Search and Destroy (The Stooges song)

"Search and Destroy" is a song by American rock band The Stooges, recorded for the group's third album Raw Power (1973). Lead singer Iggy Pop said that the title was derived from a column heading in a Time article about the Vietnam War. In 1997, "Search and Destroy" (along with the rest of the songs on Raw Power) was remixed and remastered by Pop and Bruce Dickinson. The result was far more aggressive and stripped down than the original release, which had been mixed by David Bowie. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 468 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 2009 it was named the 49th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.

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Style

"Search and Destroy" has been characterized as garage rock, glam rock and proto-punk.

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Appearances in popular culture

"Search and Destroy" was the name of an influential late 1970s punk magazine based out of San Francisco.
Henry Rollins has a large tattoo on his back of an image with large text reading "Search & Destroy", which was completed in 1985.
The song has made several appearance in TV shows, video games and films including Almost Famous, TOCA Race Driver, Haggard: The Movie, The Wire, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lost and Dexter in addition to the Nike Air ad campaign that aired during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The song also appeared in the 2016 ads for the Audi A4 sport sedan.
A different version "Seach and Destroy" appeared in the final trailer for the film War for the Planet of the Apes.

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Covers

Emanuel covered "Search and Destroy"that appeared on the soundtrack for the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
A cover version appeared in the video game Guitar Hero II.
Skunk Anansie recorded the song for the film Sucker Punch.
Red Hot Chili Peppers covered the song on the B-side to their 1991 single "Give It Away" and their version appeared on various other of the band's releases including The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience, Under the Covers: Essential Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Covers EP. The band also performed the song live several times.
Def Leppard covered the song on the Japanese and Walmart editions of their 2006 album Yeah!.
It has also been covered by Bernie Torme, Black Light Burns, Cursed, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, EMF, Everclear, The Hives, Impaler, Kid Loco, LaFaro, Mai Kadowaki, Peaches, Pearl Jam with Mudhoney, Radio Birdman, The Rides, Rocket from the Tombs, Samiam, Shotgun Messiah, Sid Vicious, Soundgarden, Tales of Terror, Terveet KÃ¤det, Turbonegro, UFX, Verdena and You Am I.