Fun House

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

Not too fun, I wanted betrer from iggy pop

c'est cool! Dirt est bien

Stooges eh massa mas as vezes vira dedo no cu e gritaria

2

way too jam band for my liking

Another album that I was pretty bored by. It was 45 minutes of "Rock"

Meh

Fing zu meiner allgemeinen Verwunderung zunächst interessant an, um dann mit T.V. Eye wieder das zu präsentieren, was ich bei Punk so unerträglich finde. Monotone, unerträgliche Ideenlosigkeit ohne Aussage.

Another "meh" album in a string of "meh" albums.

Another interesting album. It came across with lots of early punk vibes with jazzy highlights. My first inclination was to give it 2 stars, as it's not really my jam, but there's an argument to be made for 3 stars given the release date. We all know what a terrible judge of music I am by this point though: 2 stars it is.

Down on the street - 6,5/10 Loose - 6,5/10 T.V. Eye - 4/10 Dirt - 4/10 1970 - 5/10 Fun House - 5/10 L.A. Blues - ? Não gostei

he just making noises

A bokte. Ne znam šta reći. 1/5, 1/10

Didnt stick out to me

Iggy Pop has a unique and expressive voice and but here it's unfortunately coupled with a bunch of aimless, hookless, and pointless grade-Z backing tracks that are so skeletal they don't even deserve to be called songs.

męczarnia, nie dość że strasznie powtarzalny to krzykliwy niesamowicie

Nothing Memorable.

Lo he escuchado a las 9 de la mañana y punk psicodélico a las 9 pues no me ha entrado mucho jajajajjajsj. Puede que con otro mood si lo hubiese gozado mas, de momento se queda en un 2.

Ugh

meeeh, olvidable

They're so concerned with being punk and edgy and chaotic they forgot to actually make any music

Sounds like noise to me

Impressed that Iggy Pop recorded this whole album with the microphone in his mouth! Seriously though. This is one of those albums that the boomers say was "real" music, then you look at the song 1970 and it's just a lyrically empty 5 min song about a blowjob. The only bit I'll give is the random free jazz that popped in, but a pretty shit album overall. 1.4/5 -> 1/5

genuinely noise

So bad I could only listen to it once. "music" combined with a "singer" I guess?

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.

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.

Should be the three stooges. Wankers

nope.

1. ztreet - 1.5 2. loze - 1.5 3. eye - 1 4. dirt - 1 5. 1970 - 1 6. houze - 1 7. bluez - 1

Dreck

Tja

Poop es senc erger chem sirum

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.

this was fucking awful. i mean come on.

Not at all my kind of thing. At best, it could be described as jazzy punk rock, but it seems to revel in lack of melody or harmony.

I did not like this

What a lot of noise

Not my sort of music

I know it's early but this may be the worst album I've ever heard. Praise be that they only had 7 songs. Zero stars.

Herrie

Not my style of music.

If I’m being completely honest, I didn’t enjoy this album at all. I do think everything about it was good, I just didn’t enjoy it.

At first, I was digging the energy of Fun House by The Stooges. It started to wane about song three, TV Eye. Then Dirt brought me back a little bit but the end of 1970 lost me. It just became noise. Fun House, the song, seemed to go on way too long. And the sax was exhausting. I was definitely ready for it to end. But then L.A. Blues started as chaotic as Fun House ended. Nope. It was straight up annoying. I had high hopes for this album but the only song that stuck with me was Down on the Street. The rest was just chaotic, driving noise. Gotta go 1 rating. No desire to hear this again. 1/5

On the one hand you could label it as cat's whining, on the other hand it sometimes has something

i hate the stooges, i can’t stand them, please shut up

Just don't see the attraction in this. The last track, "LA blues"(?) was just mayhem and noise to me.

Repetitive and noisy. Maybe kinda enjoyed 1 song.

A little too much grunting and screaming for my taste

Too much screaming, not enough singing

1 stern

So so

Not really my cup of tea, but I'm sure it was quite influential?

This is just fucking awful.

Nope, punk rock needs to be more aggressive than this

ruim

gets a 1 because I've already heard 500 albums that sound exactly like this

Well, I've turned into my dad. It was just noisy screaming 😱

Garage rock that rocks hard. But also has a saxophone? Having a saxophone is an understatement, it is heavily featured

Forgive me if this review lacks detail. I’m writing this at 4am after a sleepless night. I can’t deal with warmth. Let me sleep in a fridge. Anyway, I’m finding more and more that Iggy was great at making the odd track. There’s no denying there are some real gems out there. But I consistently find it difficult to listen to an album in full because a lot of the music is crap. This album’s ratio favours the crap side.

Chaotic, undisciplined and far too loose. Noisy and disconnected. Maybe good for the rebellious youth of the 70s but not for today.

Sounded feral

I started out thinking this was a two-star album -- not my thing, but not unlistenable. That didn't last. Too much yelling.

Once again, as on Raw Power, the band is working its ass off but all for naught. The problem is the phony vocalist. It always sounds like he’s playing at being a rock star; doing what he thinks rock stars do. All that screaming and grunting and one pitch melodies combined with stupid lyrics is just laughable. That’s not just an adjective, I literally laughed at how bad Iggy Pop is. By the end of the album I was just angry that this garbage passes for “music” and that some idiot thinks this should be on a MUST HEAR list. Last album I gave them three stars because of the band, but the fact that they were on board for L.A. Blues negates their contributions this time - five minutes of noise! Really?! Utter trash.

I have always thought that Igyy Pop was an overhyped talentless mofo and this has done nothing to change that opinion. This is just horrible noise, with the worst track being L.A. Blues. The only positive is that it is mercifully short. I thought about giving it 2 stars because I managed to listen to all of it but that would be too much praise.

Foi ok, mas nao curti :/

No music on third album - only horrible noise

Please tell me I'm not in for more psychedelic rock... Seems like that's exactly what I'm in for. Yay. Okay, it's not like it's objectively terrible but it definitely isn't for me. It's a good thing there's only 7 songs on this album since 3 in a row are over 5 and a half minutes. Track 6 is almost 8 minutes and I'm so done. This dude makes a lot of random noises that seem like they're supposed to be screaming. Instead it's just annoying. This last track doesn't even seem like it's trying to be music. Just noise. Ew. 1/5 No thank you

Really bad. It sounds like the band wrote the music collaboratively and the lead sing said he would come to the recording session with the lyrics, and to not worry. Then he proceeded to sing gibberish on the spot during recording. Does someone feel FIIINEE, because that is half of what I hear in this record. I like punk a little, it I loathe this. Also, the guitar player is basically playing the same melodies through most of the album. He shouldn’t have had a guitar solo. 1 Star

Scream rock. Not impressed. Can’t say in anyway this music is uplifting or meaningful.

Rock demasiado cañero.

So terrible.

I know, let’s keep the drums and rhythm guitar keep a steady sound, while making the most obnoxious, annoying, screeching, unpleasant noises with vocals and a saxophone! How groundbreaking!

No

This was nowhere near what I needed today. A lot of unwanted, uninteresting, screamy meandering. No thank you.

This feels like bro rock from another era. The singer to me is pretty mid and the album is horny in a cringy way. I think someone who wanted to be edgy and say they knew real rock might point toward this album, then tell you that actually men are really the more oppressed gender. Guitar was good though.

Pola sata glupog urlikanja, ko te jebe iggy.

Too much guitar and a bit noisy

As if it's not bad enough that it's a Monday morning, now I have to listen to another goddamn zero-talent repetitive sludgy 3-note-faux-blues unimaginative bullshit platter topped with the shit-frosting of Iggy Pop's voice Stooges album. I'll admit that it is better than their first album in the same way that a stray dry cat shit is better than a puddle of wet vomit in the carpet. It's easier to clean up and move on with your day. 2/10 1 star.

Boring

An abomination

36 minutos y 26 segundos que podrían haber sido invertidos en otra cosa, no conocía a The Stooges e introducirme a la banda con este álbum fue bastante decepcionante. Muchas veces se siente repetitivo, las vocales de Iggy zafan y medio que hasta ahí. Si se notan un par de elementos que más adelante serían utilizados por el punk rock, pero siendo algo así como una versión prototipo del género es un álbum poco memorable. Dirt es lo único que rescato del álbum, el resto de temas no volvería a escuchar.

Gracias a Dios esto tiene solo 7 temas y de pedo me gustó uno (Dirt). Un aborto mal hecho de Led Zeppelin y un garage rock, que encima te digo hasta Greta Van Fleet pega mejores alaridos copiandose de la parte linda de L.P

Hated it

actually bad

Ugly, sad, lost, despairing. Don't need it.

Hey, first time I get the same artist two days in a row! Got this album straight after "Raw Power" so it looks like he just fell down from the stage hahahh This cover is amazing though. But the actual music sucks. 2 I kinda want to give it a 1 just to have a cool cover on my summary. 1 Yup I'll do it, this really sucks Punk was a mistake

I get it, the band has Iggy Pop. However somehow in this 36 minute long album, I still wished the album would end. I didn't skip any songs but still just enough to be annoying.

No me gusta nada

Not a fan so far. Just sounds like a lot of loud noises and jumbled yelling. Kind of grating on my ears. Just not enjoyable to listen to. May check out some of their other albums.

Terrible. Just awful.

“A muddy load of sluggish, unimaginative rubbish heavily disguised by electricity and called American rock.”

Not for me I don't think. Too much smashing up the studio and not enough music

Couldn't finish it. Starts off so strong with "Down on the Street" and then devolves into something a grade 8 basement band would create. Got part way through "TV Eye" and that was it. Earned its original poor reception and bad sales.

2/10 - tough listen. very repetitive and the last 2 songs were bogus

Bunch of crap. A few good songs, but to out there for me

Not my style. Don't care for screaming and yelling during songs.

Not for me.

Too much screeching just makes it unlistenable