Comments for Stooges, The, Fun House

"Fun House is one of those rare albums that never sits still quite long enough to actually solidify into what it previously seemed. Not always immediately accessible, it might take some getting into, but the time spent is well repaid. Because properly conceived and handled noise is not noise at all, but music whose textures just happen to be a little thicker and more involved than usual, so that you may not hear much but obscurity the first time, but various subsequent playings can open up whole sonic vistas you never dreamed were there" -Lester Bangs

"Fun House is one of those rare albums that never sits still quite long enough to actually solidify into what it previously seemed. Not always immediately accessible, it might take some getting into, but the time spent is well repaid. Because properly conceived and handled noise is not noise at all, but music whose textures just happen to be a little thicker and more involved than usual, so that you may not hear much but obscurity the first time, but various subsequent playings can open up whole sonic vistas you never dreamed were there" -Lester Bangs

Iggy Pop - Vocals Ron Asheton - Guitar Dave Alexander - Bass Scott Asheton - Drums Steven Mackay - Tenor Saxophone Produced by Don Gallucci This is, in my opinion, the greatest album ever made.

A rock 'n' roll juggernaut. Ig at his best and Rock Action's gotthat Jungle Diddley beat down pat. "L.A. Blues" is an added plus if you need to rid your home of any unwanted guests.

ITS NOT THE BEST RECORD EVER MADE. THERES LOADS OF OTHER FAB BANDS AROUND NOW AND OTHER FABO BANDS THAT HAVE BEEN AND GONE. FUN HOUSE IS JUST A DAMN FINE PIECE OF VINYL WHICH WILL NEVER BE TOUCHED AND BLOWS BIG FARTS AT ALL THE SHITE MUSIC IN THIS WORLD. EARLY IGGY POP VIDEOS SHOULD BE SHOWN TO INNOCENT CHILDREN FROM FLUFFY BACKGROUNDS WHEN THEY ARE 6. DRIBBLE DRIBBLE. I LOVE HE.

ITS NOT THE BEST RECORD EVER MADE. THERES LOADS OF OTHER FAB BANDS AROUND NOW AND OTHER FABO BANDS THAT HAVE BEEN AND GONE. FUN HOUSE IS JUST A DAMN FINE PIECE OF VINYL WHICH WILL NEVER BE TOUCHED AND BLOWS BIG FARTS AT ALL THE SHITE MUSIC IN THIS WORLD. EARLY IGGY POP VIDEOS SHOULD BE SHOWN TO INNOCENT CHILDREN FROM FLUFFY BACKGROUNDS WHEN THEY ARE 6. DRIBBLE DRIBBLE. I LOVE HE.

One of the highlights of this masterpiece is "Loose". Iggy's scream sounds like a dentist's drill and the percussion really swings. Dig it now!

In some ways "Funhouse" is a better listen than the classic "Raw Power". Much more grooves to settle in with. Only the last two cuts,especially L.A.Blues does the album lose any steam. By the way, I bought "Raw Power" when it came out in 1973 and what we had to do was turn the bass setting down and the treble up. The new re-mix was way overdue.

Iggy Pop is the man. He knows how to rock n' roll-especially on the album "Raw Power",i.g. Search And Destroy. "Funhouse" is another fuckin rockin album. "Down On The Street" is the fuckin highlight and beginning of the album, it totally kicks it off with Iggy bellowing his non-understandable lyrics and Scott Asheton's hard pumping drum beat, that you can tell they have mean looks on their faces when they're playin'. "Loose" is a great perverted one. I love Ig's perverted stuff--funnier than hell. "Dirt" is another example--love the fuckin' rhythm section on that one--the brothers at their top form. "T.V. Eye" is a great phsycadellic one, try to get the lyrics, also Ron at his best and most rockin'. "1970", follow up to "1969", is a masterpiece of a jazz type number. I love Iggy's crisma on that one, and that sax is really effective-fills out the sound more. "Funhouse" is a fuckin great jazz song, love the complicated drum beat and Dave Alexander's complicated bass playing, at his most excellent!--love Dave! And "L.A. Blues" which I personaly love, because they keep that extreme energy throughout the whole 4 minutes, and go to great levels of height through of sound!--really fuckin amazing! You can hear that one over and over again and still get something new out of it. The album rocks harder because Ron Asheton is on guitar, not that James Williamson doesn't rock, they both are great, Ron Asheton has wah-wah, which is excellent! Especially the first album, "The Stooges", i.g. 1969--a masterpiece. Another great one is " I Wanna Be Your Dog"--another perverted one--love it! If any hardcore Stooges fan, who also likes "Raw Power" as well as the other Stooges aldums, I suggest the 2 disc set, "Metallic KO", which has the last ever Iggy And The Stooges show--74'. Its a fuckin masterpiece--you have to hear it to believe it. And Iggy, at the end of the show, gets clobbered by a big, overweight hell's angel with a spiked hand all the way up to his arm! The second disc is also a masterpiece--you can tell they were becoming more soulfull with their music, its total genius! This album really shows how they sounded in the concerts. Well, "Funhouse" is a fuckin hot album, i'll bet any person who likes good hard rock will enjoy it, its a fuckin' masterpiece! Go buy it, if you don't have it already. Listen, if you are a know it all and think that this album, and music, is a worthless piece of shit, then that's too bad cause, in the words of Iggy Pop, "Kiss My Ass, Motherfucker!" Devin.

This album is one of the most influetial muthafukn'' collection of electri bltzkrieg to ever enter the deepest crevises of my mind......iggy for me is the personification of total sexual nuclear fallout..anytime i put it on i''m instantly transported bak to a time when i was a tossin an a turnin with my sugarlump...ron asheton''s electric roller coaster could never ever b duplicated by any manmade scream park ride.....for me the stooges sre a wall socket that i can plug into an jettison into nirvana....thank karma these 4 men met an created this....always rockin...xcsm23x

"Fun House comes as close as any one record ever will to encapsulating what rock is, was and always will be about"-The Trouser Press