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Key Information
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| Artist: |
The Stooges |
| Record Label: |
Elektra Entertainment |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Experimental Rock |
| Release Date: |
November 07, 1987 |
| Album Duration: |
36m:28s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Down on the Street 2. Loose 3. T.V. Eye 4. Dirt 5. 1970 6. Fun House 7. L.A. Blues |
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The Stooges: Iggy Pop (vocals); Ron Asheton (guitar); Dave Alexander (bass instrument); Scott Asheton (drums). Additional personnel: Steve Mackay (tenor saxophone). Recording information: Elektra Studios, Los Angeles, CA. FUN HOUSE sounds like an extended, guttural war cry from deep within the psyche. While the Stooges' excellent debut, produced by John Cale, had a clean, punchy sound that introduced the band's ragged, stripped-down rock, it did not capture the chaotic fury of the band's live spirit. The Stooges hired Don Gallucci (formerly of the Kingsmen) to produce FUN HOUSE, and he gave the album a murky, swampy ambience that lacks clarity and precision, yet compensates for that lack tenfold with immediacy and a staggering sonic punch in the gut. And where THE STOOGES can sound like bratty teenaged music, this album sounds grown up, menacing, mercurial, dark, and relentlessly primal. The muddied production may add to the primitivism, but it is the band that truly conjures the magic. The Stooges plays... |
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