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  Iggy Pop: The Stooges
Following three albums, the Stooges disbanded, but the group's legacy grew over the next two decades, as legions of underground bands used their sludgy grind as a foundation for a variety of indie-rock styles, and as Iggy Pop became a pop cultural icon.
Produced by John Cale, the Stooges' primitive eponymous debut was released in 1969, and while it generated some attention in the underground press, it barely sold any copies.
Meanwhile, the Stooges lived on in countless semi-legal releases and repackagings of live shows, demos and outtakes, all of which were consumed avidly by a still-devoted cult.
www.geocities.com /mnennoburke/stooges.html   (815 words)

  
  The Stooges - Music Downloads - Online
Following three albums, the Stooges disbanded, but the group's legacy grew over the next two decades, as legions of underground bands used their sludgy grind as a foundation for a variety of indie rock styles, and as Iggy Pop became a pop culture icon.
Adopting the name Iggy Stooge, he rounded up brothers Ron and Scott Asheton (guitar and drums, respectively) and bassist Dave Alexander, and the group debuted at a Halloween concert at the University of Michigan student union in 1967.
Produced by John Cale, the Stooges' primitive eponymous debut was released in 1969, and while it generated some attention in the underground press, it barely sold any copies.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/623/The-Stooges/1039865.html   (1045 words)

  
 The Stooges- Perfect Sound Forever
If the Stooges were the granddaddies to all this mediocrity, then I'd be sure to keep a distance.
So the Stooges, from 1968 til their final dissolution in 1974, trekked across the country time and time again despite the fact that the general 'rock' audience didn't give a shit, with few contemporaries to call their own.
The question still remains, however, as to why the Stooges have made such an impact on me at this relatively late stage of my 'development', yet didn't move me an inch when I was an angry teenager being brainwashed by Minutemen and Bad Brains records.
www.furious.com /perfect/stooges.html   (1517 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Stooges: Music: The Stooges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Producer and Velvet Underground second banana John Cale lends the proceedings an appropriately ominous feel, although his attempt to transform the Stooges into V.U. clones on the 10-minute-plus "All Fall Down" is the band's weakest studio moment.
Although the MC5 was the most popular of the "proto-punk" bands, another fairly popular one was a band called the Stooges, a band that the MC5 once referred to as their "little brother" band.
This is where it all began for the Stooges, and for the most part, this is an excellent debut.
www.amazon.com /Stooges/dp/B000005IU1   (1473 words)

  
 The Stooges on Elektra 1969-70
STOOGES MAKE N.Y. NEW YORK While much of the interest in the Pavilion's show of September 5th centered on the New York debut of the Stooges, it was the driving MC5 who showed they rated their headliner billing.
Stooges kooks, presumably those at which this box set is aimed, seem to have some parallel characteristics with the woozy fans of Star Trek, who can often be found at conventions paying stupid sums of money for trash: crumpled scripts or prosaic items supposedly clutched at one time or another by their heroes.
By 1969, the Stooges were becoming semilegends in their hometown, moving from an abstract, arty howl influenced by garage rock and the free jazz their "older brother" band the MC5 was worshipping, to a tighter but no less energetic rock machine.
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 The Stooges: Fun House ---Ink Blot Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Stooges, a thorn among the roses of 60's psychedelia, dwelled on the dingier, dirtier side of rock & roll.
The Stooges were never the type of band that made fourteen-year old girls want to plaster their bedroom walls with Stooges group photos.
However, the Stooges do depart from their raw rock and roll on "Dirt," where intricate guitar strokes swirl into a dark psychedelic spiral while Iggy lowly howls along to the music.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Stooges_Fun_House.htm   (433 words)

  
 Three Stooges trivia, 3 stooges facts, and Three Stooges facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Stooge short "Men in Black" (1934) was nominated for an Oscar.
Stooge films were released to television in 1958.
He felt he was unattractive to the opposite sex and liquor gave him the courage to approach women.
www.the3stooges.net /site/1234567/page/572197   (419 words)

  
 Salon Arts & Entertainment | Sharps & Flats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Not that respect necessarily benefited the Stooges (by then disbanded), as Pop's ascension into a punk icon, along with his adoption as David Bowie's pet poodle, left him a caricature of his former Stooge self, while the rest of the band was all but anonymous.
Another decade down the road, the Stooges' synthesis of punk attitude and metal dynamics could be heard as the progenitor of grunge.
Such is the essence of the Stooges, the sonic obliteration of that line between a dumb joke and a visionary achievement.
archive.salon.com /ent/music/review/2000/03/13/stooges/index.html   (1342 words)

  
 THE THREE STOOGES DVD SET CLASSIC MOVIES 3 GUYS ON FILM on eBay Slapstick, Comedy, DVDs, DVD, Film TV (item ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During Prohibition, the Stooges are asked to mix spirits for a bootlegger.
The Stooges are lazy-bum husbands, inept salesmen, and misfit fugitives in a
The Stooges are salesmen stranded south of the border, and caught in the
cgi.ebay.co.uk /THE-THREE-STOOGES-DVD-SET-CLASSIC-MOVIES-3-GUYS-ON-FILM_W0QQitemZ150102900304QQcategoryZ35018QQcmdZViewItem   (2003 words)

  
 The Stooges, Hammersmith Apollo, August 30 2005
Now in their late 50s, The Stooges play with a ferocity and energy that would leave bands half their age reaching for the oxygen masks and the audience exhausted but elated.
Barely pausing for breath The Stooges fire off 'Loose' and it’s interesting to consider what the peace’n’love brigade of 35 years ago would have made of the lascivious Iggy snarling, “And I’ll stick it deep inside”.
The very essence of rock’n’roll, The Stooges are still writing the rulebook in the 21st Century.
www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=114277&spid=   (422 words)

  
 NPR : Iggy Pop and the Stooges in Concert
The new recording features The Stooges' original guitarist Ron Asheton, his brother, drummer Scott Asheton and saxophonist Steve Mackay, with Mike Watt from the punk band the Minutemen on bass.
The Stooges wrote more than 30 songs for the new record at a cottage in Fla., then rehearsed in Ann Arbor, Mich. before they entered the Chicago studio of esteemed producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies) in early October of 2006.
Though they only released three records between 1969 and 1973 before breaking up, the Stooges were and remain one of the most influential rock bands of all time.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=9234325   (508 words)

  
 VH1.com : The Stooges : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
During the psychedelic haze of the late '60s, the grimy, noisy and relentlessly bleak rock & roll of the Stooges was conspicuously out of time.
Following three albums, the Stooges disbanded, but the group's legacy grew over the next two decades, as legions of underground bands used their sludgy grind as a foundation for a variety of indie rock styles, and as Iggy Pop became a pop culture icon.
Although this would be the cause of much controversy later on -- many Stooges purists blamed Bowie for the brittle mix -- its razor-thin sound helped kick-start the punk revolution.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/stooges/bio.jhtml   (1071 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | The Three Stooges
A gangster or a monster or a guy in a gorilla suit, one of those nameless contract-playing heavies who used to stooge for the Stooges, was pursuing Larry, who had decided to hide his head in a row of cabbages.
The Three Stooges are the most long-lived and notorious of comedy teams, but they are buried under a reputation as the lowest and the worst that the movies have to offer.
Kathleen Chamberlain, of Emory University's English department (and a fan of the Stooges, as she is a student of the "zanni" in Italian commedia dell'arte, the traditional slapstick comedy that kept Europeans laughing for centuries), has written that "women are never realized as individuals" in the Stooges pictures.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.16.97/cover/stooges1-9703.html   (3067 words)

  
 MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/iggyandthestooges
The Stooges were street corner punks with no further mission in life than to get laid, loaded and watch TV.
The fledgling Stooges hitched up with fellow Ann Arbor residents the MC5 who, under the guru guidance of John Sinclair, were in their revolutionary White Panther phase.
The Stooges went to New York in June '69 to record their debut album.
www.myspace.com /iggyandthestooges   (2536 words)

  
 The Stooges - Classic US Punk
Its commonly acknowledged that The Stooges were a major influence on punk bands on both sides of the Atlantic and that statement is impossible to deny.
Iggy Pop, named after The Iguanas, the band he used to drum for, moved over to vocals and formed the Psychedelic Stooges in 1967 with the Ashton Brothers (one of whom was obsessed with Nazi regalia and could hear sieg heils when his mothers hairdryer was on !).
All 4 Stooges album if flawed are still essential and at the time they sold bugger all.
www.punk77.co.uk /groups/thestooges.htm   (542 words)

  
 The Stooges: The Weirdness (2007): Reviews
Just as the Stooges defined so much back in their day, I feel they're making just as big of a mark with "The Weirdness" most especially considering all the garbage lining the CD shelves and the airwaves nowadays.
The mistake many of the critics have made is comparing this to the classic Stooges albums when it belongs very much in the here and now.
The classic band was a different band (and one that was also vilified for not being sophisticated at the time); The Stooges now are older, maybe a little wiser, and they know this has an element of self-parody about it, so they embrace it wholeheartedly.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/stooges/weirdness   (1281 words)

  
 BBC - Classic Pop/Rock Review - The Stooges, The Weirdness
If you had predicted that their comeback would be the most eagerly awaited album of 2007 you would have been scorned and laughed at.
Secondly, the raw bluesy guitar sound of the early Stooges gives way here to anodyne conventional distortion, and thirdly the songs are really feeble.
If you want to listen to the music that made the Stooges the legend they are, search out the demo recordings made with James Williamson between 1972 and 1974.
www.bbc.co.uk /music/release/n2jw   (578 words)

  
 The Three Stooges (2000) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe.
Factual errors: When the Stooges first arrive at Columbia a sound man shows them a sort of "magic box" on which he can push buttons to create sound effects for their act.
Michael Chiklis had the most difficult job--Curly has always been everyone's favorite Stooge, and most viewers would be paying a lot more attention to how he played Curly than how the other two actors played their characters.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0214698   (606 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Weirdness: Music: The Stooges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In Bangs' view, the Stooges were the ultimate cream pie in the face of rock n' roll excess, since their proto-punk noise and self-destuctive stage antics would clear away the bollocks but good!
This may not be the album that the Stooges' loyal fans may have dreamed it would be, but all things considered, WEIRDNESS is a damn fine record and a very welcome comeback.
Back in their heyday, 1969-73, the Stooges were considered a wild but untamed beast, and a band that was destined to self-destruct.
www.amazon.com /Weirdness-Stooges/dp/B000MTDRJU   (1955 words)

  
 ytmnd - you're the man now dog!
The anniversary of Shemp's death is on the 22nd (he was the second Howard brother to die), so I figured it'd be a nice time for a memorial-kinda thing.
Anyone who doesn't like the three stooges is either a commie or a 5-year-old.
Hell, their collection of shorts has proved to be the inspiration for the use of slapstick comedy in any medium of entertainment that can implement it.
www.ytmnd.com /sites/profile/657376   (443 words)

  
 Iggy & The Stooges @ Hammersmith Apollo, London : gig review
Indeed, one such Stooge, David Alexander did come to an unfortunate end, some time before the legend of said Stooges came to be feted through lands near and far.
As much driven by the mechanised sounds from Henry Ford's Detroit pressing plant as jazz, blues and 'the British invasion', The Stooges managed to record three-long playing albums before the symptoms of LA Blues, that of infamy and indulgence, saw the end of a once gloriously chaotically cohesive unit.
The second of such efforts, that of Fun House came to be celebrated in West London this Summer's end, up from the panicky grit 'n' bluster of Down On The Street through to the firehouse blare of those LA Blues.
www.musicomh.com /gigs/iggy-pop-stooges_0905.htm   (629 words)

  
 Punknews.org | About The Stooges
The Stooges are an American rock band that was first active from about 1967 to 1974, and then reformed in 2003.
And again as has been said about The Velvet Underground, the rather small numbers of people who first bought The Stooges' records were often inspired to form bands of their own.
Nevertheless, The Stooges are often regarded as hugely influential both on the then-nascent heavy metal music and on later punk rock (see protopunk).
www.punknews.org /bands/thestooges   (290 words)

  
 The Three Stooges - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
The original three stooges came to rule Germany for 3 years, until they created the film "you Nazty Spy" and where chased away.
The two remaining stooges Larry, and Moe then got that Shemp one to be the new Curly, he was funny and everything, but he looked like an old lady, so they had to let him go later on.
Larry was obviously the best of the stooges, he had the coolest hair, and he is everyone's favorite.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/The_Three_Stooges   (437 words)

  
 The Stooges - listen to a streaming MP3 download, watch a music video, check out the discography, or read a review of a ...
Nevertheless, The Stooges are often regarded as hugely influential both on the nascent heavy metal and punk rock.
The Stooges had nothing to prove on this album, and in conclusion “The Weirdness” is mission accomplished.
I expected as much from the selections from The Stooges and Fun House, but what was more remarkable to me was that the songs from The Weirdness, the Stooges’ nearly universally panned reunion album, felt perfectly in place with their classic songs.
mog.com /music/The_Stooges   (3352 words)

  
 Images of Lawyers & The Three Stooges
Shortly after Curly died, two of his daughters sued the Three Stooges, claiming that they were entitled to profits from the act since their father had contributed to it.
To the extent that the Three Stooges portrayed their opinion of the legal system through their comedy films, we should not be surprised that Larry, Moe and Curly lampooned the law as they did.
During their careers, the Stooges were in court often, and on occasion even got what they asked for (and I don't mean a ham sandwich, nyuk nyuk nyuk).
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/okla/coyne22.htm   (3093 words)

  
 The Three Stooges - Records
Perhaps the most sought after record album by the Three Stooges is this one - The Original Sound Track Recording to the movie Snow White And The Three Stooges.
It is a popular Stooge collectible because it also features "The Alphabet Song", an adaptation of the "Swingin The Alphabet" song from the 1938 classic Stooge short "Violent is the Word for Curly".
That would be the case in 1984 when a song penned by Peter Quinn, and performed by the "Jump 'n the Saddle Band" hit the number 1 spot in Chicago, and the top 15 on Billboards national ranking.
www.3-stooges.com /records/records.html   (626 words)

  
 iggy pop + the stooges in spain/portugal/france/italy - 2005
I can't tell you how righteous it feels to do stooges songs w/the real stooges again, such a mindblow for me. jos' bass plays good though the sound isn't really the same (lacking some punch), it'd still work out.
the rest of the stooges get here w/about an hour before gig time and we deal w/the hardest part of doing what we do by pacing - me and ron mostly, that is. scotty jams on the prac pad fastened to his knee while steve gets his horn readied up.
it's gotta be the shortest check for the stooges ever, one run-through of "no fun" w/jos singing and were done and back in the van, headed for the 'tel.
www.hootpage.com /hoot_stoogeseurosum2005a.html   (11245 words)

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