Stooges

Certain Songs #2518: The Stooges – “T.V. Eye”

December 28, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Fun House
Year: 1970

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So if on their first album, The Stooges tapped their more avant-garde influences by getting John Cale to produce it, on the follow-up, they went to their garage-rock influences, getting Don Gallucci to produce the follow-up, 1970’s careening Fun House.

Certain Songs #2517: The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog”

December 27, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: The Stooges
Year: 1969

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Roaring out of Ann Arbor in the late 1960s, The Stooges — Ron Asheton on guitar, Scott Asheton on drums, Dave Alexander on bass, and, of course, Iggy Pop on vocals — fused the arty self-conscious primitiveness of The Velvet Underground and the amateurish unconscious primitivism of a thousand garage bands, and ended up creating one of the major templates for what was later known as “punk rock.”