The 50 Heaviest Songs Before Black Sabbath: #20-11
12 - The Stooges, “I Wanna Be Your Dog” (1969)
The influence of many bands on this list is debatable, but there’s no question that without the Stooges there would be no punk rock, which means there would be no thrash metal. Stooges frontman Iggy Pop would reinvent himself countless times in the course of his career, but his most manic moments come on the initial offering from the Stooges, which features this three-chord monster of a song.














