Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste
The third Stooges album has had a strange, combative life—not because it has so much lunging force, though that hasn’t abated in 37 years, but because no one has ever agreed about the versions that made it onto shelves. David Bowie mixed the original (which Iggy Pop famously produced), and mixed it to a rapid screech that many fans of 1969’s The Stooges and (especially) 1970’s Fun House took for a diminishment of the band’s heft. But over time, Bowie’s quicksilver treble and vastly reduced bass became a kind of purist totem for many late-arriving fans, so when Iggy Pop remixed the album to give it more bottom and clarity for its 1997 CD reissue, many (including other members of The Stooges) cried foul.