Fun House
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Of course the Stooges were stupid, that was the whole point. Three chords were okay, two were even better, one or none (the cacophonous “L.A. Blues”) was best of all. Drunk on their own testosterone, Iggy Pop and Co. kept things simple, loud, and brutal–and he’s been coasting on the band’s rep ever since. Slow and thuddy as it sounds now, almost nobody had ever made rock as primal as this second album. Iggy howled like a psycho, the band sounded like they could barely play the elementary riffs, and occasionally a moment of bone-headed poetry made it through the glorious muck. –Douglas Wolk
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I heard about the stooges on the vh1 punk show and a few people told me this is a clasic punk cd but guess what it aint punk. This sounds like the Rolling Stones or something u have a serius problem if u think its punk. Check out NOFX, Lag wagon, MxPx, American Hifi, Sr-71, SUM41, Good Charlote, or Dead Kennedie’s if u want 2 hear what real punk sounds like.
Rating: 1 / 5
Fun House
Before I wrote this, I thought I’d actually re-listen to “Fun House” 3 times while driving, and in different moods. Then I read all 80+ reviews on Amazon of it. Too funny. “The greatest rock’n'roll CD of all time,” “More soul than ‘James Brown at the Apollo’”, “THE prototype to all punk records that followed” (maybe closer to the truth). I’d bet that 80% of the reviewers here weren’t even around back then, and they’re just writing their crap after reading “Please Kill Me,” the punk rock bio. As Lou Reed once said, “Iggy was just a bad imitiation of Jim Morrison, who wasn’t very good anyway.” Back then (I was 16 when Fun House was released) the Stones were the real deal, as anybody who knew anything knew. The Stooges were a good time local band you could actually get tickets to, and when you were sloppy drunk, did a few qualudes, and couldn’t get laid, they were a good substitute for the Stones. But listen to “Stray Cat Blues” from Beggar’s Banquet, or “Midnight Rambler” and THEN listen to “LA Blues” or “TV Eye” from Fun House and compare. No comparison. Even “Goin Home” by Ten Years After, “Summertime Blues” by Blue Cheer, or “Rock Me” by Steppenwolf makes the Stooge’s “LA Blues” just boring white noise. And Arthur Brown’s “Fire” was probably very influental on (and better done) than anything on Fun House. The nihilistic white drone was better done by Paul McCartney (of all people) on the Beatles “Helter Skelter.” And Them’s “Gloria” and the Velvet Underground’s “Waiting for the Man” wipes the floor with the 3 chord groove of “Down on the Street.” Too bad most of you aren’t even familiar with these tracks that came out BEFORE Fun House, or even the Stooge’s first LP. Truth hurts, doesn’t it?
Rating: 1 / 5
Fun House
the truth is if this band never existed punk still would have started. Thats why i can not still beleive why so many people call this the beggening or line to punk. The truth it started with velvet underground then new york dolls then the ramones. also the sex pistols and the new york dolls had the same manager. I am really lost where the stooges fit in. Thats what i hear in all the reveiws as to why they are so great. The stooges as a band are nothing really special thats why they where never really that big. The music to me is to grungy. And not alot of bluesy feel to me. The only reason i think so many pumk wanna be’s like it is because some band said it inspired them!
Rating: 3 / 5
Fun House
It makes me feel so… so…. feminine.
Rating: 2 / 5
Fun House
This is the parental advisory I’d stick on this album, and yet there doesn’t sound to be any explicit language on this album, but it’s chockfull of a sound that will bring out the darker side of you. Depending on how much you allow yourself to be raptured up into this sound will determine if you will actually commit date rape, or not. I know from my personal standpoint I will say that I would’ve had I listened to a particular song on this album with all of it’s aggression on here. “L.A. Blues” would’ve been the song where I would scare a woman enough into commiting date rape where it’s nothing but a collage of violent drum solos, and smashing of amps, and Iggy just wailing his heart out. However, I stayed on the lunatic fringe of things, and listened to “Out In The Street”, and “Dirt”. It gave me a numbness to keep me tough for when a girl, or a woman rejected me, and this wasn’t just for sex either. The hard crunching guitars were almost like taking a good dose of heroin. Let’s face it guitars themselves aren’t the heroin, but anyone with an axe to grind can turn the sound from thier guitar into a drug that can be almost as wicked as heroin. In this day and age, and come to think of it probably back in 1970 as well we all have to repress our feelings, and not cry, but to be stoic and tough. I myself can’t do that, so I shoot up with “Funhouse”, and now I can deal with that. Don’t let that fool you guys; the minute you hear that first laugh from a girl, or a woman you’ll get angry and aggressive thoughts to where you fantasize about doing that girl some good clean harm in your eyes. This is one of the most dangerous albums to possess along with the first album from “Body Count”, and for that matter anything from Marilyn Manson. If you have tendencies to want to commit date rape, or you feel that your ego has been raked over the hot coals by a girl, or a woman make sure you call someone who you can trust that will help you through the rejection, and not turn to this album. Don’t do what I did, and tried to shoulder it alone. I’ve been rejected many a time, and I just turned on to this album, and others like it, and hardened my heart, and filled my mind to where everything revolved around sex, and just gave a dark report about everything in the world. It wasn’t the high that I thought would snap me out of my doldrums it just numbed them for awhile. Otherwise it’s a rather interesting work of anger.
Rating: 3 / 5
Fun House