THE STOOGES — The Stooges (review)

THE STOOGES — The Stooges album cover Album · 1969 · Proto-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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"The Stooges" is the debut full-length studio album by US hard rock/proto punk act The Stooges. The album was released in August 1969 through Elektra Records.

The music is a distorted and noisy kind of hard rock and is understandably called proto punk by many. The snarling "fuck You" attitude is certainly there and considering the album was released in 1969 it´s at times a quite extreme hard rock album. To contrast the predominantly short and aggressive tunes the album also features the 10:18 minutes long "We Will Fall" which to my ears is a complete The Doors worship. Psychadelic, chanting, repetitive and bleak "We Will Fall" in many ways reminds me of "The End".

While the musicianship isn´t on the highest level, there´s an honesty and organic delivery about the whole affair that is rare. This is raw and "In your Face". Add to that lead vocalist Iggy Pop´s generally flippant attitude and the album comes off as a good example of a noisy and loud, sex, drugs and rock´n´roll type album.

The Stooges deliver with this album, there´s no doubt about that, but it´s also obvious that they weren´t very mature as songwriters yet, and not all tracks are queally interesting. Alledgedly the band didn´t have enough material to record a full-length studio album but The Stooges lied to Elektra Records and said they had enough material to enter the studio. That resulted in "Real Cool Time", "Not Right", and "Little Doll" being written so close to entering the studio, that The Stooges didn´t have time to rehearse them properly before recording them. Despite a few shortcomings I think "The Stooges" is a great debut album and a 3.5 star rating is warranted.
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