 Genius Lyrics
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The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
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Released in June 1969, this track from the Stooges debut album is one of the major reasons they earned the nickname godfathers of punk. The distortion-heavy guitar evokes the sound
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The Stooges – Gimme Danger
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About writing Gimme Danger, guitarist James Williamson said:
Not everybody knows that in those days I almost exclusively wrote songs on acoustic guitar. I’d sit up in my room
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The Stooges – Loose
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This track is the second track on The Stooges' second studio album, Fun House, following Down On The Street.
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The Stooges – Dirt
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Ooh, I been dirt / And I don't care / Ooh, I been dirt / And I don't care / ‘Cause I’m burning inside / I'm just a yearning inside / And I'm the fire o' life / Yeah, alright / Ooh
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The Stooges – Fun House
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[Intro] / Blow right on it, now! / Blow, Steve! / I feel alright / Yeah, I feel alright / Let me in / Hey, let me in / 'Ey, bring it down / [Verse 1] / Callin' from the fun house
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The Stooges – No Fun
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This song is an anthem for boredom. The chord progression is repetitive as are the lyrics. However, boredom often births rage. At the very least it craves something… anything, to
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The Stooges – T.V. Eye
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[Intro] / Lord! / Stop it! / [Verse 1] / See that cat? / Yeah, I do mean you / See that cat? / Yeah, I do mean you / [Chorus] / She got a TV eye on me / She got a TV eye / She got
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The Stooges – Down on the Street
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[Verse 1] / Well, down on the street where the faces shine / Floatin' around, on a real O-Mind / I see a pretty thing - ain't no wall / I see a pretty thing - ain't no wall / [
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The Stooges – 1970
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Also known as “I Feel Alright”, this is a sort of response to last album’s / last year’s song, this time Iggy seems to be a little more optimistic about the year.
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The Stooges – Johanna
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Oh yeah, oh yeah / Alright, come on Ron / Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah / Oh yeah, oh yeah / I've been a dreamer / I've been a dreamer / I've been a dreamer / For my long lost love
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The Stooges – Ann
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The Stooges never did happy love songs: ‘Ann’ is, along with ‘Little Doll’ and ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, an ode to a cruel and domineering lover from their debut self-titled album
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The Stooges – Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
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Awwright! Woooohhhh! / A pretty face and a dirty look / Knew right away that I'd have to get my hooks in you / A-yeah yeah yeah / I'm running low on memories / If you wanna make a
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The Stooges – Search and Destroy
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Iggy Pop took this title from an article in Time Magazine:
The lyrics, I just sorta took out of Time magazine, the concept of search and destroy. I used to read Time obsessively
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The Stooges – Louie Louie
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Louie Louie, oh no / Me gotta go / Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said / Louie Louie, oh baby / Me gotta go / Fine little girl waits for me / Catch a ship across the sea / Sail that ship about
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The Stooges – Raw Power
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[Verse 1] / Dance to the beat of the livin' dead / Lose sleep, baby, and stay away from bed / Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you / If you're alone and you got the fear / So
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The Stooges – Death Trip
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The song is a self-deprecating look at how Iggy Pop presumed the Stooges had an uncertain future.
“I knew we were going down and I knew no one was going for it. Because there were
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The Stooges – I'm Sick of You
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Produced by James Williamson and written by him with Iggy Pop, this song was first recorded in 1972 as a demo for the Raw Power sessions, but never made it into the album. It is a
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The Stooges – Not Right
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In a 1976 interview with Stuart Grundy, Iggy Pop explained that the song was about a “pretty” girl named Betsy from Detroit. Iggy and Betsy were mutually attracted to each other
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The Stooges – Penetration
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Penetrate / Penetrate me / So fine / So fine / So fine / I get excitement / I get excited / I'm alone / So fine / Pull a line / Every night at town / Every night at town / I'm
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The Stooges – Little Doll
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[Verse 1] / Little doll, I can't forget / Smoking on a cigarette / In my life, a real queen / Prettiest thing I ever seen / Uh-huh / You're the one who makes me sing / Bring
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The Stooges – Gun
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Everybody’s talking loud / I can’t stand the fucking sound / Freaking out in the USA / Yelling at the other guy / Arguing over the pie / Freaking out in the USA / Hold me, squeeze
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The Stooges – We Will Fall
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Track #3 from the Stooges' debut album The Stooges.
Recorded at just over ten minutes to pad out time on the brief album, this is by far the longest Stooges' track and is probably
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The Stooges – The Weirdness
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Iggy told Pitchfork
Here’s the one big thing for me: What I work within, it’s not a folk song, it’s a rock'n'roll song. But rock is a branch of folk music. It should be an ultra-
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The Stooges – Job
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Iggy told NPR,
I was just intensely irritated every time I saw [Mitt] Romney coming on during the elections. “If I’m elected, I’ll get you a job. I’ll get you a job. You’ll have
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The Stooges – I Got a Right
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Iggy told Clash magazine that he wrote “I Got A Right” after being dropped from Elektra records soon after the Stooges second album:
As soon as it hit, there was a general funk
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The Stooges – Trollin'
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Iggy told Pitchfork
Here’s the one big thing for me: What I work within, it’s not a folk song, it’s a rock'n'roll song. But rock is a branch of folk music. It should be an ultra-
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The Stooges – The Departed
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Iggy told NPR,
[James Williamson] sent me a very pretty piece of dobro music, solo, that began and ended with him playing the motif to “I Wanna Be Your Dog” on slide guitar. He
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The Stooges – Burn
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Burn down, am I concerned? / Should I be so? Well I don't know / The goddess of beauty, is backing into me / I got a lesson to learn / And there's insights in he fire's lights
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The Stooges – Mexican Guy
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Lookin' To My Left I See A[???...]Eyed Mare / Lookin' To My Right See[???...] Like A Square / I Took A Look Below I Saw A Fat King Kong / I Took A Look Above But I Fell Out As I
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The Stooges – Ready to Die
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Got a depression and it won’t let go / Got a depression and I hate it so / I’m shooting for the sky / Because I’m ready to die / Die, die / (Verse) / It’s an lonesome town and it’s
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The Stooges – Rubber Legs
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Well my mama was a beauty queen / And my dad he’s the head of maths / But I’m the boy with the big blue eyes / I've got the rubber legs / Well I'm a son of a savage bitch / Well I'
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The Stooges – ATM
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About being famous, Iggy told Pitchfork,
Yeah, you lose certain things, and you want some money. I mentioned in “ATM”, the older you get, the more you want. It may just be in my
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The Stooges – DD's
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When you find that you need a break / Doesn't matter if you're real or fake / Doesn't matter what the crowd thinks / You need sex or your life is gonna stink / I'm on my knees for
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The Stooges – Shake Appeal
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Speaking about his favorite songs on Raw Power, Iggy mentioned,
I enjoy ‘Shake Appeal’ very, very much. That’s the closest I’m ever gonna get to my dream of being Little Richard
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The Stooges – Open Up & Bleed
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I been pushed, I been shoved too long / They even tried to buy my song / But it ain't gonna be that way no more / I been hurt, I been shut inside / I've even tried to fix and die
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The Stooges – The Scene of the Crime
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Out in the suburbs, I met my true found love / Out in the suburbs, I met my true found love / She gave me money, gave me head / Gave me everything and she laid my bed / And that
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The Stooges – Penetration (Bowie Mix) [2023 Remaster]
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Penetrate / Penetrate me / So fine / So fine / So fine / I get excitement / I get excited / I'm alone / So fine / Pull a line / Every night at town / Every night at town / I'm
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The Stooges – Real Cool Time
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[Verse] / Can I come over tonight? / Can I come over tonight? / What do you think I wanna do? / That's right / Can I come over tonight? / [Chorus] / I say we will have a real cool
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The Stooges – L.A. Blues
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[Instrumental]
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The Stooges – Cock in My Pocket
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One, two, fuck you pricks! / I got my cock in my pocket and I'm reelin' down the old highway / I got my cock in my pocket and I'm reelin' down the old highway, yeah / I'm gonna
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The Stooges – I Need Somebody
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Track #6 from the Stooges' third album “Raw Power”.
The Stooges sold only a handful of records during their existence, so Columbia Records were by and large indifferent to what
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The Stooges – Passing Cloud
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No light in my window / No way through my steely door / My mind should be open / But it's more closed than before / The kindness of strangers / Is a grand and empty thing / The
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The Stooges – My Idea of Fun
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Asked in an interview with Pitchfork about “My Idea of Fun,” Iggy explained,
I stole it from Will Self, an under-praised novelist in England. He was a bad boy at one point, a
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