Fun House

by The Stooges

Fun House cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 7, 1970
  • Label: Elektra
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:49:09
  • Community rating: 4.46/5 from 29 ratings

Artists on this release: Iggy Pop, Dave Alexander, Scott Asheton, Ron Asheton, Steve Mackay

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded to emulate the band's ferocious live presence, 'Fun House' is a visceral and chaotic document of proto-punk, engineered by producer Don Gallucci to capture the group's raw, unbaffled sound in the studio. The album's songwriting combines primal, blues-inflected riffs with themes of reckless abandon and societal disillusionment, punctuated by Iggy Pop's guttural vocals and the avant-garde saxophone wails of Steve Mackay. This aggressive and unfiltered approach resulted in a commercially unsuccessful but enormously influential record, celebrated for its uncompromising intensity and its foundational role in the development of punk rock.

Genres

Descriptors: ferocious, improvisational, saxophone, abrasive, relentless, lo-fi, distorted, unpolished, loud

Tracklist

  1. Down on the Street (03:43)
  2. Loose (03:34)
  3. T.V. Eye (04:17)
  4. Dirt (07:03)
  5. 1970 (05:14)
  6. Fun House (07:47)
  7. L.A. Blues (04:57)
  8. T.V. Eye - Takes 7 & 8 (06:01)
  9. Loose - Demo (01:13)
  10. Loose - Take 2; Edit (03:42)
  11. Loose - Take 22 (03:42)
  12. Lost in the Future - Take 1 (05:41)
  13. Down on the Street - Take 1 (02:05)
  14. Down on the Street - Take 8 (04:15)
  15. Dirt - Take 10 (07:09)
  16. Slide (Slidin' the Blues) - Take 1 (04:35)
  17. 1970 - Take 3 (07:34)
  18. Fun House - Take 2; Edit (09:14)
  19. Fun House - Take 3 (11:19)
  20. Down on the Street (02:43)
  21. I Feel Alright (1970) (03:21)

Credits

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