Released in June 1969, this track from the Stooges debut album is one of the major reasons they earned the nickname godfathers of punk. The distortion-heavy guitar evokes the sound of hard psychedelic rock bands like Blue Cheer and Vanilla Fudge, but the stripped-down pounding pulse of the song set...
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
So messed up I want you here
In my room, I want you here
And now we're gonna be face-to-face
And I'll lay right down in my favorite place
[Chorus]
And now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well, come on
[Verse 2]
And now I'm ready to close my eyes
And now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your hand
And lose my heart on the burning sands
[Chorus]
And now I wanna be your dog
And now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Well, come on
[Outro]
Uh, uh, uh
I Wanna Be Your Dog was written by Iggy Pop & Dave Alexander & Ron Asheton & Scott Asheton.
I Wanna Be Your Dog was produced by John Cale.
The Stooges released I Wanna Be Your Dog on Tue Jul 01 1969.
In a 1990 interview with Howard Stern, Iggy Pop said,
Have you ever seen like a really good looking girl, really nicely dressed, and she’s walking down the street with her dog, right? And like her dog is … intimate with her body, and she likes him and everything. Basically, it’s the idea of I want...