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Iggy Pop

I Wanna Be Your Dog

1978 · via Wilco

Iggy Pop’s earliest release of “I Wanna Be Your Dog” on file came out in 1978. Iggy Pop shares the writing credit with Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton. The earliest release on file is The Stooges’, from 1969. Also recorded by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (released 1988), Émilie Simon (released 2003) and Sonic Youth (released 1983), among 237 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Iggy Pop – I Wanna Be Your Dog
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Wilco plays it like a borrowed jacket, but The Stooges had it on record back in 1969, and the credit splits four ways with Iggy Pop's name in there. Put on his own take and hear the man who helped write it.

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Credited writers: Dave Alexander, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton and Iggy Pop.

Earliest release on file: The Stooges, 1969.

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237 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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