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Iggy Pop - I wanna be your dog - 1979 - live

more classics from Iggy, 

lust for life The Passenger, october 1977, manchester apollo.

1969 / I Wanna Be Your Dog, 2006

Iggy Pop (born James Newell “Jim” Osterberg, Jr.; April 21, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop’s music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues. Pop became known as ‘Iggy’ in high school, during which time he served as drummer for local blues band The Iguanas. He is vocalist of influential protopunk band The Stooges (Pop and the other surviving members of the group reunited in 2003), having become known, since the late 1960s, for his outrageous and unpredictable stage antics.

“I Wanna Be Your Dog” is a 1969 song  featured on their self-titled debut album. Its memorable riff, composed of only three chords (G, F? and E), is played continuously throughout the song (excepting a brief 4-bar bridge). The 3-minute-and-9-second long song, with its raucous, distortion-heavy guitar intro, pounding, single-note piano riff played by producer John Cale and steady, driving beat, established The Stooges at the cutting edge example of the heavy metal and punk sound. The lyrics have been described as evoking a sense of lubricity and self-loathing, a monument to a state of blue-collar tedium and alienation of their era, late 1960s industrial Michigan.  In 2004, the song was ranked number 438 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.  Pitchfork Media placed it at number 16 on its list of “The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s”