I have to admit that I really didn't hear the Stooges doing No Fun until after I bought the Sex Pistols covering the song on the back of Pretty Vacant. The Pistols did a great copy but the Mod inside me made me go search out for the original. Which I've done with most songs and they've turned out to be a lot better. I say usually because a few get transformed into something a lot better. Badfinger's "Without You" is the obvious one. Nillson just took it and owned it. Dave Edmunds's version of Elvis Costello's Girls Talk and Mott the Hoople Completely owning All The Young Dudes even though Bowie has tried to take it back many times.
So I went looking for The Stooges and it didn't take long. Even in Box Hill, there was a wind blowing and these alternative records were turning up all over the place. Got it back to my brother's house in Blackburn where I was staying for the last few months of college. My Mum had gone back to the UK so I was fending for myself. My brother Tony and his wife were cool though. They loved the idea of a band rehearsing there and let Subway my first band take over the master bedroom. One of our first gigs was in the Living Room.
But I digress. Loved the Stooges first album. It was a toss-up between No Fun and "I wanna be your dog". But No Fun led me to the Stooges. However, my first punk song was a rip-off of "Dog". 1969 was pretty groovy too. But it was No Fun that I got Subway to play. It was only two chords. and my favorites as well. A to D. It was just so exciting buying these buried classics. The MC5 didn't grab me at first though. Except for the name. That was cool.
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