The Stooges
by The Stooges

Album
The Stooges by The Stooges
Year: 1969
Release date: 1969-08-05
Overall rank: 372nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 790 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1969 (15th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1960s (50th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (372nd)

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The Stooges bestography

The Stooges is ranked 3rd best out of 19 albums by The Stooges on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Stooges is Fun House which is ranked number 201 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,444.

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The Stooges track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1969
Average Rating: 86 (197 votes)Comments: View 1
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I Wanna Be Your Dog
Average Rating: 89 (250 votes)Comments: View 2
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We Will Fall
Average Rating: 75 (154 votes)Comments: View 2
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No Fun
Average Rating: 84 (174 votes)Comments: View 1
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Real Cool Time
Average Rating: 79 (142 votes)Comments: View 0
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Ann
Average Rating: 77 (136 votes)Comments: View 0
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Not Right
Average Rating: 78 (137 votes)Comments: View 0
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Little Doll
Average Rating: 78 (133 votes)Comments: View 0

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The Stooges rankings

The Stooges rankings summary
Overall rank: 372nd | 1960s rank: 50th | 1969 rank: 15th  Overall chart history
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The Stooges ratings

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.8/100, a mean average of 79.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.6.


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The Stooges forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 08/05/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5395): By areminder
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by (1999) 2. (1986) 3. by by (1965) 5. by (1969) 6. by (1988) 7. by by (1999) 9. by (1959) 10. (1977) 11. by (1970) 12. by (1966) 14. (2009) 15. (1977) 16. (1969) 17. by (1969) 20. by (1968) 21. by (1971) 22. by (1968) 23. by (1965) 24.…”
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From BestEverAlbums 07/21/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5380): By Purplepash
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by (1991) 4. (1986) 5. by (1983) 6. by (2016) 7. by (1973) 8. by (1967) 9. by (2004) 11. by (1987) 12. by (2007) 13. by (1985) 14. by (1986) 15. by (1967) 16. by (1971) 18. by by (1986) 20. by (1984) 21. by (1985) 22. by by by (1985)…”
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From 05/22/2014 07:47 | #112579 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Lot of filler on here but the stuff that's not is landmark stuff. Think they were rushed into the studio when they were famously signed after having only four or five tracks. Which is why some stuff is weak. The foundations of funhouse and punk rock. (Edited)
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From 05/20/2018 12:26 | #215274 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Just wanted to say that "I Wanna Be Your Dog" might be the best punk track ever recorded. Listening to this thing drives me insane.
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From 05/07/2012 07:45 | #41706 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This would have been higher but for We Will Fall. Sometimes I love it, but other times I just skip onto the incredible No Fun. (Edited)
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From 12/29/2013 01:00 | #99027 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This band is so underrated on here.. Mind blowing album. This Funhouse and Raw Power I would all call perfect.
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From 08/25/2017 01:22 | #196693 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The Stooges at the most unrefined. Great. (Edited)
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