your dog.
I remember a buddy of mine telling me this record was made after the Stooges had "1969" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and at certain points, it makes sense. I enjoyed "We Will Fall", but don't know if I need to hear it again. Raggedy, loose fun. Prefer "Raw Power" to this, however. Favorite tracks: "1969" "No Fun"
T zal niemand verbazen dat ik dit geen leuk album vind. Dat nummer we Will fall, ik kan het begrijpen dat mensen het leuk vinden maar ik vind t verschrikkelijk. Snel weer in de foetushouding, duimpje in de mond en Bowie aan.
Iggy Pop not my cup of tea…. Nor is Proto-Punk…. So I really don’t like this! For being ahead of its time it gets some credit, but it’s definitely not for me. 1.5
Not really the vibe
Didn't stand out much to me. I like some of their other music better.
Didn't vibe with this album kinda boring 3.3/10
Another one for the "Beating a Dead Horse" category. I'm not even gonna listen to this one. I've heard "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "No Fun" enough to know what it's all about.
I was gonna give this a three… but I think I’m landing at a strong two here. I dunno. It’s fine. I liked “1969” and “I Wanna Be Your Dog” enough, and then “We Will Fall” hit and all momentum was lost IMO. It picked up again towards the end, but by then my opinion was tempered by the other less captivating tracks. I want to explore Iggy Pop & his work with The Stooges more for sure, but this album wasn’t my favorite. STAND-OUT SONG: “1969” HONORABLE MENTIONS: “I Wanna Be Your Dog”, “Ann”
Don't do this one. Let's do Raw Power, Lust for Life or The Idiot. People might think this is what Iggy sounds like and that's not cool. This isn't fully formed, the heroin hasn't fully kicked in yet. Mid 70s, mid 70s
I know it's a classic a revolutionary, but that doesn't mean I have to like it
It was fine, but I didn't feel the need to save a single song during my passive listening, and nor did my ears perk up except for at the start of the album each time and a couple random other points. High 2 but alas, a 2.
Yawning
2.5 - okay
I like iggy pop. I like fun house. I like I wanna be your dog. This is a flawed album We will fall takes up 1/3 of this album, and not only is it plain bad, it's the complete opposite of the high energy chaos of the rest of the album.
Knew the name and thought I would enjoy this, but I just could not get into it.. 2/5
I understand it's influential and I'm glad to have heard it so I can say I have, but I won't be listening again. Favourite song: Ann Least: We Will Fall
Off-brand American version of Rolling Stones, but worse.
yeah i get the stooges are influential but they also kinda suck
this sounds kinda like the strokes... and i hate the strokes, and i hate iggy pop too, so i also hate this LP. i just give it 2 stars bcuz the album is from 69, and it was revolutionary at that time, but sounds like boiled dog crap.
Meh
Dull
Aside from I Wanna Be Your Dog, it's a fairly shite album
idk man
It was fine. I don't really care for it but I'm glad it inspired better punk bands. I think Violent Femmes took a little bit from these guys and that was a way better band
Yea... not gonna lie that was ass but guitar made it a little better, but definitely worse than 'Appetite For Destruction' this was like 3/10. "We Will Fall" was the longest 10 minutes of my life. Will not be re-listening.
No standouts
Oui ok je vois bien l’influence que ça eu sur le rock. Ann particulièrement ressemble à n’importe quel titre langoureux des Arctic Monkeys. Mais j’aime bien ce titre justement. Et we will fall. Qui est juste un peu longue sans variation. J’aurai aimé justement un changement sur le temps long comme celui qui se produit sur Ann. Mais vraiment pas mon style.
The album is okay, not one of my favorites.
Underwhelming.
I did not enjoy this
Didn't hit for me.
molt soroll
This was not a good album. Even at around 30 minutes, this felt like it was going on forever. Terrible singer, not interesting at all music wise. Make the author of this list the 5th member, because he’s a stooge himself for all these bad picks. 1.5 / 5
This was OK. Dull enough, all told. I knew I Wanna Be Your Dog, but I probably won't remember the rest.
Expectation: -> Unfamiliar. The only Stooges I know were a non-musical threesome. After listening: -> Some Rolling Stone vibes here. Not my cup of tea but didn't mind it. I found We Will Fall interesting. Post-listen I was shocked to see that I Wanna Be Your Dog has 125M Spotify listens with their next most listened song at < 30M. Listened again and I'm guessing there's a story that explains this. Track ranking: (skipped)
1969 and I Wanna Be Your Dog are both great. But after that, the rest is rather pedestrian.
YAWNNN just moaning and droning and kicking all their instruments down the stairs
Hey look...Iggy Pop.
2.5
Hear and understand the influences - but a miss for me with all but maybe one song being less than memorable
Honestly I think the only song I actually like is "I wanna be your dog" I think it was in that Cruella movie. I'm amazed at how they managed to make a 10 minute long song and that not a second of it is even remotely interesting to listen to. I saw that the stooges came up for my next album and I was like COME ON AGAIN? because I just had them the other day. I believe I had "Fun House". I hope this is the last album that I have from them. I'm just not the biggest fan of the stooges.
3/10 Another miss for me :(
Some of the instrumentals were fun, but I really didn't like the vocals or lyrics.
Listened to a handful of songs and they’re not my fav. DNF
It might have been my mood, but I found this album incredibly annoying. The first couple of songs are pretty good (1969 and I Wanna Be Your Dog), then from We Will Fall to the end of the album it just found new and diverse ways to make me annoyed with each track.
Wasn't bad! Love me some 70s protest music.
All the abrasiveness and attitude (and love of heroin) of the Velvet Underground, but none of the originality or intelligence. This was just shitty garage rock for most of it, and failed attempts at being edgy and experimental for the rest. A terrible record.
It was different, and OK. Would never go back and revisit. Appreciate Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop’s career is proof alone that anyone who says drugs = better music has no idea what the fuck they’re talking about.
I didn't think it was too exceptional. 2/5 need to get harsher on grading
Eh
A crappy Rolling Stones… would enjoy in a small club… but not beyond that.
I know they are really influential and maybe if I had listened to them when I was young I would like it more. It's just not my thing though. There isn't really a scenario where I can see myself deciding to put this on. I'm happy they influenced music though, seems like a lot of the bands I like mention The Stooges as influences.
I'm not sure what I thought a Stooges album would sound like, but I don't think this was it. The hot mess that was "We Will Fall" in particular. What is a 10 minute song doing on an album from a band like this? Inscrutable.
A noisy rock album with a 10 minute dirge in the middle.
A bit of a dirge
Too noisy for me
There were some misses here and the hits didn’t hit hard enough to redeem the album for me. High 2 but not rounding up on this one
This may be influential, but boy is it shite.
Didn’t enjoy this a bit
Nah. Sound very Rolling Stones-influenced. Butnot the same.
Ehh
1969 - 5/10: I like the beat/instruments (whatever you call it). I Wanna Be Your Dog - 6/10: I like the beat/instruments, especially the guitar. We Will Fall - 2/10: I just didn't really like it, it was kind of creepy. No Fun - 6/10: I like the beat/instruments, especially the guitar and the vocals. Real Cool Time - 4/10: I just didn't really like it. Ann - 4/10: Same as the last song. Not Right - 5/10: I liked the guitar solo. Little Doll - 5/10: I liked the beats/instruments. Overall Score: 33/80 Overall Rating: 4/10 - I really liked the guitar work on this album, and the sound of some of the songs, but besides that it was kind of mid. I wasn't obsessed with the voice either. It wasn't terrible, but I don't think I'll listen to it again.
bro thought he cooked...
I definitely hear the proto-punk to it; very stripped down lyrics with cut to the chase instrumentals.
It was okay, nothing special to me
“Now I’m ready to close my eyes And now I’m ready to close my mind And now I’m ready to feel your hand And lose my heart under burning sands” This was really not what I wanted it to be. The production sounds empty and Iggy Pop sounds frankly uninterested for so much of it. Beyond the first two tracks I was not desperately excited and just kind of allowed the album to trundle on to its conclusion. I kept expecting something to happen and for the music to grab me and pull me back in but it just didn’t. The slower quieter songs were the real low points but the louder ones never gripped me the way I had expected them to. A bit of a shame really as I enjoy Iggy Pop’s solo hits and had expected to really enjoy this.
It’s ok. It sounds a lot like the some of the other pre-punk bands of the time. There was one song on the album - an over 8 minute song - that took it down a star. Probably won’t care to listen to it again.
I’m tired of Iggy Pop. Please no more. Please.
Frankly, I thought this was pretty lame. I get that it's important in that sort of "proto-punk" way; but also I feel like that just means they tried to make a rock album, discovered it was a little too hard for them, and ended up with something simpler and stupider that people retroactively deemed "punk." Woof. Brutal review today. Sorry, Stooges. Fave tracks: - 1969 - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Um disco interessante, com algum esboço de criatividade misturando energia punk com eletricidade de guitarras distorcidas, mas ainda bastante básico.
10 minutes of ass in the middle
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Dreary
Boring 60’s rock. Don’t like Iggy pop so I def don’t like his earlier stuff. Also if one song is gonna be 10mins in a 36min album like what u doing…
I did not know that was Iggy Pop, alas, such a nothing 60s album that lacked anything which made other albums so great. That 10 minute song was an interesting choice...
How do we make this album as annoying as possible? How about a 10 minute dirge as the 3rd track of a 35 minute album?
It was okay but didn’t feel special.
Franchement pas un classique j'ai pas trouvé ça très très bien.
I liked the cultist worshiping of Ron Jon Surfshop. 3/10
Iggy Pop? More like Shitty Rock! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou Seriously though I cannot wrap my head around people saying this album sounds so modern and so influential. It’s literally just droning fuzzy guitars and Iggy nasally singing the most basic bitch, “baby’s first rhymes” lyrics imaginable “And now I’m gonna be 22. I say Oh my and a boo hoo”?!? Fuck outta here.
I have had far too many stooges albums for only being 40 albums in. This was meh, I am not a punk fan.
Musically, really good. However, Lead singer is like listening to nails on a chalk board.
Just could not get into this. Was truly not fun to listen to. Innovative for the time I guess, but not something I really enjoyed at all.
The Stooges trying to find their sound on the debut album. Pretty fair offering if (the 10+ minute) We Will Fall and Ann are eliminated. Familiar with their biggest hit I Wanna Be Your Dog, but none of the other songs. Thankfully they settled on the 70 garage rock sound and forgot about the sitar and The Doors. (1.95*s)
An OK debut from Iggy and his troupe. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" stands out with its indy-rock vibe. "1969" is a good one but a few tracks sounded a bit like some Doors experimental jams and did not fit the rest of the album's tone. Cut "We Will Fall" out and we have a better album. I'll give this some points for thinking out of the rock box but not a barn burner...2.15 stars.
2.5 - they live up to their name
Ughhh. Another 60s pop rock album, I'm guessing. There are so many of these things on the list. It's truly insane. Guess I've got nothing else to remark about this album, so on with the music. This is an American album? It's a precursor to punk, too? That's a surprise. This is fine. I'll never be a punker, which is well evident at this point, but this had a bit of a leg up over the competition. The vocals are decent across the board, and I can get down with the cool guitarwork. Truth be told, everything past the first three tracks failed to grab my attention, but for the most part this was an alright listen. "1969" is a solid opener. The vocal style is quite good. Definitely above the punk standard and the guitars are solid, too. I quite like the kooky solo near the end of the track. "We Will Fall" is an interesting pivot from the previous two tracks. I quite like the pensive, meditative sound. Of course, that ten-minute runtime is pretty obscene, but it doesn't bug me all that much. Book time. Nothing much in there. Wikipedia says that this was an influential precursor to punk, a moderate chart success and has a pretty warm critical reception. Yeah, this seems like a good pick. I cosign this inclusion.
Not for me. Very bluesy and also avant-garde.
I felt like I was listening to a cross between The Doors and Jet. I like both groups but they weren’t even close to matching them. Thankfully the album was only 38 minutes long.
Not a favorite
Interesting, not what I expected. I knew The Stooges were an early punk influence, and you can definitely see how punk evolved from this, but it is also very much of the time (late 60s). It's dirty and gritty, but there are also some long, drawn out Doors-esque tracks and one in particular (We Will Fall) that sounds more like Devendra Banhart, Psalters or Man Man than punk or even contemporary 60s rock. Keepers: "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
ersti paar sind seehr sehr fun. i wanna be your dog hani glaub auscho ghört? we will fall isch schochli viel s glich hä. hui lang immer s glich hä? hui. das isch jo eeeewig. ich check nöd ganz. es het öpis meditativs jo. aber hö?? no fun isch wieder en song und es groovt. und gitarre geil und de iggy goht chli dumm. ann isch chli lamsam für min gschmack.
Why is there a 10 minute song of droning noise in the middle of the rock album?
- Proto-punk/punk rock album - Nothing particularly memorable, perhaps that's because I was multitasking whilst listening to it, maybe just not my taste? - 'We Will Fall' intrigued me, but was far too long and insanely repetitive - 10 mins??? - Enjoyed 'Ann' though
Not my usual type of music I listen to, but I quite enjoyed it actually. I think it’s good when you’re in an upbeat mood, and it’s definitely dance able. I think I would listen again depending on the situation, the riffs are really cool, as the album goes on I honestly don’t think I would listen to it much more
Тупой недопанк
Honestly pretty disappointing. That 10 minute third song is absolutely horrible.
This wasn't bad, but it also wasn't really noteworthy.
This wasn't doing it for me but cool to learn where Iggy Pop started
I never really got the appeal of Iggy Pop or the Stooges at all. I just really don't care, especially since they come from the Detroit area which is well-known for producing some amazing music. Like Motown alone, the Stooges is really something that is pretty much static in that respect. Do I see their influence? Yes, I know they influenced punk music and heavier music that came after this album. But, do I think is album is great? No, the sound in this album is noise. There are a couple songs that I do like and find listenable but the rest is mishmash of TV static. Yeah, this album is not for me. Favorite Tracks: I Wanna Be Your Dog, We Will Fall, Ann Rating: 2.5/5
1969, the guitar sounds weirdly off time and I can’t tell if it’s intentional or not. I actually didn’t really like this album and I have no idea why.
Jag förstår att det var deras första album men de flesta av låtarna är så långa och enformiga. Sen har de en utfyllnadslåt på 10minuter, så det är knappt att man kan kalla det för ett album. I wanna be your dog har man ju hört tidigt och även om den är fet så tycker jag även att den blir tjatig även fast den bara är 3 minuter lång
Porto punk indeed. I can see the historical significance but just not any songs I thought were very good
This was just okay.
mind numbingly boring unfortunately
Didn’t hate this one but didn’t like it either. Quite dull, with a lowlight being the ten minute long track which just sounds like a dirge. Not one to revisit.
"I wanna be you dog" nochmal Stooges...? c
Feels kinda jammy with the repetition and length of some songs. I liked certain segments but often found myself waiting for each new song to start.
Too much Fuzzy wahwah guitars. Good music history spelunking.
Inspirational, influential, experimental, but - to be completely honest - a bit dull. The standout tracks are the standout tracks you already knew were standout tracks, and the rest gets more than a little monotonous. Personally, I think Iggy went on to much better things as a solo artist. Like so many other late-60s / early-70s blues-rock influenced acts who decided to crank their amps to 11 and release all of their angst, they are lauded way beyond their worth. I'm actually getting a little tired of being told who "invented" punk and / or metal - I'm more interested who made great records, and this one is only ok, however influential we may decide it was in hindsight.
Old timey
I can definitely appreciate what The Stooges mean to the genre, but this album just didn’t do it for me. Best Track: Ann
This is not my thing, and I like guitar rock. I enjoy a raw-sounding band, but this was that but to me lacked energy as well. For me, that combination comes off as sloppy, and the songs didn't resonate with me.
Agnostic
Never really been a fan
Not a fan
I see why this album was influential, but it's just not my jam.
That was quick! During the longest wait to get on a flight with the heaviest bag, this was okay! Not my fave tho.
Fine.
positives: + very similar vibe to the previous album and i liked that + the punk rock was very enjoyable to listen to even though i didnt know any of the songs + most song lengths were perfect negatives: - i didnt know any of the songs - the album was very short - some songs were way too long such as the 6 and 10min long ones - some songs were slighly off in vibes due to the repetitive synth and voice used eg.no fun my favourite songs: not right and 1969
I wasn’t familiar with this band at all. Early on in the album, I thought it was sounding like a prototypical 3 star record for me…something that was as ok and I enjoyed, but didn’t love. But then came “We Will Fall”. It was 10 plus minutes of pure drudgery. The rest of the album was up and down for me, with “No Fun” being the highlight and ironically, fun to listen to. Anyway, this ends up being a two star album for me. And Iggy Pop’s vocals do remind me of Mick Jagger at times. Having said all this, I do understand why this album is on the list of 1001; I just don’t like it very much.
Booooring. Nemam nikakvih posebnih komentara, jednostavno mi ne radi ništa. Ima jedan dio jedne pomalo psihodelične pjesme koja mi je bila ok, ali to je to. 2/5, 3/10
1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog and Little Doll were ok, but the rest of the album kind of dragged.
Too much of not my thing.
The first song was good and so I was excited… was disappointed by the rest of the album.
Mehhhh
I guess this was provocative at the time (titles like „I wanna be your dog“), maybe even rebellious, but from today's pov it seems so desperate to divert and laughable in its failure to do so. John Cale produced it - no wonder I don't like it.
Eipä ole ennen tullut kuunneltua stoogeesin levyjä. Tää oli aikaa, jolloin Iggyn ruoto oli vielä suht suorassa. Levyn kappaleet ovat samanlaisia laulumongesrrusta höystettynä kevyemmällä rokilla.
Starts well, then just dissolves into a load of noise and shouting. Claims to only be 35 minutes, but feels much longer. Iggy, in my very considered and unhumble opinion, is a more enjoyable figure when he's just striding around topless or mucking about with Bowie. He should stick to doing that instead of this.
4 lonely frat boys persuade their rich parents to buy them instruments. They teach themselves to 'play' them. They start a band. They have no clue how to write songs, but one of them has a uncle who is "big in the music business". They see him sneaking into a hotel with his secretary and blackmail him to let them record an album. But they only have 2 songs songs so then cobble together a few others there and then and fill the rest of the album with 10 minutes of droning * * This has no basis in truth. But it sounds like it could do. Extra mark for giving everybody in the band an album credit for being able to clap.
An okay album certainly not bad but nothing particularly memorable other than we will fall being a real slog to get through
I liked some of the guitar and punk vibes at the beginning, but it went quickly downhill with “We will Fall”. The rest of this “Little Doll”, was more or less “Not Right”, “No Fun”, “Ann” not necessarily a “Real Good Time”.
I really wanted to like this given the energy and just overall wackiness of Iggy after seeing him live. But outside of the first two tracks, the rest of it was kinda dumb and just seemed like one long jam or recorded rehearsal.
Started out kinda hot but took a dive quickly. I found a lot of this kind of unlistenable.
Started out interesting but quickly became very meh. 2.5 and rounding down because of iggy’s funky ass toes.
And then there was Iggy Pop. I wonder what the masses thought about these guys when the music dropped in the 60s?
Wow, this one was all over the place for me. I was totally into the pre-punk energy, but they lost me with the weird Indian meditation-like track in the middle of the album.
In theory I want to like the Stooges but I just don't.
Probably a 3.5 without We Will Fall. Absolutely grinds the album to a halt and is virtually a third of the runtime!
As a fan of Iggy Pop and The Stooges, I was genuinely looking forward to giving this album a listen. The Stooges is a short and punchy record—just 8 tracks spread over 35 minutes. While I can appreciate that this album was groundbreaking in 1969, it didn’t quite land for me. Despite Iggy’s unmistakably raw and powerful vocals, the album felt flat and lacked momentum. It never really seemed to build or go anywhere interesting. Favourite Track: I Wanna Be Your Dog – A standout with gritty energy and an unforgettable guitar riff. Least Favourite: We Will Fall – At nearly 10 minutes long, it takes up almost a third of the album, yet it feels like it goes absolutely nowhere. A total bore. Album Artwork: The cover is great—simple, moody, and iconic.
This album has it's moments, but overall it wasn't my style. I can easily see why it's influential though.
Old
Inte min vibe too much guitarr not enough groove sry
I get that they were ground breaking and I guess because of that I should rate them higher but just a bit too raw. 2.5
First two songs had me sold, the third track turned me off completely and the album didnt recover after that. Wtf was that?
Listening to this was an odd experience. Started out ok for a couple of tracks, then track 3 (all 10 minutes of it) felt like a lifetime and almost put me to sleep. Then it picked up again for a couple of tracks. I was close to switching off during 'We Will Fall', and as it never really grabbed me I'll go with 2 stars.
You know what, this isn't bad. For 1969, it ends a decade of god-awful 60's psych-rock and successfully does for mainstream proto-punk what Death and the Monks did for more abrasive, atonal varieties. That being said, the most annoying trait of every annoying fucking gear nerd guitarist I know is that they're obsessed with this kind of solo noodling. On display here on occasion.
low 3 tempted for a 2, i don’t know why but i just don’t like the stooges, i like him when he’s on his own but for some reason i just don’t like the stooges, i think it’s boring i think it’s annoying and i think it’s repetitive and that’s all, i don’t know, doesn’t work for me for some reason, you know what i am gonna do a 2 but i’ll say it’s a high 2
Pre-listening thoughts: apparently my controversial opinion was enjoying the other album by the Stooges we got (Raw Power). Well! Let’s see if my opinion on this one will be controversial yet again Post/during listening thoughts: well it’s like if Lou Reed went punk (also see: LuLu with Metallica. Hysterical that that combination exists.) Maybe that’s just because John Cale produced this. This sounded a little too Velvet Underground for me. Not my speed. 4/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no Fav tracks: 1969, No Fun Least fav tracks: I Wanna Be Your Dog, We Will Fall, Ann
Wat een herrie
Dit was... een album. Ik geloof meteen dat dit een ontzettend belangrijk album was toen het uitkwam. Ik vind het alleen totaal niet een goed album. De eerste 2 nummers waren wat mij betreft het beste, maar niet goed genoeg om ze echt op te slaan. Daarna volgt een 10 minuten durende mantra(?) en daarna nog wat punk achtige rock... Nee, dit trekt mij dan ook weer totaaaaaal niet, ben sowieso niet de grootste punk fan maar dit vat weer goed samen wat ik er dan zo matig aan vind: Nummers klinken vooral distorted, de vocals zijn vaker slecht dan goed en nummers moeten vooral hard zijn met veel lawaai. Punk is echt niet voor mij, ik geef hier wel 2 sterren voor, omdat ze er weinig aan kunnen doen dat ik punk matig vind en ik opzich me niet actief heb zitten irriteren aan het album.
Proto-Punk apparently means repeating the same words over and over again, trying to sing over the same boring melody.
The more albums I hear from these guys the less I like them. They are very weird, raw and unsettling.
A lot the last album by chic style and some good music (some dull and repetitive) but very little substance. I know I know that was the point of this precursor to punk/stoner rock.
Early Iggy Pop. Some classic punk.
1.63
i was quite excited for this one after reading the description, but ultimately it just didn't do much for me. we will fall, taking up a solid quarter of the album, was super odd to even have on the background. I wasn't blown away by one of the 'best guitar songs ever' in 1969, but perhaps that is due to a difference in eras of music that i prefer. I will say it was cool to learn more about Iggy Pop and his beginnings, but that was really it.
Generally okay, but I don’t know why “We Will Fall” was included in the album, and I don’t know why it had to be 10 minutes long.
Ok. A little strange. I vibes with some of it. Was at a 3 and then I suffered through all of “we will fall” thinking I was going to be rewarded with a sick guitar solo or something at the end but I was sadly mistaken. Down to a 2 after that injustice.
Definitely better than the last two albums. I liked the guitar riffs, but the album as a whole wasn’t good enough to meet 3 stars for me.
I like The Stooges music, but Iggy Pop's vocals do nothing for me. I often found myself jamming along to the start of a song, and then immediately falling out of it when he started singing. Also, a lot of slow and quite songs for a proto-punk album.
I feel biased towards this album because of Iggy Pop, but didn't enjoy it.
1 good song: I wanna be your dog.
Not my jam
Not bad but it wouldn't be something I'd listen on a regular basis
Like a "Worst Of" album by The Rolling Stones.
There's some good guitar on here, a couple good tunes, the period's mandatory sepulchral LSD track (which is a huge dead spot on a brief album), and I remember now why we never put it on back in the day. The writing is pretty adolescent.
I've heard of the group and Iggy Pop of course, but never took a deep dive into their albums. I recognized I Wanna Be Your Dog and it's kind of cool, sounds a bit like a Rolling Stones ripoff, but somewhat different. I had to skip We Will Fall, it was boring as hell and really had nothing going on. Just incoherent rambling and chanting. Ugh, the rest of this album is just boring and lacks anything interesting. I could have died and not heard this album and been just fine. 2/5.
Eh
Lame ass, noisy, dissonant, punky rock. In the midst of that are the weird heroin-den-esque soundtracks. I hate both sounds. To their credit this sounds pretty novel for 1969 and it sounds pretty influential - it just unfluenced a sounds I don’t like at all.
Track number 4 here is a great summary of the album
What this album lacks is consistency, I feel. Though I'm all for being experimental, it feels like they're just throwing whatever on the album to see what sticks. Vocals can be a bit grating, too. The guitars make this album -just- worth it to listen to once.
Really falls off after the first song
Not very inspiring.
This album has fuzz. The songs were average at best and the singer sounded like he was on heroin or something.
4/10 - The songs were fine but not great. I am not planning on relistening. Less screamy than the last Stooges album but still not good enough to be more than a 4.
Fucking blows
I'm not a huge fan of The Stooges, but I was always impressed by how raw and real they are. This album was neither though. Mostly boring and some inane lyrics make this a hard pass.
First two songs were ok, then it went downhill with song that was 25% of whole album length and mad no sense.
I’m a bit confused regarding the length of the longest song. Frankly, they were decent but that song definitely soured my view of them
that's gonna be a pass for me. the 3rd track on the album is just mumbling/chanting AND 10 minutes long-my interest was lost. 1.5 stars
I’m still a ‘no’, maybe even a ‘no,no,no’ to the Stooges. It might be a bridge across musical eras, it might be the start of something beautiful to some, it might be lightning in a jar, but not to my ears. Sorry Iggy (but I suspect you’re a nihilist, so surely you don’t care either way…)
I liked one song. Everything else annoyed me.
what I call bedroom music - sounds like something you would make up in your bedroom. Lacking anything interesting either musically or lyricly. Taking into account the year it might have some interest; track 3 has possivilities but they are never pursued, just more of the same! Iggy Pop doesn't do much and the guitar is just big chords.
The sound and production I liked, I thought the songs were very same they and weren’t my vibe
This one is not really my style. I generally have a favorable attitude towards punk, but this one doesn't quite hit "punk" and instead is very "drug-y" on some of the tracks like 'We Will Fall' which I generally dislike. They do have really cool guitar on some of the tracks - especially on 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' so credit for that. Unfortunately half of the album is pretty much one song, and it's not one of the good ones Standouts 1969 I Wanna Be Your Dog 2/5
Not really for me
wtf guys you have one of the most raucous songs ever on I Wanna Be Your Dog and then do a 9 minute chant to put people to sleep.
Mid
Noh mikäs tätä kuunnellessa....
I listened to Raw Power a while ago, and my opinion didn't change with this album.
the dog song is great but the rest felt like filler
Сумасбродная шумиха. И хлопки. Много хлопков.
Prefer funhouse but still aight (I got 2 Stooge albums in a row)
Ahhhh get me out of the 60's emo-before-we-knew-it-was-emo scene!
it's times like these i have to remember my own mantra for 1001 albums: did i like it? set aside the historical significance and context and the foundation it laid for other genres and ask yourself if you liked it. i did not. thus, 2 stars!
well this sure is an album. while i understand the historical significance of this album and can appreciate the far-reaching effects it had on the punk genre and western music as a whole, I do not find it particularly enjoyable to listen to. the songs are all the musical equivalent of waking up with a hangover. everything's weirdly muted and fuzzy and dull, and every new screeching noise or aleatoric guitar solo just makes your headache even worse. also, how is there a ten minute song on a thirty minute record? come to think of it, I take back what I said about their effects on punk music. dave davies slashing the speaker cone in his guitar amp to create the distortion effect on you really got me did more for punk music than the stooges ever did favorites: 1969, I wanna be your dog, no fun. they're not particularly fun to listen to, but they are the ones I know from rock band. actually they're not even that good in rock band. welp.
An early but hard to listen to example of heavy distortion
We Will Fall annoyed me down to two stars
Just a little too meh for a 3.
They hadn’t found their voice yet
Me, refusing to look at the album cover: there were three of them, I just know it
In a not unexpected move, “we will fall” made the albums rating fall from a 3 to a 2
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The intros for the first two songs had me so excited, but the lyrics were so blah. It was repetitive over and over and he didn't have any passion in his lyrics. Then We Will Fall was just weird...it was trying to be cultish (but not enough passion), trying to be druggy (but not trippy enough), trying to be sleepy (but just kept going). There were redeeming moments (guitar and drums on first two songs) but really it was just blah.
I like Now I Wanna Be Your Dog. It's a rock classic and Sonic Youth does a pretty good version of it. But the rest of this album kinda blows.
ughh
A couple of good songs, then it went wierd and moody
I was never a big fan of Fun House or Raw Power, but I at least understood the importance of each album as a display of aggression and noise that was a major player in the shape of music for the rest of the 20th century, but this is just lackluster. It doesn't have that subtle groove found on Raw Power, nor the angst found on Fun House, just a vaguely bluesy Mick Jagger impression with some sparse production that can leave the album feeling noisy but not aggressive, as if playing with blown out speakers is the only advancement needed to be seen as visionaries. Sure, the lyrics are blunt and forward and the instrumentation is crass, but it doesn't feel punk, it feels amateur, and when up against its two younger siblings, it hardly holds a candle. Add in a frankly unnecessary cultist chant that nearly runs 1/3 of the album's runtime, and you've got yourself something that just feels hollow. Perhaps in 1969 I'd be blown away, but there is very little reason for this album now, and I feel Iggy Pop's solo ventures really trump above all.
Proto-punky acid trip… Kinda weird, kinda boring. Wouldn’t be on here if it was any other band.
Track 1. Fine. Track 2. Lock stock. Track 3. No, fuck off, velvet underground drug shite Track 4. 2manydjs. And also 2minutes2long. Track 5. 2 chords. Track 6. Dirge. Track 7. Guitars. Track 8. And thank god that was short. Some good riffage but that's about it. Suspect being high would make it more palatable?
Extra star for I Wanna Be Your Dog and the Lock Stock connection. Otherwise pretty much meh
It might be a 3 or 4, but We Will Fall is so dumb. Why is it a third of the album???? First two tracks are great, and it closes strong, but come on man
It’s neat that this is early Iggy Pop but this is not my thing at all.
Meh. Typical rock of the era.
This is what I’d imagine an album would be if a band chugged 10 beers before they recorded in the studio.
Why is We Will Fall 10 minutes long? That's almost a 3rd of the album. It contributes to making the album kinda boring... At least there were some wah wahs. That was fun.
Please let this be the last album by The Stooges I have to endure on this list. I can't stand Iggy Pop and no amount of exposure to his music is going to change that. The first two songs on here were maybe not terrible, but after that I was over it. The 10 minute song "We Will Fall" didn't help either. 2/5
Hmmm… I can hear the punk sound, like with other albums in this project, appreciate the influence it has on later albums and groups. But not a fan overall. Lyrically meh.
I found this one hard to listen to. Sure it has some good stuff on it, but overall? I was there - in 1969, Junior year in High School, and I’m wondering why this album wasn’t in my sphere … well … look at the music that was coming out that year! Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, CCR, Dr. John, Iron Butterfly, Donovan, Fleetwood Mac - and that was just January! Look it up, the year was epic, and this band, for me, just wasn’t.
Meh
Not my thing, 2 stars
Didn’t care for the style
We Will Fall is way too long and goes nowhere for 10 minutes; completely uninteresting. Most of the songs fail to justify their length, just repeating the same 4 bars, the same riff, and the same vocals. Even the shorter songs like Ann are boring. I Wanna Be Your Dog is by far the best, and it isn’t great! 1969 isn’t even the best song about that year!
OK album, one of the songs was well too long
From 1969 - amazing!
not a fan. kind of creepy, rolling stones rip off
This must have been back when Iggy Pop still wore shirts because it's something of a drag, a couple of songs notwithstanding.
gar nicht meins
“We Will Fall” sounds like a bad doors song. I can hear the influence this record has had on other bands, but I didn’t find most of the tracks very memorable.
Hvis det er noe jeg har lært av dette eksperimentet så er det at jeg ikke like punk. Syntes det bare er bråkete, masete og uten talent for musikk.
very hard to believe this came out in 1969 - pioneers in using this type of distortion and sound in music pros: - starting point for early punk can definitely be heard and i like the bands that were inspired by the stooges and velvet underground. - is not afraid to get gritty and experimental - that review about shirtless iggy pop cons: - while some repetitive tracks are normal on a rock album, there is simply too many - i am not currently a heroin user
Honestly I just don't like Iggy's voice or the looseness of their songs. I know he's like Punk Jesus and the music reflects progressiveness for the time, but I just don't like listening to it.
Voornamelijk harde gitaar en drum, teksten geschreven door iemand van de basisschool: simpel, kinderachtig en repetitief. Zolang de zang niet geschreeuwd wordt zit er hier en daar nog wat muzikaals in.
Some decent songs but overall not very enjoyable
Not my favorite album. Good instrumental
I liked 1 song. Half liked 2 others. Best part about the album was the length… short. (2.2)
It was okay. The 10-min song dragged and lots of the lyrics were just very repetitive.
'I can't stand the sound of the Velvet Underground, I can't stand that sound the second time around"
I really enjoyed Lust for Life last week, so I was hopeful for this one once I realized that it's also Iggy Pop. But I was unfortunately not a fan. I found a lot of this to be pretty grating and way too long and repetitive. This really deserves a 1.5 — I'm not repulsed by it, but I do find it generally unpleasant to listen to and not a single track made it onto my "would listen to again" list.
Boring, all the songs blend into 1.
1. 1969 - 1 2. i uuana be your dog - 2 3. uue uuill fall - 1.5 4. no fun - 0 5. real cool time - 1 6. ann - 1 7. not right - 1 8. little doll - 1
The album was solid; but nobody told me The Stooges decided to put a weird Gregorian chant song that takes up 1/3 of the entire length of the album…
The Stooges is the debut album by American rock band the Stooges. This proto-punk / garage rock album was ahead of its time. The punk rock sound was still new, so critics were calling this album loud and boring garage rock, although charged with tremendous energy. This debut album and The Stooges second album has since been considered landmark releases within early punk music. The production of this debut album is well done and the music is rockin'. But I did not find much I liked on this album besides the high energy punk rock music, which faded into the background as the album's songs progressed.
Pretty cool, my my thing though, but I enjoyed the production
high ist es bestimmt besser als sober
a few good songs here but nothing to write home about, for the most part. much of the album sounds pretty dated.
The darker and broodier songs were great. The music on everything else was great. But outside of those couple of darker songs it was just really simple, repetitive stuff with lyrics that were written by a 6th grader at lunch.
Yeah ok
Ihan ok
nau ai wana pii jo doo