ELEKTRA LP 42 055 (EKS-74071): The STOOGES - Fun House - 1970 FRANCE OOP NM
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Nov 30, 2015 Sold Date
Sep 13, 2015 Start Date
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Background -

The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, are an American proto-punk band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003. Although they sold few records in their original incarnation, and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences, the Stooges are widely regarded as instrumental in the rise of punk rock, as well as influential to alternative rock, heavy metal and rock music at large. The Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them 78th on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.

Fun House is the second studio album by American rock band The Stooges. It was released on July 7, 1970 by record label Elektra. Though initially commercially unsuccessful, Fun House developed a strong cult following and, like its successor (1973's Raw Power), is generally considered integral in the development of punk rock.

Even though Elektra Records' Jac Holzman believed that the MC5 had more potential than The Stooges, he made the crucial intervention to ask former Kingsmen keyboardist Don Gallucci to produce the album. 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 said it didn't matter because he had already reserved recording time in L.A. The album was recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders in Los Angeles, California from May 11 to May 25, 1970. 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 first day consisted of sound checking and run-throughs of all songs. The entire band used headphones with the bass and drums isolated by baffles while Iggy Pop sang his vocals through a condenser microphone on a boom.

The result was terrible in the band's opinion. They took exception to the atmosphere inside the studio with soundproof padding and isolators. 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. According to Gallucci, they set up the band in the way they normally play at a concert. For example, Iggy was singing through a handheld microphone, and the guitar and bass amps were placed side by side. 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.

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.

An 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. It was released the same month as Fun House, and fared slightly better on the charts.

According to Billboard magazine, Fun House is set in hard rock and improvisation. 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. Blues", which showcases the "old avant-garde fallacy ... trying to make art about chaos by reproducing same." Greg Kot called Fun House "the Stooges' punk jazz opus".

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 free form saxophone, and "Iggy sounding like a scared, lost child, warning from bitter experience that 'The Fun House will steal your heart away.'" "L.A. Blues" concludes the album with a flurry of noise and disoriented dual drumming, which Stylus Magazine's Patrick McNally interpreted as the Stooges being "lost culturally and spiritually in the smoke and riots and confusion of Detroit and America at the dawn of the seventies, but also in the overwhelming squall and clatter of the sound that they—from nothing, from nowhere—managed to create."  

  • LP made by ELEKTRA Records, in FRANCE

  • LP released in 1970

  • LP is recorded in STEREO

  • Record Catalog Number: 42 055 (EKS-74071)

  • Record Labels are primarily Powder BLUE with BLACK lettering, with the Butterfly and Elektra logo

This listing is for a rare, out of print LP title - an OPENED and in near MINT minus condition LP PRESSED and ISSUED by ELEKTRA Records of a highly collectible title from their catalog - a superb title featuring -

The Stooges

LP Title -

Fun House

Track Listing -
All songs written and composed by The Stooges.
Side one   
1. "Down on the Street" - 3:42
2. "Loose" - 3:33
3. "T.V. Eye" - 4:17
4. "Dirt" - 7:00
Side two   
5. "1970" (also known as "I Feel Alright") - 5:14
6. "Fun House" - 7:45
7. "L.A. Blues" - 4:52

Performers -

    Iggy Pop – vocals
    Ron Asheton – guitar
    Dave Alexander – bass guitar
    Scott Asheton – drums
    Steve Mackay – saxophone
    Don Gallucci – production, organ overdubs
    Brian Ross-Myring – remastering, engineer

    CONDITION Details:

    The GATE-FOLD LP jacket is in near mint minus condition! The jacket is tight and clean, with just a tiny 1" seam split at the bottom seam. The corners are solid, with just a bit of shelf wear the seams and corners. A name and a date has been written on the inside of the jacket which is barely noticeable. The colors on the jacket are sharp (see pictures with this listing as they are of the actual item).

    The LP is in near mint minus condition! We found that the vinyl looked superb on this vintage LP. There are no significant marks and the LP retains much of the original gloss and sheen - obviously well taken care of! There are NO serious spindle marks on the record labels either. Just beautiful FRENCH made vinyl!

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    • Mint = Only used for sealed items.
    • Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
    • Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
    • Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
    • Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

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