In 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005), music journalist Stevie Chick wrote that the sleazy tales of hedonism and reckless abandon on the album's first half are followed by "the comedown", as evoked by looser song structures, Steve Mackay's freeform saxophone, and "Iggy sounding like a scared, lost child, warning from bitter experience that 'The Fun House will steal your heart away.'" "L.A. trying to make art about chaos by reproducing same." Greg Kot called Fun House "the Stooges' punk jazz opus". Blues", which showcases the "old avant-garde fallacy. Music critic Robert Christgau characterized the album as "genuinely 'avant-garde' rock" because of the music's apt "repetitiveness", "solitary new-thing saxophone", and "L.A. It was released the same month as Fun House, and fared slightly better on the charts.Īccording to Billboard magazine, Fun House is set in hard rock and improvisation. Īn alternate version of "Down on the Street", featuring a Doors-style organ overdubbed by Gallucci, was pulled from the album and released as a single. The Stooges intended for "Loose" to be the album's first track Elektra, however, felt that "Down on the Street" would be the stronger opener. That stuff is Wolfy, at least as I could do it." Pop indicated that iconic blues singer Howlin' Wolf "was really pertinent for me on Fun House. ![]() The results were very raw when compared to many contemporary records for example, without the normal isolation baffles the vibrations from the bass amplifier cause audible rattling of the snare drum on several songs. For example, Pop was singing through a handheld microphone, and the guitar and bass amps were placed side by side. According to Gallucci, they set up the band in the way they normally play at a concert. To achieve their vision, the Stooges and Gallucci stripped the entire studio of its usual gear to emulate their live performances as closely as possible. They took exception to the atmosphere inside the studio with soundproof padding and isolators. The result was terrible in the band's opinion. The first day consisted of sound checking and run-throughs of all songs with heavy use of baffles between the amps and drums while singer Iggy Pop sang his vocals through a studio-style microphone on a boom stand. Gallucci's plan as a producer was to use each day to record about a dozen takes of a particular song and then pick the one that would appear on the album. The album was recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders in Los Angeles, California, from May 11 to 25, 1970. Holzman said it didn't matter because he had already reserved recording time in L.A. Having seen the group live, Gallucci told Holzman that the Stooges were an "interesting group, but I don't think you can get this feeling on tape". Holzman asked former Kingsmen keyboardist Don Gallucci to produce the Stooges' second album. Company head Jac Holzman believed that MC5, another Michigan-based band, had more potential of success than the Stooges. In 1969, Elektra Records had released the Stooges' debut album to mixed reviews and mediocre commercial success (peaking at number 106 on the Billboard charts). Like its predecessor (1969's The Stooges) and its successor (1973's Raw Power), it is generally considered integral in the development of punk rock. Though initially commercially unsuccessful, Fun House developed a strong cult following. It was released on July 7, 1970, by Elektra Records. Fun House is the second studio album by American rock band the Stooges.
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