Search and Destroy

[mickeymousebiker1]

I'm playing this one for the guys who (hopefully) go after the crud who killed two US military personnel (one was a captain) in Afghanistan the other day. I don't think we should trust Afghans in uniform. It's just how it goes over there. Kipling was right.

[trackergirl95]

@mickeymousebiker1 Amen to that.

[jetrage69]

kinda sounds like the beginning of sammy hagars i cant drive 45

[mussman717word]

@jetrage69

Please, don't ever refer to Sammy Hagar and the Stooges in the same sentence. "Stooges" and "Sammy Hagar" shouldn't even start with the same motherfucking letter, man.

[janborrowitz]

omg......I have seen that words somewhere...but where ??? where ??? Seek and destroy !

[EagleofHeavyMetal]

@janborrowitz Metallica, dude

[janborrowitz]

@EagleofHeavyMetal Yep ,-)

[1333skate]

no the dead boys were doing a cover of it

[Itsooz]

@ Description - It's called proto-punk

[1488DLane]

I think it was written by the dead boys which is a punk band in the 70s

[axe187187]

i wouldn't call it just punk or rock. It has some punk elements, but it also has rock nroll elements.

so i guess i would call it punk rock ;)

[donptrebor]

Does it matter what Genre it is, this is an amazing song and an amazing album, who gives a shit about genre.

[willyrandolf]

before some deaf retard says something like "oh man if you think this is heavy metal then listen to black flag or the germs that sure is some crazy heavy metal (dripping with sarcasm)" raw power absolutely DWARFS all the later 80's punk bands. punk bands sound small and tinny. raw power literaly sounds like its going to break my speakers its sounds fucking enormous

[lucasfreefoot]

I love covering this song with our band. We seem to mutually love playing this song more than our own stuff! It is always a blast to cover a song when all of the people playing love it!

[aceshigh23650]

30 Seconds to Mars sucks! Why did they write a song called Search and Destroy? More importantly why does theirs come up when you search it?

[irhchaos]

Who cares if it's punk or rock? it fcuking kick ass!!!! Enjoy the violence ;)



[willyrandolf]

they were totaly trying to be a heavy metal band with this album. led zeppelin,deep purple,black sabbath - the type of stuff that passed for metal during that era.

[MarcoItalia92]

@willyrandolf What do you mean? It's hard to understand your comment

[willyrandolf]

@MarcoItalia92 raw power is a heavy metal album. when i say heavy metal i dont mean slayer and cannibal corpse. i mean blue cheer,black sabbath,led zeppelin,deep purple THAT kind of heavy metal. all the songs are like 4 minutes long,guitar solos out the ass,theory driven songwriting. i mean its WAY to well written and executed to be punk, punk is supposed to stripped down to the bones. plus this just literaly SOUNDS like heavy metal this thing is about t make my speakers explode its soudns huge

[MarcoItalia92]

@willyrandolf Yes, you're right, personally, I couldn't call this album punk... The other works of The Stooges of course... But not this

[dyrkness]

Wrong album cover. This is from the "Raw Power" album.

[TPBXDRicky420]

V I E T N A M

[suzesrc]

@TPBXDRicky420 no The Stooges

[MsParapapa]

I want to have sex listening to this!

[herkiefishbine]

@MsParapapa I have... it's awesome...

[charles1delatorre]

Memories.

[glitterfreeze1111]

A tattoo sent me here.

[gubbenpersson]

iggy is iggy

it was raining cats and dogs last summer when he was plaing in stockholm.

still it was one of my varmest conserts

with some help he invented punk

[RealGRRRLz69]

I love this man! Iggy is the most fuckable sexagenarian on the planet!

[astroboirap]

love the bass drum on this. powerful! sounds like a heartbeat

[MrPattypie69]

Iggy pop if fucken awsome

[teden20]

I am ... the forgotten boy. I am Detroit. Took my own mortars and rockets. Those mortars were a mu^R$%ucker. I still stand! I Stand for more. What else you got mofo? Detroit.

[duqmiguel]

There's a punk in the super-market, and she's got a little chain through her tit . . and she's buying a packet of digestives . . .

[ferca02]

this is garage fucking rock! god bless Iggy

[theneil100]

I had this dream yesterday that iggy pop and the stooges were playing this track, she was useless, then I looked the track up and they never recorded it, so I did today, not a band I ever listened to as well, strange. The way I recorded it was how the stooges played it.

[gubbenpersson]

@theneil100 fucking poet..but you rock an understand1

[TheJSExperience]

I'm obsessed with this song.

[peacesellsstevebuyin]

I'm a jazz, blues and rock guitarist and let me say, in my work in music so far, i believe these motherfuckers are equals with The Beatles, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, The Velvet Underground, Duke Ellington, Frank Zappa, Charlie Parker, Dizzy GIllespie, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, The Kinks, The Who, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman Charles MIngus, Lester Young, David Bowie!

[VoltaireEdu]

Iggy Pop, AMEN!

[snap2snip]

they were coined as proto-punk

[SmoogleChoocher]

The Stooges were the first punk band. Forget the Clash, forget the Ramones. The Stooges were first and a hell of a lot better.

[clinmo]

@SmoogleChoocher you may want to check out a proto punk band called "MC5" they beat iggy to the punch. Don't get me wrong the stooges did heavily influence american punk.



[SmoogleChoocher]

@clinmo The funny thing is, I thought of MC5 right after I posted that comment. I often forget that they have been around since '64, considering their first album didn't come out until '69. lol

[CoryWong707]

what genre is this

[ivanstrangelove]

@CoryWong707 back then it would just have been called rock n roll or garage rock, now its whats known as proto punk, basically a band that inspired punk and played a style similar to what would become known as punk a few years later.

[CoryWong707]

@ivanstrangelove ok thanks for explaining that to me

[Layzie20918]

28 ppl R not a street walking cheta with a handful of napalm

[MikeReyes102]

its definitely the beginning stages of what we know as punk.

[randyhays73]

It"s early punk like the MC5, The Stooges were pioneers of punk.

[historiadorderock]

WHAT YEAR IS THIS FROM??

[historiadorderock]

it's PUNK all the way to me!

[PunkNotDeadxx]

It's not Iggy's voice..

[TheChrisbarry44]

forgotten boy

[K0sm1cKid]

The Ramones were "punk" before punk was a label Im pretty sure. But god Iggy pop, pardon my language, is fucking awsome as shit. On behalf of 16 year olds looking to the past everywhere, I salute you Ramones!

[duqmiguel]

Spic . . Spic . . Brown and slick! Sucks us dry just like a Tick! . . Crossed the Border, with-out a cent . . Now Gringos buy his food and rent . . Won't learn English, but has the Balls . . To scrawl Graffiti on our walls . . Prays to God, both day and night . . But still steals everything in sight . . .

[meijadog]

I urge all of u americanos to listen to The Saints, early aussie punk, possibly the first, here anyway.

[CCHolley]

@meijadog The Saints Fuckin' Rock !!! The first album (I'm)Stranded is one of the best albums of all time !

[Johnnystrychnine]

when Iggy had written the lyrics for this song he said: let's try a few jams, and if the third jam to the lyrics don't work I will tell your mom what a bad boys your are....

[zirstoren]

We must search and destroy the 27 peoples who dislike this song

[ChesterAsucka]

"Punk" is a word, a label. Some random dude saw some band play & said this is punk, just like any other "genre." Bands never call themselves anything. The reason why people just need to define punk is because there seems to be more of a comradery within that label than anywhere else. Also this "type" of music defies conventions & doesn't quite understand what's considered too far. Punk has been kind of my obsession & I listen to lots of different music but one word can't possibly encapsulate it.

[KeepRockin55]

Detroit Rock n Roll at its' finest.

[27natedogg1]

@KeepRockin55 too bad they're from ann arbor...

[AtariBunny1337]

iggy pop is rock but he help infulence the newyork punk sence since he loved to cut him self and bleed all over the place at shows

[VooDooChild505]

That guitar riff is so fucking tasty!!!

[MrKeefp]

iggy is god

[gabrielrocks69]

This is Punk Rock.

[TheWelshCelt]

i dont like this song i fucking love it!!!

[IzzyPanzer]

When I heard this song for the first song I got the impression the Stooges must had died when studio collapsed upon them on the song end. It is so nihilistic, yet it gets me going whenever I'm down. And so powerful. The amps must had exploded in session.

[lewiskvin]

Proto-punk :D

[uberari]

Iggy and the stooges are classified as the first actual punk band. anyone who says the ramones were punk dosen't know what they're talking about. the ramones were the first POP punk band. they toned down punk and sold it to the mainstream, a real punk rocker wouldn't do that.

[SOADownsnubs]

@uberari Oh please....what the hell is punk anway but someone's personal definition. I think the attitude is what defines the genre, not the style of music. So maybe the ramone's aren't as "punk" as most, they still played some damned good music and in the end that's all we're left with.

[AssassinJ2]

@uberari They formed their own genre that people decided to call punk. They influenced the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and hardcore. The Stooges and MC5 were the first punks, though. Influenced by David Bowie.

[amplifyd63]

@uberari what do you mean a "real" punk rocker? What are you talking about sold it to the mainstream? The Ramones hardly made it at all, if by mainstream you mean they made it into popular media than the stooges must be mainstream as well. The Ramones were never mainstream, they were never pop-punk, people just started appreciating them more over the years. At the time, The Ramones were a very under appreciated band. And not a great deal of people liked them.

[amplifyd63]

@uberari what do you mean a "real" punk rocker? What are you talking about sold it to the mainstream? The Ramones hardly made it at all, if by mainstream you mean they made it into popular media than the stooges must be mainstream as well. The Ramones were never mainstream, they were never pop-punk, people just started appreciating them more over the years. At the time, The Ramones were a very under appreciated band. And not a great deal of people liked them.

[keozeo]

@amplifyd63 i dont like em either. but thats just me. theyre a little to poppish for my tastes. i feel people shouldnt refer to them as "punk" when theyve said themselves theyre not. theyre a rock but not punk. punk is a state of mind not a genre.

[WaNgErDoHg]

@uberari You think the Ramones were mainstream? They hardly had any commercial success until much later and even then they still weren't huge. They also were a huge influence on the UK punk scene and the Californian scene. Sure they had some poppier sounding stuff but christ who wants a band to have the same sound all the time just to fit into some label. The Ramones weren't trying to be "punk" they were just being the fucking Ramones.

[crash2cute]

garage punk staight - out

[tommarkunas]

punk rock cornerstone

[Preliminimal]

it doesn't need a convenient label box category-- this is about individualism, not conforming to any style. iggy is his own thing, so is anyone that doesn't think about other bands when they are expressing themselves.

categories and labeling people is for highschool ignoroids

[ThePunkrockanarchy]

I love this song is the best of proto punk :D, do not understand why it was so popular in its time

[Chippy215Boss]

this where Call of Duty started from

[indiasuaujunca]

punk before punk....and before malcolm maclaren and his sex pistols!!

[Preliminimal]

@indiasuaujunca - johnny was against being called punk or being categorized--that was all malcolm and the typical column critics trying to place it neatly in their over-analyzed paralysis. johnny explains this on 'some product'- [sexpistols interview album]... the western punk -LA in particular, is what turned it into a stereotype. genuine punk never calls themselves punk, same with anything else. categories are made by those outside of the essence. those within the essence are label-free

[jporzio75]

@Preliminimal nicely said. thank you!

[J0hannski]

@dipheltheria You don't like punk rock. Nobody does. You LIVE punk rock once you undestand what it's all about.

[janjust]

@J0hannski just out of curiosity, what's it about?

[crazychaosB]

@J0hannski ok johnny rotten, go advertise ya butter...tit!

[jlt31187]

@J0hannski you sound like a facist

[soff75]

its not the right picture

[KerlonDaniel]

@dipheltheria im in the same situation :D

[asdesas]

@dipheltheria Hahahah awesome comment, may God grant you much time to catch up--there's lots of amazing stuff to hear

[frrrrrunkis]

@dipheltheria Better late than never...

[pervertedmind]

/watch?v=yu6DpT0Vc-U  if you want. d(:

[Grunger19]

100 percent punk. Iggy is the godfather of punk

[BobbyPyn372]

@Grunger19 "Rockhead doesn't do drugs!"



[b42w4242]

god this song makes me so fucking horney. iggy is one sexy beast

[reggiecointreau26]

this is the birth of punk....but it is the realization of bad ass.....punk rock was created in detroit by mc5 and the stooges

[taoloveu]

how do you dislike this?

[MorbidBliss22]

This song reminds me of angry sex.

[hildaatje]

I keep on thinking;if they ever make a movie about the madman who just killed all those poor children (and adults) in Norway(his name is not worth the mention for he is not human),this would be the perfect soundtrack to the film.

[WxWmartinWxW]

What is so amazing is that this doesn't sound outdated (except for the audio quality). After all this time it still sounds fresh.

[ZioStronzo]

No record will ever have the sheer iconoclastic fury that dwells in "Raw Power". Not even "Kick out the jams" or "Ace of Spades". I mean, "Raw Power" makes every Exploited record sound like the Teletubbies' benefit concert.

[Stryker37573]

the creator of a style does not necessarily play the style... they play the roots and influences to the style so they're playing garage rock/punk rock...

[pervertedmind]

/watch?v=yu6DpT0Vc-U

[deekante]

When I type in search and destroy,Call of Duty comes up. Fuck you,youtube. Fuck you so much.

[lleo11]

@deekante aint it obvious theres a search and destroy mode in CoD and its one of the biggest games ever now. what u have against it? everyone likes video games

[megafaded69]

@deekante I play CoD, but yeah, fuck it. Iggy is God!

[dpramirez66]

Lets go break some fucking shit now!

[hnh4]

Wrong album cover though...

[BLACKSABBATH0HM]

This is Japanoise!

[mynewchanel]

18 people fail at cod

[666ablemetallica]

SEARCHING... SEEK AND DESTROY!!!

[glaeken14]

I love it

[nauj2502]

c`mon i love seek and destroy and i like this

[KADG81]

Not to be confused with seek and destroy; a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay superior song

[lleo11]

@KADG81 are you bashing on Metallica's Kill 'Em All??? sad

[KADG81]

@lleo11

No, I'm saying seek and destroy is better than Iggi's s&d

[lleo11]

@KADG81 oh, my mistake lol and yeh it is, in ways. thx for not goin all trolly on me lol

[ClosetNerdVEVO]

I am the worlds forgotten boy the one who searches and destroys



[The3rdBaboon]

imagine what people must have thought when they heard this in 1969??? I can only imagine.

[willwood1555]

its punk

[crazypainter72]

This is punk the begining of it anyways one of the bands that wanted to break the mold of the hippy type rock .

[Koopaking96]

This came out in fucking 1969. I mean, how ahead of your time could you be??

[ProcolHarum1967]

@Koopaking96 1973

[ogWolf131]

i like to throw feces on my audience as well as piss on themm.hahahahahhaah

[brosuph1334]

@ogWolf131 gg allan? lol

[AGraveman]

punk rock is an attitude and a state of mind and with the stooges that definetly comes across so yeah ill sya theyre punk rock!

[deathlex211]

Wasn't this originally done by the Dead Boys?

Either way Iggy is amazing but his voice is too soft for this, Dead Boys was better IMO

[326Zach]

@deathlex211 lol no

[potol5678]

sometimes i really feel blessed i found good music to listen to early in my life. Being 15 and not listening to anything resembling autotune really makes me proud :D

[mourningnoise66]

Long live rock n roll and long live punk.

[djclouser]

This is proto-punk. The genre was born in the mid to late 70s, and bands like the Stooges helped inform the sound. One can argue all day about what qualifies as punk, and if this song were recorded today, I would allow that it was a punk song. However, this was intended to be a rock song, not a genre-starter (even if that's what it became).

[10inchesofsexy]

easy punk

[Jamming282]

I've always heard Iggy referred to as the grandfather of punk. So yes I class it as punk. One of my all time favorite songs too :)

[JeffersonCouncil]

@Jamming282 if iggy's the grandfather whats that make lou reed?

[levediagyermeke]

Iggy is my god from my age 15. I must say, he is still rules.

[BWM206]

it's amphetamine sulfate in a tuna fish sandwich shoved up your ass! with dynamite!! it's like being beaten to death with a sack full of oranges!! it's a jack in the box full of death!! i was there back in the day when so-called "punk" was invented, and you know what? who fucking cares. it's awesome.

[CzheckProductionZ]

Klause,i said not this one. they forgot there dog,his gun never did run out of ammo lol

[calumstarkey]

This is rock, but it inspired punk rock. This was the template for all that followed.

[46Mondare]

it's an interesting question, because i can't make up my mind, listening right now, it occurred to me this kind of reminds me of runnin with the devil by van halen of all things.

[Dingo132]

FUCKIN FLASH-BANGERS, Batman, I LOVE this song!!



[fendertaylor101]

the 17 dislikers got found and destroyed

[lleo11]

@fendertaylor101 3 more got added get ready for mission

[Monkeyfurshur]

@fendertaylor101 Crap, they're just like the VC, a bunch more poured out of nowhere.

[fendertaylor101]

YES!!

[SandrowXD]

PUNK ROCK! <3

[rzentay]

great, probably the most important and influential song to starting punk rock music comes up second when searching for "search and destroy"...fucking 30 seconds to mars...

[Koolkitties]

songs way better than punk

[APlike2skate]

its not punk or rock its death metal rap funk jazz country

[calumstarkey]

This is straight up gangsta rap.

[northofthesun]

@calumstarkey fuck yes

[TheHasaan279]

@calumstarkey as gangsta as it gets.



[Czheckproductions]

@calumstarkey the first rap song

[Veektoereeah]

@calumstarkey Please do not refference that damn genre with this magic.

[whatwinks84]

i dont know why i didnt listen to this stuff earlier.the stooges,new york dolls,the sweet.its all great...

[gasmaskboi19371945]

I wouldnt actually call this Punk, it didnt count as Punk..BUT it influenced Punk in a way and so did David Bowie and the New York Dolls, it was just that Attitude that made that new Genre now known as Punk.

[natashatheunclean]

i think iggy pop is allergic to shirts. i have never seen him wear a shirt.

[CAIN3R]

um..i think id call it good music...

[Marsman1337]

I don't know about you guys, but I just call it house techno...I think Iggy would agree with me...

[PessimisticMonday]

Iggy Pop forever man. We listened to a lot of his stuff over in Afghanistan. I can't imagine the war going on over there was as bad as Vietnam, but I still couldn't help but feel like he was talking about me.

[nuclearjanitors]

iggy pop is as awesome as all the heroin he does

[larsedge]

FUCK YEAHH !!!! UHH !!!

[Keijz74]

I love how mean this sounds. I have this on CD.

Whatever you call it, I call it good shit :o)

[ElKilla1993]

I would call it Napalm Punk/Metal, everyone happy now? FUCK YEA THIS ROCKS

[dedobleu]

i would call it . proto punk 

[xBondiollix]

who gives a damn about the genre,just enjoy it!

[jamirosmajicrocks]

wow now i realized first punk already was in the 60s!