Rolling Stone ranked this song #468 on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, VH1 ranked it 49th in their Best Hard Rock songs of All Time, and a 1970s Punk magazine based in San Francisco named themselves after it.
This song and its album Raw Power have won a litany of awards. (Laughs) That one has more typical song writing structure in it, which is probably why it gets the most attention." So that was about the closest I got to getting any of these guys to Rock School. That's the part where I'm singing 'Love in a middle of a fire fight' and after that, the buildup where I say "Somebody's got to save my soul / Baby penetrate my mind" - that's a pre-chorus where you actually downshift and then you heighten the tension through building the chords so that there is a release.
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Then I asked him for something which you'll never hear on another Stooges record, something that approximates what professional song writers call a 'pre-chorus'. I sort of said, 'Look, can we make a new part that's just like part two but in half time?' So he went, 'Okay', and that became our chorus. Iggy Pop recalled to Clash Magazine the making of the song: "The funny part about it was until I convinced him to step back a little and ease up on the thing, what James brought in was four times as fast and twice as heavy! (Laughs) It was two of the parts in the song, the two fastest parts - there are four basic building blocks - and when he did it there were just the two, and when he did it they just went over and over, faster and faster.
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