The Stooges: I Wanna Be Your Dog (1969)

Want to know where the Sex Pistols came from? Listen to "I Wanna Be Your Dog" with its 3 chords, memorable riff, distorted guitar, and pounding piano. Brilliant in its simplicity and audaciously aggressive! This is not the Beatles singing "I Wanna Be Your Man"!

Studio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIqnXTqg8I

Live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9b3uUQ2zI

The song has been covered hundreds of times.

Sonic Youth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BII01gneTU

R.E.M w/Patti Smith:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb31X1pmrag

Joan Jett:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toDgW_LHXZU&feature=related