Iggy Pop/The Stooges Tab and Lyric Request Thread

Hi, I thought it would be smart to make an own thread for these type of questions and requests. So here can everyone request lyrics and tabs and maybe somone can help you out!

Request away!

I’ll start asking. Anyone know the lyrics to Rock and Roll Party?

Cheers,
world’s forgotten boy

I think it would be a cool idea to create a section including tabs, lyrics, etc. I believe there are people in this forum, who also managed to work out some of the Stooges' riff stuff, etc.

Yeah, thanks... That was something I was thinking, too... I have worked out Johanna and Rn'R Party, but I'm really bad at making tabs!

oh yeh can you put up johanna and rnr party? those have great riffs

I would love the Johanna riff or even just chords.

I’m happy to help out with any lyric requests as I do a weekly lyric blog on my Iggy Pop Bebo page. It’s at www.bebo.com/iggy-pop-fan-page if anybody wants to check it out.

Anyway I'll help out with the first request, the lyrics to Rock And Roll Party are...


As I walked into the rock and roll club,
I found myself with the usual bums.
I know that blonde - she’s smilin’ at me,
But the hands in my pocket is a mystery.

Oh-oh!
What do I find?
Rock and roll party,
Where is the wine?
Oh-oh!
Which one is mine?
Rock and roll party,
But where is the wine?

As I checked into that rocking scene,
I was quickly surrounded by some beautiful queens.
I looked to my left then I looked to my right,
I spoke to that one girl that looked out of sight.

Oh-oh!
What did I find?
Rock and roll party,
Such is the wine.
Oh-oh!
What did I find?
Rock and roll party,
This one is mine.

OH!

Rock is rock if you’ll give it a shot.
Rock is rock if you like it or not.
The nylon stockings up your leg,
Might as well be screaming.

Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?

Cause rock is rock if you’ll give it a shot.
Where we gonna go tonight?
Rock is rock if you like it or not.

Rock and roll party.

Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?
Where we gonna go tonight?

world's forgotten boy wrote:

I have worked out Johanna and Rn'R Party, but I'm really bad at making tabs!

I can help you out

Here's the riff for 'Johanna' (in F-Major):

E-1-------------------------------||
B----4-1-4-1----1---------------||
G--------------3----3-1-3-1-----||
D------------------------------3-||
A---------------------------------||
E---------------------------------||

or

E--------------------------------||
B--------------------------------||
G--------------------------------||
D-3-1----1----------------------||
A------3----3-1-3-1----1-------||
E---------------------4-----4-1-||

It's descending pentatonic as you can see

'Rock'n'Roll Party' riff:

E------------------------||
B------------------------||
G------------------------||
D----4-2-4-2-------4-2-||
A--------------4---------||
E-2--------------2-------||

Enjoy and ride on

Heres the intro... theres' a bass line first... I will come to that later

listen to the song to get it right!

Intro(guitar):
|---------------------|
|---------------------|
|----4--2-4-2----4-2--|
|-------------4-------|
|---------------------|
|--2------------2-----|

Listen to the song on this part, these are the chords to the verse, but not how many times it's played...

Verse:
|--2--------2--|
|--2--3--2--2--|
|--2--5--2--2--|
|--4--4--2--4--|
|--4--5-----4--|
|--2--------2--|

Chours:
|--2--------|------------|
|--2--3--4--|------------|
|--2--5--4--|--4b--2-----|
|--4--4--4--|--4b--2--4--|
|--4--5--2--|---------4--|
|--2--------|------------|

Break:
|--------------|
|--------------|
|-----7--2-----|
|--2--7--2--4--|
|--2--5--0--4--|
|--0--------2--|

That's about it... I can tab Johanna later...

I have another request, can anyone help me out with the 'Wild Love' lyrics?

world's forgotten boy wrote:

I can tab Johanna later...

I already tabbed the intro for Johanna as you can see in the previous post

Yeah I saw it JamesWilliamson82, I think we tabbed it about the same... I was thinking to tab the rest, the chords etc.

Can anyone help me with the "Wild Love" Lyrics?


Cheers

And here's the tab for one (in my opinion) of the creepiest and coolest Stooges song, when it comes to structure:

I'm Sick Of You

intro and melody between verses:

E---------0------------||
B------0----0----3-5--||
G---0---------0-------||
D----------------------||
A----------------------||
E-0--------------------||

verse (then back to the main melody):

E------------------------||
B-------3---------------||
G----2-------0-------0-||
D-0-------2-------2----||
A---------------3-------||
E------------------------||

after the last verse James plays this:

C Major chord A Major chord C Major

E-----------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------||
B----------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------||
G-------2------2----2-|--------0-------0----0---|-------2-------2-----2--||
D----2-----------------|-----2-------------------|-----2--------------------||
A-0-------0-0----0----|--3-------3-3----3------|--0-------0-0-----0-----||
E-----------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------||

He plays A Major twice, then A Major once and back to C Major (once)

And then the last piece, when Iggy sings 'No way...'(or Norway LOL):

E---------------------------|------------------------||
B---------------------------|------------------------||
G-------0-------0------0---|--------2-------2---2-||
D----2----------------------|-----2-----------------||
A-3-------3-3------3-------|--0-------0-0----0----||
E----------------------------|-----------------------||

C Major then A Major chords - that's it - enjoy and ride on!

Thanks for the tab JamesWilliamson82. I've got a different way of playing it on the intro and in between verses which is:

E-----------0----------0----||
B--------0----0----3-------||
G-----0---------2----------||
D--2-----------------------||
A---------------------------||
E---------------------------||

World's Forgotten Boy, I'm working on Wild Love but it's even worse than Rubber Legs. The sound quality on the vocals is awful. Anyway I was able to work out the lyrics for My Girl Hates My Heroin which as an earlier version of Wild Love:


Well my girl,
She hates my weed and skunk.
She loves me!
Yeah you love me habitless.
And feel me,
Cause I am all around.

Wild lover!
When I get you down.

You don’t know me,
And I don’t give a damn.
You don’t love me,
But I don’t care!

What I want,
Is a hard shover.
Yeah my girl,
With a shaven love.

Patience,
Is a, understood.
Wild thing!
You’re the one I need.

You don’t know me,
I don’t give a damn.
You care baby,
You don’s understand.
You don’t know me,
I don’t give a damn.
You care baby,
But I’m going to get to heeeyeah!

Wild love!
You insult me!
When shower’s on,
And you masquerade.

Heaven, love child!
Gonna pet my love.
And your mysteries
Gonna have a bug.

You don’t know me,
I don’t care about it.
You don’t dig my band,
I don’t care about it!
You don’t know baby,
And I don’t give a damn.
You don’t give my band any credit yeah! Yeah.

Wild love!
Wild love!
Wild love!
Wild love.


Can somebody give me the chords and tab bits for I Got Nothin'?

G, F#, E wrote:

Thanks for the tab JamesWilliamson82. I've got a different way of playing it on the intro and in between verses which is:

E-----------0----------0----||
B--------0----0----3-------||
G-----0---------2----------||
D--2-----------------------||
A---------------------------||
E---------------------------||

I think you're playing Iggy's live version, right? Because of the note on the 2nd fret, G string Actually, sounds cool starting to play from the D string - I didn't think of that - thanks

No problem. Is it the live version? I never noticed I just figuired it out when noodling with my guitar. Thanks for the veerse bits by the way.

G, F#, E wrote:

No problem. Is it the live version? I never noticed I just figuired it out when noodling with my guitar. Thanks for the veerse bits by the way.

Actually, I listened to Iggy's live version and his guitarist doesn't play that 2nd note on G-string..But it sounded to me as he did lol

Err this might be a dumb question, but, how exactly is 1970 played?

verse: E G E G E G
chorus: C D E G E G E G E G E G E G / C D E D C D C C# D

G, F#, E wrote:

Can somebody give me the chords and tab bits for I Got Nothin'?

intro: E F Fis E Fis E Fis E G D
verse: A E G D
chorus: Fis D A Fis E D A Fis D A Fis E G D

One of their best live tracks in my opinion

JamesWilliamson82 wrote:

verse: E G E G E G
chorus: C D E G E G E G E G E G E G / C D E D C D C C# D

I know Ron plays it entirely different from that. Do you have any idea?

Not if you use power chords.

Oh and JamesWilliamson82, thanks for the I Got Nothin' chords. Sorry to sound stupid but what does "Fis" mean?

G, F#, E wrote:

Sorry to sound stupid but what does "Fis" mean?

Oh, stupid was my mistake lol - 'Fis' stands for 'F sharp' - between F Major and G Major

Thanks , I always asumed the riff was much harder. I'm suprised at how staight forward it is.

By the way in 1970 isn't there a bit in the chorus which is B, C, D?

G, F#, E wrote:

By the way in 1970 isn't there a bit in the chorus which is B, C, D?

Of course there is If you start playing '1970' from D Major

Ah, OK. I understand...sort of

Not if you use power chords you say, yeh I know. But I've watched Ron playing up close and he has this neat little rapid-finger-movement between the chord progression that I'd like to figure out.

Yeah so have I but that's Ron. He plays differently and in a more complicated way nowadays. You can acheive the same effect with a fuzz box set on "Classic Fuzz" and playing the notes in power chords that JamesWilliamson82 gave you.

A fuzz box is an essential purchase for playing Ron era Stooges stuff.