The Stooges ‎– The Stooges

 
The Stooges is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock band The Stooges. It was released on August 5, 1969 by Elektra Records. Two songs, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "1969", were released as singles and the album peaked at number 106 on the Billboard album chart. It is considered a landmark proto-punk album. With Ron Asheton's walls of distortion, and distorted wah wah solos, textures and power chord riffs, it is also considered to have influenced hard rock. For the album, the Stooges had intended to record five songs: "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "No Fun", "1969", "Ann" and "We Will Fall". The five songs were staples-and essentially the basis-of the Stooges' live set at the time. A typical Stooges song of the period would involve two minutes of composed song followed by several minutes of improvisation. Having assumed that the five songs as normally performed would cover requirements for the album, the Stooges were told by their record label Elektra that they needed more material. According to Iggy Pop, "We handed [the five-song version of the album] in and they refused it. They said, 'There aren't enough songs!' So we lied and said, 'That's OK, we've got lots more songs.'"

Tracklist:

A1        1969  
A2        I Wanna Be Your Dog   
A3        We Will Fall
B1        No Fun   
B2        Real Cool Time 
B3        Ann   
B4        Not Right   
B5        Little Doll  
C1        No Fun (Original John Cale Mix)   
C2        Little Doll (Original John Cale Mix)    
C3        Not Right (Alternate Vocal)    
C4        Real Cool Time (Alternate Mix)  
C5        I Wanna Be Your Dog (Alternate Vocal)    
D1        1969 (Alternate Vocal)  
D2        Ann (Full Version)    
D3        No Fun (Full Version)