#692 The Stooges' Fun House and Remembering Talk Talk's Mark Hollis
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🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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In a Classic Album Dissection, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot examine The Stooges' Fun House record from 1970. The album brought together garage rock, rhythm and blues and free jazz, setting a template for the punk revolution to come. Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton talks about the album as well as producer Don Gallucci, whose unorthodox studio technique is credited with capturing the singular sound of The Stooges.
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| 0:00.0 | One, three, four. From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and PRX, this is sound opinions. I'm Greg Kott. And I'm Jim De Regattis. This is Sound Opinions. I'm Greg Kott and I'm Jim Deregadis. This week a classic album |
| 0:26.6 | dissection of Fun House by The Stooges. It's The Sto album and it's a masterpiece of rock, jazz and mayhem. |
| 0:38.0 | But see with Iggy recording was even a violation of the code. |
| 0:44.0 | He didn't even like to be defined like that. |
| 0:46.6 | We'll break down Fun House track by track and hear from the album's producer |
| 0:50.7 | and the Stooges guitarist. |
| 0:52.4 | That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:54.4 | You're listening to sound opinions and it's time for one of our periodic classic album |
| 1:05.0 | Dissections, The Stooges Fun House. |
| 1:08.4 | The second album by The Stooges, a band better known for spawning Iggy pop than any hit singles. Iggy was only 23 when they recorded Funhouse, a few years removed from when he was known as Jim Osterberg. The record has two very different sides. Side one is Proto-punk blues songs. |
| 1:27.0 | The single, Down on the Street. |
| 1:30.0 | Down on street with a face is shine. Loose. |
| 1:35.0 | TV I and |
| 1:34.0 | TBI and D. |
| 1:42.0 | and dirt. |
| 1:43.0 | Side too gets more and more chaotic, with Steve McKay's saxophone bringing a |
| 1:50.0 | complete free jazz feel to songs like 1970, |
| 1:54.0 | Fun House, |
| 1:59.0 | and LA Blues. |
| 2:01.0 | And LA Blues. |
| 2:03.0 | Blues. |
| 2:05.0 | The Hard Rock avant-garde combination sold poorly and the studios were dropped from their label only a few months later. |
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