Thankfully I saw The Stooges a couple of years ago. I'm glad because the guitarist Ron Asheton died. Lust for Life is still one of my favorite albums. It's a good one to check out. Also, did anyone think Ron Asheton looked like Michael Moore.

The Stooges have a permanent space on my iPod.They even grace my ancient vinyl collection.

 Does it all begin with the Dolls and the Stooges?

Of course not.

All the best bands, then and now, are (as Mick Jagger once put it) "highly derivitive"...

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As Proto-punk as you could get. Iggy's train wreck singing and stage pressence, Ron Asheton's steady simple crunching guitar were the template. Sure there was raw basic rock before the stooges, but it generally made little or no impact on anything but a small handfull listeners. Hasil Adkins might be the the first punk to have crawled out of the primordial ooze.

:D rocks so much
even though id like it better if iggy didnt take his shirt off so much :-p :)

A great live band but overall they lacked the great songs. A few of their albums are really good, but as a whole sort of mediocre in the studio. Iggy Pop as a solo artist is the same way, some of his stuff is excellent and some of it blows.

Fun House, the greatest album of the 1970's, is more than enough to warrant their inclusion in the Hall of Fame. Those motherfuckers better get their act together and induct The Stooges.

One of the best bands of all time.

forever the originators,those 3 albums are so moving and honest,the weirdness was okay.fave:ann

The granddaddy of punk to be sure. A lot of Iggy's 70's solo stuff is uninteresting to me but, the Stooges were way ahead of their time. And, like many great and influential artists, were not that appreciated during their heyday. When Iggy was with the Stooges he was just plain scary. Minimalist angst-rock at its best. I don't think that it was a fluke that the Pistols covered "No Fun" either.

Iggy is awesome and you can tell the Bowie albums that he collaborated on. He has a unique style about him that many have tried to immatate.

For me, "Raw Power" was and is the greatest rock album of all time, crappy David Bowie mix notwithstanding (Scotty Asheton sounds like he's playing drums through mud). The band line-up benefits enormously from the inclusion of James Williamson's blistering guitar playing, and Iggy was never before and has never been since as manic and feral as he is here. What they put out as hard-to-find singles was even more incendiary- "I'm Sick Of You", "I Got A Right" (one reviewer whose name unfortunately escapes me once said Iggy's favorite themes for his lyric writing were: A. hatred of women B. hatred of himself and C. hatred of everybody else)...Look, I loved punk rock...still do...The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, etc....but even the best of their stuff was nothing but a pale, imitative approximation of what Iggy and the Stooges were able to accomplish when they were in their furious drug-addled glory, way back when.

Raw Power! A Punk rock Legend. Even his later stuff in the 80's is pretty good. I like that duet with the B-52's chick. I understand he made an album a couple of years ago but I never heard it.

Iggy is the Godfather of punk.40 years later he's still the best!Bow and scrape ye sorry imitations!