Stooges - Fun House (Dlx)
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Free Music Review: Brutal and honest....and well.....more brutal
Hit: 5 Stars
100% thug rock from the guts. I own no other album that affects me like this one and I own over 400. As soon as I hear Down On The Street or the opening of Loose I just immediately get sucked in and want to start kicking stuff. With this band the whole is definitely greater than it's parts. If you break everything down individually there is really nothing groundbreaking here. But when you put it all together watch out! Something happens. It's primitive, it's simple, but it kind of lulls you into a violent rock and roll trance. If you like driving, garage type rock then you MUST own this disc. This re-issue also sounds amazing. It punches you in the gut far more than the original CD. The alternate takes and things are pretty cool too so you can hear how some of the tunes evolved. What also kills me is the date this was released. Think back to that time and see if you can come up with anything even close to this.Free Music Review: All aboard for fun time...
Hit: 5 Stars
Never mind the Mars probe: one listen to Fun House provides all the evidence you need to know that life exists elsewhere in the universe and that it visits the Earth from time to time. This album was so far ahead of its time and so at odds with virtually everything else being done by The Stooges' contemporaries - at least in rock music - that the only possible conclusion is that it was produced by aliens. The reason this album, together with its belated (1973) successor Raw Power, were so influential (and so magnificent) is that they quite simply redefined the limits of rock and roll. No band since has even looked like taking the music beyond this point, established in 1970. That's also why, after hearing this album, most bands today sound old and clichéd and The Stooges sound brand new. I really hope Iggy and the band finally get the credit they deserve as true greats.Free Music Review: The Groundbreaking Godfather!!
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the most underrated performers of our time........getting recogniton these days, still not what Iggy and the boys deserved.This album is so great. I struggle between this and Raw Power's greatness and I can't pick a defining album, because their both so different, yet each being as critical to the times and the future of music and bands to come. So what do I do, I love them both. As far as tracks go you won't find a bad one. Dirt and 1970, they rock my world with each listen, the others brilliant. Get the remastered version with the extra disc, you'll be happy you did. The sound rocks and the 2nd disc is so worth the alternate takes, plus you get two tracks Lost in the Future and Slide that are just so worth that 2nd disc alone. Funhouse is just all that. Rock on Iggy!Free Music Review: Manic masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
This is it, look no further: Fun House is The Stooges' manic, excessive, drug, alcohol and sex-fuelled homage to everything and anything that yer bona fide very naughty boy could ever do to have fun fun fun. Nihilistic madness, the lot of it, but not yer sophisticated New Yorker dressed in black sort of nihilism. More of yer trailer trash rebel who doesn't want to miss a minute of it.
Picture this album as the unfolding story of a weekend's rampage, beginning with the opportunistism of "Down on the Street" and ending up with the come-down of "L.A. Blues". The musical mayhem in between describes pretty candidly what he gets up to. Probably a cracking party, but one that few of us could survive intact. Some pleasures are better experienced vicariously, methinks.
Free Music Review: Best Stooges Album
Hit: 5 Stars
I recieved this, along with "The Stooges," for my birthday very recently. I had had Raw Power for a while, and had enjoyed that. The first album I also like and recommend it. But this is certianly the best. Very rarely do I really like an album on the first listen, and I knew immediatly that this one was going to be amazing as soon as I heard the opening guitar part to "Down on the Street." Every track is great. My two favorites are the opening track and "TV Eye" and I love the saxophone (being a sax player myself) on side two. And it all ends chaoticly with "LA Blues" which appealed to the side of me that likes experimental, psychedelic, fusion noise like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, and the Beatles "Revolution 9." If you liked the debut album, you MUST own this.