One shoe had been customized with a platform sole, to correct for an inch-and-a-half difference in the length of his legs, a condition he attributes to arthritis combined with an old football injury. So one morning I was up early and she was thereit was just her and me, and I said, Would you take my picture?. He co-produced his 1999 album Avenue B with Don Was, releasing the single "Corruption". The album is available on legal download sites, CD, and a deluxe box set is available at only 6000 units worldwide. In January 2009, Pop was signed up as the face of Swiftcover, the UK-based online insurance company. This album was something of a Stooges reunion, with James Williamson producing and latter-day Stooge Scott Thurston playing guitar and keyboards. [21] The family lived in a trailer park in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The Stooges played their last show in 2013. Pop and Underworld had both contributed tracks to Danny Boyle's 1996 movie Trainspotting. Ex-husband of Private and Private In recent years, his midsection has relaxed a bit, but he assured me, while patting it, that it remains quite firm. Look Away, a documentary about sexual abuse in the rock music industry, is named after an Iggy Pop song about Starr. Its crammed with folk art, bits of Stooges memorabilia, stacks of books, plastic skulls, framed photographs, throw pillows, a large painting of Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, a Marlins jersey with Pop and the number sixty-nine on the back, and assorted mementos from his travels. Pop yowled through a fierce, rumbling version of TV Eye, it was more than clear that in the 33 years since the song was recorded, the genre has largely been variations on a theme. [82][83], In January 2020, Pop received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. While in Melbourne, he made a memorable appearance on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's nationwide show Countdown. Iggy Pop Popularity Most Popular #7206 Born on April 21 #21 Punk Singer #2 75 Year Old #8 First Name Iggy #2 Born in Muskegon, MI #1 Last Name Pop #2 75 Year Old Singer #3 Iggy Pop Movies Cry-Baby The Dead Don't Die Snow Day More David Bowie Bill Murray Alfred Molina Elizabeth II Madi Filipowicz More Taurus Charli D'Amelio Chase Hudson [108], In 2017, Pop appeared in Song to Song directed by Terrence Malick, opposite Michael Fassbender. Studio albums [ edit] All releases are credited to Iggy Pop as solo works unless stated otherwise. Its not a personal lack of confidence so much as an imposed one, Pop told me. Its stripped-back, guitar-based sound leaned further towards the sound of the Stooges than any of his solo albums to date. The backing music was Pop's song 'The Passenger'. [71] Pop hosts a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 6, where he covers an eclectic range of music from punk to jazz, he also champions and pushes new artists such as Shame, Fat White Family, False Heads, and Sleaford Mods. [18], James Newell Osterberg Jr. was born in Muskegon, Michigan, on April 21, 1947, the son of Louella (ne Christensen; 19171996)[19] and James Newell Osterberg Sr. (19212007),[19] a former high school English teacher and baseball coach at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. The Stooges song "I Wanna Be Your Dog" was featured on the same station. [111], Pop also appears as a zombie in the 2019 Jim Jarmusch film The Dead Don't Die.[112]. Pop is very nimble with other peoples material, able to land instantly on the emotional center of a lyric or a melody. [107], Also in 2016, he participated, with Michel Houellebecq and others, in Erik Lieshout's documentary To Stay Alive: A Method. If he is touring, his preshow ritual takes eight or nine hours. Have you ever tried to buy a fucking car? Pop was brutal onstagebarfing, taking his clothes off, dragging furniture or bodies around, slicing his chest with shards of broken glass. [70] He used the lecture to discuss his experiences of the music industry, and his reflections on the effect of the internet on the consumption of music and the broader media. The Stooges, which was produced by John Cale, of the Velvet Underground, is the band at its most economic. Id go to the beach and come home, go to the beach and come home. [87][88], In April 2021, French singer Clio released a duet with Iggy Pop titled "L'appartement". Chicago blues is rowdy and licentious, but it carries some of the lonesomeness of the genres country forebears: J. At first, I resistedIm not in junior high, he said. You have the two pillars of the new alt industry there, and in the middle you have this sort of shaky proposition., Some of Pops most interesting and idiosyncratic work has been made in the past decade, including two recordsPrliminaires, from 2009, and Aprs, from 2012inspired by Dixieland jazz, French chanson, mid-century American standards, and the books of Michel Houellebecq, Pops favorite living novelist. They formed a band called the Psychedelic Stooges, and began developing their sound in the basement. In 2005, Pop appeared, along with Madonna, Little Richard, Bootsy Collins, and The Roots' Questlove, in an American TV commercial for the Motorola ROKR phone. [65], On April 7, 2011, at age 63, Pop performed "Real Wild Child" on the tenth season of American Idol; the Los Angeles Times music blog "Iggy Pop & Hiss" described Pop as being "still magnetic, still disturbing". While visiting New Zealand, Pop recorded a music video for "I'm Bored", and attended a record company function where he appeared to slap a woman and throw wine over a photographer. Scott died the same way, in 2014. You cant believe how dirty and destructive and lazy and just untenable these people were, Pop said. [119][120] Pop also relates how reading Gibbon while on tour in the Southern United States inspired him to a spontaneous soliloquy he called "Caesar". He has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 from a relationship with Paulette Benson. A Pop concert also served as a plot point in the film. Pop laughed when I yelped. Pop took down the top, and turned the air-conditioning to high. Virgin first reissued Lust for Life and The Idiot in 1990, then TV Eye Live 1977 in 1994. This was the beginning of a fruitful and largely drug-free period for both artists. 191 in Rolling Stone's '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' in 2003. Pop was featured alongside indie starlet Greta Gerwig in the film Art House, which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in April 2010. One afternoon, Pop gave me a tour of the place. The bassist was just the guy who couldnt play guitar as well as the other guy. Shortly after we met, Pop offered to accompany me while I moved my rental car. You can fill in your sexual comments yourself. (In 1969, when Pop was twenty-one and living in Ann Arbor, he had a son, Eric, with Paulette Benson. He has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 to Paulette Benson. On Bandcamp, Iggy has dropped a cover of "Family Affair," Sly & The Family Stone's psychedelic soul-funk classic. In 1976, a recording of the show was released, titled Metallic K.O. In 1977, Lester Bangs wrote about the record for the Village Voice: Nobody gets killed, but Metallic K.O. is the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings., Pop was strung out. The Stooges fell apart shortly thereafter, for all the usual reasons: drugs, clashing agendas, poor sales. "500 Greatest Albums of All Time: The Stooges: "David Bowie and Iggy Pop Meet at Max's Kansas City", "Iggy Pop says David Bowie saved him from 'annihilation', "The Barman talks to James Williamson of Iggy the and Stooges at the I-94 Bar", "Behind the scenes on the Pirelli calendar: Iggy Pop, Cher and St Vincent pose for Bryan Adams", "IGGY POP'S BACK WITH A NEW IMAGE AND 'BLAHS', "20 Great Iggy Pop Collaborations: John Moran, 'The Manson Family: An Opera' (1990)", "Will the Manson Story Play As Myth, Operatically at That? [121] He has been married three times: to Wendy Weissberg (for several weeks in 1968 before the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter),[122] to Suchi Asano (from 1984 until their divorce in 1999),[123] and to his longtime partner Nina Alu, whom he married in 2008. [101], Pop hosts a weekly radio show and podcast titled "Iggy Confidential" on BBC 6 Music. In 2017, shortly after his 70th birthday, Pop was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Consul general in Miami on behalf of the French government. Pop liked the script but refused to take part in the film. He recorded spoken word vocals on the intro and outro of the song "Black Sunshine" as well as playing the character of a writer in the video shot for the song. [41], Additionally, Pop contributed the title song to the 1984 film Repo Man (with Steve Jones, previously of the Sex Pistols, on guitar, and Nigel Harrison and Clem Burke, both of Blondie on bass and drums) as well as an instrumental called "Repo Man Theme" that was played during the opening credits.[42]. The song has also been used in TV commercials for Royal Caribbean and as the theme music to The Jim Rome Show, a nationally syndicated American sports talk show. More recently,[when?] Author Paul Trynka completed a biography of Pop (with his blessing) called Open Up and Bleed, published in early 2007. It seemed as if Pop had learned something about how to sublimate despair through song, but, he said, I realized I wasnt going to be Howlin Wolfs drummer., Pop returned to Ann Arbor just as many of his classmates and neighbors were being shipped off to war. The records they made in Berlin pulled them both out of this pit that theyd dug themselves into., While we sat by the canal, I made an offhand comment about how Pop is now the last man standing, which I meant in a general sense. [86] That year, he also collaborated with Morrissey on his upcoming album Bonfire of Teenangers. In 2011 he teamed up with The Lilies, a collaboration between Sergio Dias of Os Mutantes and French group Tahiti Boy & The Palmtree Family, to record the single "Why?". Pop, who performs the vocals on "Risky", chose not to appear in the video, allowing his performance space to be occupied by the surrealist era robot. His father, who was of Irish and English descent, was adopted by a Swedish-American woman, Minnie Josephine Osterberg. Raw Power was mixed by David Bowie, and it contains two songs, Gimme Danger and I Need Somebody, that might reasonably be described as ballads. I think theres some sort of betting pool out there on when Im gonna croak, he said. Bowie appeared on the song "Play it Safe", performing backing vocals with the group Simple Minds. The following year Pop contributed to Buckethead's album Giant Robot, including the songs "Buckethead's Toy Store" and "Post Office Buddy". Bowie was one of his few visitors there, continuing to support his friend and collaborator. Having enjoyed working with the Ashetons on Skull Ring, Pop reformed the Stooges with bassist Mike Watt (formerly of the Minutemen) filling in for the late Dave Alexander, and Fun House saxophonist Steve Mackay rejoining the lineup. Pop's 2003 album Skull Ring featured collaborators Sum 41, Green Day, Peaches, and The Trolls, as well as Ron and Scott Asheton, reuniting the three surviving founding members of the Stooges for the first time since 1974. Pop made a guest appearance on Peaches's song "Kick It" as well as the video. The neighborhood is a mixture of Bahamian, Haitian, Dominican, and Cuban, and is bordered by the Little River, a brackish, semi-polluted canal. After cueing up Dream Baby Dream, by the experimental punk duo Suicide, he sat up in his chair and adjusted his spectacles. He has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 to Paulette Benson. Its possible to find echoes of the Stooges penchant for physical and spiritual obliteration in contemporary music; I often encounter a similar sort of purposeful dissolution in the songs of emerging rappers on SoundCloud. With Williamson signed on as guitarist, the search began for a rhythm section. David Bowie, Pop, and Lou Reed at the Dorchester Hotel, in London, in 1972. [104] As a d.j., Pop is good at revealing the connective tissue between seemingly incompatible numbers. In San Francisco, in 1974, he was stomping through the crowd when a fan yanked his briefs down and appeared to perform oral sex on him. Thomas wrote lyrics for half of the tracks on Free, including Dirty Sanchez, a lewd, tense meditation on contemporary sexuality that includes the lines Just because I like big tits/Doesnt mean I like big dicks. I was thinking, How do I explain to this guyThomasthat this is career suicide? Pop told me. In Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCains oral history of punk, his classmate Ron Asheton describes a teen-age Pop as fairly conventional: He hung out with the popular kids that wore chinos, cashmere sweaters, and penny loafers. But he presumed that I was referring to a photograph of him, Bowie, and Lou Reed, taken by Mick Rock at the Dorchester Hotel, in London, in 1972. Those words hardly describe any music in rock today, but thats what the Stooges gave usperfect, seemingly effortless rock songs., At the time, however, critics and listeners mostly found the band insanefour angry young men brazenly wrecking themselves in service of who knows what. In a review in the Times of the bands set at Coachella, in 2003, Neil Strauss wrote, As Mr. It was a work of art. Iggy and the Stooges were making a deeper political statement that had to do with disenfranchisement and disconnection from the mainstream, Kramer said. The recording sessions produced the rock landmark Raw Power. was cranked to inhumane levels. The first few years of the Stooges performances were dangerous, in a spilled-blood way. He was inducted as part of the Stooges into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. [10] Ron Asheton later described him as having been a conventional teenager: "He hung out with the popular kids that wore chinos, cashmere sweaters, and penny loafers. He had changed into a pair of Three Stooges-themed pajama pants, a gift from Ron Asheton. Jeep Holland, the manager of Discount Records, would holler Iguana alert! whenever Pop emerged from the stockroom in the basement of the store. In 1996, Pop again found mainstream fame when his 1977 song "Lust for Life" was featured in the film Trainspotting. Do you want to see mine? Pop asked, gesturing toward the Rolls-Royce. Pop had come of age as Elvis Presley was ascending the charts, and was moved by Presleys magnetism. He travels with an extra hat for guests, in case the sun or the sea breeze becomes overwhelming. Pop played a Vorta in an episode based upon the film The Magnificent Seven, titled "The Magnificent Ferengi". I attended two concerts by the Doors. His record label dropped him, but the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show recorded the Instinct tour (featuring guitarist Andy McCoy and Alvin Gibbs on bass) in Boston on July 19, 1988. Iggy Pop Family Background & Career. Pop gathered himself in front of the camera. Throughout his career, he is well known for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics, poetic lyrics and distinctive voice. New Values was not a commercial success in the U.S., but has since been highly regarded by critics. "Living in a Berlin apartment with Bowie and his friends was interesting" Pop recalled. On June 22, 2016, Stooges guitarist James Williamson made an official statement saying that the Stooges were no more: The Stooges is over. Loves absent, he sings. Ron Asheton, his brother, Scott, and their buddy Dave Alexander used to loiter out front, spitting on cars. In the same year, Pop sang a leading role in the John Moran opera The Manson Family. Pop testified in the reissue's liner notes that on the new mix, "everything's still in the red". It was aired in the US on This American Life on January 30, 2015, in the episode "Burroughs 101", commemorating his 101st birthday. [24] He then began exploring local blues-style bands such as the Prime Movers (with brothers Dan and Michael Erlewine), which he joined at 18 years old. . They have toured regularly since 2004. In 1971, without a record deal, the Stooges kept performing in small clubs with a five-piece lineup that included both Ron Asheton and James Williamson on guitars and Jimmy Recca on bass, Pop having fired Dave Alexander the previous year when he turned up for a gig unable to play because of his chronic alcoholism. He has been married three times: to Wendy Weissberg (for several weeks in 1968, the marriage was annulled shortly thereafter), to Suchi Asano (1984 to 1999), and most recently, to his longtime partner Nina Alu. He was 60 years old. The group was led by Michael Erlewine, an aspiring intellectual who read the major poets, knew a bit about philosophy, and had experimented with psychedelic drugs. Pop once stage-dived into an empty room, cracking his front teeth. On October 14, 2014, Pop gave the fourth annual BBC Music John Peel Lecture in Salford, on the topic of "Free Music in a Capitalist Society". We spent the next two days cruising around like this. Meanwhile, I was crazy as a loon myself.. Iggy Pop is celebrating his 73rd birthday today (21) by offering fans a free download of his 1980s cover of Sly & The Family Stone's 'Family Affair.'. [18] In April 2020, he released an alternate mix of his "China Girl", as part of a seven-disc deluxe box set, due to feature expanded remastered versions of The Idiot and Lust for Life (Iggy Pop album)|Lust for Life. You know, Im a blues guitarist, and what I want to get over in this hour is that I can play the blues and youre going to believe it and make me rich. Pop and Ron Asheton wrote most of the tracks. I don't feel negative about it at all. I wake up, cup of coffee, stay in bed, clear my mind, dont think about the show, he said. Then I lightly visualize for about an hour. Stories about Pops misbehavior are lewd, captivating, and plentiful. A critic from the Guardian called the performance superhuman.. Ron Asheton grudgingly moved from guitar to bass. Pop's follow-up to Blah Blah Blah, Instinct (1988), was a turnaround in musical direction. It was released in September 2022. So I was unhappy in general and vice versa". James Newell Osterberg Jr. (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, radio broadcaster, songwriter and actor. [25] According to biographer Jim Ambrose, the two years he spent in the band made him aware of "art, politics, and experimentation". Its gotta be fucking good, he said. So I wrote him and said, Look, the best thing you can do is put some horn on it. Thats my contribution: Put some horn on it! So he horned the shit out of it, you know? Pop went on, I sang the song once, just for fun, and I thought, you know, Dont turn into a total fart here. The most personal piece on Free is Loves Missing, a propulsive song about the value of companionship and loyalty. They helped me explore anything I was interested in. The Stooges' album Raw Power has proved an influence on artists such as Sex Pistols,[13] the Smiths,[14] and Nirvana. In 2021 Pop appeared with Nico Rosberg - 2016 Formula One champion - in a video advert for the German State Railways' (Deutsche Bahn) high speed train services. I kind of like it. The rock critic Lester Bangsa fanwrote, in Creem, in 1970, Antisocial art simply dont fit in, brothers and sisters. In part, this is why it matters so much to him that his work remain vital. and hung up the phone). Bowie is gone. They water down a persons ego. In 1974, he began trying to quit. And, you know, theres always my Apple stock, he said, and laughed. Photograph by Tom Copi/ Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Images, Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the Worlds Rarest 78rpm Records. The book, which includes a selection of black and white photographs, featured a foreword by Andy Warhol. Husband of Private Warhol wrote that he met Pop when he was Jim Osterberg, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 1966. [90], Pop collaborated with Belgian composer and violinist Catherine Graindorge on three tracks on her new EP The Dictator. He is one of the bodyguards, along with Klaus Nomi, of David Bowie, who is "The Sovereign" of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. It was primal, he said. On October 28, 2016, Pop released the double live album Post Iggy Pop Depression: Live At The Royal Albert Hall on Eagle Rock Entertainment (on DVD+2CD and digital formats). As the rock n' roll narrative goes, David Bowie befriended an embattled, drug-addicted Iggy Pop in the mid 1970s and helped him rebound from the Stooges ' breakup by producing both of his. Anyone who was still alive and able to crawl to the sofa would watch Starsky & Hutch. This makes him 75 years old as of 2022. He was rebelling against a certain type of self-seriousness. It was way more than a band. His bedroom contains an enormous straight-backed wooden chair that he bought from Sothebys. Ron Asheton had died in Ann Arbor in 2009, of a suspected heart attack, and was replaced by James Williamson. The film was to be directed by Nick Gomez and Elijah Wood was to play Pop.[113][114][115]. In Detroit, the bar was very highit was the home of Motown. He added, We were informed by unionism, and having an organized voice against corporate power. Iggy Pop was born James Osterberg, Jr., in 1947, and brought up in Ypsilanti, about forty miles west of Detroit. After I pressed a button marked Door, the door closed. Iggy Pop turned 73 on Tuesday and he celebrated by unearthing a cover of the Sly and the Family Stone classic "Family Affair" that he recorded with funk icon Bootsy Collins back in 1985.. Bowie is gone. Pop provided the soundtrack for The Brave, which was directed by and starred Depp, and music for Depp's 1993 film Arizona Dream. At night, he banged on a couple of rubber pads glued to a piece of plywood, until his parents bought him a three-piece drum kit and let him set it up in the trailers master bedroom. "[35], In 1977, Pop signed with RCA Records. Blah-Blah-Blah was Pop's highest-charting album in the U.S. since The Idiot in 1977, peaking at No. Dont tell me that I cant strip off my shirt and go make a big primitive noise, he said. They tattoo their faces, a gesture that swears off mainstream acceptance. And we didn't have anywhere to crash, and they played for us, and they completely rocked, and we were really ashamed. The Polar Music Prize 2022 is awarded to American rock icon James Newell Osterberg, better known as Iggy Pop. Iggy Pop Real name James Newell Osterberg Jr. Born April 21, 1947 Country United States IPI 00053204712 27 works 00053205023 2 works 00063888830 30 works 00063888928 76 works 00221959662 1 work 00269949887 9 works 00288380819 3 works Affiliation BMI Comments Rock singer, guitarist, drummer and songwriter. Maybe you find one little thing that you can improve, but youre not desperate about it. Its true that the poem has grown increasingly meaningless over time, having been repeated and adapted to so many inane circumstances. Both Soldier and its follow-up Party (1981) were commercial failures, and Pop was dropped from Arista. Osterberg became interested in Ron Asheton after seeing him perform in the Chosen Few (a covers band), believing "Ive never met a convincing musician that didnt look kind of ill and kind of dirty, and Ron had those two things covered! Put that out. Pop sings the lines with a kind of deranged glee, as if he were trying to get the words out while being dragged off to jail. "For all his demented carryings-on, Iggy in conversation seems remarkably, deceptively sane," wrote an anonymous profiler in a New York Times item published the day after Pop's CBC interview on . By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Thats lonely. Their set included material from the 2007 album The Weirdness and classics such as "No Fun" and "I Wanna Be Your Dog". (He died in 1975, at age twenty-seven, from complications from pancreatitis.) "I don't know why he hasn't made it really big," Warhol wrote. Dave Alexander had been fired in 1970, for showing up too drunk to perform. The band was composed of Osterberg on vocals, Ron Asheton on guitar, Asheton's brother Scott on drums, and Dave Alexander on bass. That show was a big, big, big influence on me. [117], The project appears to have been shelved.[118]. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . His drug habit varied in intensity during this time, but persisted. [66] He is also featured on Kesha's song "Dirty Love" on her second album Warrior. Iggy Pop - Strung Out Johnny (Official Video) Iggy Pop Official 264K subscribers 449K views 1 month ago #IggyPop Iggy Pop - 'Every Loser' Out Now:. [116], He also called Wood "a very poised and talented actor". He discovers new music for his show by taking the recommendations of friends and opening acts, by reading the shortest, most obscure reviews published in the Guardian, or by looking through the upcoming concert listings published each Friday in the Times. [58] The advert was then banned by the Advertising Standards Authority on April 28, 2009, for being misleading it implied that Pop himself had an insurance policy with Swiftcover when at the time the company did not insure musicians.[59]. Eric was brought up by his mother, in California, and lives in Berlin now.) Iggy Pop Josh Homme on Iggy Pop: 'Lemmy is gone. Hes a real Midwestern gentleman, no matter that wildness that he celebrates, the filmmaker Jim Jarmusch told me. [54], On December 15, 2009, it was announced that the Stooges would be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2010. Also in 1985, Pop and Lou Reed contributed their singing voices to the animated film Rock & Rule. It was the first time I ever saw someone dance and interpret the music to the degree he was able to, live onstage. He added, The music wasnt pop, it wasnt rock, it was something else. The phone rings; I get offered work. He got the idea to do it after an advertising agency asked him to read the poem for a commercial voice-over. [63] On July 9, 2010, Pop again stage dived in Zottegem, Belgium, causing bleeding from the face. Iggy's mother was the daughter of a Danish father from Copenhagen and a Norwegian mother from Oslo. Pop performed the song "Pain & Suffering" in the final sequence of the film.[43]. In 1985, Pop recorded some demos with Jones. In addition to Jim Morrison and The Doors' influence on the band, Pop also attributes the Stooges getting jump-started after seeing an all-girls rock band from Princeton, New Jersey, called The Untouchable. [34], Bowie and Pop relocated to West Berlin to wean themselves off their respective drug addictions. I began to recoil from guitar riffs in favor of guitarscapes, from twangs in favor of horns, from back beat in favor of space, and, in large part, from the effluent of my own mind and problems, in favor of trying to interpret the poetry of others, he writes in the liner notes. Pop and the Stooges played the Glastonbury Festival in June 2007. During the recording of Soldier (1980), Pop and Bowie argued with Williamson over various aspects of the project. [57] He fronted a 25million TV ad campaign for Swiftcover, using the strapline "Get a Life". He's the last of the one-and-onlys' At 68, the punk icon has recorded a new album with the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman.. Somebody else, you knowWe cant get Tom Waits. The Safdie brothers said, We couldnt get Britney Spears., The Stooges are an accepted part of the canon now, which makes it easy to forget how poorly the bands records sold, and how deeply reviled they were by both critics and listeners. 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