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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.
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
Started well, goes downhill quickly with quality of songs and quality of recording.
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.
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 ⭐️⭐️
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.
Yes it’s punk. It’s got attitude. Couple okay songs
No me da más. Mucho caos.
Parts are fun, but other parts are relentless attacks to the senses, and I cannot.
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
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.
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
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
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!
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.
It was alright I guess. Nothing to special, but it was okay.
I like the power but this isn’t for me.
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!
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.
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.
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.
On s'ennuie.
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.
Not particularly memorable.
An interesting blend of late 60s psych and proto punk. Definitely a long way ahead of its time for 1970, but I didn't love the sound in itself.
Didn't like it
It peaked at the first song lmao. Imagine living in this state of low vibes perpetually, no thank you.
Bruyant et répétitif. J'aurais très bien pu mourir sans avoir écouté cet album. Je donne un point de plus pour le saxophone.
The energy in the recording is undeniable. Definitely a recording that I think emulates the energy of a live performance the best in a studio environment. But the music itself is not my cup of tea.
Just rock n roll Noise. I liked the introduction of the sax most of the way through though.
Nicht so meins.
Wow did I really dislike this
Ist mir zu frickelig.
Mwah niet mijn ding
Though highly lauded, not particularly my thing. I appreciate its innovativeness but felt quite neutral towards its sounds and felt like they lacked a musicality. A strong 4/10 and may return for a relisten to see if it grows on me.
Got to admit, I did not give this one my full attention, at least in part because it just wasn’t that interesting to me. I appreciate Iggy’s place in rock history, but can’t say I’ve ever enjoyed his music very much. This was ok.
This album started off strong. I don’t like punk rock at all. But this wasn’t terrible….. until it got terrible. I didn’t like the last couple songs. I got this kind of cool punk rock version of Jim Morrison vibe from Iggy Pop. Which was great. But was it enough? Some decent riffs. Some decent solos. This record is inferior to the self titled Stooges Record by far.
Meh
This was good, but just not for me. I enjoyed some of the rhythms and drums though.
I liked down on the street and loose the rest of the album lost me but those two songs I like
Too inconsistent, 2-3 songs are ok and 2-3 are painful.
eh
i might have liked this more in 2020
eh
Yeah... I get why it's on the list. Doesn't mean I need to like it.
Listened to this while playing Voidfall. I lost, but came closer to winning than I ever have before. My favorite part of this album was the sequencing. I haaaated the last track. All in all, the lowest of 2s for me. I know I like some Stooges songs...but this wasn't it.
Not really my vibe
Repetitive to a fault. There’s one sound they were going for on this album and they got it. There’s zero diversity here.
While this album has a very raw, punkish ethos that's undoubtedly infectious, I can't say I got much more out of it than noticing those things. Unfortunately a non-starter for me, listened to it all the way through, and still feel the same. Not horrible, but with having access to music that iterated on this in a much more appealing way, I won’t remember much from this one.
The opening song was great - for a moment I thought I was listening to the opener of the Cult’s Electric, Wildflower. From there the album just seemed to wane and did not hold my interest. 2/5
Listened on August 9th.
Reading some of the global reviews, I’m sure I’m in the minority on this one. I ran it 2X (except the last track - L.A. Blues) . I flagged “1970”, that’s a decent jam. Outside of that I was barely leaning towards a 3 but “L.A. Blues” was absolutely horrendous and made me round the other way. It played like an exaggerated live outro for a rocking track- but carried for four and a half minutes. 2.5/5
While I’ve always liked some of The Stooges material, I’m realizing that I was probably more so liking the idea of them. Their pre-punk influence on so many bands is of course important, but this album clearly does not deserve a place in the list. It was a noble effort to capture the band in their element, but I’m betting these songs presented themselves much better in a live setting with Iggy struttin’ and sluttin’ around. With only 7 songs, most of them come off as extended jams, and the last one attempting to be hip and cool just comes off as annoying.
Couldn’t really get into this.
Dit album klinkt wat beter dan het vorige dat we kregen. Toch is fit album ouder. Zoals ook al wel duidelijk was: het belabberde geluid van Raw Power was dus expres... De meeste delen van dit album komen wat muzikaler over dan Raw Power. Het vollere geluid maakt wel verschil. Maar ze moeten wel laten merken dat ze punk zijn. Dus regelmatig wordt een nummer verpest. Dan komt er bijvoorbeeld een offbeat toeteraar bij. Dan verlaagt het niveau van een vergeetbare 3, naar een oninteressante 2.
WAAROM PUNKROCK??? Wederom een album waarop Iggy Pop aan het schreeuwen en krijsen is. Hoeveel van zijn albums hebben we ondertussen al gehad? Ik snap dat het invloedrijk is, en dat er absoluut iets te zeggen valt voor de woede en agressie van punk. Maar het is gewoon geen goede muziek. Eigenlijk wil ik er dan ook weinig tekst nog aan vuilmaken, gezien al hun nummers ook ultrakort zijn en de meeste punk albums hetzelfde doen: Punk. Boos. Schreeuwen. Kort. Scheurende gitaren. Meh. Volgende album. FAVO: Down on the street
If alligators could sing and play music...
Shocked that this album is at least 35% incomprehensible bloat and still has a 36-minute runtime. Surprisingly decent lead single, but not much else worth listening to. Would he a much better EP with all the songs shortened by at least 1-2 mins. Top tracks: Down on the Street, Dirt
Sounds modern same recent than it's 1970 release date. Good start to the album but loses it's easy towards the last couple of tracks.
Really did not need him shrieking and yelling in my ears that whole album, don't know if there was any actual signing. The rock aspects of it were pretty good but I could not cut through the yelling.
I've liked the other Stooges and Iggy Pop stuff on this list, but this was pretty mediocre. Every song sounded the same and it mostly sounded like noise and yelling? I get that it's punk but it wasn't working for me.
Wasn't great.
This is like setting out for a long distance ride on your Harley Davidson. You’re excited at first but then you realise it’s a long weekend and you spend most of the time stuck in traffic. Also there is a bolt loose under your seat so you have to put up with jarring vibrations the whole way.
Gritty, brassy, feels like a live album with some punk-jazz vibes. I'm not sure whether I was necessitated into it mind, but fair play to that raw energy.
0 liked songs
Alright, probs won’t listen to again
p214. 1970. 2 stars. Starts off tight and becomes increasingly tedious and flabby as it goes on. No-one needs multiple 6+ minute workouts, not even Iggy, who is channelling his inner Jim Morrison on this. On the plus side, the entire album is short.
I liked it probably a little more than Raw Power, but I just can't get into the Stooges. the energy is there and the music has the potential to go all the way, but it's just missing something and flops in the end. none of the songs stand out to me at all. I like Iggy's collaborations with Bowie so much more – he takes Iggy's energy and style and adds his secret-sauce twist to it which in the end makes all the difference between a hit and a dud.
1970's early rock. Its got a rougher sound but held up alright
I appreciate how much influence yall had on later bands but this just ain’t for me. The instruments were solid in places but this album took a serious downward turn around track 5. The tracks got uber long and Iggy just kinda went off the rails. He reminds me a bit of Anthony Kiedis. Not really a fan of this one.
Didn’t love it. Only thought 1 song was decent.
Gibt bessere Stooges Alben
Some great sounds in amongst the chaos from the Stooges. It just didn't have any structure and no flow, & I found myself getting frustrated by it.
This is like the Doors sped up a measure and with a saxophonist instead of an organist. This sucks.
Was probably a three until the last song.
Doesn’t really have the same razzle-dazzle without Iggy smearing shit or cutting himself onstage.
Pre-listening thoughts: what the hell man this is like the third stooges album in the span of like 80 albums what is happening Post/during listening thoughts: yeah this one was bad. Raw Power had some redeeming moments but I just didn’t like hardly anything on here. It was loud and droning and not fun at all. 3/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: this is something I’m pissed about bc this sounds so similar to the other stooges album (self titled). Like why do we need both on here when so many deserving albums got snubbed. Just pick one bro. If that. Fav tracks: Down on the Street Least fav tracks: La Blues
I really want to like these guys, and for about 1/2 their stuff I think I do. But then the other half descends into a cacophony of squalling guitar riffs, complete with reverb and distortion that extends for far too long and just pollutes the overall quality of their music for me.
Nothing stood out.
At first, I thought I was going to kind of like this one, but as it went on, it just deteriorated, until I could barely listen to the last two or three songs. I initially thought this is going to be at least a three for me, but it ends up being only two stars. For the most part, there’s just a lot of noise.
I can respect this album for the milestone it is. We don't have a lot of my favorite bands without the stooges. Their influence is immeasurable. However, this album has the same short comings as a lot of early punk albums. Mainly, the production isn't that impressive or good, especially when you compare it to albums that have come out in Fun Houses' wake
A little too raw for my tastes.
Listened to this a couple days ago and I don’t remember anything about it, so I guess it wasn’t good but also not terrible.
This was raw and ragged, and think I kind of hated it. It started off alright, but by the end I was just sick of it. The basslines were righteously pumping and groovy, but the guitar and drums were so... I don't know, I don't have a better word than "raw". Iggy Pop's vocals were just awe-inspiring, and very Jim Morrison. The longer tracks were just mostly rough-edged rage and drug-addled noise. It mostly just made me sad listening to a bunch of poor souls being tortured by the drugs they were addicted to. Two stars.
I didn’t have much fun.
So tired of this sound
pretty good, not my pick though - 2/5
Some songs (like "Down on the street" and "Dirt") have good rock/blues energy. But some go way too far and are almost unlistenable (especially the last tracks: Fun House and LA Blues).
Ironically, this would have been way better without Iggy Pop in it
Great drumming but I don’t care for the yelling vocals. 2/5
Avant Garde Probably better on more listens, but didn't do much for me. High 2 or low 2.5
Meh
2.5 stars
Not for me
Eh
Perfectly pleasant.... but nothing really stood out to me.
Kinda like The Doors, but without any talent or interesting sounds.
Iggy and the American way of punk.
This reminds me a lot of the Fred Neil album. Not in a musical sense but no real standouts. It was fine but I can't really see myself listening to it often. Some okay tunes but it's Play by Moby tier.
Not my jam.
Had potential, but no. 2
Musically very good but the screaming voice didn't leave a good impression on me
Know down on the street from the RATM covers album, that's a good song. I think the debut album we had way back when was a lot better than this, 1969 and I wanna be your dog bear everything here. I like the general sound but the short run times and guaranteed one completely awful song (L.A. Blues here) means it just seems very light on ideas.
la voce a volte mi ricorda i led zeppelin ma non è una musica che mi prende particolarmente. Più si va in là con le canzoni, più non mi piace.
2 - its certainly an old rock album
Rock seminale. Alcuni pezzi al limite del noise.
Started off well but, then goes down hill getting very hectic.
They clearly jumped on the loud, raw music early, but that doesn’t mean they did it well
This is the sound of danger emanating from the garage you walk past on your way home from school. It's aggressively pure chaos coming at you straight from hell. Raw and energetic, but also phrenetic at times. The last half of the album falls off pretty hard. The list gave me this immediately after IP's "Lust for Life" and I actually prefer the grimier, more primitive version of Iggy here but still don't love either. 2.10.
I can appreciate that The Stooges were trying to do something different, but I think they were a little too far outside the lines. There is a semblance of music on this album but its tucked away pretty far between a cacophony of random drums and unnecessary noise. I stayed on board for as long as I could but Side B was a bit of a struggle. By the end of it I was glad it was over. Seems I'm more of an Iggy fan than a Stooges fan once he grew into his punk persona a bit. 1.68 stars
I don't know how to rate this. It's really not my style, but it's not bad? I understand Iggy pop is a cultural force, but it's less about his actual music and more about his attitude so what does mean in terms of their albums? Especially when I have nothing invested in this. I like to think there's always nice surprise when it comes to these popular artists, but it was exactly what I thought it would be. Kinda meh.
The beginning songs are fine I suppose but the last two songs, especially, devolve into screeches and noise. 2/5
Mostly boring.
"Gimme some White Light, White Heat! Iggy Pop!" Yeah, I think it would have been cool to see Iggy and the Stooges live back in the 70s. But this really just sounds like early garage demo tapes of Nirvana or something.
3/10 - It was way to screamy for me. The songs were just not very fun to listen to.
Didn't particularly love it :S
Not fun, nor house. Not even the best Album called Funhouse.
screams a lot
LA blues is the best song on this album. otherwise.. meeeeehhhhh. somebody said this was exhausting to listen to and frankly i agree. suuuuuper boring
I definitely like this album more than their previous album. It's still not really my thing, I'm sure it's good for the genre but I just can't get into it. If I had listened to it when I was a teenager things might be different.
Went from meh to kinda catchy, Dirt was good. I liked the chaotic spirit of the last song, but didn't like the song itself
Noise all around me
Didn't like this. The first couple of tracks were ok and I liked some elements of Fun House, but most of it was just noise. Lots of sounds not coming together in any cohesive way, badly mixed. I get that Punk will always be that way, but this just not inciting any real emotions for me. 2.4/5
The roots of punk. Ok album. Not really my thing. Would sound way better live and in person.
This wasn't fun to listen to. I did not like Iggy Pop's voice, and the whole album felt very one-note.
Never been big on Iggy Pop and the Stooges, and this album is the weakest of their three albums in my opinion. It doesn’t have any solid songs cementing the album like “Search and Destroy” on Raw Power or “I Wanna Be Your Dog” on The Stooges, it’s just a mishmash of primal rock songs. I do appreciate what this album and The Stooges overall did for music, because they seemed to have inspired the punk and garage rock movements. I also feel that Iggy Pop improved dramatically once he started working with David Bowie and Brian Eno.
I actually left the room twice because I forgot it was on.
The Stooges currently sit at #744 in my all time listening chart and I reckon its all come from the 1001 generator... I get that they were important and bands i love wouldn't be around without them, but these records on their own merit... I'm disappointed.
Down on the Street
Ugh. Iggy you let me down
2.5/5
Never been a huge fan, but they were certainly ahead of their time. Whatever kind of antisocial rebel Jim Morrison thought he was, he wasn't even in the same sport, let alone the same ballpark, as Iggy.
I find Iggy Pop a hard listen on his own, and a band didn’t improve my experience.
probably not an album i will come back to a ton. the first two tracks were aight, the rest just seem to kind of patter on. L.A. Blues is just a real punch in the face, if you like it, you like it, if you don't, meh.
Struggled to find much to love about this Obviously the sound was revolutionary at the time but can see little reason to want to listen to it now
There’s definitely some bias because I just started this directly after finishing Kollaps, but hot damn was it nice to listen to actual music. I appreciated it for being shorter, but that’s the best thing I can say about it.
Do I see the relevance and impact this played on later punk music? Absolutely. Is this groundbreaking for the era and an album that should be included on this list? Absolutely. Am I gonna hold off on 70s punk and just skip to the 80s at the earliest? Also absolutely. It’s almost a bad version of CCR, like they got all the songs Fogerty didn’t want to touch. And then having to listen to LA Blues after having Kollaps the day before? Little bit of a nightmare scenario.
I enjoyed "1970", but most of the songs on here are needlessly long, and that's saying something for a 35 minute album. Another album that is hugely influential for a genre that I love, but I enjoy the iteration on it rather than the album itself.
2,5
Okay
Boy this sure is a heavy hard hitting album! It sure is a precursor to punk and metal! It sure…doesn’t sound very good? You guys know music that’s heavy can be enjoyable right? None of these songs have a hook, most of them drag along, the same bass riff repeated over and over that it gets stuck in your head, never leaving, never improving, never changing, as you wonder about all the much better albums this inspired, and wish you could listen to them, instead of this basic, ugly, and boring album.
One of my personal beliefs when it comes to albums is that the music should sound good. Some might disagree, and those people probably enjoyed Iggy Pop yelling and screeching for 36 minutes, but it’s really not for me.
I think the only people having fun with this were the Stooges; they just made this album for themselves.
I'm glad that I've finally listened to all The Stooges albums on this list, I hope Iggy's solo work is less shit but I'm not holding out much hope. I'm sure The Stooges were impressive and revolutionary at the time but in 2024 they just don't hold up.
flat vocals, strong drives
ну лучше чем самые неприятные альбомы студжес / Игги, но конечно вообще не для меня, спасибо
My friend said saxophone works in every song He was wrong
Wasn't much fun to listen to.
Noise. It shouldn’t be this hard to get through an album. Not my thing.
Meh. I was a childhood punk and I appreciate this for what it is, but this was kinda bleh.
First side better than the last Stooges album I had. Second side had to stop. 2.5?
I just don't really like rock like this. Nothing wrong with the music it just ain't it for me.
This is grimy. Possibly a little too grimy for me. This album was largely simple chords being played with a guy yelling, and I did not love it. I like the song 'Loose' and I liked when the sax showed up. 4/10
2 - I struggle to call it boring, even though I didn't really care about it. It's definitely noisy, to an almost upsetting degree at times, so it was probably pretty cool for the time. Just not really my thing.
too much for me 2/5
erm a bit disappointing as up for the Igmeister usually. Sludgy.
Blind album, know the artist by name but never listened. Kind of glad I didn't cause this is not my thing or style at all, but it's not the worst thing I've ever heard in the world. It got close to 1 star. Very close at the end...
Greit
New to this album, but not to Iggy Pop. I know he's very high energy in live shows and an entertainer, but his vocals are the reason I can't get on board with this album. I've always found his voice grating. The band itself is awesome though unfortunately.
Don't have much to say about this. I listened to it, it was a bit naff, and I've already forgotten it.
Not my thing. Some decent music but then quite a bit of noise for the sake of noise.
Good hype music while cycling in a hurry - musically wasn’t too complex. Scream n shouting, standard chord progression and an elongated bridge or solo. Would’ve been fun to go to a live gig but don’t make for easy listening on a Tuesday morning
Sehr rockig.
Not a fan, music seemed good but a little to screamy
Other artists out there doing the same music better.
The stooges are alright at the end of the day. Kinda not that entertaining in the grand scheme of all available rock music
This album didn’t really grab me. I listened to it twice and found myself being distracted easily and not focusing on the music. Although they add unique elements into the songs vocally, guitar solos, saxophone, it just didn’t reach me. May revisit this and give it another shot when I’m not driving around. Just ok.
Very influential…… but not for me. God, those last two tracks really made my head hurt.
I kind of found this boring. Repetative riffs for 7 mins with stuff going on in the background, but nothing that ever really stuck with me.
Not my favourite album and no song really stood out to me.
I was glad this came up as Rock History, but only the first two songs held much interest for me.
Reading that this album is “considered integral in the development of punk rock”, I didn’t have much hope of enjoyment. But then I found the first couple of tracks pretty tolerable and decent. Then I took a break and when I returned, I found the rest of it quite difficult.
Not my style of music
The sounds that happen when the guys screams is cool and they’re all different 3:50 on fun house, wow I guess also 5:50 2-3 min on L.A. Blues bro Weird sounds but see how it’s internal to punk rock
Well, this brings a lot more of the punk sound I expected from this band. It's just really boring and drags on, which is kind of crazy for a sub-40 minute album.
I listened to this and don't remember anything about it.
I honestly wish I liked Iggy Pop; he seems like such a punk icon. He sounds like a demonic(er) Jim Morrison. I feel like for the time, this was probably mind-blowing with it's grungy and loose nature. I just don't particularly like his style. Wish there was a 2.5 star option.
What a classic punk voice this guy has! You can tell he’s really into the rebellious, rule-ignoring punk vibe. Definitely a lesson on why not to do drugs haha. Sounds like everyone in the band was a drug-addled dirtbag. After reading the Wikipedia and band bio I thought I would hate this album but ended up not. I like hearing rock from the early 70s in a genre I’m not too familiar with. Amazing how much variety there is in the 70s. I’ll give this two stars.
albuminmeni äkkiä ohi... luulin että vihdoin alkaa hyvä jammaillu ja hohhoijjakkaa olikin mennyt jo ihan jonne muille listoille.. huomaa että albymi influential kuitenkin semmonen aikainen hard rock meno päällä no annetaan piste siitä down on the street
Some good tunes dirt and tv eye. Some meh like la blues. What a bad end to the album not as good as the other 2 stooges albums probably why I've not listened to this much. 5/10
Best Song: L.A. Blues. I liked the jazz chaos of it. Worst Song: Dirt. Iggy Pop doing his best impersonation of a vacuum cleaner on this one. Overall: Mostly noise. The wikipedia page indicates that Jack White considers it one of (if not the singular) greatest rock albums of all time, which should have given me an indication of what I was getting into. Aggressively meh.
Uhh ne znam.. previse dzenerik zvuci i bejzik ali par pesme su kul. Loose, TV eyes i 1970. Not my cup of tea
I'm not particularly into it
Annoying. 1.5/5
This album just doesn’t do it for me.
It all sounded the same to me. Noise. This might be classic punk but nothing perked my ears up
Idk man. I was a 3 all up until the last song. Some of it is long and for some songs it works. It's a shame cause I love punk so much
meh. It's ok.
Guitar riffs are fun. Iggy Pop’s singing isn’t my cup of tea. Can see the historical significance to punk, but probably won’t revisit this album
Good quality punk/rock album, but mostly I didn't like it. I recognize why the Stooges are so loved.
Hmmm. I don’t have strong opinions on this album honestly. I think it progressively got more obnoxious. The last song just felt like screaming, the first first felt like music I guess. I like the length of the whole album. There really wasn’t must to go on with this so…
First go I thought this was just a shouty ugly mess. I relistened and found there are some occasional funky grooves buried away in there but they get over shadowed by the horrid ugly mess.
Yeah... nah, not that much, sorry
I listened twice on the plane and then forgot everything about it
T.V. Eye is fun, lots of screaming 😂 L.A. blues sounds like someone is in a fight with an angry jaguar whilst playing grade 1 sax 🎷 Loose - Take 22 is probably fave track Overall not my kind of music really
Not a fan of this one
Didn't get me going
Exactly as expected from the Stooges, some proper shouty garage. A band to see live, I suspect, as on record it lacks much substance.
Love Iggy Pop but this is not great
Not great. I know The Stooges are revered in punk circles but I just don’t get the hype. The songs are mostly forgettable.
Liked the style overall but few particular songs stood out as exceptional
Não identificaria como a banda do Iggy Pop.
meh 3 stars or less.
Stooges fun house I can definetly hear it’s influence on other bands. Super repetitive but that repetition is the probably best part of the first half. Second half is way more interesting .I like that noisey rock sound with the saxophone- It got me in the mood to listen to Naked City by John Zorn. 2.5
This was ok, I get why it’s on the list but didn’t really enjoy listening to it
They really didn’t hook me in. Even the chaos of 1970 should have been right up my alley but it wasn’t.
muddy and pretty shite. 2
While I can appreciate this album as a stepping stone to punk music, this album didn't really strike any chords for me.
Iggy's cool and crazy wild and everything, but one has always considered this band of screamers and bangers to be hugely overrated, given one's preference for musicians who prioritize talent over just screaming and banging.
Discordant guitars are dumb.
iggy pop looks like a pregnant gollum
man what a slog. the only reason i gave it a second star was bc down on the street slaps. tacky ass saxophone solos
If you like the sound of just bunch of dudes who meetup In a garage and just start playing then look no further.
Cacophoned
qui se réveille un matin en se disant que ca c'est un album a absolument avoir écouté avant sa mort pas moi en tout cas
Well, I wasn't a big fan of Iggy Pop before, and I actually dislike The Stooges even more. They have a pretty interesting style of going at one riff for the whole duration of the song, slowly descending into madness of Iggy's vocal. The problem is, it's not really entertaining to listen. The songs aren't crazy enough, the riffs aren't too original, or exciting and I just simply don't like the vocalist. The recipe kind of worked for a while in "1970", but in that case throw something at the wall 8 times, maybe it will stick. Good news - it's a short album.
He’s overrated
2/5 Drugged up, self indulgent, dog shit.
Garbage. Toneless tuneless garbage. would have been a 1 but ateast they kept it brief. Didn't enjoy and won't revisit.
First two songs are ok with grooves and form, then it becomes scuzzy, messy and noisy. I've now listened to the first three Stooges LPs and I only like one or two songs from each album. Disappointing, given the excellent Bowie produced Iggy albums, but I can see how they and The MC5 are seen as influential proto-punk.
A decent album, it had one or two songs I may go back to. I liked the feel
first half of this is god awful, second half is fantastic. suddenly everything that didn't work starts working - vocals are grungy and raw rather than annoying, frantic guitar is matched by the cracked sax, whole thing sounds real. best tracks: dirt, fun house, 1970
Si bien considerar cualquier disco de esta lista como una pérdida de tiempo, Funhouse definitivamente entraría en una categoría de "pasá de largo, no te perdés de nada". Disco de origen de muchas tendencias que veríamos en los '70 pero mal implementadas, repetidas o incluso, simplemente, fuera de lugar. Lo que puedo destacar es su atmósfera, bastante opresiva a pesar de la decisión artística de que todo sonase como un concierto en vivo en cuyo caso podríamos esperar algo más airoso, eso acá no existe. No hay libertad, no hay espacio, no hay oxígeno. Solo distorsión, alaridos agónicos y mucho ruido. Destaco también el tema Dirt, que es como una joya oculta entre tanta mugre. Más similar a un tema progresivo y suave que a todo lo escuchado hasta el momento. En sí, un disco safable, mediocre a lo mucho y que, salvando lo ya mencionado, no tiene motivo para ser escuchado salvo que quieras hacer un estudio en profundo de las raíces del garage rock, punk rock o, también, hard rock.
Meh. Started alright and then seemed to descend into random noise.
Nope
Pretty chaotic. Almost reminded me of a throbbing headache. Can definitely see punk/grunge/heavy metal.
Very loud and raw with some songs that were fine but some that were just absolute noise. 2.5.
A bit shit. Went a bit jazzy towards the end
Some good. Some just annoying and repetitive
I regret to say this record doesn’t reach me. I know it was a relative earthquake compared to the rock of its time, but the benchmark of heavy for me is Live at the Star-Club Hamburg and Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols which this doesn’t touch. I didn’t study physics in secondary school but I do know that Force = Mass x Acceleration, Fun House has the mass, but it doesn’t have the speed to be forceful. ‘1970’ is pretty good though and I have fond memories of catching air listening to it on the Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 soundtrack.
meh
Jonkun verran aineita käytetty levyä tehtäessä.
This album is ok. Another day, another punk rock album. At least the singer for this album isn't as annoying as some of the other punk albums. But still not my jam. Favorite song: 1970 Worst song: L.A. Blues
Almost gave 3 stars, but good lord that last track brought it down.
Okay
Felt really repetitive.
Had a quick at look at British punk v American punk in google and saw American punk described as 'less overtly political and more just edgy in the sense of singing about sensitive, tender, or previously taboo topics.' And i think that sums up this album - just edgy. It's not that wild really. It's like when Eric Cartman meets Bart Simpson. Bart cut the head off a statue (American punk), whilst Cartman murdered a kid's parents and then ground their bodies and cooked them into a chili and fed it to the kid (British punk).
Struggling to find the words for why I didn't like it... maybe cause I listened to it 3 times and nothing stuck with me at all.
Not surprised by all the accolades and the esteem in which it is held, but not much I actually enjoyed. Can't figure out why I hated the repetitiveness on much of the album, but why on Dirt it sounds sublime. Prime cut: Dirt. And what a cut that is too.
Missing something, didn't enjoy
Definitely before it time. Would never guess this was 1970. But ultimately, not quite my style.
2.5 stars. Like a more rowdy or punky version of The Doors or the Stones. Less polished in a not great way though.
I like the stooges, but probably won't return to this album
Best song dirt
It was fun not memoriable though
m,eh
Not a big fan. I had no clue what any of the songs were about, so I got a little bored by it.
To my ears, this album is nothing much but a noisy clatter of aggression and repetition. Fortunately, Iggy's later stuff really rocks.
Struggle to rate this two stars. Couldn't find any good vibes. Maybe it was the extended version of original album.
I like the Stooges but this isn't my favourite album.
2 stars for having the courtesy to be really short.
Disappointing
I can appreciate The Stooges and their influence as the godfathers of punk, but MAN a lot of this was so hard to listen to. I like “T.V. Eye” and “Dirt” L.A. Blues was just obnoxious noise.
Raw, energetic, and somehow not that interesting to listen to.
Yeah, right, well Ok.
not really good
fuck off iggy
More stooges??
I can appreciate Iggy Pop for his stage presence and how many acts he influenced. This didn’t do it for me, mostly seemed like the same song over and over again
Ouderwetse rock met geschreeuw. Doet me een beetje aan de Rolling Stones denken. Ik vind het niks. Tempo is ook niet snel genoeg om er echt op los te gaan. **
2,5, first listen
Not as fun or as house as I expected. The first few songs were pretty good rock tracks, but then they let Helen Keller play the saxophone and it was all downhill from there. Definitely influential though and worth listening to, just skip "L.A. Blues" if you don't want the Guantanamo Bay experience in musical form.
Bem chatinho. 2/5
Belle énergie. Répétitif, mais je pense que ça fait partie de l’idée. Ça fait qu’il y a des tounes trop longue par contre. On voit d’où vient « Los Bastardos » de Primus. C’était l’fun, j’y reviendrai peut-être quand je voudrai me crinquer.
Tried to like it, but it’s just the same riff repeated over & over- not just in each song, but every song. Still fuses enough soot to get 2 stars, and isn’t horrible.
It's obvious how important this album is to punk. Having said that, there is a lot of this that reminds me of the "Suicide" album, and I did NOT like that album at all. Iggy Pop is also not one of my faves. Still, you can feel the energy coming off of this, especially for 1970, and that's saying something. The Damned had covered one of the tracks and it's nice to hear the original. The last track, LA Blues just sounded like an ungodly mess. I originally thought this was a punk album, not realized it predated it by so much. Even so, it just didn't work for me, it was just a mess.
Some of the music isn't too bad, but given that I'm judging the album as a whole: There is a significant issue with the shouty-shouty factor ending up on the wrong side of what delicately yours accepts.
Many of the reviews here use the terms: raw, sleazy, gritty, loud and they're all apt. This proto-punk record influenced a lot of subsequent bands so it has to be recognized, but much if it is repetitive and the closing song, LA Blues is close to being unlistenable. This is the type of music that definitely needs to be listened live to see the skinny shirtless white guy prancing about the stage to be fully appreciated. I must admit I prefer Iggy when he collabed with Bowie in the late 70s in the Berlin Years and his Party album in the 80s when he mellowed out and refined his sound.
My big, big, big, BIG gripe with stuff like the Stooges is they'd be laughed out of town if they released this sort of shit today. Sure you could argue it's formative, influential, even "trailblazing" hahaha... but really it just kinda sucks. It simply had the privilege of springing into being at a time when the bar for rock music was set super low as everyone cast off the formulaic slickness of all that 60s pop rock. Funnily enough, I can see all the other low reviews here hate the vocals.... I gotta admit that's the best part for me, and I don't like Iggy Pop at all. Nah, the bland music is the true weak point here. Did we really need multiple 8min "proto-punk" jam sessions? Course we fucking didn't. 2/5.
I'm sorry, but this just sounded like a mess to me. 4/10.
This is the second album recommended to me from the Stooges. Compared to the pervious album (The Stooges), Funhouse sounds more like what I expected to hear from the Stooges. I was enjoying the album more than I thought I would for the first few tracks. By the second half of the album, I was getting tired of Iggy Pop's vocal delivery - too much yelling and grunting. The music began to be repetitive as well. Then came the title track, "Fun House"... yeesh. I'd prefer to skip a re-listen of this album. Once was enough (¿too much?).
It was ok again wanted to like more than I did. Great energy but just miss with the songs.
* fine. Unmemorable
Didn’t care for it
Alright, but nothing here that I haven't heard before
Not my thing.
4/10. Had some cool instrumentals, but the vocals did not sound great.
I like the saxophone but not much else. I understand where they’re coming from with the chaos and distorted vocals but it wasn’t for me. 3/10
Not my music but a strong influencing album I think
nah
Nostalgic, but still not my style.
Another stooges album where it feels like it’s just an average sounding collection of songs. Some of the riffs were good. A few songs stood out more than others but I don’t see myself revisiting it. 4.6/10
Apparently a classic, but I really only enjoyed one song, which had a good balance of psychedelic and proto-punk sounds.
Not my favorite but I feel like I could see them being influential. Can hear like hints of the more rock-heavy Stones but these guys take it further. End of the last song had me rip my headphones off haha.
Not a particularly big fan of this. Very weird stuff.
Definitely not as bad as it could have been, reading about this album being the progenitor of punk (and I hate punk). The vocals were pretty horrible, the rest was fine, but nothing special.
It’s ok. Not really my favorite.
IDK how this is enjoyable i just dont get it
really lost me after track 2
Interesting, and I feel like a lot of music I like today could have taken influence from this band. That being said, I don't feel like they are any better than just okay with having heard their like (but improved upon) so many times now.
Too hard for me. Didn’t really like it.
Started so well then descended into self-indulgent jamming and screeching
Pretty rubbish.
Didn’t like it. Boring
Just a lot of noise