Reviews (page 7 of 9)
according to wikipedia.. iggy: this is my soul elektra: we're not releasing this iggy: it's my baby elektra: your baby is ugly iggy: elektra: i can't believe we paid for your studio time iggy: ok what if it's at the end of side— elektra: you have other songs right? it's not just thirty minutes of moaning and aimless clapping? iggy: elektra: god help us iggy: no yeah we totally have other songs, just need to record them? elektra: you have one week and we're absolutely not publishing "we will fall"
Bit of a Doors vibe. Good for a once thru
Very clearly a small collection of songs padded by songs written over a weekend as it is that
Not the greatest garage rock record I’ve heard, but there are still some solid gems here. “We Will Fall” is not one of them - can’t believe this takes up a whole third of the entire runtime. Favourite Tracks: - I Wanna Be Your Dog - 1969 - Ann Overall Grade: 3/5
Un recuerdo a los Stones, una guitarra eléctrica muy marcada. Letras simples pero que pegan bien con el ritmo de la canción. 6/10
decent listening for proto-punk.
I have to admit, I was totally thrown for a loop by listening to this album. Growing up, I associated Iggy Pop / The Stooges with a more hardcore punk sound, but I couldn’t name a specific song if my life depended on it. I think it’s because he was infamous for his stage antics, but I was not expecting this Doors cover band soundalike. I really liked I wanna be your dog, not right, no fun. I wasn’t feeling the monk chanting if we will fall, which made up almost a third of the album’s length.
Middle of the road all the way for me. No tracks stood out except for "We Will Fall" which felt like a bizarre social experiment.
I wanna be your dog is a classic, but the rest I could take or leave
Hmmm... kind of interesting, psychadelic and punky, not sure it's "great" but I'm not a major punk fan.
Standouts: I Wanna Be Your Dog, No Fun, 1969. Ann almost sound like a Doors song for most of it. 3/5
I’m a big iggy pop fan, this album was just not it for me. A 10 minute track of nothing.
Pros: Most songs have a nice steady energy I can really vibe with. Cons: Songs can get a bit repetitive / go on too long for my taste. Noteable: The unsettling slow burn of We Will Fall is unlike anything I've heard before. The wanky messing around on the guitar stuff has never worked as well for me as it does on that track.
when this album popped up, my eyes rolled so far into the back of my head. Two british rock bands in a row? Come on...and they have the audacity to call themselves the stooges?? Though I appreciate there are four of them. But as I listened, I realized this wasn't a british rock band, nor was it a typical rock band. Very psychadellic which is par for 1969. I enjoyed this, and while there wasn't a lot of nuance or things that made it stand out, I enjoyed I Wanna Be Your Dog.
Meh. It’s okay; just not something that I’d make a special effort for.
The debut album by The Stooges is a solid hard rock album. It was a short album that I rushed through and plan om doing a deep dive one the album and the band in the future.
The album is at its best when it’s raw and wild. I didn’t get into this nearly as much as the other Stooges album we listened to, “Funhouse,” but it’s cool to hear them on their first album developing their strange, snarling style. I thought the 10-minute “We Will Fall” was going to build to something more. Not sure why they made that one so long when they could have snuck another song on the album instead.
Definitely a cool, rough, rock n' roll band! My issue is that it definitely loses my attention due to being so drone-y and repetitive. I mean, why is "We Will Fall" ten minutes long without ANY build up? When I saw the timestamp on it, I thought it was going to be some epic thing...
Some of The Stooges is cool, the first two tracks and No Fun are great, fuzzy overdriven 60s rock, but then there are songs like We Will Fall and Ann that are absolute dirge. 3/5, right bang in the middle.
Didn't look at the release date for this initially (although you'd have thought I'd get a clue from the first song!), but was very impressed when I did - this feels very ahead of its time (actually in places sounds really similar to the White Stripes album that I just listened to before this). Do I actually like it though? Not massively... can see that it's totally trailblazing, but didn't actually enjoy listening to it that much. The 11 minute track is absurd, even the first two tracks could probably have benefitted from being a bit shorter (but are still pretty good), and after that it's fine but doesn't below me away. 3/5 overall.
I love the attitude and the guitar's level of ferocity, but none of the songs really do anything for me on a soul level. Wanna go for a 4, but it's probably a 3 to these ears. Definitely an album that was a blueprint for punk.
Cool
Feels more trippy than punk, and DIY in the extreme. One appreciates the influence more than one enjoys the music. Not even Mark Smith of the Fall sounds as much like Mark Smith of the Fall as Iggy does here.
Introduction to the stooges. Noting major on this debut album but still good.
I can't say that I'm 100% delighted, I kept two songs from this album, but the song "really cool time" is somewhat reminiscent of to "I wanna be your dog", 6(7).5/10
I love the Stooges, but there are better albums
I listened to this a few times, but it failed to sink in. It was probably a very striking and innovative heavy rock album at the time, but similar & better examples of the style have been recorded since, making this less interesting to the ear of 2022. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: I Wanna Be Your Dog Date listened: 16/05/22
I actually liked this. It gave me psychedelic punk Rolling Stones vibes.
Getting this so soon after Velvet Underground and Nico... it's so much like those cats with extra sneer. I really dig it. People were really into dirges in the 60s. If that track were like 6 minutes, this album is less than a half hour long. That's a little weak... but what remains is really good.
Alright proto-punk album. "1969" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog" were great but the rest of the album fell short for me. Though can definitely see how this has influenced more modern punk albums.
Fav. Song: 1969, Real Cool Time and Ann. Least favorite song: No right
Alright in places
This album was okay. As someone who isn't too familiar with Iggy Pop, I was very intrigued by his vocals on this album; they often reminded me of the fairly unique stylings of Mick Jagger -- if Mick Jagger did proto-punk style music. I can't recall ever having heard anyone sound like they are emulating Mick Jagger, intentionally or otherwise. On some of the slower songs, it reminded me a bit of some stylings that would become popular under the goth/new wave 80s umbrella. Overall, it seemed pretty ahead of its time, and probably the best listen of the proto-punk genre I've heard on this project so far. I'd rank this at about a 2.5/5, but will round up to 3.
Didn't amuse me. It wasn't a wasted time, but I didn't find anything gripping about this record. I quite enjoyed the psychedelic vibes, tho.
Taki punk, tylko jeszcze z dużą naleciałością rocka. "We will fall" fajne ale nie na 10 min. Może nic odkrywczego jak na rok 2022, ale domyślam się, że w '69 trochę więcej hałasu narobiło. Na 4 niestety trochę za słabo. 3.5/5
Przeciętniak. W 1969 pewnie bardziej imponujący. Trochę punkowo troche rockowo, trochę punkowo, trochę psychodelicznie - ale w każdej z tych kategorii jest pełno lepszych przedstawicieli. Niektóre kawałki fajne, ale całość dość nudna. 3.5, ale za mało na 4.
Raw and heavy. Obviously its influences down the years have been massive.
It was an okay album, but not great. "We Will Fall" was, by far, the standout track of the album and felt like the basis for everything GY!BE has done (and I mean that in a good way). +1 star just because of that track
I've never listened to this before. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard the original version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" although I've heard it covered live at least a handful of times (latest by Guns N Roses last summer). Strange to see an 8-song, 34 minutes album with 1 song that is over 10 minutes long.
Not a huge Iggy fan but he has a few decent tracks. A three star-er I think
I literally know nothing about The Stooges so I was expecting unremarkable dad rock. It's more punky and psychedelic. There's that 10 minute long full-on psychedelic track "We Will Fall". I'm a fan of that kind of music, but I felt like like it was missing something. All the other songs were fairly unremarkable and unmemorable. "1969" was my favorite one, I think. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" was pretty unexciting despite apparently being the big famous hit. A 2.5/5 probably. I'll round it up.
Still not my bag
When I saw this I wasn’t impressed that it was the weekend album but when I listened it wasn’t too bad, even enjoyable ! 3*
The sleazy indie stuff was OK. Less keen on the experimental stuff in the middle...
1969 has a surprisingly modern sound but most of it washed over me without much impact.
Nie spodziewalem sie, ze cala dyskografia stoogesow sprzed roku 2k pojawi sie na liscie, a jednak eponimowy krazek z 1969 jest studyjnym debiutem bandy, wydany z mocnego lejbela, ale pieniedzy nie zrobil, dopiero potem odkryty na nowo gdy Iggi zostal wypromowany przez Bowiego, ale co do samej plyty grana jest takim samym skladem jak na fun house, wiec nie ma sie co rozowdzic nad poszczegolnymi instrumentalami, ale ciekawym dodatkiem jest osoba ktora wyprodukowala album, bo jest to John Cale, najbardziej znany jako ojciec zalozyciel velvelowych undergroundow, ale tworzyl tez solowo, bo przez plejke sie przewinal, ale widocznie zajmowal sie rowniez produkcja, co czuc na tej plycie, taki miks velvetow z stonsami, ale zagrane inaczej niz zwykle, bo nie rokowo, a prapunkowo, wiec distortowane gitary, echa, tworza bizzarna atmosfere nagrania, lirycznie jest rownie dziwnie, najbardziej znanym utworem plyty wydaje mi sie byc i wanna be your dog, bo juz na plejce go mialem, ktory jak wiekszosc plyty porusza tematyke milosna, ale ukazujac obikt uczucia jako dosc apodyktyczny i okrutny, motyw pojawia sie takze na innych kawalkach jak ann czy little doll, ale jednak najdluzszym utworem tego 36 minutowego krazka jest ponad 10 minutowy we will fail, ktory jest tak surowo prosty, lirycznie praktycznie nieistniejacy, a tak klimatyczny, chantowanie mantr, klaskania i swietnie zmiksowane smyczki, tworza wrecz psychodeliczny efekt, jak dla mnie sam ten trak bylby warty przesluchania plyty, ktora raczej nie nudzi, a walka z nuda pojawia sie jako temat na no fun, dobry pick i fajnie ze odswiezylem sobie cala dyskografie stoogesow uzupelnajac generator
whatever
It was good, it went from more to less for me, but can't hate any song called I wanna be your dog 3/5
A few songs grew on me the second listen to bump it from a 2 to a 3. It’s a bit more thrashy and experimental compared to other albums I’ve heard from this time which was a nice surprise. 5/10
Quite a mixture of styles here with clear influences of others around at the time.
My first 3. Also the higher one. So really good album added 1 song to one of my pl
'I wanna be your dog and eigenlijk nog meer No fun zijn echt top, de rest waren meer opvullers.
Die Iggy, lekker bezig!
Interessante
The Stooges' self-titled debut feels like a promising, yet underwhelming, first effort. While the grimy, distortion-heavy sound is neat and the rest of the instrumentation is solid, some of the guitar work leaves a bit to be desired. Songs like "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "No Fun" would probably be (ironically) more fun to listen to if they weren't so repetitive. "We Will Fall" seems to be a collective head-scratcher to most, but I didn't mind it during my listens. Although it does have some sense of motion that carries it through it's 10-minute length, I have to ask why the hell would you make the long, droning psychedelic piece the third track after "1969" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog"? A lot of the vocal melodies leave a bit to be desired, like on tracks such as "Ann" and "Not Right", even if the former picks up towards the breakdown. Even with its shortcomings, "The Stooges" is still a solid record, elevated by the attitude behind the performances and its ahead-of-its-time sonic palette. BEST TRACKS: 1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog, Ann WORST TRACKS: No Fun, Little Doll
Thank you, 1001 Albums project, for continuing to introduce me either to so much music, most of which I just plain missed for my entire listening life. I also almost always read the linked Wikipedia entry for each album because I find it interesting to get the story behind the album. This is yet another album I just somehow never heard and knew nothing about. It's almost as old as I am, yet if someone told me it was from any one of several stops along the way, mostly in the punk, garage rock, indie rock, etc., world, I'd easily believe it. It's straightforward and fun, and although I don't have the knowledge to map out how many bands after sound a little or a lot like this, I'm sure it's a big number. Good raw and sometimes trippy rock. Gets a bit chaotic and noisy for me at times, but what they're doing in those moments fits with the album.
3.5
Not a lot of tracks, and a lot of them sound very similar. Nice sound, though. Best track: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Good but not great for the time period
Thought it was decent, I liked some moments.
3.5
One classic tune, a stand-out moment in punk, but a very uneven album overall.
Did not care much for this album, although I still like the song I Wanna Be Your Dog. It had more psychedelic elements than I expected, reminding me of the Doors in some parts. The music just didn't engage me enough, and therefore felt quite dragging and repetitive.
Iggy Pop is pretty good! I learned that last week. This album though, isn't as good. It's really primitive, even compared to the already proto-punk proto-ness of his later work. A lot of these songs feel like concepts, ideas, good ideas but just not ones that are yet formed into full songs. One of the songs on this album is a full ten minutes (We Will Fall) and in that time there is just about no progression or building up of any sort in the song, it just keeps going and doesn't end. That's not to say there aren't good songs on here, there are, but overall this isn't an appealing listen. There are things to appreciate for how influential the album was though, so I don't feel justified giving it a low score.
I really don't understand all the fuzz in here but its a matter of personal opinion and taste. For me It's a mediocre album with mediocre lyrics and kind of ok music. Save time and go to the next album.
Oi!
Derrière le nom de Stooges était bien évidemment dissimulé notre Iggy Pop préféré. L'intro de l'album entonne le bruit d'une malle qui roule vers nous avant de s'ouvrir et de dévoiler le corps d'Iggy totalement contorsionné à l'intérieur. Il sort alors sa jambe d'un mètre cinquante, puis fait suivre celle de quarante centimètres et se tient enfin debout dans sa position signature : le bassin penché sur le côté et vers l'avant. La suite du projet n'en est que plus étonnante. Le talon vient toucher l'oreille, le bout du nez s'insère dans le nombril, et tout cela avec une facilité folle. Un album culte de la part d'un Iggy Pop totalement invertébré.
Un Iggy Pop plus courbé que jamais au sein de cet album. Il parvient même lors de la piste 5 à toucher son talon avec sa tête, avant de rapidement remettre sa chaussure de compensation et ainsi retrouver un équilibre parfait.
You don't really think of this style being out there in 1969. Easy to see how it evolved into The Ramones.
I actually really enjoyed this music style, despite the singing seeming "off" in certain songs. His voice works so well with most of the songs and I feel like if the sound mixing had been better in others (with the vocals meshing better with the music instead of sounding like mediocre karaoke), I would have given it an extra star.
Solid debut album. 1969 and be your dog both brilliant starts to the album, we will fall very long and a bit dull. Album picks up again with no fun. Not sure about real cool time, little Ann nice way to finish the album. Overall love the vibe of the album.
Enjoyed a lot. Iggy Pop fucks, and a lot of singer's owe a debt to him
Iconic for the genre I love the most and I’d never diss Iggy but some of the proggy stuff towards the back half of the album brought this down to a 3 for me. Imma go listen to Raw Power instead Fave tracks: “I wanna be your dog” “1969”
svårt att rösta på detta för man fattar ju vilken påverkan det här har haft på punkmusiken men så hemskt bra är det inte.
3/5
Eh
Fine, second song was banger but mostly fluff
Absolutely can’t stand Iggy Pop so this was very much a ‘duty listen’. Turns out that I Wanna Be Your Dog, No Fun & Real Cool Time are very listenable, & the clear pre-punk influence was interesting. Nowhere near as awful as I was expecting.
I luuv stoogin around
guess it's an important album but it's lost a lot of it's shock value during the last 700000000000000 years.
Moins bien que raw power
Punk royalty
Ako se ikad sluša punk, ovo se mora poslušati, jednostavno je jako važan za taj žanr. Inače je Proto-Punk, taj žanr ovog albuma, a i pokretači su tog istog. Sad kad sam to rekao, meni nekad stvarno sjedne, ali nije toliko meni odličan i zanimljiv koliko sam mislio. Više mi je njihov Raw Power bolji.
Proto punk, not my jam though.
This album must have been mind-blowing when it came out. It sounds so out of place for something that was released in 1969. It's more akin to what 1960's punk music would have sounded like but we are still nearly 10 years away from punk music hitting the scene. Favorite Tracks: "I Wanna be Your Dog" "No Fun" "Little Doll"
it was alright
Rock stök
Initially, I thought this resembled a half baked pastry. Reading the Wikipedia article helped put things into context a little, but I'd have to give this one another listen to get a bit more out of it.
I love `I Wanna Be Your Dog`. Not in love with the rest of the album. 3.5/5 if I could.
I wanna be your dog didn’t even stand out to me :(
Solid debut but pales in comparison to their next two albums.
didn't resonate with me, it's not bad except for that 10 min track but it's also not great
A perfectly fine album to hang out and shoot up to, but despite being only 34 minutes long—and that's including a 10 minute track that seems to exist just to make this more than an EP—a lot of the songs blur together. Maybe it's by design (the opening track's complaints of "nothing to do" come to mind), but it'd be nice if there were more tracks than I Wanna Be Your Dog that stood out musically. I guess that's what you call a cohesive sound? Key Tracks: 1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog, No Fun
This is is the worst album to introduce someone to The Stooges and possibly solo Iggy but a neat album for those already a fan of better albums in the band's oeuvre. album's solid if not life altering, but an interesting look at the band while they were still finding their voices.
6/10. I can already tell they are going to be one of the bands that is thoroughly enamored with the idea that they can send sounds to just one side of my headphones if they want. The lyrics were certainly did not stand out as good, and indeed stood out as pretty uninspired and dull quite often, but it did sound pretty good throughout.
I liked 1969 alright but it was pretty boring overall. 6
Good, not great. "I Wanna be your Dog" being the memorable track and probably why the album was chosen.
Produced by John Cale. Some good stuff.
First few tracks promising then third track just droned on!
Not my usual listening, but was intrigued on how I could hear the seeds of punk, shoegaze, and new wave. The influence of the Doors as well as artists such as Bo Diddley were apparent.
I liked it but did not love it. I can imagine it being pretty exciting when it was first released.
Moody punk rock, can’t really go wrong.
Liked some tracks more than others
5/10 not my style
Thrilling in parts but drags in others.
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"
Dog!!!
Not my jam
This certainly feels like an album you had to be there for, as by all accounts in completely bucked the trends at the time. Sadly, as time has gone by, this style of droning rock has been vastly improved and leaves The Stooges debut as an important, if not underwhelming, listen.
I wanna be your dog was excellent but the rest of the album feels like high school garage rock. 2 out of 5
Pretty rubbish. Not a fan of Iggy Pop and this certainly enforces that view. Dire vocals and nothing great musically.
I'm aware of the stooges being punk legends, but the 60s-ness of this album made it more enjoyable than most punk albums for me. Still a weird album though, lost me as it went along,
bleh
A bit long in the tooth, especially for such a short album. A couple good songs and then a bunch of similar jams.
Only two of eight songs were good, just weird stuff
Terrible 60s music strikes again
Listened
The first song was great, the rest were too slow and pedantic
Really liked the first two tracks, but then it kind of lost me. That said, when I remember this came out in *1969*, it blows my mind. So, like, 2.5 for my personal taste (I preferred Funhouse), but with a note that this does indeed rock.
They must have gotten better because this is pretty bad. That 10 min song was trash. The shorter tracks made up for it a bit, but not enough to save it. Pretty meh!
Fun band from the Detroit area, so my dad was excited. Some good songs, but We Will Fall about put me to sleep. Needed a bit more.
노래는 나쁘지 않았는데 듣기 편한 음악은 아니었다. The song wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly easy listening.
I can see why it’s on this list in terms of foundation for different styles of rock, but I found it painfully boring at times. I suppose it’s just not my thing, some tracks were okay though. FT: Little Doll Rating: 2/5
No
Pretty sure you needed to have seen this live w Iggy doing his antics for it to be anything more than a few chords driven into your brain over and over.
So it's like The Doors, but awful. The vocals are my first complaint. Whenever the singer isn't doing an obvious impression of Jim Morrison, he performs these boring one or two note melodies in a very distasteful tone. I simply don't like the way he sounds. When the guitar isn't mindlessly shrieking, it plays the most boring one dimensional riff or progression you can think of. I just wonder how the musicians don't get restless when playing, it cannot be fun to play more than 2 seconds of this garbage. And then to honor the source material they so obviously steal from, there's a 10 minute track that completely genre shifts into this murky psychedelic cave of chants. It's also the third track in the album like what is up with the placement. They change styles entirely for one song and then just continue on with the previous garbage like nothing happened. It's like they heard The End and were like "guys let's do exactly this." I lowkey like it but it's just so obviously copying The Doors. I like "Ann" too, but god everything about this album is really bad.
The pace is not good in my opinion. The repetition gets annoying at times. I appreciate that this might have its historical importance, but I didn't particularly enjoy it.
Some songs are ok, but the album goes back and forth in style randomly, and even the OK songs go on for way too long without iteration
bit boring innit
It's just like, I feel bad, but why is this here? It's just really disorganized and aimless to my ear. Some of the guitar is okay but I just felt bored and confused through most of it. The vocal work is just odd as well.
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
2 good songs and the rest isn't worth the effort.
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
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
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
I do not like this band.
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