Canonic Albums by Artists Who You Love and Revere But For Some Reason This One Bypasses You Almost Completely

[padraig (u.s.)]

'I Got a Right'

yeah I Got a Right is fucking awesome, probably the single proto-hardcore tune

basically a template for Pay to Cum era Bad Brains

 

[linebaugh]

oh boy I might have to revoke yr kool rock music license for that one tho. TV Eye is best song on record, easy top 5 Stooges tune.

the second half when Iggy is freaking out over that nailed on groove and everything suddenly drops out and then that blinding Ron Asheton riff cuts back in like a bolt of lightning to the base of yr spine? forget about it

I do agree that side 2 tails off after 1970. tho I do like L.A. Blues, but I have a healthy appetite for both noise rock and late 60s/early 70s shambling post-hippie freakouts i.e. Amon Duul I and that kinda thing.

I just really dont like the riff. maybe its because the association has been ruined for me by every song to ever feature in a budweiser commercial but Id argue if it so seamlessly transitioned into that there must have been something wrong in the genesis

 

[Mr. Tea]

as above, if I had to rank Stooges LPs

Raw Power >> Fun House >> S/T

if self-titled was an EP of just 1969, I Wanna Be Your Dog, No Fun (and maybe Little Doll) it would be number one. the rest sounds like exactly what it is, shit they just made up on the spot to to fill up the rest of space, especially the interminably dull 10 minutes of We Will Fall.

I definitely prefer the original to the Williamson lineup in the way I prefer Mooney Can to Suzuki Can but side 1 of Raw Power is so unrelentingly awesome that it's hard to deny

Agree that Raw Power is the best Stooges LP, but [insert Unpopular Opinion Puffin meme] I also really like 'We Will Fall.' It makes me think of what The Doors would have sounded like if they'd actually been any good.

 

[william_kent]

The Congos - Heart of The Congos is counted as a Lee Perry album? Every review I've ever seen has described as a masterpiece, some going as far to describe it as the best reggae album ever or some other hyperbole. And I just don't get it... at first I thought it must be because I had heard the wrong version and that I needed to hear the "original Jamaican" mix, but no... still can't understand the fuss about this one. There's maybe two good tunes and the rest is filler, and if I'm being honest it's only Congo Man that I like. It's not even the best "Lee Perry" album, let alone the best reggae album.

 

[rubberdingyrapids]

best stooges albums in order of brilliance - raw power, the first one, fun house.

 

[shakahislop]

The original release of loaded isnt great, but Fully Loaded is amazing. It has some of my fave VU tunes.

loved this about five years ago, listened to it over and over, has no idea it was a cover, and also have no idea if it's still any good. for a few months i was really into bardo pond and then i never listened to them again.

 

[version]

loved this about five years ago, listened to it over and over, has no idea it was a cover, and also have no idea if it's still any good. for a few months i was really into bardo pond and then i never listened to them again.

They've covered Pharoah Sanders and Funkadelic too.

 

[version]

This is the only one I ever really liked of theirs. They just blur into a lot of other shoegazey sort of bands for me.

 

[shakahislop]

They've covered Pharoah Sanders and Funkadelic too.

i'm pretty sure it was pharoah sanders that covered bardo pond

 

[rubberdingyrapids]

Josh Homme: "i sort of went backward with Iggy Pop, and eventually I got to the Stooges’ Raw Power, which I still think is the craziest-sounding record ever. Take any band that says they’re raw, play them Raw Power, and they’ll sound like the biggest pussies of all time.”