LAWWWWWWWD! It's the FUNHOUSE by the Stooges Poll

That's about right to me.

Yup. The people is genius.

Object quite strenuously to "this album didn't invent punk; it invented disco (and later house...

Yeah, I don't really believe that. More a provocation to indulge in while drinking. But I will stand behind it as a house-like album, what with all those breaks and builds. Plus it dances about as well as any rawk album ever.

And thanx for the kind words. Back at ya! ("1970" is terrifying enough that it prolly wouldn't work that well on the dancefloor.) For such an intense album, this has been one of the more humane poll threads.

P.S. Yet another great Gorge review!!!

I'd go for Loose or Dirt...hard to choose between the two though (and I'm becoming ever fonder of the song Funhouse these days).

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/the-stooges-fun-house-round-20-toms-selection/

I never could choose, but Down on the Street wz robbed...

Sad news to pass on via FACEBOOK that after a month of hospitalization, Steve Mackay has passed on. Goddamn if his sax playing isn't the pinnacle on this thing.

Dunno why the capitalization there. Maybe in tribute to the thread title.

Awwww :-(

Love this Stooges set from a couple years back when the stage at Sonisphere Finland collapsed from the weather and the Stooges go on anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVQOQcdF_k

My first reaction to these poll results = "'Fun House' was robbed!!!" but then I can't think what other song I'd switch with it. So maybe this is just an impossible poll, because every song on the album perfectly accomplishes what it sets out to do, & the whole thing is finished before it ever gets old.

sad news about Steve -- I can't tell whether he was actually taking cues from Iggy during recording ("BLAAAOOOOOWWWWW, STAAAYYEEEVE!!") but I've always loved his playing and the energy it brings to this album

What I love, actually, is that on "Fun House," the band (including Mackay) is fully cranked up from the beginning, and Iggy's saying "Lemme in," which could mean "let me into the fun house," but it could also mean, like, let me into the music, Steve - I need to sing now!

I've definitely always thought it was the latter.

RIP Steyyyyyvvvvve!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/jim-jarmuschs-gimme-danger-cannes-895695

New movie doc on Iggy and the Stooges

i been hurt and i don't care

Can't believe 3 people voted LA Blues over (for example) Dirt.

Third Man to issue recently unearthed soundboard tape from a Funhouse-era show.

https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/third-man-records-announces-the-stooges-live-at-goose-lake-august-8th-1970-out-on-vinyl-cd-and-digital-on-august-7-2020

The version of "T.V. Eye" smokes - I've already pre-ordered the CD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RupgNCPGEkg

why is the cover design so shitty

Just looking for a thread to post this news on.
People elsewhere have been noting the presence of bass which the legend says wasn't played as Dave Alexander was so out of it he was catatonic. So looking forward to hearing how much of it there is. Would be good to have a live set by them taht has him fully functional anyway, if not this.
Ungano's which i think was the Funhouse lp launch party has a new bassist and a rhythm guitarist

A film of the festival this is from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7RFG000QGo&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3x5zgQny0CWUgXe60dxrUdrr21lZoi7YXRxowtXZtPH4e71JKwWYY8ryk

Stooges come on at 55:17

https://youtu.be/o7RFG000QGo

wow that's cool

Doing the legendary full album live show before releasing the album and breaking up after the gig :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7RFG000QGo&t=55m15s

Sorry, that trick doesn't work I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7RFG000QGo&t=55m15s

Nor that.

I smashed it all and rubbed peanut butter on it, sorry.

https://youtu.be/o7RFG000QGo?t=55m15s
LAWWWWWWWD!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WoiuP5yvUM

lol, thanks

Would you believe that...Alexander actually DID play bass on this occasion? Or that, despite grievous failures on some songs, Alexander is damn solid on others? Especially on the bass-led songs “Dirt” and “Fun House”? Does Iggy provoke the crowd to tear down festival barriers? Did the powers that be pull the plug on the Stooges? So many questions are answered only to have more arise.

So it's come to this, in case you really needed 28 takes of "Loose" on vinyl: https://store.rhino.com/1970-the-complete-fun-house-sessions.html

alexander is definitely flailing on some of the songs here, but honestly it just adds to the awesomely dangerous vibes.

50 years old today.

wiki says August 18, 1970 though?

the sidebar on the wikipedia page says august 18, but the article itself says july 7

july 7 seems to be the date mentioned most often in various articles i found by googling

This used to be my stock answer for "what's your fave album ever?". Probably isn't any more. But I love it dearly.

it's been my stock answer for "best (american) rock album ever" and still is

This is out today and it's amazing:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/third-man-records-stooges-original-lineup-final-concert-goose-lake-lp-1012771/

Hoping mine will arrive soon. Can't remember whether I had it shipped to my apartment or my PO box.

Has anybody got a lidst of what the other tapes in the Goose Lake box were?
Is anything else going to be seen as worthy of release?

Been listening to this on Spotify. Will have to order this, but this may be as close to the holy grail as we'll ever be (the holy grail being the great and definitive live Stooges release). Sound quality is probably the best of any circulating recording, with a better balance in the mix. Iggy really lays into Dave Alexander in the liner notes, but regardless, even if the bass playing is inconsistent, at least Iggy and the Asheton brothers perform well.

The Goose Lake set is pretty great. The liner notes, by Jaan Uhelszki, focus a lot on Dave Alexander’s clams, due to possible PCP ingestion, but he sounds ok, give or take one or two early/late key changes.

Also, fun fact: Tom Wright, who helped organize the Goose Lake festival, and who managed the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, was Pete Townshend’s flatmate when both attended Ealing Art College in London in the early ‘60s. When Wright got busted for pot possession, he was deported, and left his record collection — Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, James Brown, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone, Chuck Berry, Booker T and the MGs, Jimmy Reed, John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery — to Townshend, for whom it was endlessly revelatory.

Oh right remember hearing about that record collection from reading Who bios years ago.

Still interested in finding out if anything else from this box of Goose Lake tapes has any hope of seeing the light of day. Have seen the poster for the festival so would be interested in a couple of bands getting released but not sure what was taped. The other Detroit bands would be welcome.
Alice Cooper would be working up to Love It To Death or is that a year later?

this Goose Lake set is pretty wild, the closing "LA Blues" is a noise disaster, I highly recommend it

Yeah this is awesome, clams aside, and even those sound like Alexander can't hear himself or the band in the stage mix not that his mind is pinwheeling across the cosmos

And Ig gets on his high (sorry) horse (super sorry) about Alexander being fucked up but also mentions he had snorted bad coke? ketamine? asbestos insulation? and couldn't really see until show time so not sure he is exactly the world's most reliable narrator.

Liner notes are great

Does he somehow keep it together on 'Loose'?