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THE REVIEW
I hurt myself. It happens often, lately. The blood gushes from the hole. It’s a small slit. It pulses. We must wait. The liquid is darkened. The label is white with a number printed in red. Kentucky Corn Distillate, aged 16 years. Do I really have to tell you what it tastes like? The record spins. The black cover with yellow writing and those 4 faces, 4 ghosts from the sewers of Ann Arbor. Distilled anger, anguish, personal abysses and animalistic, fierce, lust for life. Piss, sperm, sweat, spit. Dance in the mud, wild love, flowers of evil. 50 years old. Do I really have to tell you how it sounds? The blood keeps flowing, staining the clothes, sliding over my body. I'll ask her to lick it off. Later.I hurt myself.
It happens often, lately.
The blood gushes from the hole. It’s a small slit. It pulses.
We must wait.
The liquid is darkened. The label is white with a number printed in red. Kentucky Corn Distillate, aged 16 years. Do I really have to tell you what it tastes like?
The record spins. The black cover with yellow writing and those 4 faces, 4 ghosts from the sewers of Ann Arbor.
Distilled anger, anguish, personal abysses and animalistic, fierce, lust for life. Piss, sperm, sweat, spit. Dance in the mud, wild love, flowers of evil.
50 years old.
Do I really have to tell you how it sounds?
The blood keeps flowing, staining the clothes, sliding over my body.
I'll ask her to lick it off.
Later.
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Summary by Bot
The review vividly expresses the raw, primal energy and emotional intensity of The Stooges' debut album. It evokes feelings of anger, anguish, and lust for life, emphasizing the music's timeless nature 50 years after its release. The imagery and metaphors highlight the album's visceral impact and classic punk roots.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
The Stooges
The Stooges were an American rock band formed in Michigan, widely cited as a key proto-punk act. Fronted by Iggy Pop, they became known for raw, distorted guitars, confrontational performances, and influential late-60s/early-70s albums including their 1969 debut and 1970’s Fun House. They later reunited and released The Weirdness.13 Reviews
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By Pollack
The Stooges vented their typically adolescent anxieties in this frenzied, abrasive, misogynistic rock’n roll album.
It is above all the honesty, pure feelings, and disillusionment with which this album was played that will be hard to replicate.
By donquixote
The music world receives one of the most violent punches in the stomach ever delivered, and it does so in a totally revolutionary way: this is punk.
Iggy Pop sincerely declares his deviance: no one had ever been so radical.
By vito
A pagan rite of initiation into the music of the devil, the album without which probably no one would have ever talked about a certain 'punk rock'.
8 tracks for a total duration of just 35 minutes [...] episodes that alone are worth as much as an entire album from any rock band today.
By TraumaCronico
You don’t wash. You smoke. You do drugs. You dance like madmen. You don’t go to Church. Ever. Aren’t you ashamed?
Those damn rockers, they had done it without our knowledge, the biggest folly of their lives: They had listened to a Stooges record.
By Caspasian
After this record it’s over for everyone else, there’s no more room for anyone.
Don’t you want to turn up the volume to the maximum and blast it even louder, wishing that your amplifier and speakers explode?
