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From '' Polar Yet Tropical ''
Label: Arf! Arf! -- AA-022
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1987
Tracklist
Reinterpret The Sixties
A1 I Wanna Be Your Dog
A2 Out Of Limits
A3 Talk Talk
A4 Happenings Ten Years Time Ago (Revisited)
A5 We Will Fall
A6 Iron Man
A7 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Instrumental Compositions
B1 Modern Warfare
B2 Uriel IV
B3 Out To Launch
B4 Slo-Boy
B5 Midnight
B6 Pink Noise
B7 And Many, Many More
B8 Murder On Mass Ave.
Producer -- Erik Lindgren
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\"I Wanna Be Your Dog\" is a 1969 song by the American rock band The Stooges. The song is 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.
This sense of working class disenfranchisement was widely echoed later by the Sex Pistols, Public Image Limited and Eminem.
In 2004, the song was ranked number 438 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Cover versions
The song has been covered by many artists, including:
Nirvana,
Misfits,
Slayer,
GG Allin,
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13,
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts,
Vicious White Kids,
Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Sonic Youth,
Cage the Elephant,
Mission of Burma,
Chris Whitley,
Swans,
Uncle Tupelo,
Alejandro Escovedo,
Emilie Simon,
Styles of Beyond,
Forgotten Tomb,
The House of Love,
Breathing Fire,
Ida Maria,
Stereophonics,
Las Ultrasónicas,
Pat MacDonald,
David Bowie,
The White Stripes,
Mephisto Walz,
Atari Teenage Riot
and many others.
Slayer recorded a tribute parody called \"I'm Gonna Be Your God\" for their Undisputed Attitude album.
\"Weird Al\" Yankovic's song \"Let Me Be Your Hog\" is a parody of the garage-punk genre and contains obvious elements of the song.
In 2007, R.E.M. performed this song with Patti Smith in their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Use in popular culture
The song is featured in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Transporter 3, Friday Night Lights, The Crow: City of Angels (in which Iggy Pop played the role of Curve, one of the villains), Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse, the skateboard video by Flip entitled \"Sorry\", an episode of TV show Skins (Episode 2.9: \"Cassie\"), an episode of the TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother (Episode 2.16: \"Stuff\"), in the 2010 film The Runaways, and in the film Sid and Nancy.
It was also used in the games Vietcong and Grand Theft Auto IV, the latter of which features Iggy Pop as a DJ.
The song was released as part of \"The Stooges 01\" pack DLC from the Rock Band series. However, the \"shaker\" sound at the end of the song in GTA IV is cut off, leaving the guitar solo as the last bit of the song.
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