LAWWWWWWWD! It's the FUNHOUSE by the Stooges Poll

All of it.

OTM. I'll go for 1970.

2) Should I make another poll about the tracks off the BoxSet?

NO!

I'm sorry to keep pimpin' my blog here, but since someone asked, herewith my laboriously overwritten thoughts on the box set.

have to ge wih loose

though really i don't have the patience for the stooges anymore i think.

I gather they find you pretty tiring too.

Didja ever buy those '05 remasters Alex?

down on the street

tough awesome poll though

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0008,smith,12710,22.html

Is that supposed to be a review?

'dirt' wins for me because it's a crawling seven minute nightmare that is totally captivating. 'tv eye' is a close second mind you

The remasters:

The first one is great, and gives you long versions of many of the tracks. Truly a small amount of reprogramming/burning gives you an even more awesome version of the album. Keep the "Cale mixes" as duff 'wip' mixes tho.

The second? Well, after the box set, it's a handy cut down version of it but I've not been moved to play CD2 more than the one time. If you'd sat through 24 hours of Andy Warhol's Empire State Building film, would you watch a 1 hour edit of same?

Oh, man, that Gorge review is classic!

"1970"

Because it's the song that was playing that made me realize this is one of the best albums ever.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

BRING IT DOWN!!!

This review was before or after the Voice cut word lengths?

I'm sorry to keep pimpin' my blog here, but since someone asked, herewith my laboriously overwritten thoughts on the box set.

The Stooges were about disdainful insouciance and hedonism, not meticulousness.

Great piece, but since when are the above mutually exclusive (see: Charlie Parker, Keith Moon, Frank Wright, MC5, etc. etc.) ?

1970, for the super-concentrated, building fury. It's almost terrifying, like Woodring's bomb that never stops exploding. The whole record has this quality, but nothing else bottles it up in such a perfect dose.

Object quite strenuously to "this album didn't invent punk; it invented disco (and later house...", but love everything else KJB wrote above.

Box set is cool as collector's drool piece, as process log, as history, but it's also great as soundtrack music. There are times when it's nice to have an entire CD of versions of Dirt.

Loose

And LA Blues is not good. Except sometimes, when it's GREAT, but mostly no.

Yeah, I'm voting for LA Blues. Just as focused as TV Eye, and the unaffected/uncondescending merger of rock and free jazz Sonic Youth have never been able to manage.

i voted "fun house"...i think i should have voted "1970". i'm no good at these poll things, y'know.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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.

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'?

Does he somehow keep it together on 'Loose'?

Iggy or Alexander? "Loose" is the first song; Iggy is singing the alternate lyrics (the ones about "riding on a big hot dog") and Alexander is definitely present, though he does seem to be wandering around some and drops out here and there. Eventually he finds his way in. The last three songs, where Steve Mackay shows up, are fucking insane. He's playing much more freely than he does on the studio album - he's in full Archie Shepp/Pharoah Sanders mode at a few points.

Alexander, since that song needs its bass foundation as much as it does Iggy.

Yeah "Loose" is kinda of a mess but on basically the rest of the record he is killing it (esp "Dirt" and "Funhouse") which is what really leads me to believe that early on he can't hear or some technical issue rather than, solely, drugs & drink.

"1970" is so absolutely unhinged and snarling, it is exactly what you want a live Stooges song to sound like, until haha someone ends the song a hair early, I think maybe Scott A is the culprit there

Is the whole thing ratty & fucked up? Yeah, sure, but I can't imagine being a "Funhouse" nut and not loving it.

Ron's playing is so fucking good

craziest thing about this show is that the festival had a revolving stage to keep things going — so the band that went 'round the bend right before the Stooges appeared was ... The Flying Burrito Brothers, haha.

I found the first four titles a tad underwhelming – I think they benefit greatly from the proto-post-punk tightness studio conditions afford – but the final trinity, '1970', 'Fun House' and 'L.A. Blues', is worth the price of admission alone. Sure, Mackay steals the show here, but Ron is an absolute MVP throughout. It once again got me thinking about how much better Raw Power could have been with him instead of Williamson on guitar. And Alexander does audibly drop the ball – it'd be hilarious if the poor guy didn't die of pancreatitis five years later.

I am eternally glad I got to see one of the earliest Stooges reunion shows, in 2003 — with both Asheton brothers and Mackay — even if I did have to wait through an "unplugged" Godsmack set beforehand.

You have the patience of a saint. I can't imagine many worse opening acts to suffer through.

I wrote for Alternative Press for years, and my first break came when the editor called me one day in 1997 and asked, "Will you interview Godsmack so I don't have to?"

I've got a 7/8 class this afternoon in my board's all-Mennonite school. Doing my best to corrupt them--talked about Iggy (birthday today) and played "Down on the Street" for them. (One of them noticed a link to Bitches Brew on YouTube's sidebar..."Uh, that's a famous album too--time for science, everyone!").

Kids finally learning the Lord's good work.

JUst found out that this exists from Charging Rhinoceros of Soul the band that Steve Mackay had been in before joining the Stooges.THink he had already left before joining the Stooges though
but here's some early demoes by them
https://soundcloud.com/badley-1/charging-rhinoceros-of-soul-1968-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

there's a several page history of the band in the issue of Ugly THings prior to the current one