History Music / TheStooges

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The original line-up reunited as The Stooges in 2003 (minus the late Dave Alexander, who at Ron Asheton's insistence was replaced by Mike Watt of Music/TheMinutemen). After Ron Asheton's death in 2009, Iggy declared The Stooges done with... only to reunite them again as Iggy And The Stooges with James Williamson back on guitar. After [[AuthorExistenceFailure Scott Asheton's death]] in 2014, [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/iggy-pop-remembers-scott-asheton-he-played-with-a-boxers-authority-20140319#ixzz2wQFZYvr1 it looks like it's over]].

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions''. A box set of ''seven CDs'' containing every single note and StudioChatter from the ''Fun House'' recording.

* SexAndDrugsAndRockAndRoll

* DefiantToTheEnd: Iggy wrote "Death Trip" after realising that the record company hated what ''Raw Power'' was becoming and weren't going to promote it.

* EpicRocking: "We Will Fall", "Dirt", "Fun House".

* GenreShift: "We Will Fall" is a 10-minute creepy drone-based song with screeching violas by the album's [[RecordProducer producer]] [[Music/VelvetUnderground John Cale]].

* StageNames: Iggy Pop is actually named James Newell Osterberg. The "Iggy" part came from the fact that he used to drum for a band called The Iguanas while in high school.

* Dave Alexander - bass (1967-1971)

-->''The one who searches to destroy"''

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''Raw Power''.

The Stooges were a proto-punk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]], Michigan, active between 1967-1974, who along with their fellow Michiganders MC5 proved to be [[TropeMakers enormously influential on the development of]] Music/PunkRock.

The band's SignatureStyle was aggressive, incredibly simple proto-punk based around Ron Asheton and later James Williamson's heavy, hypnotic riffs, Scott Asheton's tribal rhythms and Iggy Pop's awesomeness. One of the original CrazyAwesome frontmen of rock, Pop was famous for his extreme behaviour during live concerts, which included rolling around in broken glass, smearing himself with peanut butter, performing [[WalkingShirtlessScene without a shirt]], [[TropeMaker inventing crowd-surfing]] and baiting and verbally abusing the audience.

The Stooges, much like their fellow protopunkers the MC5, only released three albums during their initial career. Their first two albums were ''The Stooges'' and ''Fun House''. These didn't sell well but attracted a cult audience and were later VindicatedByHistory, recognised as classic protopunk albums. The group temporarily collapsed in 1971 after being dropped from their record label and suffering from severe heroin abuse, but were quickly rallied by DavidBowie, [[NetworkToTheRescue who got them a new contract and produced their final album]] ''Raw Power''. Bowie's mix was frequently the source of controversy as he was brought in to salvage the album after a botched, amateurish mix by Iggy. The band barely lasted another year before breaking up for good. Iggy went on to a solo career and remained friends with Bowie ever since.

!Tropes

* GenreShift: "We Will Fall" is a 10-minute creepy drone-based song with screeching violas by the album's [[RecordProducer producer]] [[VelvetUnderground John Cale]].

* IntercourseWithYou: "Penetration", with its cool bastardised RollingStones riff and Iggy's screaming vocals, ain't exactly subtle...

The Stooges were a proto-punk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]], Michigan, active between 1967-1974, who along with their fellow Michiganders MC5 proved to be [[TropeMaker enormously influential on the development of]] PunkRock.

TheStooges were a proto-punk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]], Michigan, active between 1967-1974, who along with their fellow Michiganders MC5 proved to be [[TropeMaker enormously influential on the development of]] PunkRock.

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial to say the least 1997 remaster of ''Raw Power'', which is always cited as the worst possible example of the LoudnessWar. He also reunited the band in 2003, thankfully stayed away from the remasters of their other two albums and recorded a new Stooges album, ''The Weirdness''. Fan reaction has largely been... mixed, with frequent invoking of FanonDiscontinuity.

* IggyPop - vocals (1967-1974)

* BeyondTheImpossible: Dave Alexander: You know you have a problem when The Stooges think you do too many drugs.

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[[caption-width:500:The Stooges in 1974. Left to right: front - Iggy Pop, Scott Thurston; back - Scott and Ron Asheton, James Williamson]]

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial to say the least 1997 remaster of ''Raw Power'', which is always cited as the worst possible example of the RecordOfLoudnessWar. He also reunited the band in 2003, thankfully stayed away from the remasters of their other two albums and recorded a new Stooges album, ''The Weirdness''. Fan reaction has largely been... mixed, with frequent invoking of FanonDiscontinuity.

* RecordOfLoudnessWar: Iggy's remaster of ''Raw Power'' is a terrible offender. One of the songs, in a sound editor, gives us the page image. Yes, it sounds as headache-inducingly loud as that screen-cap makes it out to be.
** And that's not even mentioning the ''original'' mix, later released as ''Rough Power'', where Iggy pushed every lever he could find into the red.

* BeyongTheImpossible: Dave Alexander: You know you have a problem when The Stooges think you do too many drugs.

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial to say the least 1997 remaster of ''Raw Power'', which is always cited as the worst possible example of the RecordOfLoudnessWar. He also reunited the band in 2003, thankfully stayed away from the remasters of their other two albums and recorded a new Stooges album, ''The Weirdness''. Fan reaction has largely been... mixed, with frequent invoking of DisContinuity.

** And that's not even mentioning the ''original'' mix, later released as ''Rough Power'', where Iggy pushed every lever he could find into the red.
* ScientificProgressGoesOi: James Williamson went into electronics after the breakup of the band.