Tuesday, January 27, 2015

"I Wanna Be Your Dog" (The Stooges)

"I Wanna Be Your Dog" from The Stooges' eponymous, John Cale-produced debut album begins in a mangle of distortion and ends in a haze of wailing fuzz guitar.  In between, there's some clanging piano, jingling sleigh bells, and thunderous drums that sound like they're getting the daylights pounded out of them.
It's 3 minutes of primal perfection.
Quite simply, the song is Iggy Pop declaring that he wants to be objectified like a dog.  
Or as he put it to Howard Stern back in 1990, "It's the idea of 'I want to unite with your body.'  I don't want to talk about literature with you or something, you know.  I don't want to judge you as a person.  I want to dog you."
No more, no less.


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