Friday Night Album Rock - The Stooges - The Stooges - 1969
In retrospect, Will Hodgkinson called The Stooges "charged and brutal garage-rock", and Pitchfork critic Joe Tangari said it was one of the essential forerunners to the punk rock movement of the 1970s. It and the Stooges' next two albums were later deemed "proto-punk landmarks", according to Mojo journalist Manish Agarwal. Daryl Easlea, writing for BBC Music, called the album "rock at its most primordial. ... [the] album is the original punk rock rush on record, a long-held well-kept secret by those in the know." Mark Deming of AllMusic commented, "Part of the fun of The Stooges is, then as now, the band managed the difficult feat of sounding ahead of their time and entirely out of their time, all at once."
In 2003, the album was placed at number 185 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", maintaining the rating in its 2012 revised list,[20] and dropping to number 488 in its 2020 list. The magazine also included "1969" in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". Robert Dimery, writing in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, said that the album was "a collection of brilliant curios, which were neither full-on garage rock, nor out-and-out dirge." In 2005, Q magazine placed "I Wanna Be Your Dog" at number 13 in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Tracks"
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I always looked for something no one else was listening to. The first Zeppelin album was incredible until everyone else was playing it, but The Stooges never let me down with universal popularity. Therefore I still listen to them to this day. I was just playing this very disc in the car last week and when I couldn't find my Fun House cd, I ordered another one.
A couple weeks ago my oldest grandson was stuck with me for an hour and he endured a history of the band and about the time I saw them up in Ann Arbor in '71. I had "No Fun" cranked up on the Caddy's box to punctuate the lecture. I don't know what he thought of them, he wouldn't say because he really needed that ride.
Interesting note: On this first album the front man went by the name "Iggy Stooge" before changing it to Pop for their 2nd release. The Stooges broke new ground by inventing crowd surfing and throwing up on the audience, even though none of it was intentional. i believe guitar player Ron Asheton died just a year or so ago nixing any plans for a 21st century reunion. i hope they buried him with his wah wah pedal.
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Thanx for posting!
