Revisiting The Stooges' Fun House

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 54 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. Plus Greg Kot adds a song by Gene Clark to the Desert Island Jukebox. Become a member on Patreon: https://bit.ly/3slWZvc

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0:00.0	Hey sound opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast
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0:09.6	You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we're doing a classic album by section
0:37.1	of the Stooges Fun House.
0:47.2	The second album by the Stooges, a band better known for a spawning Iggy Pop than any hit
0:52.5	singles, Iggy was only 23 when they recorded Fun House, a few years removed from when he
0:58.3	was known as Jim Osterberg.
1:00.4	The record has two very different sides, side one is Protopunk Blues songs.
1:06.2	The single, down on the street, loose, TVI, and dirt, side two gets more and more chaotic
1:26.8	with Steve McKay's saxophone bringing a complete free jazz beat to songs like 1970.
1:32.9	Fun House, an LA Blues.
1:45.3	The hard rock avant-garde combination sold poorly and the Stooges were dropped from their
1:50.2	label only a few months later.
1:51.7	Still, a lot of musicians hold Fun House as a creative peek to the band.
1:58.9	Jim, we're very excited to talk about the Stooges period and what I think in many ways
2:04.6	is the greatest rock and roll record ever made of Fun House.
2:10.2	Get out and take a look at that.
2:12.6	baller by the Beatles, I'd put four home albums.
2:15.4	Yeah, put Fun House right up there with all of them, you know.
2:17.8	I think it's a fantastic record.
2:19.6	Oh, I know.
2:21.6	It was one of those records that accrued in depth and influence
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