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Originally deemed by Rolling Stone “loud, boring, tasteless, unimaginative and childish” — sentiments shared by many critics — only later to be included on the magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time register, The Stooges established the template for myriad styles and the snarling attitude that would be associated with the still-years-away punk scene. Time further proved the band’s stomping, clattering rock ‘n’ roll way ahead of the curve given the work is now cited on endless “Best Album” lists.
Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, and reissued to celebrate Elektra 75, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set marks the first time Iggy Pop and Co.’s groundbreaking statement is available at 45RPM speed. This definitive-sounding copy benefits from the extra groove space by playing with enhanced definition, greater separation, and more realistic presence than prior versions.
The sonic characteristics that help make The Stooges unique — the welling fuzztones; the dark, wet smack of the low end; the cavernous reverb and wah-wah; the in-the-red overdrive; the vibrant handclaps; the nearly detached timbre of Pop’s vocal sneer; the grit, grime, and grind of the stacked rhythms — come across with involving clarity, liveliness, detail, and dimensionality. For all of their twisted density and savage tonality, songs project with a deep openness and large dynamic. It’s maybe as close as music has ever come to literally vibrating.
Indeed, everything Pop, bassist Dave Alexander, and brothers Ron and Scott Asheton create on The Stooges is utterly corporeal. The genesis of the band’s then-inimitable approach traces back to the Motor City’s industrial facilities; the urge to tear down the pretense of the hippie movement; the feeling of being an outsider amid a society reckoning with a collision of cultures; and the genuine desire to be completely original. With Pop as the only true musician in the quartet, the Stooges pursued a do-it-yourself ethic that had no precedent in their era.
Having constructed their own instruments from the likes of oil drums, vacuum cleaners, blenders, washboards, and various scraps, the Stooges eschewed structure and embraced experimentalism, improvisation, and personality. They used their lack of experience to their advantage, a trait manifested via the crude makeup and basic minimalism of nearly every note recorded for The Stooges.
Tracklist:
A1, 1969
A2. I Wanna Be Your Dog
B1. We Will Fall
C1. No Fun
C2. Real Cool Time
D1. Ann
D2. Not Right
D3. Little Doll
