The StoogesBest The Stooges Albums Ranked
8.1
Avg Score
16
Opinions
5
Albums
6
Reviewers
Summary from 16 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated The Stooges's catalog across 5 albums from 16 opinions, with an overall average of 8.1/10. The top-rated The Stooges album is The Stooges (1969) with a 8.8/10 average from 4 ratings, followed by 1970: The Complete Funhouse Sessions and Fun House. The discography on Wavelength spans 1969 to 2020. I Wanna Be Your Dog ranks as the highest-rated The Stooges song on Wavelength with a 9.7/10 average.
The Stooges
“James Osterburg was a man you might not look at twice on the street. Iggy Pop was his animal soul, and when Iggy got loose on a stage just about anything could happen. With the Stooges he was the mesmerizing center of a maelstrom that helped to invent a whole host of rock's musical clichés, a group that spun primal fury and young adult frustration into some of the ugliest, most brutal, most alive ”
Live at Goose Lake: August 8th 1970
“Newly unearthed audio of the Stooges’ infamous final original lineup performance highlights their masterful album Fun House and sheds light on their raw, druggy, unhinged stage show.”
The Weirdness
“Something about Iggy Pop brings out the beast in guitar players. On the first two Stooges albums, he drove Ron Asheton to turn his wah-wah into a flamethrower. Then, on the 1973 comeback, Raw Power, he goaded James Williamson into playing a lifetime reputation’s worth of shredded-skull brain-aflame leads. Even David Bowie got the bug […]”
The Weirdness
“The Stooges reunite for just their fourth album and first in 34 years. Mike Watt takes over for the late Dave Alexander on bass and Steve Albini serves as engineer.”
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