Genres: Hard Rock, Glam Rock, Proto-Punk, Album Rock, Detroit Rock Active: 60's, 70's, 2000's Formed: 1967 in Ann Arbor, MI
Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, The Wailers, The Pretty Things, The Yardbirds, The Who, The Velvet Underground, The Troggs, The Trashmen, Sun Ra, The Sonics, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Kingsmen, The Doors, Frank Zappa, The Fugs, The Count Five MC5, New York Dolls, Mitch Ryder, Motörhead, G.G. Allin, The Ramones, Lou Reed, Radio Birdman, Sonic Youth, T. Rex, Dead Boys, Black Sabbath, The Amboy Dukes, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, Patti Smith The Dictators, Backyard Babies, The Vacation, The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs, Birdhouse, Chrome, Alice Cooper, Mother Love Bone, The Celibate Rifles, The Fluid, Black Flag, G.G. Allin, Swervedriver, Spacemen 3, Sun Dial, Bent Wind, Awesome Color, Radio Birdman, The Hives |  |
During the psychedelic haze of the late '60s, the grimy, noisy and relentlessly bleak rock & roll of the Stooges was conspicuously out of time. Like the Velvet Underground, the Stooges revealed the underside of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, showing all of the grime beneath the myth. The Stooges, however, weren't nearly as cerebral as the Velvets. Taking their cue from the over-amplified pounding of British blues, the primal raunch of American garage rock, and the psychedelic rock (as well as the audience-baiting) of the Doors, the Stooges were raw, immediate, and vulgar. Iggy Pop became notorious for performing smeared in blood or peanut butter and diving into the audience. Ron and Scott Asheton formed a ridiculously primitive rhythm section, pounding out chords with no finesse -- in essence, the Stooges were the first rock & roll band completely stripped of the swinging beat that epitomized R&B and early rock & roll.
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Release: June 15, 2010
Label: Easy Action Records
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Release: July 14, 2009
Label: Cleopatra
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