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Again you need a person like Iggy to sell this kinda scuzziness, this is him at his best imo, just proper evil sounding noise. Luv it
cada canción más rara que la anterior........perdóname iggy pop pero es un no para mí
Some pretty darn solid rock music. Abrasive, dirty and loud. Imagining myself in a bar fight while listening to this, wrecking the whole place. Also has some surprisingly quiet and smooth moments too, although those are few and far between. Does nothing more to impress, but a fun listen nevertheless. 3/5.
3/5
One song for 36 minutes, ugh
Just a fantastic album.
A riotous, powerful clash of rock, funk and jazz. But mostly rock. I wish this album were more punk... in that the repetative songs were shorter... but what a ride! 4.5/5
So bad I could only listen to it once. "music" combined with a "singer" I guess?
Fantastic proto punk
some really fun songs here, especially Down On The Street
This is a vibe review. I would have given it a 2 or 3 other weeks, but the double Stooges in one week was too much for me. I will put on a shirt in defiance of Iggy Pop.
you know those wikipedia entries are so goofy sometimes. please, god, some music snob somewhere PLEASE mansplain to me how THIS album, of all albums, is considered "integral to the development of punk rock."
I wish we had gotten this before Raw Power. There were a few songs I enjoyed, but to me it sounded like a more underdeveloped version of Raw Power, so the timing definitely dings a star or two.
Prooooobably my favorite Iggy record and definitely my favorite Stooges record. Like, I enjoy Raw Power quite a bit and there's parts of the self-titled album that are great but Funhouse blows them all away. My Stooges origin story, like most of what I like, can be traced to my impressionable too young brain reading Please Kill Me but that story has to be saved for another day. They're more an "important" band than an "enjoyable" band but I think Fun House is a good marriage of those two elements and is one that I do throw on casually from time to time. Idk, Jack White wrote the liner notes on my copy and called it "the definitive rock album of America" so maybe there's something to it. Call me old fashioned but I like when my rock music is made by freaks who only care about drugs and fucking.
Pioneering punk rock, and still sounds very good. It's a bit dated at points, but the emotion and sound in the songs is good.
Favorite Track; Down on the Street
So far, quite underwhelming and lacking in harmony. I can feel how off the instrumentation is in every song. Iggy's voice can't keep distracting me for long. I can tell The Stooges are having plenty of fun, so I can give them props for that: they're doing what a punk band should be doing, which is producing rebellious music with little skill. Somehow, it sound like music. In my opinion, most punk rock is awful, but I acknowledge that actual musicians sometimes produce punk rock. However, it seems like a mix of punk musicians and punk wannabes play these songs, so it gets a 3-star. Edit: where in the hell did that saxophone come from? If my opinions weren't confirmed beforehand, the saxophone committing violence. Lowered to two stars.
Loistava albumi! Just hyvää rockia, sekopäistä, räkäistä! Täydellinen avausraita! Kestänyt aikaa täysin lähes 60 v. 5/5
Heavy blues rock, bit like Led Zepellin. Just a dash of punk feel in there too. It doesnt grab me. Why is the mix so low on 1970?? It's alright stuff and pretty hard for 1970. Descends into noise by the end. Best track - TV Eye, Dirt 3 stars
A bit noisy and chaotic but I enjoyed it well enough. It has definitely pricked my interest in listening to more of the stooges, and Iggy Pop is pretty cool isn’t he and he is still going strong.
Hard, dirty, hair raising. This album blends rock, punk, psychedelic confidently. Really impressive for the time period. Influential.
Like every Stooges and Iggy album I've heard this all falls apart about halfway through and becomes a cacophonous mess. At least now I know that's intentional and I can kind of consider it on its own terms, as opposed to when I was introduced to them and it just sounded bad. The first three songs are bangers; I really like them and you can hear how the whole punk genre evolved from there. At "Dirt" things start to just fumble around and the songs start to drag on and on and on. The saxophone introduced in 1970 kinda brings it back around for a minute but it gets played out eventually. The last mess just brings it all home I guess. It’s not great but I guess it’a innovative in a way.
The Stooges were releasing tbis about the time The Beatles were making The Long and Winding Road - mighty early punk rock. Some is great, stripped down rock, and much is noisy trash.
It sounded good but didn’t really hold my attention and that could be my fault.
Pretty good, the guitar and the sax were excellent. 3.5
Too ugly punk.
Fun for who?
Ooooh ma gawd, une chance qu’on approche de la vraie fin de la liste, j’en ait vraiment plein LE CUL de ce genre de criage pis de barouatage de chansons du CRISSE. J’LE DIS: J’HAÏS ÇA CETTE MUSIQUE LÀ, ÇA FAIT TROIS ANS QU’ON ME L’ENFONCE DANS LES OREILLES, TURNS OUT J’HAÏS ENCORE ÇA, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH Peut-être que passer la journée à faire des rapports d’impôt m’a affecté plus que je l’imaginais
I'm sure this album/band influenced many of the artists I love today. But this album was very abstract and kinda rough to listen to
Hell of a record. I love the early pink antecedents, and the extended jams that hint at psych rock but without the noodly nonsense. Young Iggy is a compelling front presence. Hearing this now - my first Stooges - is especially poignant having seen 79-year-old Iggy perform this past weekend on the Couchella festival stream. Still shirtless, still moving antically around the stage, still screaming, but clearly elderly. I enjoyed this though I doubt it rises to rotation level. This, high 3
That saxophone!
Kick ass. Probably the best Stooges album of the 3 on the list. 1970 is a burner. Iggy sounds pretty unhinged. I really enjoy the Stooges garage/punk rock, what they lack in ability and talent they make up for in energy and chutzpah.
Fast, fun, great find from this journey!
very influential but also very ear piercing
At least it was thirty minutes!
I can't really hear what makes this so special. It's rock and it's fine
Just a pure, unadulterated psychedelic-rock sound (à la Jimi Hendrix or Cream). Exhilarating. Both to listen to and (presumably) to play. Those vocals are the epitome of "guys, I'm on hallucinogens, look at me go". Sort of Morrison-esque (but with a much darker, druggier instrumental than the Doors would normally do). Down on the Street has a great guitar riff, and the other instruments aren't horrible. The two benchmarks of an excellent track. Anyone who tells you otherwise has been deluded by the propaganda of Big Hip-Hop. Crazy guitar sound in the song "1970", and you hear it again in Fun House and others. The riff gets a little stale by the track's halfway point – two notes are not nearly enough – but in general the track is solid. Two of the songs – Dirt and Fun House – are much longer than the others, and there's no obvious reason why. I don't hate them, but I can see how one might get bored after the first six and a half minutes without any major textural/mood changes. L.A. Blues is a crazy track, and arguably a perfect song to close out the album. A five-minute-long screamfest that sounds (at all times) like it's closing the greatest rock concert ever? Sign me up. One slight issue throughout the album emerges from a combination of low production budget and over-enthusiasm from the band members. These guys are obviously excited to let out their energy, their adoration of the world of sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll, in one unrelenting 36-minute burst of noise. But at times the music comes across as exactly that. It's too raw. Guitar shredding bleeds into the bassline, which bleeds into the drums, which bleed into the vocals, and everything ends up a bloody mess. Not a single element of this music could be described as "well-produced" (this issue is most apparent in T.V. Eye). And to think that Abbey Road, one of the best-produced rock albums of all time, was actually released *before* this. 4/5 Key tracks: Down on the Street, Dirt
This is what punk rock should be. Descending to hell vibes :-) Favorite track: down on the street other picks: fun house, loose, 1970
Ooooooo never listened to the stooges and I have always wanted to check out. Pretty cool stuff.
I really don’t like the Stooges. I can get how this could’ve sounded interesting to some past listener but this crap is so monotonous and boring god it’s impossible to listen to the entire album and it’s only 36 minutes. It just droned on and on and nothing is in front and nothing is interesting maybe that’s the point I don’t care one star.
what. i’m fucking impressed. but tbh it could be more epic. 4/5
what plays when im in the waiting room before hell
The only compliment imma give to the stooges is a tweet I saw where the OP was like “the stooges were the OG geese” and yea I kinda see that even though I don’t like this but I enjoy Geese haha
It's Iggy Pop, it has a real raw sound, but my goodness, was it repetitive. I'm just not really a big fan of this loud screaming raw sound that they have going.
Over the rawness of this album. Some really good songs
Bot quite as iconic as Raw Power but about as cool. I particularly like the song “Dirt”.
- Raw and ferocious - a sweaty, feedback-drenched assault on the senses - Iggy is unhinged - howling, moaning, and threatening in equal measure - Side one hits hard, side two dissolves into pure noise chaos - Massively influential - a blueprint for punk that barely anyone bought at the time - Essential.
Fine
I’m not too familiar with The Stooges, the album wasn’t bad. 2.5 stars
Love me some proto-punk. 4.5 bumped down to 4.
I’m at a 5. It’s a bit surprising that it took 802 albums to finally get something from The Stooges, but I had pretty strong expectations based on Iggy’s solo stuff. Granted, those expectations were based around assuming this album would be more like his solo stuff. Instead, we’ve gotten an unapologetic taste of what The Stooges were, loud guitar solos (good shit, Ron), manic percussion (good shit, Scott), strange sax solos (good shit, Steve) & flailing vocals and all. I gotta tell you; I fucking loved it. This album’s slow road from some tightly crafted punk rock before destroying all sense of typical structure, ending on… well, whatever the hell “L.A. Blues” is meant to be is just fascinating to hear. I can’t say there’s a bad track here, with lyrics giving way to vocal structures & guitar / percussive energy as the key enjoyable stuff. The lyrics are there, and they help guide the emotion a little, but they barely matter. This is practically 36 minutes of Iggy Pop vocalizing to some heavier punk rock, especially for 1970. The pacing might be a little slow at times, but this album is practically going at lightspeed compared to other bands of the era. It does feel WAY ahead of pace for 1970, in a way where you can hear practically its entire tree of influence. As far as my favorites go, I’m probably tied between “T.V. Eye” & “1970”, with the latter getting an ever so slight nod for the sax. Ultimately, while the slight repetition in style might be a turnoff for some people, I just think the album lines up with my sensibilities, & if nothing else, it’s fascinating to hear this style done SO well for 1970. Iggy Pop & friends might be far more innovative than I ever realized, and now that we’ve gotten a taste of the Stooges, I can’t wait to get their other 2 albums on the list. As far as this one goes, it’s a very easy 5.
Iggy and the stooges, pas tres connu et vendeur mais ils sont consideres ensuite comme precurseur de garage rock et punk. Critiques divisees car album un peu degenté, debut du punk. Personnellement je n’aime pas, trop garage, trop sature et pas assez mélodieux pour moi. Mais rythmique rapide parfois, ca j’aime bien.
I like the Stooges, but this album is just okay. It descends a bit too far into psychedelic faffery. I wouldn't recommend it to people who are not already fans of this style. It was cool to spot how this clearly influenced later musicians who I like - from the guitar riff that RatM lifted for "Sleep Now in the Fire" to wild horn sections that Tom Waits has made great use of. However, this is one of those cases of laying foundation that later artists actually did much better.
I don't quite understand the appeal of this. The first couple of songs were okay, but then by the end it was just grating to listen to.
Best nice eigenlijk! En ver hun tijd vooruit natuurlijk
Love it, so grimy, so cool sounding. Hugely influential to music that I love. I think I like the stooges a little more than solo Iggy. I tend to lean towards giving personal favorites 4 stars and undeniable classics 5, but I’m going with feelings on this and calling it 5, even if it’s a stretch to call it a classic or essential listen. So stoogy!
I went from feeling incredibly neutral on this album to praying for it to end by the time I got to Fun House. Someone send help please
The temptation to give this a 5 star rating is high. This album which is a very competent psych rock record from the time captures the grime of Ann Arbor and the inherent noise ringing around the head of Iggy and Ron resulting in a messy distorted garage rock record. Honestly though, who thought adding saxophone was a good idea? Iggy is the star in this record and the mania builds until the howling squeezing manic mess that is LA Blues with the full on skrong from that damned sax. What makes the record special is that it is freeing. The wailing at the end sounds fitting and disorienting. Like the end of one of those late 70s Iggy shows after the second breakup. I’m sure at this point everyone has their favorite tracks from this record, so a review of them individually would likely provoke debate. So here are my top 3 preferences: T.V. Eye, Loose and 1970. Dirt and Down on the Street are 2nd tier. Funhouse is in the middle and LA Blues is what it is. Not perfect but pretty fucking good. 9/10
The Stooges – Fun House (1970) On Day 79, I finally found a masterpiece. This LP is great—right from the first listen, I’m leaning towards a 5. It has such a unique sound, and the cohesion across the tracks is incredible; everything just falls into place perfectly. Unlike some of the "empty" or "dull" projects I've encountered recently, this is a body of work that feels complete and high-energy from start to finish. It’s a "tuff," raw, and immaculate experience that I’ll definitely be coming back to. A definitive 5/5.
c oo l
Very hypnotic/almost minimalistic in it's repeatition. Good energy/vibe for a garage/punk record.
It's okay.... he's loose... good to know, I guess. T.V. eye is pretty good. It reminds me a little bit of Sonic Youth's more energetic stuff. And don't come at me, I know Sonic Youth was started after The Stooges were a thing, so if anything THEIR music sounds like The Stooges rather than the other way around. I just like Sonic Youth a lot and a great deal more than I like The Stooges. Maybe I just can't get the image out of head of Iggy Pop rolling around on glass. I looked at the Wikipedia and it said he used to perform acts of self-mutilation on stage and that in itself was terrifying, but yes, apparently he used to roll around in glass! Maybe it was the adrenaline from being on stage or something. No amount of adrenaline could convince me to do that though. Anyways it just makes me feel nasty. I like "Dirt" as well. I like dirt? Well I like dirt I like dirt. I like the bass line and I don't care it basically continues through the entire track being practically the same, but imagine that bassist... Oh I forgot to mention this at the beginning when I meant to, but the cover is SICK! I love love love it. It's so yummy.
Listening session: march 5th, while getting ready in the morning Listened to before: no Thoughts: not bad to listen to but on the other hand not something I would put on more often I think Favourite track: Dirt
decent but not good
36 minutes of noisy chaos
Loved this album. A little maturity from the last one, but still just raw and great.
Sure fine whatever
This probably had a helping hand in the emergence of punk rock, so it's appreciated. Sadly, it didn't really do much for me. It's fine but just not something I would voluntarily listen to.
Decent.
5.4
Should be the three stooges. Wankers
Buenos licks de guitarra
A perfect proto-punk that set the tone for a crucial sub-genre. It wears its influences on its sleeves but not in a detrimental way.
Not bad, though a little repetitive
A rock album for sure. I don't mind it but I wouldn't buy it.
need more 2s in my distribution and this is a solid fit
Ok
This was quite good
non ho ascoltato tutto, ma non fa troppo per me
Album fondamentale per la nascita del punk, grezzo e aggressivo, gasa
Hmm, this was pretty cool but I can’t see myself listening again to the whole thing. I enjoyed the first album most.
NOICE.
I am familiar with Iggy Pop. We all know "Lust for Life" thanks to sports radio and I remember his duet with Kate Pierson of the B=52's "Candy". I was expecting his earlier stuff to be lacking some of the spirit of his music, but he brings the punk aesthetic to this album before punk even had a name and he makes it listenable. So often ealry pioneers of punk were messing with odd sound experimentation that focused on noise. this is all about raw energy. I will probably give this LP a few more listens. Love it!
3.5
Too much for me
Sounds a lot like their previous album. It seems to be more like punk rock than the first album. Overall it's really good. A lot of The Stooges work is the hard rock/blues rock style music. Very good!
Far edgier than the debut album by the Stooges. This was the last album with this lineup a couple of changes and years later Raw Power would be the bands best and last real album
I originally thought this album was just okay but once they brought in the sax in the second half and then the whole record started to go off the deep end it sold me.
I FEEL ALRIGHT
Did not enjoy. A lot of guitar solos and vague lyrics on top.
Wow punk is great. SHOUTOUT PUNK THE CAT! FIVE!
Down on the Street is good. I like the horn work a lot. It's fun and well balanced. It does have some loose moments that pull it down some but it's solid and makes sense to be on the list. Strong 3, Weak 4.
I have brought up The Doors before in my review of The Stooges. This time around, this album sounds like a genuine version of what The Door were trying to put out. Good, chaotic energy. If this is what you are into, this feels like a strong building block for music that came after.
This is an okay album. I didn't hate it, but I wouldn't say it was great. It's probably more interesting than their first album though, but not by enough to warrant being a full star over it.
not bad at all
nope.
Fun House is my least favorite Stooges album, so in keeping with my approach so far I was prepared to give this a 4 to distinguish the artist's very best work. But, I just can't - it's still brilliant. So raw, loose and alive. It's probably the closest they got on a studio album to capturing their wild live performances. I love the journey it takes you on; it's like a night out that starts out fun then devolves until you find yourself disorientated in a terrifying club in the wrong part of town.
Wow. wowowowowowowowowowow. The energy felt on this record is unbelievable. Raw doesn't even begin to describe the pure unbridled ferocity the music has. The wailing guitars, the flying saxophone, the unhinged ranting of Iggy, it's all to make one of the most compelling and destructive examples of rock music of all time. It's just....wow.
On first listen it was good but nothing stood out too much I’ll try again later I tried again and it was still just okay not bad
1. ztreet - 1.5 2. loze - 1.5 3. eye - 1 4. dirt - 1 5. 1970 - 1 6. houze - 1 7. bluez - 1
Not as good as the subsequent album Raw Power, but the sound and anger are there
Ok
Dreck
not my style
Fine
This was ok, nothing more.
Somewhat disjointed and immature. Only hints of the sharpness of the first record, and none of the Raw Power they would show soon.
Going to have to go explore Iggy Pop and the stooges, much better than I expected
4. I will need to listen to the sessions sometime.
Just not my thing.
Fun House ako si izdrogirana budala. Mislim nije loš album, samo nema nekih Ikoničnih pesama. Možda sam danas slep ali nisam gluv. Popa Igor (valjda je to on i njegov bend) žao mi ali dajem 3,25 nije brate za 4
skroz okej, 3 super pesme sasvim pristojno 3,5/5
3.5
3.5
stooges, punk, saxophon.
Da sag mal einer, es habe keine gute Musik anfangs 70er gegeben. Voilà!
Too long and too loose for me, just never really grabbed me. They were pioneers maybe
Pretty fucking good. 4 stars
Dirt is the most interesting track here.
okei jeg vil sjekke ut the stooges! see what it's all about. // det er gøy men i kinda dgaf. tror jeg har hørt i feil humør. høydepunkt: Loose, T.V. Eye
A less frantic, but no less intense Iggy than I'm used to.
At times chaotic, but given it was recorded in 1970 it was way ahead of its time. Raw tracks and mostly pared back production, an interesting album.
Hell yeah, I love this.
Very good, like a jolt of electricity. Way ahead of their time 4/5
Fire!
Bare ja.
8/10 - Good early punk rock album. Love the sax on the back half the album. For an album from 1970 I can see how influential and important it was. I feel like 68-70 is where we have this explosion of genres and good music.
Great punk/noise album. The addition of the sax in the last few songs keeps things fresh. One of the best in this era. 9/10
alte wie 1970 do hetmer da nonig dörfe. chrank aggressiv. loose! i'm loose! viagrabooooys ha no freud, aber tv eye isch sooo repetitiv. aber mega bekannt oder? fun house isch biiitz funk mässig. es isch au easy churz. ich glaub well das uuultra pionierig isch für 1970 mueni es 3 geh aber würkli würkli guet ischs nöd.
waaas füres geils albumcover ohh s isch na "heavy" verhältnismässig s tönt für mich chli wiene live-uufnahm und s ganze het eifach soooo e energie! und de bass ständig e groovy basis am legge 1970 isch CRAZY l.a. blues isch BARELY es lied ja die letschte 2 songs hani chli heavy gfunde
не впечатляет меня олд скульный рок. не знаю, он становится очень устаревшим?
hell yeah
A surprising four-star performance and much better than expected from Iggy Pop.
First time listening, was pleasantly surprised and ready to give this 4-stars until “L.A. Blues”
Iggy Rocks
After seeing Iggy Pop supporting Foo Fighters a number of years ago and shoot straight to number 1 on my list of 'worst support acts ever', I've always had an irrational dislike of him and this album doesn't do anything to change my opinion. Musically quite a good album, but Mr Pops vocals and random screams/shouts ruins the record for me.
The vocal delivery on the songs became grating very quickly on most songs. Most tracks weren’t very stimulating other than Dirt and Fun House which had some interesting moments
So much woodwind abuse
Dig this one, lot of fun. I once saw the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion open for the Breeders in Columbia, MO. The day of the show I was driving around with my friend Chris from New York and we saw this land yacht driving around COMO with something spray painted on the side (I think it said ORANGE). Chris goaded me into a high speed chase to catch up to them to meet his heros from Pussy Galore, which cassettes he loaned me to expand my musical horizons. We never caught them, but a wild start to a wild day that ended with me getting my shoulder dislocated at the show and loving every second of it. Anyway, this album captures that energy and what I guess you'd call the "angular" new york sound. I've tried for years unsuccessfully to track down Chris to see what he's been up to. Would love to jam with him to this album.
Never heard of this band. Not bad, lively, but the songs end up sounding the same
I'm literally astounded. I've always liked this raw sound in music, and some of these songs sound familiar, even though I don't know where I would've heard them. If it wasn't for this 1001 albums project, I may have never heard this. Blown Away! I listened to the album again right after.
Eh just ok
My least favorite stooges album. I find it lacks the intensity and rawness of the other albums. Good but not great
Second album des Stooges après 'Raw Power', et 4eme album avec Iggy Pop. Je n'ai pas vraiment apprécié ces précédents albums (tous notés 2/5), en particulier à cause du chant de IP. Même constat pour cet album : l'accompagnement est plutôt pas mal quand il est énervé, un peu moins dans les morceaux plus calmes. Mention spéciale pour le saxophone dans les derniers morceaux, un vrai plus. Et il fallait oser enregistrer le dernier morceau ('L.A. Blues') très free et inattendu ! Mais le chant reste un repoussoir pour moi. Pas de seconde écoute envisagée. =>2/5
I dug this -- until it got down the stretch. The title track and L.A. Blues would have been great fun to watch the Stooges lay down in the studio, but for a listening experience -- not so much.
Noise and fury and raw emotion...just as the Stooges should be.
Listened to this, what, five times? Primal, gritty, guttural. Fuckin’ A man, anger’s a feeling too, and I’m feeling it.
I get why the other two Stooges albums are on here. Don’t think we needed this one.
Groove and Rock , spannende Musik die Sinn macht, Die Musi unterstzützt den Sänger
this album brought to you by cocaine
Actually good, and found it more interesting then Iggy's solo effort from before. Not an Iggy Pop guy by any means, but yeah, pretty solid.
Can’t imagine choosing to listen to this
I have pretty limited experience with Iggy and The Stooges, outside of pop culture referencing and The Passenger (which I love). Reading Tidal's description of the band and its numerous comparisons to Velvet Underground before starting this album made me a little apprehensive because I fucking hate that shit-ass band. Listening to the album after that was quite the surprise. I don't feel like I was able to completely absorb and appreciate it on the first run through, so I'll definitely be adding this to my personal collection. The Doors influence is certainly right up front, though I feel like the Doors were more interesting lyrically and in regards to song structure. It's obvious The Stooges didn't want to be the Doors, but just took an element they liked and did their own thing with it. I can appreciate that. ⭐⭐⭐.5 on the first listen, but I think over time that might improve
*1970. 2nd album. *Iggy Pop's voice is so distracting and unpleasant that I'm not sure how to rate the music. I think if someone covered this album, it might be pretty nice, but it's hard to say. RATING - 4/10
This is the second album by The Stooges. I didn't like Raw Power and I don't like this one. Not my type of music.
Genre: Garage Rock Man, oh man, this thing fucks! I was ready to enjoy this enough, but I didn't expect an actual amazing ass album like this. If it weren't for L.A. Blues, the noisy, chaotic outro, I'd totally give this a 5/5, but this is a very high 4. It's amazing how fresh this still sounds. It's so proto that it actually transcends into genuinely good punk rock before anything came close to being dubbed that. I wish I could take the energy in this record, and put it into an energy drink. I'd drink it every morning. Dirt has been on repeat since first listen. Really kick ass record! 4/5
Turn it up LOUD
Good stuff
omg, why did I actually like this album?
The music of the future. Great proto-punk garage rock. Favorite song: TV Eye
1/20 Nothing really stood out to me. Not really a fan of punk music
Fun!
I really liked the energy of this. Defying genre and convention to be exactly what they wanted to be.
A magnificent snarl of an album
While I’m not usually a fan of proto-punk, the Stooges and Iggy Pop laid some of the most groundwork for the punk genre as a whole. Fun House is their second album, and their first three albums are on this list. Fun House is the bridge between their self-titled debut (jarring and pure proto-punk) and third album (refined punk). I didn’t love this, or even like all of it, but I found it interesting. Iggy Pop’s vocals are the same (and I love it), multiple songs contain screaming (which I normally wouldn’t like), a saxophone pops up in several songs (odd usage but I liked it), and the Stooges explore beyond proto-punk to create an experimental album. Fun House is more than the usual noise that proto-punk is.
A decent listen, but like the last Stooges album I got on this project, it listens like tolerable proto-punk. It didn't really bring anything to the table that the last album didn't take care of. Aside from the opening track, "Down on the Street", this album was just okay for me. The last track was basically just noise...
From the opening riff to the closing noise, 37 glorious minutes of The Stooges!
One of those albums where I've always loved the IDEA of listening to it, as opposed to, y'know, actually listening to it. But not anymore, not after this time. There are a few albums that are more essential to the formation of one of my favorite genres, punk, than 'Fun House'. And I enjoyed it much more this time around, even though I scarcely feel the urge to revisit any one song on this album. The whole thing just sort of comes together to form this one messy, hedonistic, chaotic blob. In typical punk fashion, you have one really strong rhythm section doing the heavy lifting in terms of maintaining any form of structure, while the guitars and Iggy's vocals drift and contort around that rhythm section, forming this almost wall of abrasive noise. It's what makes this album so addictive at the end of the day. There are certainly riffs and vocal melodies here, but they're short and tight, and never stay in one area for long. The song 'T.V. Eye' in all its lo-fi goodness has some of the most aggressive vocals here, while a song like '1970' is the most early '80s hardcore punk song on the album - it's really that guitar loosely tracing the bass melody while trailing off at seemingly random. I love how noisy and disjointed the guitar sounds when it comes back to the core riff after that solo at the halfway mark. This song reaches godly levels of chaos, and I'd say that unfiltered energy gets carried over into the next ambitious title track. While I do generally think Iggy was far more intense on stage than he was in the studio, he really nails the vocal riffing on this one (and whatever the hell he's doing on that closer 'L.A Blues'...jesus), with an almost Jim Morrison level of swagger, clearly drawing from the Doors a lot on this song. I think this album, in general, really builds up energy as it goes. There's a subtle progression, but it's clear as day when you reflect on where the album started versus where it ends up with that noisy monster of a closer, leaving the listener with nothing but amp feedback to chew on. I don't know if I'd say this reaches the intense, blood-pumping heights of punk rock generally. Something about it is very much steeped in the sounds of the late '60s and early '70s hard rock. But I'd be hard-pressed to find a more consistent and predictive proto-punk album out there. It really clicked this time around.
Tja
Down the Street 4 Loose 4 T.V. Eye 3.7 Dirt 4.2 1970 3.6 Fun House 3.7 L.A. Blues 3.5 Score: 3.814285714
It was ok, liked some of the songs but towards the end not as much. Did like the guitar in a lot of them tho.
cool and unique
J’ai plutôt bien aimé
17/20 Un album que j'ai beaucoup aimé, a la fois dans son ensemble comme les musiques individuellement Notamment 1970 et le saxophone a la fin qui est tout simplement exceptionnel. Vraiment une belle découverte
Pubk Rock meets Velbert Underground. Viel wahwah.
Rock folklore implores this came from the most primitive regions of Michigan. 56 years later, it’s as primal, raw, chaotic and visceral as ever. TV Eye is one of the all time great, and dangerous, songs put to record. I really can’t believe this came out in 1970. It’s so far out of left field for the time. No wonder it failed. No wonder it influenced so many. Only nitpick is that it’s only 36 minutes. I would gladly spend hours here.
Super fresh after all these years
Poop es senc erger chem sirum
May not have the stand-out singles of its predecessor but it’s a better album. Belting rhythms and snarling vocals.
It's funny cause it makes me want to hear the Doors instead. There are great moments on the second half, but the freak out last track took me out off the experience.
a sound as raw and leathery and gross as iggy pop's disgusting human body
It's called Fun House because it made my house way more fun than usual. Jams were sometimes a little long in the tooth perhaps but for the era and the sound, it felt so fucking good and sounded the part, too. I can't imagine how they could've possibly made anything like this without recording it live the way they did, and it sure paid off. Strong 8/light 9 first go-round.
Started well, goes downhill quickly with quality of songs and quality of recording.
Filthy. I'd not listened to this album before, despite listening to The Stooges and a decent amount of Iggy's solo stuff. Now I know why I like the Viagra Boys so much. Sax a ma phone, sax a ma phone.
where the debut is situated in the past to a certain degree (amounting to a highly tweaked version of recognizably conventional rock), and raw power is predictive of the future of hard rock, fun house remains unmoored and singular, which i think is a lot of why it's always been my favorite. they just nail the rigorous performance of jagged sloppiness on here, with an explosive claustrophobic sound that makes it feel like both the band and the room theyre playing in are trying to kill you. all while iggy's sparse lyrics are almost entirely expressions of love and desire (with Dirt being the anomalous moment of clarity) that could have their pieces repurposed to a much Nicer album but take on a whole new power here...far from being contradictory, they recontextualize the record away from something Shocking and towards something Omnipresent. while there's great individual moments of intensity, its the consistency of Commanding Force and progression into darker depths that eventually leaves u to bleed to death in l.a. blues that makes the whole thing so dang hard to forget!
Dirty, grimy, stellar. 4.5/5
3A
Nice guitar work, but the songs are hard to understand and sound pretty same-y. Best song: Dirt
Wild, pressure-cooked grooves built from blown-out guitars, lurching bass lines, feverish, near-free-jazz saxophone wails, pounding drums, and vocals thrown into the chaos as unhinged howls and ragged chants move this proto-punk album like being trapped inside a collapsing funhouse: disorienting, feral, and sometimes thrilling in its barely controlled ruin.
When I was running within the punk circles locally, Iggy Pop, in general, was the most overlooked artist, which was by far the most baffling thing about those people. Hell, one of the guys even sold me the album citing it just doesn't have a place in his collection anymore? How do you overlook the grandfather of what punk, and how doesn't he have a place in your damn collection!? A rambunctious, hard-rocking album from start to finish with loads of memorable moments in every single track on here. A flawless album, Iggy Pop was at the peak in whichever category you put him when he worked on this album: Peak rock persona, peak energy, peak catchiness, and most importantly, peak creative output. Funhouse mixes a lot of stuff on here, motorics we would see extensively within the Kosmiche scene in Germany, Doors-esque psychedelic motives, noisy licks only present in very rare moments at the time within some weird crowds with a punk stance that goes so punk, it transcends it and by the end you're left with an avant-garde, coke-fueled jazz scream-fest that was never topped. Funhouse is a rabid animal, on an endless surge of energy, not stopping for anything unless it's sex, drugs, or crime. Or all three at once.
Kind of interesting. Probably pretty innovative for its time.
Buen álbum de rock. Ni muy pesado, ni muy ligero
finally done with all Stooges albums on this project.. the debut one was the least raw and abrasive sounding one, which i liked the most. this one was yet again not for me. 2/5 ⭐️⭐️
Great album! Simple, Raw and Angry. This is the stuff… wasn’t the first, that title probably goes to The Who’s early works. No less important, and for that, God Bless The Stooges and Iggy Pop, the Prince of Punk!
Not my cup of tea. I recognize the energy and the importance as well, but I lost focus and it's never a good sign. Maybe I'll listen to it again.
interesting noises
Yes it’s punk. It’s got attitude. Couple okay songs
This is an album that is a stone cold classic. Latterly viewed as an important proto-punk album that influenced countless bands.
I enjoyed this but I think I need more time with it to decide if it's something I'd listen to again.
Die Anfänge von Hardrock. Iggy Pop
Love this album
9/10
Fun, good vibes. 6.5/10
Their best album and my personal favorite. Raw, energetic, manic. The bass is buzzing on this album.
The Stooges are pretty cool and sound effortlessly timeless for the most part. Another good example of that.
This album is downright disgusting. Needlessly nasty. Seriously shameless. Glaringly gross. I absolutely love it!
Very seriously one of the most important albums of my life. Load bearing pillar in my music tastes. Got the CD at 14, was among the first albums I bought on vinyl. Sinks really deep into these nasty, noisy grooves. Unabashedly "punk" but inflected with enough influence from Hendrix to feel funky. Iggy Pop's vocals are untrustworthy. I love his screams and yelps and groans. I was a Pixies fan prior to hearing this and hearing Iggy Pop shriek and warble on this made Frank Black look like a prep school gangster. Every song on here sounds like it's being played inside a condemned apartment's basement. Totally shreds. Best Tracks: Down on the Street, TV Eye, 1970, Fun House
Favourite Songs: Down On The Street Loose T.V. Eye
Too fucking long
La violence gratuite, c'est bien. À part quand on y fout des saxophones comme à la fin.
Wow, what a great album! The sound of this recording makes the performances sound unhinged! Damn, this must have been one of the heaviest albums to have been released around that time. Great musicianship all around, and especially love that sweet, heavy, sexy sax work! Aw shit, and I totally forgot about how awesome that last track, L.A. Blues is! It’s a fucking noise track by a rock band! So fucking awesome! This album definitely is a must listen!
I liked the violent saxophone and the screaming. It did get a little repetitive sometimes, but it was still cool.
Hörenswert!
Detroit!!
Generally like it and can hear the influence it had on later bands, but a lot of the songs started out really fun and then became too repetitive.
A fun favorite, including great Ron Asheton licks and a primal Iggy Pop
No me da más. Mucho caos.
Parts are fun, but other parts are relentless attacks to the senses, and I cannot.
Awesome
we are still having a real cool time, in the fun house. we are playing saxophones and we are stealing your heart away. music: appreciated. (⌐■ ̮ ■)
You could get rid of all the psychedelic music from the 60s and 70s and instead just have The Stooges first two albums, and the overall pop culture zeitgeist would be better off for it.
ok
It was ok
Pretty good punk album! will probably revisit but didn’t do a lot for me.
If I was in my 20s and I walked into a bar and this version of the Stooges was playing, I would push up to the stage and seeing a 7/8s naked Iggy writhing on the stage. I would be totally into it and get even more into it while I knocked back a dozen beers over the course of the evening. After the bar closes, my buddies and I would spend the rest of night trying to score something - booze, weed, whatever - to keep the night while yelling to each other about great the band was. We would push ourselves to stay up all night and then sleep until the next night arrived and we would try to replicate that same experience. As it happens, I am 60 now, I haven't had a drink in 15 years and I go to bed at a sensible hour.
No thanks
First listen Saved 4/7 Top track: Down on the Street
Fun House? Absolutely, this album is super cool. It rocks and kicks ass. I love the sound of everything here. Iggy sounds like a bad boy and his voice is very powerful. The distortion of the guitars and bass makes them sound very beefy and punchy with the riffs also going incredibly hard, specially in the first three tracks, which are phenomenal. They got me hooked upon first listening. Then comes 'Dirt', which is very moody and slow in comparison with the previous tracks, but still very cool for its psychedelic moments towards the end of it. I wish it was a bit shorter though. Fortunately, the high energy comes back with the following song, '1970'. Although it isn't as hard-hitting as the initial ones, it still shines by its own, primarily thanks to the incorporation of the saxophone at the end. This new instrument is also featured in the song 'Fun House', which keeps the same tone. However, it is a bit too long, almost reaching the 8 minutes mark. Finally, there is 'L.A. Blue'. What a chaotic song. Everyone here is doing what they want without any sense. It is just pure cacophony and noise. But I liked it either way. It is a fun way to end the album. Now, I want to point out a thing that bothered me a little bit about the album: Why is every song more quite than the first two? I wouldn't mind it if the change wasn't so substantial and I think the album would be so much better if everything sounded like the two songs at the beginning. Either way, this album is incredible and super fun. And the cover art is fire. Can't wait to discover Raw Power.
It started out ok, but by track 5 (1970) it was giving me a headache. I persisted through and the next track was better. Then track 7 (L.A Blues) happened and I longed for the time when I was listening to track 5! Quickly turned it off so I could give it the 1 star it deserves from my self-imposed rating standards.
Not the biggest fan of Iggy or the Stooges, but this is better than some of the other stuff I've heard from them.
I love the Stooges. Grimy and primal. Iggy at his best. TV Eye is absolutely superb. LA Blues? Challenging.
Chaotic mess of an album. Tons of punk vibes, and then the saxophone shows up and the album gets weird. I think it starts to lose its way, and the last track "L.A. Blues" is just noise. Iggy Pop is a force of nature on this album. He brings the whole experience up a star.
If the singing was more interesting they might have something.
Gud så svårt att betygsätta detta. Jag älskar vissa låtar av The Stooges men ingen låt stack ut på detta album. Jag blev trött i huvudet och hade svårt att hålla fokus. 1.5.
last song so bad but overall 3
i should be owed financial compensation for listening to this with a sinus headache
i appreciate what the stooges have done for punk music, but they're not particularly fun or interesting to listen to nowadays. i think this was better than their self-titled, but not by much. favorites: down on the street
4/5
So much chaotic energy funneled into 36 minutes. I loved it.
Great proto punk record. Possibly the best stooges record? First three tracks are killer: “down on the street”, “loose”, and “tv eye” do it for me but in 36 minutes this album packs a real punch.
Can you believe that Iggy pop and co made a punk masterpiece even before Johnny met Deedee? Stooges’ second album has stood the test of time. This work is like wine - Avery dense and effervescent one. Let’s drink!
Great fun. I have to admit that I'm not that keen on The Stooges, or Iggy, but this was a blast. That sax came from nowhere.
It's good at times, but also SO BAD at times. I can understand why people like the proto-punk aspects, but the times where it's just noise and chaos makes absolutely no sense to me
Fun!
Iggy Pop was the badass that Jim Morrison wished he was.
The Stooges had a sound a full 10 years before their time. Fun listen.
The middle of one of the best and most groundbreaking three-album run. Still as fresh and raw as when it was originally released. Never get tired of this one.
I FEEL ALRIGHT!
Can understand why it's an important album, but I don't like it. Songs don't amount to much, musicianship is minimal. I guess they're really a live band and you had to be there!
I think calling this merely proto-punk or punk at all doesn't really do it justice, since particularly the latter side of the album goes way beyond what I'd call punk personally. Either way, I went through the album twice today and it's an easy 5/5 for me.
A chaotic scream of proto-punk. It's dark, messy, heavy and kinda sexy.; the kind of band that would put it in its own arse. Best Tracks: Down on the Street; T.V. Eye; Dirt
Otroligt förbehållslös och äkta rå kraft(heh)! Och man hör ju att så mycket av det som kommer efter, och mycket av det jag älskar hämtat grejer härifrån. Har någon sjungit coolare? Och urflippningen i slutet, porr.
Not for me. A bit too much "short, fast, loud".
Now I know that there was truly messy, chaotic music at the dawn of the ’70s. Fun House is guttural and unfiltered, full of shrieks, screams, muttered incantations, and riffs that loop until they feel hypnotic. I can hear shades of the Doors, though Iggy Pop is less a singer than a force of nature—rawer, looser, and far less concerned with control than Morrison ever was. The songs aren’t really structured as much as unleashed. I can imagine this being performed in some grimy, sweaty club where the air is thick and the walls feel like they might collapse. “Down on the Street” starts out with a tight, driving groove, but Iggy’s first scream blows the doors off and lets the chaos spill out. From there, the album grows wilder and more unhinged, and by the time it reaches “L.A. Blues,” it’s dissolved into pure noise—less a song than a primal scream session.
Enjoyed it
It was alright I guess. Nothing to special, but it was okay.
Onhan tämä taiteellisesti tosi kovalaatuinen! 4/5
Yllättävän rouhea ottaen julkaisuvuoden huomioon. 4/5 toimii!
more of the weird and somewhat charming early attempts at punk rock music this time around. a strange blend of rock, jazz... all sorts of influence. it's a decently engaging little record that's full of these guys just throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticks. this album is a lot. it's all over the place. again i can see why many people say it's a good early example of punk, but god damn is this album a bit messy. especially the last track which is just one big abstract freestyle. a little bit of an oddball in the collection, but maybe some classic rock/punk fanatics may enjoy it more.
Classic punk music, real good songs and really good combination of the saxophone
She got a T.V. Eye on me, and I guess we got an internet ear on them with the radio burnin' up above. The Stooges' scuzzy-riffed Funhouse was apparently a disappointment in 1970, but here we are in 2025 smashing our fists on these computer keys. Maybe everything's diminished like Dirt, but I don't care. Baby, oh, baby, burn my heart. You might have to push your way past some crass Iggisms, 'cause he's loose, to hear how this record still rocks. But let's go. I'll see you Down on The Street, where the faces shine. No walls!
Sehr viel Energie, am Ende etwas zu viel Geschrei
Loved this a lot!
Was trying to decide if this is my favourite Stooges album, but they all have their charms. It's the sprawling almost-jazz noise and sheer weight of this one that gives it its identity. Scary and uplifting, often at the same time. The relative-catchiness of No Fun has been stripped away, but the sentiment is the same. This is an amazing album from an amazing band.
The sound of a man waving his willy in the air, and not giving it a shit. We should all try this more often. It's relentless, from start to finish. The bass and drums pulsate with no let up. Iggy never was one for ballads.
I like the power but this isn’t for me.
The blueprint for SO much that eventually followed, and it’s a rock solid one too. Best thing they ever did imo.
3.5
4.5. Pretty much the prototype of everything good that Sabbath or VU didnt I FEEL ALRIGHT
Down on the Street - 5/5 Loose - 5/5 T.V. Eye - 4/5 Dirt - 5/5 1970 - 4/5 Fun House - 5/5 L.A. Blues - 2/5 Average score: 4.3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ only thing that disqualified this from a 5-star rating (for me) was that experimental final track
Skona Dinomans stackars ömma öron! Lustiga avgrundsvrål, men alldeles för bröligt för en söndagseftermiddag och måndagsmorgon. Kan inte vara objektiv här...
Nej det här är alldeles för mycket rank sank roodle toodle PAOW för mig. Och efter en dag med inskolning och flyttstäd är det lite som en mardröm där Henning skriker efter glass och skiter på sig i hallen och det fastnar sand under fötterna och man letar efter p2 men ALLA FREKVENSER ÄR BANDIT ROCK STÄNG AV FOR HELVEDE MAND!
älskar helvetesestetiken. dirt är en 5 av 5 låt!! lo dansade från första till sista sekund, hon ger en femma.
Inte ett maj7 så långt örat kan nå. Rått och coolt. 1970 låter som Viagra Boys fast 1970. Tänk om de hade lite fetare produktion. Fast hade det varit bättre? Tänk att det här hände samtidigt som flower power. Tänka sig
It’s difficult trying to decide a top three of Stooges studio albums. For me, this is consistently number one.
Wonderful, wild, rhythmic and exciting. But also: all these songs kind of sound the same.
this was fucking awful. i mean come on.
great album, real loose, nasty proto punk rock n roll album. one of my favorites.
Pretty good roots of punk, but I don’t hear it for all songs.
I loved this record! Solid as heck 70's punk. Released Jan 1st 1970 so I feel like this would have felt pretty wild in it's day. It's not even 70's punk, it's 60's punk tbf The thing I liked most about this one was hearing little bits of influence on other music/our collective idea of what punk is (proto punk?). LA Blues is wild and definitely partially lifted by Jack Black for his character in School of Rock
lightning in a bottle
I’m very out of my element on this one but remain open minded. The saxophone is making this interesting for me. Otherwise sounds pretty much how I anticipated it would. The record got WAY quieter at TV Eye. 1970 punk mastering? There’s some cool moments but nothing with staying power for me. Last track is absolutely nuts. My favourite by far. Swans energy. Highlight was the closing track which is completely different from the rest of the record. Makes me intrigued to hear more of that kind of thing from them. Otherwise not something I’ll return to.
My favorite part of listening to this list's albums is finding out where Cyberpunk quest titles come from. And this album is pretty fucking solid and fun.
I wish I could write something smart about it, but it went by rather quickly and effortlessly.
6/10
Fun record. I really enjoyed the sleazy sound.
Good rippppppin time. Best Stooges I've heard. Dirt stood out. 4/5
This album did not interest or inspire me. It was very forgettable. I suppose it achieved the style and sound it was trying to, but it wasn’t my style.
Noisy, raucous, fast, exiting. Great rock and roll. Iggy and the Stooges are always interesting, This album maybe does not include any of their greatest songs so I am wavering between a 4 and a 5
Wild shit for 1970.
I went into this with a bias, knowing I was probably going to hate it. And, well, I mostly did. I liked the instrumentation more than I expected at the beginning, but I just couldn't get over how much I hated the vocals. Then the last two tracks were just completely excruciating to listen to.
134/1001 The Stooges - Fun House Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ✅ Raw, intense, visceral. This is such a ride from start to finish. It's teetering on collapsing throughout and on the final track, lets go.
J'avais un meuble à décaper. Quand l'album s'est terminé, je me suis retourné pour voir que la job s'est faite tout seul. Plus punk que punk. 3.75 étoiles
honestly iwie anstrengend
This is a lot for first thing on a Monday morning.
On s'ennuie.
Fuck yeah!!
A bit more bite to it than some of the other recent 70s albums I've had. Still a bit forgettable
an interesting one. i think the whole band took some drugs because you can see they go even crazier by every music in the album. also why the saxophone? I had some interesting picks there, and had ones I kinda hated.
Börjar starkt. Men tappar mot andra halvan. Sista låten är bara trots. Synd. Hade kunnat bli en tajt och bra upplevelse annars. Men känns ändå som ett rätt ballt sound så tidigt.