The Stooges
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Stooges (1969) - Stooges [Amazon.com]
Everything the peace and love vibe of the '60s wasn't the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop's monotone birthday lament, "1969" ("War across the U.S.A. / Another year for me and you / Another year with nothing to do"), pretty much sums up the band's coldly disaffected outlook. --Percy Keegan
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The Stooges was a rock music band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Stooges - like The Velvet Underground - sold rather few records and performed for indifferent or hostile audiences, but are often regarded as hugely influential both on the then-nascent heavy metal music and on later punk rock (see protopunk). Singer Iggy Pop was often the focus of attention. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stooges [Mar 2005]1969
The Stooges' eponymous debut, The Stooges, was also released this year to little critical or popular acceptance. The album, however, went on to become one of the most important recordings in the early development of punk rock. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_in_music [Mar 2005]The Stooges (1969)
The Stooges is the self-titled debut of the protopunk band The Stooges. It was released in August 1969 and peaked at number 106 on the Billboard album charts. A song was pulled from the album, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," and was released as a single in October. It did slighty better than the album. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stooges_%28album%29 [Mar 2005]
Stooges (1969) - Stooges [Amazon.com]
The Stooges is the self-titled debut of the protopunk band The Stooges. It was released in August 1969 and peaked at number 106 on the Billboard album charts. A song was pulled from the album, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," and was released as a single in October. It did slighty better than the album. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stooges_%28album%29 [Mar 2005]
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Everything the peace and love vibe of the '60s wasn't the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop's monotone birthday lament, "1969" ("War across the U.S.A. / Another year for me and you / Another year with nothing to do"), pretty much sums up the band's coldly disaffected outlook. Producer and Velvet Underground second banana John Cale lends the proceedings an appropriately ominous feel, although his attempt to transform the Stooges into V.U. clones on the 10-minute-plus "All Fall Down" is the band's weakest studio moment. But Iggy Pop and company more than make up for that misstep with the mind-numbingly ugly-and-great "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and the distortion-drenched "Real Cool Time." --Percy Keegan
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