Stooges - Fun House (Dlx)
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Free Music Review: SEE THAT 5 Stars
Great job by Rhino 1st of all. Other lables should take a look at how reissues get done right. The original trax remastered as good as digital will allow plus an extra disc of worthy out takes on this wild as hell rock experiment known as "Fun House". Few bands ever get this good & no I'm not talking about graduating from Berklee (please spare me!). The magic of the Stooges tends to creep up on you & then you are hooked without warning. The Stooges essential magic is thier ability to pummel the living hell out of a riff with Iggy floating in & out of the beat like a cross between Little Richard & Jerry Rosalie of the Sonics. Now, add to that a slight dash of avant-gard jazz sensability to achive total & all out anarchie & you have 1 of the most land mark rock & roll lps bar none. This LP has quite good dynamics from the ominous stomp of "Down On The Street" to the surreal & drugged out nod of "Dirt" to the screeching cresendo of "LA Blues/monster"....This LP will suck you in, wring you out & leave you wondering what hit you. Not to mention the "visionary" production of Don "Louie Louie" Gallucci. He basically dismantled the pristine Elecktra Studio in LA, took out most of the sound deadening or acoustical tiles, set up oriental rugs, the bands PA & let 'em rip. Ron Asheton did some minimal overdubs over the basics & that was the album. It 1 uped the 1st album & they really should've have used Mr Gallucci on Raw Power....Sorry Bowie.Free Music Review: What can i possibly say..?
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't have any fresh insight to this album, i wasn't even born when it was released so i can't tell you how it's release changed rock music in the 70's, i can't really tell you how or why all of the bands that've tried to rip off "fun house" and The Stooges in general over the years have failed because they've always missed out the most crucial part : the rhythm (well, that and not having a genius guitarist like Ron Asheton) and i can't tell you anything about this you don't already know or that Lester Bangs didn't say 1000 x better than i ever could in his original review when it came out.
All i can tell you is THANK GOD the greatest rock album of all time and the greatest of all time, period, has finally gotten the reissue treatment it's deserved for so long and, lemme tell ya, ir's been worth the wait. The old cd version of this was quiet, sounded a tad thin and you almost had to struggle to hear the bass at times but here it sounds 3d, dense and, franky, colossal.
The second disc contains the two amazing songs from the "fun house" that didn't make it as well as the outtake highlights of that ridiculous super-limited 7 hour "fun house" boxset thing. I tip my hat to Rhino for putting all this on a second disc thus giving us value for money and not cluttering up the actual album itself as lots of these remastered reissues do.
Free Music Review: sounds like a band, finally
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the best albums ever made, as everybody with half a brain knows, and as you can see from the reviews here, but what needs more stress is how great this remaster is. The original was terrible--underwater almost. You know how good the band is but you can't really hear it; listening to the old version, you sort of reconstruct in your head what it must've really sounded like. But this, this is raw, you're in the studio. This could be the best digital remaster I've heard--the one with the biggest difference. Everything cuts. When I put it on my ipod (do it uncompressed, for the love of God, why else did you buy the 160G drive?), I forgot to replace the old version, so i-tunes put the songs next to each other, old version of each song, then new. Heard that way, the difference was unbelievable. The reviewer who said s/he couldn't tell the difference is crazy. Forget the extra cd, which has a lot of good stuff by the way; this is worth it for the remaster.
As for the music itself, the only thing to add to the other reviews, is how influenced by free jazz this record is, how they managed to combine hard rock and free jazz riffs (Ornette Coleman bleats really) but retaining the hardness and sharpness, that is, it's still their thing.
Free Music Review: THIS IS MY STOOGES ALBUM*********
Hit: 5 Stars
I know a lot of punk rockers, man. I know a lot of punk rock, though I've never really dug on much of it but the classics. By this I mean the stuff that is called "punk" now, but was around before punk was even any kind of label.
The way I see it, punk innovators (much like the metal innovators) never followed a formula. A lot of the times they experimented with a bunch of sounds before they realized what it was all about for them.
THE STOOGES on their 1970 album FUNHOUSE were still experimenting with different sounds and techniques. Its not as PUNK as RAW POWER perhaps (its actually got a lot of slow burning, jazz type jams) its more of a free style session.
While my punk rock friends were spiking their mohawks and skating to RAW POWER I was getting baked to FUNHOUSE.
I've noticed that the new release has an entire disc of outakes. I am definatley looking into this immediatley. Early outakes from the STOOGES don't dissapoint.
Punk rockers, I say open your ears to some of these extended jam type tracks. there are quite a few in the early Stooges belt and most are worth a listen.
Just let this one play through and smoke a J. Lay back and soak it in. Calming of chaos.
Free Music Review: Nothing more to say that hasn't already been said, but . . .
Hit: 5 Stars
They've inducted that Macolm Mclaren money-making hype "punk" band the Sex Pistols into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame (McLaren's other great creation was Bow Wow Wow) who arrived two years after the CBGB thing in New York in '74 (Brit kids seeing the Ramones on tour was far more influential on the punk scene there than anything the pistols did). Those laughable geezers Black Sabbath have been inducted (though they had their moments in their early albums). Even Billy Joel is an inductee (thanks to the evil & damned for eternity Jann Wenner)!! But neither the Stooges nor Iggy are to be found listed; their first album came out in 1969, which would have made them elegible in 1994; 12 years of tripe. A lot of people need to get a lot of hate mail for this omission. Then again, perhaps NOT being in the R'nR hall of fame is the last sign of integrity as this genre of music truly dies a slow, ugly, painful death (see "alternative" music since the early '90's leading to the likes of Avril Levine or . . . or any other "serious", "sensitive" "hip" whiney, over-hyped, worthless bands these days).