| Fun House: Remastered & Expanded | 
| Artist: The Stooges
Label: Rhino
Category: Music
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 9,990
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 081227317522
EAN: 0081227317522
ASIN: B0009SOFFY
Release Date: August 15, 2005
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Down On The Street | | • | Loose | | • | T.V. Eye | | • | Dirt | | • | 1970 | | • | Fun House | | • | L.A. Blues |
Disc 2
| • | T.V. Eye (Takes 7 & 8) | | • | Loose (Demo) | | • | Loose (Take 2) | | • | Loose (Take 22) | | • | Lost In The Future (Take 1) | | • | Down On The Street (Take 1) | | • | Down On The Street (Take 8) | | • | Dirt (Take 4) | | • | Slide (Slidin' The Blues) (Take 1) | | • | 1970 (Take 3) | | • | Fun House (Take 2) | | • | Fun House (Take 3) | | • | Down On The Street (Bonus Single Mix) | | • | 1970 (Bonus Single Mix) |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 15
 Seminal March 8, 2010
Leza H (London, UK)
Grungy hair raising dirty garage rock, what is not to love, simply the best album made...every track on it scores, every riff vibrates my backbone, every prowling guttural soul bending vocal kick starts my adrenaline.... and raises the game for every other band that dared to come close to being this driven, this raw and this visceral. If you can't jump about to this and go wild - then check your pulse...maybe you checked out already. This is classic Iggy and The Stooges and anyone who makes you doubt that hasn't really heard it.
Rock 'n' Roll Stripped to the Bone February 14, 2010
Marcus (UK)
I remember my surprise when Nude & Rude - The best of Iggy Pop was released and there wasn't a single track from Funhouse on it. Surely this was The Stooges' finest hour - the one time when flawed (or maybe floored?) genius Iggy got everything right. Then it dawned on me, you just can't take a song from this album in isolation and clumsily wedge it into a 'best of'. This isn't so much a collection of songs but more a rock 'n' roll symphony in seven movements perfectly charting a trajectory from taut, muscular rock to pure primal noise.
The album opens superbly with the driving, rhythmic 'Down on the Street' more direct, more pounding than anything on the first Stooges album then they effortlessly go up a gear with 'Loose': an incredibly catchy bass line underpins a superbly aggressive guitar workout. The onslaught continues with 'TV Eye', with its Stone Age drumming, ear splitting guitar, and Iggy's extraordinary primal scream. Where do you go from there? The album's centrepiece and one of the finest songs the Stooges recorded, 'Dirt'. It's a sexy, slow-burning, seven minute garage-blues workout - a million miles from the dull filler 'We Will Fall' on their first album. "Do you feel it when you touch me? There's a fire" recites Iggy.
Dirt marks the turning point between the more structured songs on the first half of the record and the perfectly orchestrated degeneration into pure noise on the second half. This starts with '1970' which picks up where TV Eye left off but turns into an infectious wig-out with wailing saxophone joining in as the band whip themselves into a frenzy. Then comes the title track which is more a loose-limbed continuation on the same theme with blasting sax perfectly interwoven with Ron Asheton's guitar playing right from the word go and Iggy rapping at the mic, improvising off of the rhythm like some kind of garage rock James Brown.
The Stooges start this album like a tightly coiled spring and unravel gloriously as the it progresses. Hence, L.A. Blues brings it to a close in the only possible way: complete meltdown. It's 5 minutes of pure discord which must have been recorded in a single take as it's impossible to imagine anybody putting themselves through that more than once. Yet it isn't unbearable or pointless as most tracks of its type usually are (who has ever listened to 'Revolution 9' by the Beatles more than once?). It has no lyrics, it has no tune, it has no need of either, it is a truly beautiful piece of noise. Essentially with Funhouse the Stooges are peeling away the layers of Rock n' Roll and stripping it back to find out what lays at the heart of their music and L.A blues is just that - a bit like a painting of a pure emotion.
So there's only one way to listen to Funhouse: right through from start to finish and turned up as loud as possible. I personally find that it's the most cathartic experience rock 'n' roll has yet produced - This is the best of Iggy Pop.
World turned upside down April 27, 2009
Mr. I. C. Jenkinson (God's own county)
Fun House
Fun House remastered.
What an album.
If punk was the logical successor to 50's rock n roll (Lemmy), it required someone to innovate a new approach to get us there.
Maybe the Stooges invented nothing, but if so, they took what had been before and bent it with big hammers. It turns out they made a bridge from the past, to the future, and this album is it. If you are at all aware of rock in any of its varieties but haven't heard this before, you should after initial information overload, hear ALL those rock tunes you've loved since, here in embryo.
Unusually frank recording (you can learn the details elsewhere) refreshed by quality remastering plus extra takes, most of which stand up nicely and give a glimpse of the creative process.
Raw quality.
40 years ago this year, Strewth!
Untouchable January 8, 2009
P. Mcshane (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just under four decades since this one was released, and still punk has failed to produce anything as vicious, feral and aggressive as this here beauty despite valiant and noble attempts by such heroes as Henry Rollins and Nick 'The Stripper' Cave et al. All seven originals are absolute punk classics, from opener "Down On the Street" with its crunching riff to the spastic, convuluting, revolting ender "L.A. Blues."
The extra tracks are, incidentally, excellent. One gets a real, tangible insight into how the album got its unique energy -- live take after live take after live take, until the songs entered the band's very soul and the band's Detroit street soul enters the songs.
Few bands manage to make artistic progressions like these boys did at all, let alone in as short a time as the second album. Fun little garage rock classic, followed by this loose, vicious, verging-on-jazzy proto-punk definer, followed by an snarling slice of classic American rock with schorching hot guitar lines for zombies. To call this a sophomore slump, however, is totally correct: Iggy & co are so slumped by the second album they're neanderthal, and that's just what rock and roll was always about: music a chimp would be able to recreate. For an album that arrived so early in punk's history so long ago it sure does sound fresh to these ears.
best album ever recorded ?? July 27, 2008
Jane Sez (London)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
if carlesberg were going to record an album it would probably sound like this nuff said
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