History Music / TheStooges

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The music is down to its bare essentials, with simple riffs. However, compared to the works of later punk bands, this may be considered a DownplayedTrope, as ''Music/FunHouseAlbum'' has prominent saxophone and fairly complicated bass parts (courtesy of Steve Mackay and Dave Alexander, respectively), and James Williamson's playing on ''Music/RawPower'' is quite technically proficient. UnbuiltTrope may apply here to an extent.

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 Music/IggyPop's awesomeness. One of the original CrazyIsCool front-men 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]], [[TropeMakers inventing crowd-surfing]] and baiting and verbally abusing the audience.

* LowerClassLout: Like their {{protopunk}} contemporaries, the Music/NewYorkDolls, they were happy to play up this image to shock people.

The Stooges were a ProtoPunk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]], UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, active between 1967-1974 and from 2003 to 2016, who along with their fellow Michiganders Music/{{MC5}} proved to be [[TropeMakers enormously influential on the development of]] PunkRock.

* KillEmAll: The premise of ''Search and Destroy''.

* UpToEleven: The closer of ''Music/FunHouseAlbum'', "L.A. Blues". The influence from free jazz is consistently raised during the album, but "L.A. Blues" simply resolves all structure in favour of a chaotic sound mass.

* IntercourseWithYou: "Penetration", with its cool bastardised [[Music/TheRollingStones Rolling Stones]] riff and Iggy's screaming vocals, ain't exactly subtle...

The Stooges, much like their fellow protopunkers the Music/{{MC5}}, only released three albums during their initial career. Their first two albums were ''Music/TheStoogesAlbum'' and ''Music/FunHouse''. These didn't sell well but attracted a cult audience and were later VindicatedByHistory, recognised as classic {{Protopunk}} albums influencing countless PunkRock, {{New Wave|Music}} and AlternativeRock bands. The group temporarily collapsed in 1971 after being dropped from their record label and suffering from severe heroin abuse, but were quickly rallied by Music/DavidBowie, [[NetworkToTheRescue who got them a new contract and produced their final album]] ''Music/RawPower''. 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 until the latter's death in 2016.

* 1969 - ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]''
* 1970 - ''Music/FunHouse''

* CarefulWithThatAxe: "Loose", "TV Eye", and especially "L.A. Blues", from ''Music/FunHouse''.

** The songs "1969" from ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]'' and "1970" from ''Music/FunHouse''.

* EpicRocking: "We Will Fall", "Dirt", "Fun House", "Open Up and Bleed". Additionally, the complete sessions of ''Music/FunHouse'' reveal that "L.A. Blues" evolved from a jam that could go as long as seventeen and a half minutes.

* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: The music is down to its bare essentials, with simple riffs. However, compared to the works of later punk bands, this may be considered a DownplayedTrope, as ''Music/FunHouse'' has prominent saxophone and fairly complicated bass parts (courtesy of Steve Mackay and Dave Alexander, respectively), and James Williamson's playing on ''Music/RawPower'' is quite technically proficient. UnbuiltTrope may apply here to an extent.
* UpToEleven: The closer of ''Music/FunHouse'', "L.A. Blues". The influence from free jazz is consistently raised during the album, but "L.A. Blues" simply resolves all structure in favour of a chaotic sound mass.

** Also Australian punk pioneers Radio Birdman, who named themselves after a ''[[{{Mondegreen}} misheard]]'' lyric in "1970." ("Radio ''burning''")

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 Music/IggyPop's awesomeness. One of the original CrazyAwesome front-men 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]], [[TropeMakers inventing crowd-surfing]] and baiting and verbally abusing the audience.

The Stooges were a ProtoPunk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]], UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, active between 1967-1974 and from 2003 onwards, who along with their fellow Michiganders Music/{{MC5}} proved to be [[TropeMakers enormously influential on the development of]] PunkRock.

* BreakupBreakout: Iggy Pop went on to a successful solo career.

* CloudCuckooLand: The b-side of ''Fun House'', as described by music critics. In fact the appearance of a jazz saxophonist and Iggy Pop screaming like a madman makes it sound [[NightmareFuel quite creepy]].

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

* LargeHam: Music/IggyPop, a CrazyAwesome one.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: ''1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions''. A box set of ''seven [=CDs=]'' containing every single note and StudioChatter from the ''Fun House'' recording.

* StageNames: Iggy Pop is actually named James Newell Osterberg, and still goes by "Jim" in private. The "Iggy" part came from the fact that he used to drum for a band called The Iguanas while in high school. Also, on the self-titled album, he was credited as "Iggy Stooge", but this was apparently a bit of ExecutiveMeddling he didn't approve of.

Since Scott Asheton died in 2014, Iggy Pop is the only surviving founding member of the band, and he and James Williamson are the only surviving core members of the band's '70s lineups. Williamson announced in 2016 that the band had split up, reasoning that "it would be sort-of ludicrous to try and tour as Iggy and the Stooges when there's only one Stooge in the band and then you have side guys. That doesn't make any sense to me."

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial- to say the least- 1997 remaster of ''Music/RawPower'', 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. The Stooges released a new album in 2013, ''Ready to Die'', which was received much better than their previous effort. Since Scott Asheton died in 2014, Iggy Pop is the only remaining founding member of the band, which now faces an uncertain future.

-->''"I am the world's forgotten boy''
-->''The one who's searchin' only to destroy"''
-->--'''The Stooges''', "Search and Destroy" - ''Music/RawPower''.

The Stooges, much like their fellow protopunkers the Music/{{MC5}}, only released three albums during their initial career. Their first two albums were ''Music/TheStoogesAlbum'' and ''Music/FunHouse''. 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 Music/DavidBowie, [[NetworkToTheRescue who got them a new contract and produced their final album]] ''Music/RawPower''. 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 until the latter's death in 2016.

The Stooges were a ProtoPunk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]],UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, active between 1967-1974 and from 2003 onwards, who along with their fellow Michiganders Music/{{MC5}} proved to be [[TropeMakers enormously influential on the development of]] PunkRock.

!!! "Now I wanna be your tropes, now I wanna be your tropes!":

* WordSalad: When the main part of a song is finished, the band sometimes starts jamming on the song structure. While [[TheLancer James Williamson]] delivers his Music/JimiHendrix [[XmeetsY meets]] Music/LouReed" solos, Music/IggyPop [[CarefulWithThatAxe screams like crazy]] with completely random Scat lyrics ''for minutes''.

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial- to say the least- 1997 remaster of ''Music/RawPower'', 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. The Stooges released a new album in 2013, ''Ready To Die'', which was received much better than their previous effort. Since Scott Asheton died in 2014, Iggy Pop is the only remaining founding member of the band, which now faces an uncertain future.

** The original line-up then reunited as The Stooges in 2003 (minus the late Dave Alexander, who at Ron Asheton's insistence was replaced by [[Music/TheMinutemen Mike Watt]]).

* RatedMForManly: The band is sometimes sorted into the nebulous genre of ''Cock Rock''.

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