The Stooges - The Stooges

The Stooges debut record is an impressive romp especially given the fact that it's now over 40 years old! My favourite track of the album, Ann has always reminded me of 'Alice Cooper' who were maturing as a group at a very similar time which makes for an interesting parallel. I Wanna Be Your Dog has always been considered a classic too, with its gritty guitar riff into making it a fantastic live number. The ten minute We Will Fall is also an interesting piece which is a lot darker than the rest of the album making for a good contrast. This recently remastered two disk edition is the ******** and is certainly the best version of the CD to date (interestingly there is ...  Read the complete review

Released in 1969 a few weeks after woodstock this was just another sign of the times for the impending death of the hippy dream. Primitive, raw and unhinged this album contains most of the well known songs from the bands catalog notably the iconoclastic "I wanna be your dog", "No Fun" and "Little Doll". Produced by John Cale, the album has a slightly more polished and conventional sound than the two albums that followed and this is mainly down to John Cale "reeling" the band in somewhat from the more far out arrangements explored in the next album "Fun House". Most of the songs here are straight forward ...  Read the complete review