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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
😐
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
1969 - I Wanna Be Your Dog - We Will Fall - Bijzonder nummer, klinkt als een offerings ritueel ofzo No Fun - No fun inderdaad, nee valt wel mee, maar niet geweldig Real Cool Time - Ann - Not Right - Little Doll - Bijzonder album, gevuld met niet de beste muziek. Naar mijn mening. 2.3
eeeehh
Solo Iggy way better than this
1- put “69” somewhere in song title 2- ??? 3- profit all in all the album wasn’t bad, wasn’t great. didn’t like the 10 minute song (which was 1/3rd the album so that didn’t help). the album was kind of like a roller coaster in the fact that you started high then went down a hill
Not my taste
A clever way to sneak another Iggy Pop album in here? Anyway, the album was definitely ahead of its time, yet that does not make an album great - the music does. And it doesn't.
There is such a thing as being too high to make good music. What the hell is We Will Fall and how does that pointless garbage make it on an album? I expected much more emotion to come through on this album but it was mostly indifference. I mean, how are you in a studio, chanting ran ji ran etc, over and over and think somebody needs to hear this for 10 minutes? No Fun at least picked it up for a decent melody and riff. Not enough to save this so-called punk snoozefest.
psychic rock... jos osa alukea ajatuksia..heh.. tietäisi että huono albumi.. perus räväkkää rokin nytkäytyksiä. paitsi yksi biisi, 10minuutin stintti hitaampaa höllöstelyä..mahtava biisi. ja joo hörhöilytuotosta mutta ei se siitä pois mitään vie we will fall
Just not for me.
Pretty good. Might come back to this one.
"I wanna be your dog" is okay. Rest is not to my taste.
Surprisingly underwhelming. I guess they were all about the stage show?
It had its moments but I didn’t really enjoy it
I don't think I cared for this as much as the last Stooges album I heard on this list. It wasn't all bad, but "We Will Fall" was rough and I ended up skipping half of it. 2.5/5
Not a terrible album but the 10 minute drone of We Will Fall was basically the worst part
I've never been a fan of The Stooges music.
I guess it gets an Xtra star for being kinda weird and ahead of its time, but that doesn't make it good. Apparently it influenced many others to make crappy music (AKA punk) in the future
Hämmästyttävän hidas. Olis ees enemmän stoneria. 10-minuuttisessa biisissä ei ole mitään ideaa tai hienoa. Ei toivoton kokonaisuus - haluaa olla "todistelematon" ja pohjaa sille on, mutta toteutus jää pinnalliseksi. Pitäisi vähän todistaa arvonsa.
blah blah blah bleh boring boring boring. not offensively bad so it gets a 2.
Distorted fuzz tone, shitty vocals, shitty lyrics, and shitty songs.
I always thought they were a British band so was surprised to read that they’re American! The music is alright-typical late 60s/early 70s radio to me. Listen again: nah Purchase for my collection:no Favourite Song: I Wanna Be Your Dog (thanks to the Forrest Gump soundtrack as a kid haha)
Psychedelic rock gone 💩
I liked the first few songs well enough, but I got progressively bored listening to this. It’s not terrible, I just didn’t find that it grabbed my attention, even in a negative way. I’d probably rate it a 2.5, but I’m rounding down since I probably wouldn’t listen to this again.
Best Song: I Wanna Be Your Dog. I guess it was high energy enough to be interesting. Worst Song: Real Cool Time. This sounds like a drunk guy who has cornered you at a bar and is wetly and vehemently letting you know about the "good time" he's about to give you. Overall: Pretty awful. Nothing stands out as unique or interesting. No reason for this to be on the list or to ever listen to it again.
Meh
Lots of psychedelic drops, a few decent, timeless songs that really show the influence of The Stooges on bands from the early 00s. I wouldn't listen again but was torn between 2 and 3 stars, mainly for it's influence.
Semilla del punk-rock, primera banda de Iggy Pop. Tiene algún tema que safa pero no es particularmente algo que me guste tanto. La calidad es buena.
You forget that before bands find their sound, many have a terrible first album. They don’t know what they want to be yet.
Good enough sound but the lyrics were pretty bad
not for me
Very pointless and boring album to be honest. The fact that each song went in one ear then out the other as soon as I listened to it shows something. Very weird. It wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard just boring.
Not great.
I listened to all of We Will Fall in the shower and thought my Spotify was messed up. I’ll never get that 10 minutes back. Hard rock doesn’t have to be this dumb, Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and company at least bring more interesting instrumentation to the genre.
If if wasn't for the bullcrap 10:18 long boring dirge called "We Will Fall," I'd probably give this a decent 3/5 rating, but it's on there, so I have to lower it by a full point. The rest is just OK, I didn't love or hate anything.
Instrumentals were fine, but vocals were fairly reminiscent of Ian Drury, and that's just not ok.
The 10 minute Gregorian chant they threw in there really ruined it for me.
C- 1969 - 2 I Wanna Be Your Dog - 3 We Will Fall - 3 No Fun - 2 Real Cool Time - 1 Ann - 3 Not Right - 2 Little Doll - 1 The only thing memorable about this album is that it came out in 1969 aka the most important year for Rock. At least these schmucks agreed to make it less than 36 min. I hate The Stooges due to the fact they are not talented. However, every now and then they miraculously string together sounds that aren’t terrible. This album had more not-terrible moments than I could have ever imagined. Thank you 1969 (the year) for sprinkling some quality on what would’ve been an otherwise poor album.
bleak and repetitive even when they are winning on the first two tracks running my fat ass around princes st the other day i thought 'we will fall' was rather boring and felt bad skipping it. now thats just not cricket is it my darlings when the whole point of this is to listen (of course i went back and listened later). then i realised its 10 minutes long. terrible. i reckon they didnt have enough material to cut the record or something. this cult record is not for me.
Pari ekaa biisiä lupaili enemmän kuin toimitti. Jotain taas kakkosen ja kolmosen välistä on tämänkin levyn arvio.
Pari ekaa tuttuja ja ihan hyviä kipaleita, mut loppulevy lopahti
I’m getting a crash course in the early rumblings of punk on the generator this week, with this album arriving one day after The Sonics’ debut album from 1965. Both albums are heralded as influential for the wave of punk bands who eventually rose from the ashes in the mid-1970s. In particular, The Stooges appear to be changing the game here: Iggy Pop’s snarling, sneering, half-sung-half-shouted vocals, guitars drenched and slashed with fuzz, power chords hammered out alongside metronomic drums. John Cale’s stark production places The Stooges firmly in the “early Velvet Underground” camp of trailblazers who could just as easily be heralded as the second coming or written off as a lot of old noise. It‘s easy to call it a landmark moment now, but does that mean I should enjoy the album any more than its songs allow me to? Well, the Stooges’ mission statement to the music world begins with a bang: “1969” and “I Wanna Be Your Dog” are a promising 1-2 kick to throw psychedelia to the curb. This is a new, hard edged kind of music, grabbing listeners by the unmentionables and telling them all they need to know about why the Stooges must have been groundbreaking to the right ears at the time. But then in comes “We Will Fall”. A ten minute dirge centred around one repeated phrase, influenced by raga rock and Indian drone music. Seriously? It wasn’t at all what I’d expected from the Stooges and, while I admire the ambition here, they don’t seem like the band to pull it off. Wallowing through this murky bog without any climactic build or chaotic attitude tanks all the momentum the album had been gathering. No wonder it took punk an extra seven or eight years to really get going. The rest of the songs are a mixed bag, from “Ann”’s dull drop in energy to “No Fun”’s lively guitar solo (but poor mix) and “Little Doll”’s toppling drums. I appreciate “The Stooges”’s place in music history, but- like other albums I’ve heard by this band- it just doesn’t grab me as much as it wants to, or perhaps as much as any punk fanatic would expect it to. I’ll gladly skip to my pick of the bands this influenced if it means a better listening experience.
Sort of basic. Songs seem short and similar. Not bad, but nothing special.
Meh. Not my cup of tea. 2/5
Can anyone who listened to "we will fall" in all its 10 plus minutes honestly say this is a good album?
I wanted to like this better, but everything seems so basic to seem to be parroting when a band learns 3 chords and starts to craft numbingly boring songs. The lyrics seem of the same quality, and though i try to find some raw energy to appreciate, it just is overall pretty boring.
Would be a riot of an album if it didn’t include a 10-minute funeral dirge in the middle
This is my second Stooges album, I liked this one more than Raw Power. As their first record this one sounds more classic rock than the more punk sound later. Still has the same authentic and garage band sound. I can hear the instruments and Iggy's vocals more clearly and you can feel the influence this probably had for later music. Some of the songs are cool and rockin' but then you have the dreadful 10 minute death chant in the middle of this short record, which I'm sure some see as delightful, but not for me... but pretty neat for 1969. (2.5/5)
Old school punk rock, et par nice numre, iggy
Not bad, not great. Still not really in the realm of music I like, but not quite as bad as some of the others 60's stuff we've gotten. His voice is okay but gets old pretty quickly imo. Okay sound. Nothing added from this one 4/10
2/5 I didn't like the first album that came up and I didn't like this one. Although, this one was much more tolerable, maybe because it was shorter?
Shite. And the ten minute song really took the biscuit. I've heard worse and so no 1 rating, but this was dirge for the most part. 1 point was given for the overall brevity. In the bin.
Disappointing The album started strong with "1969" and "I wanna be your dog", it then just collapsed. "We will fall" is just awful and the album never really picks up after that
Completely forgot about this band. Love the sound but completely forgettable apparently.
Not really my cup of tea.
We Will Fall sucks so bad, meandering 10 minute repetitive song felt like a YouTube video that has to be 10:01 just for the ad revenue. Besides that, the album was pretty good. I did listen to the bonus track Asthma Attack and that was definitely something. Overall decent besides the one big strike against it on we will fall
It's okay
What is the point in an album if you're just gonna place the two singles (and easily best songs) right at the beginning? A dissapointing record.
I would have thought a notable proto punk album like this would have been more exciting. Overall it was quite meh.
Yeah alright nothing special. We we fall was different.
First Stooges album I have heard. I have never liked 'I Wanna Be your Dog' and I don't know why. I prefer Iggy's voice as he got older to be honest. It's more unique and raw. Anyways, onto the next.
tough vocalist cool riffs
Aika monotonista
Iconic album that's earned it's place in history, even if it's one I'm not interested in hearing again. Really looking forward to Fun House and Raw Power. 1 = bad 2 = average 3 = good 4 = great 5 = outstanding
It was alright, kind of disappointing. Their next album is definitely way better in my opinion. This one literally has a 10 minute song that doesn't build up whatsoever.
I was surprised by this album, it had more of a 60s pop style than I’d expected.
Must be seminal, doesn't appeal to me
Favourite song: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Wow, i wasnt feeling this one at all, dont like the vocals and the songs felt bland to me, maybe i just dont get it, had some solid guitar solos tho 4/10
Yeah, nah. Nothing that makes me say "Let's listen to this again just now"
Opening track was frightening compared to what I usually thought of as music from the 60's. More distorted than what I am typically used to from that time period. Loud, aggressive, early version of what I consider punk.
I like 01 1969 Knew 02 I Wanna Be Your Dog Didn't like Track 03 Lots of fuzz n wah Wouldn't listen to the whole album again
Good ol meh 60s rock
musica bella ma canzoni ripetitive, parole banali
я два раза писала отзыв на этот альбом! мне не понравилось! я ничего не пропускала!
C'est pas mal expérimental, assez ennuyant la plupart du temps, surtout que leurs chansons courtes sonnent très génériques et leurs chansons longues n'ont aucune progression.
Some nice guitar riffs. But endlessly repetitive vocals get pretty old quickly. Don’t think it’s aged well
It was fine. Bit droney. Iggy sounded rougher as the album went on. Also he was a bit noncey at the time so points deducted for that. Apart from a couple of outstanding songs I've never really gotten on with Iggy.
Thought I would have enjoyed this more. However, the bizarre 10mins of "We Will Fall" taking up 1/3 of the runtime left a sour taste.
i wanna be your dog é a coisa mais irritante que eu ja ouvi dos anos 60. me lembra velvet underground na simplicidade da estrutura da musica. so que não tem a poesia do lou reed pra preencher o quão repetitivo é. tirando Ann, nada me pegou nesse album
Rough one. First 2 tracks I knew from cover versions.
2/5. Some good songs but kind of weak compared to Funhouse. Wouldn’t listen again besides 1969 and No Fun.
Not as good as the first stooges one I got. 5/5 therapy session though
Ehhhhhh
Not a big fan. Too "in your face"
Eh. It's whatever. Sounds like everything coming out of the 1969 scene. I'll take The Velvet Underground any day over this. 2.5/5
Some ok the 10 minute track is awful
I know it's very influential but that's all there really is to say about this. The first two songs are okay, after that I did not enjoy it anymore.
Noe kjent stoff. Dette er streit. Kan like det, men blir ikke veldig fenget.
I loved song #1, and then the album fell apart for me. It was like Velvet Underground and The Rolling Stones had a baby, and it was one of those babies you look at and cringe. It has value: it’s a baby, after all. But good lord!
I want to really like this. No Fun and I Wanna Be Your Dog are both very good but the rest is forgettable at best. 2.5 star.
Really disappointing
what this album generator has shown me is that i'm not a huge fan of proto-punk! i suppose i like a more refined noise, though i know for a fact i do enjoy iggy pop's music. i did find something to enjoy about this album, and it grew on me after the first listen. getting past my biases and first impressions is important! "we will fall" is a dark, ominous, hymnal-like song. the guitar in "i wanna be your dog," wow! "no fun" is fun to clap along to! and of course, for the artists with long careers, such as iggy pop, it's always interesting to hear their first album.
Mucky, murky, half eaten relics of psych-cum-garage-cum-noise-cum-grunge-cum-what-may. I generally have an appreciation for edgy ambition, but I like it to be more rounded off than this.
I dig the vibe, but the energy is pretty flat. It's kind of like psychedelic punk, which I don't feel meshes all that well.
Recognised more from this one but preferred Iggy’s other entry on this list.
Didn't realise The Stooges were active in the sixties; maybe for its time this was quite fresh and interesting. Today, the cool, scuzzy vibes aren't really enough to make up for the lack of actual songs - most of 'em just sound like basic jams. And I'm an Iggy fan.
First half of the album, I felt all the songs were at least 30% too long. '1969' was very evocative. 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' is a classic, and 'We Will Fall' feels very particularly of its time. But for all you read about The Stooges' proto-punk, I don't get the visceral sense of anger and frustration that I do from later punk music. The lyrics are largely not great, and the musical motifs and hooks sort of outstay their welcome. I feel like there's something I'm not getting. I didn't much like it.
Disappointingly disjointed and wasn’t expecting the long drone psychedelic track after the knockout Wanna be your dog.
I wanna be your dog is great, and I like The Doors vibes, but it is still a poor album for me.
Abscheulicher Katzenjammer. Einziger Lichtblick ist I Wanna Be Your Dog.
No fun... NOT a real cool time...
Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it. It just was. Some songs I found catchy others were very forgettable.
Generic, late 60's proto-punk with blues rock embellishments. Not terrible, but boring. Or, to say it with one of the song titles: "No Fun". 2/5.
meh meh
Didnt like it, althought it has iggy pop in it.
Mja, het is wel oké maar iets te chaotisch voor mij.
I wanted to like it. I was only familiar with the first two tracks before listening and enjoy them both. They might be the only two good songs on the album though. The third track is so fucking bad and it spoils the rest of the listen.
Just not really a fan. Somewhat boring even by '69 standards. No songs really jumped out at me. 5/10.
I like the guitar...not crazy about the singer
Man, this is a strange album. It kicks ass for two songs, then we take 10 minutes to listen to some of the most boring music to come out of the 60s, and then the rest of the album is 2nd or 3rd rate copies of the first two tracks. Disappointing listen. Favorite Tracks: "1969", "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
Potjandorie, wat een vage muziek. Vooral het nummer "We Will Fall". Het nummer "No Fun" is dan weer wel best geinig eigenlijk, met gitaar op links. **
Boring
Not very creative
I know of the Stooges, but I don't know if I've ever heard a song from them before. I was surprised at the overall mellow (noisy, but mellow) nature of the album. I was also suprised to find a track that was longer than 10 minutes. At best, some of the tracks made it into the 'okay' range. The album wasn't terrible, but I could easily say 'no' to listening to this album again.
It's a very interesting sound, but not one that I would especially like to visit in future.
Beetje te veel langzame uitgesponnen nummers naar mijn smaak
Meh
hasn't aged well
Not great
2/5 Not really enjoyable music
Didn’t particularly enjoy this one. It’s got a familiar feel to artists that came later so I assume it’s on this list as an influence. On its own though I find it pretty forgettable.
My ears kinda hurt. 4/10
Not a fan. Asthma attack made me legit angry.
Because I previously only had listened to their second album, Fun House, The Stooges' eponymous debut sounds significantly more tame, accessible, and simple in comparison. Because most tracks consist of the same cords being played over and over, the raw guitars, whistles and bells make for an annoyingly abbrasive sound, I can't help but dislike this record. It just sounds bad. 2/5.
Decent rock album
One-hit wonder with I wanna be your dog. There's some experimental stuff here that was probably mind-blowing for its time, but doesn't stand the test of 50 years. Its difficult to listen to an album like this with a clean lens
Not bad, but a lot of the songs were kinda boring. Like that one that just dragged on and on… why??
Up tempo stuff was good, slower more ambient songs were pretty boring.
It sounded like I expected it to sound. Generally hated it, but saved by "I wanna be your dog. 2 stars
Bit boring, not bad music though Favourite song- not right
Meh, nao achei nada de mais
Voices and instruments don't do it for me.
Not for me, dawg. But maybe if I was a cool, angsty person in the 60's, this would have been my vibe. Probs not tho, I'd be too scared.
Interesting - I hear a lot of early 60's "garage rock" as well as "proto-punk" as some describe it. It's a little harsh for my tastes right now, though. Some of the songs are pretty lame, IMO.
This album for some reason feels like it’s somewhere between The Troggs and The Rolling Stones. Sometimes it get a little more Troggs and although there are some high points on the album, I didn’t really love it. A lot of the songs sound the same (1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog, Little Doll) and the album feels longer than it is. 1969 is pretty good even though it’s really simple. Little Doll is just too much of the same melody. We Will Fall is different and sort of a nice break but it feels like an interlude and is 10 minutes long which is WAY too long. Real Cool Time is another of my least favorite songs because it just sounds messy and it’s kind of annoying imo. I do like the vocals on the album for the most part though and some parts are pretty good so I don’t hate it but I most likely won’t revisit it. Favorite song: 1969 Least Favorite Songs: We Will Fall, Real Cool Time Strong 4/10
Not really my thing.
Wasn’t expecting _Stooges_ to be so psychedelic. _We Will Fall_ is too long.
Actually pretty weak in hindsight. Some good tracks but it's so basic
Dont get the hype
Punk. Bastante coñazo.
This is a product of its time. Raw, high energy... also lots of distortion, effects and then some breaks for psychedelic interludes. Respect, but no need to listen to again.
Meh, not my cup of tea.
Bleh.
Starts incredibly strong but peters out starting with that 10-minute Indian jam. Knowing where they go next, you're really ready to get there fast.
Alright, didn't really enjoy it
Some high points, but it really gets bogged down by the chanting and stuff.
I know this is pretty early for I guess what they'd call proto-punk but honestly it's pretty crap. if these songs turned up on an album today it'd be laughed out of existence. is it seriously true that we couldn't have all those cool punk bands without this? no one's exactly standing on the shoulders of giants here. 2/5 cause there's a slight chance that without it I'd never have heard NOFX.
I found this surprisingly mind-numbingly boring
This was close to unbearable
#88 Some of the most uninspired and lazy lyrics I've ever heard. The music itself is just poorly played noise. It made total sense when I saw this was produced by John Cale just one year after he shat out the equally abrasive White Light/ White Heat. Feels like a sequel to that mess of an album. Best song: I Wanna Be Your Dog
Punk war nie meins; lieber Iggy als Stooges
mi mama me pido q lo sacara sjsjaja
It's like listening to a fifth year high school music project
C'est enfin le dernier album avec Iggy Pop ! Je n'apprécie pas sa façon de chanter, que ce soit dans ses albums solos ou en groupe dans les Stooges. Ce dernier album ne fait pas exception, il ne mérite pas une meilleure note. En fait il en mérite même une moins bonne, 'We will Fall' est un des plus mauvais morceau de ce groupe ... =>1/5
nope
Repetitive sounds, I simply cannot listen to
Starting nice but from song three it tanks. What is going on with we will fall…?
I never really liked anything Iggy Pop related. This was not enjoyable for me at all.
I don’t understand how this made the list. Uninteresting, to say the least.
On the second song - I don’t like it We will fall has got to be one of the worst pieces of music I have ever had the misfortune of hearing No fun slightly redeemed this album but I still have lots of hate for the whole thing. The amount of relief I felt when it ended is immeasurable
I've heard a smattering of songs from Iggy Pop and the Stooges that I like, but none of them are on this album. I'm sure that this album was an important influence on Punk in the 70s, but this didn't do much for me at all. I Wanna Be Your Dog is starred in Apple Music, but it definitely wasn't the top track for me. I'm not sure I could even pick a top track... it would be more like less tiresome than others. We Will Fall felt like it was an hour long.
this was just plain boring to me, I couldn't wait to be done with it.
It was a painful listen So much electric guitar and repetitive ideas
This was painful to get through. We Will Fall might be one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Very annoying and uninspired.
I didn't listen to anything all the way through, and still somehow these 8 tracks felt like 40. Wildly unenjoyable lyrically and musically. If this is supposed to be anti-music, it's an overwhelming success. Boring, repetitive instrumentation and 3rd grade imitation of lyric writing. I came into this album with a lot of positivity about its possibilities, and was immediately knocked on my ass with 300 declarations about what year it was when this was recorded. Terribly disappointing ⭐.5
Not the best thing out of 1969, ill say that.
So... in order to meet their record label's minimum requirements, these guys stuffed this album with last-minute filler (including a blatantly overlong chant that takes up a third of the runtime), and this is somehow a must hear experience? Yeah. No.
A hard pass on this.
I tried being open-minded but I do not like this album at all. I’m a fan of rock and roll but this is just a lazy stupid mess.
One of the songs somewhere in the middle just caught me so off-guard that I am voting it a 1 out of principle. In reality I just didnt like the album, so it should have been a two, but that one song was too strange
I found the album so boring