Stooges – Fun House (SACD CD)
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Recorded in Los Angeles in May 1970, Fun House captured the Stooges at their most ferocious and free, with saxophonist Steve Mackay joining the core lineup to push the second half of the record into genuinely uncharted territory. Ron Asheton's guitar work here became a blueprint that bands are still trying to decode, and Dave Alexander's locked-in bass anchors chaos that never actually loses its footing.
The Stooges Make the Ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Statement on Fun House: Primal Punk-Jazz Landmark Is Ranked the 94th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling StoneExperience the Band's 1970 Effort in Definitive Sound on Disc: Strictly Limited to 2,500 Numbered Copies, Mobile Fidelity's Hybrid SACD Pulses with Energy and Immediacy"Do you feel it?" Iggy Pop asks on "Dirt." The answer is patently obvious for anyone who encounters the Stooges' Fun House. This is a record where unabandoned feeling takes precedence, primal energy surges to the fore, outsider attitude snarls with destructive force, electrifying chaos assumes the form of wild joyousness - all of which might very well be impossible to put into words. Legendary Village Voice journalist Robert Christgau even admitted "language wasn't designed for the job" of conveying what many critics and artists believe to be the ultimate rock 'n' roll statement. Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LPstyle gatefold packaging, Mobile Fidelity's hybrid SACD plays with enhanced definition, stellar clarity, and realistic ambience. The livein-the-room characteristics and sudden mayhem closely identified with Fun House and Don Gallucci's esteemed production emerge with gripping presence, body, and power. Witness the unrelenting sense of groove; the sheer impact of the rhythms; the ferocity of Pop's heat-seeking vocals; the bruising churn of the low end; the grit, grime, and grind of four dudes and auxiliary saxophonist Steven Mackay bent on breaking into another dimension. The Stooges' most controlled and hot-wired creation, Fun House now adopts the sonic vigor of the atom bomb to which Christgau thought of comparing it. Feel alright, indeed. Numbered Hybrid Stereo SACDLIMITED EDITION OF 2,500
Tracklist:
- Down on the Street
- Loose
- T.V. Eye
- Dirt
- 1970
- Fun House
- L.A. Blues
UPC: 821797230568
Label: Mobile Fidelity
Release Date: 9.18.26
Format: CD