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2.2.07

The Stooges Get Hip Hopped

Seems like The Stooges’ classic “I Wanna Be Your Dog” will be re-released on March 26, as a special edition single, with six different live versions, recorded around the world, in varying genres, from acoustic to rap!!!

WTF, right?

Uncut has more: One live version – from a Detroit show in 1973 – captures a fantastic rapping attempt by Iggy Pop, and was originally featured on the band’s ‘Metallic KO’ farewell show album. Iggy also performs the proto-punk anthem, solo and acoustic, live on Barcelona TV show, Sputnik in 1993. The other versions included on the EP of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” are from 1977, 2000 and 2004.

A new Stooges album (the first since '73) will be out in March.

MP3: The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Prepare yourself, because the new Stooges album, "Weirdness," really sucks. And I say that as a long-
time Iggy fan who has seen him a kazillion times live. I'm sure the live show will still be good, but the album lacks all the dynamics of the classic Stooges albums: it sounds, no fooling, like a Ramones tribute band! They should have hired a real producer like John Cale instead of that idiot Steve Albini, who ruins everything he touches. Very sad.

5:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am afraid the first poster is right. First off, let's just say that it is not fair to compare anything a band does 34 years later to their early work. The same dumb, youthful naivety is just not there...However, Steve Albini could not have been a worse pick to produce the resurrected Stooges! His "dryness" in his production method has left many bands woefully misrepresented thru the years and let's face it, when you hear a band live on stage - there's a lot of basic effects coming out of their equipment (and PA system). Don't give me this shit about keeping it real and minimal! The Stooges early works were not afraid to be drenched in reverb and slight effects but Albini produces this one the same as he has for all the countless other groups he's worked with. Jesus Christ Steve! You were working with the fucking STOOGES! Your heroes - my heroes! If you were so afraid of fucking them up like you've said, then why mail in your same, tired, less-is-more production values to the greatest primal band ever? Granted, the songs on The Weirdness are not up to par of their early work but the production is just the usual Albini-esque "dry, trashy, clunky, cluttered mess" that's been delivered time and time again... Sorry folks but the idea that a legendary band can come back from the dead 30+ years later and still deliver vital music is hugely flawed and very unlikely (as is here) but at least the record could've been given a better chance at sounding better than this ilk.

My heart hurts every time I hear the missed potential on this one. Clearly there are many producers out there that could have helped this one along with a better grasp on production values for this particular band....and Where the hell was Don Gallucci (Funhouse's amazing producer)??

2:26 PM  

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