Of Pop and Peanut Butter: The Stooges - Fun House｜Vinyl Monday

[@abigaildevoe]

what’s your favorite stooges song? comment below!

[@davidellis5141]

We Will Fall

[@alanclayton9277]

despite not going big on the album i've been very naughty this week and gone big on t.v. eye.

[@TomoyaMorioka]

Search And Destroy

[@leamanc]

Dirt

[@kwd-kwd]

all of them.

[@frankpas3963]

"DIRT" is where JOY DIVISION begins...

[@dougsmith7083]

My all-time fave album cold, hypnotic, tightly wound, swingin, industrial, muscle car, soulful, mechanical, semi-psychadelic, free jazz, rock and roll sublime

[@willowufgood261]

Greatest rock album of all time. For those who love this album I would recommend getting the Live at Goose Lake 1970.

[@alanclayton9277]

unbelievable skill to fling peanut butter around: that stuff sticks.

[@jackedmonston4909]

This is what rock and roll should have been post 1970. The way they blend jazz into the madness of the stooges is incredible. It took a while for it to grow on me but now that it has it’s one of my favorite albums ever.

[@konowd]

It’s what rock and roll should be today

[@robzo87]

You just can’t get this kind of quality anymore! I’m sure somewhere in this world people are rocking TF out in some hidden gem underground, but the main source is not looking for this kind of electricity for the airwaves. This album changed my life in my later teenage years..Thanks to my uncle.

[@darkshadow8330]

Sensational. An all-time classic. Stooges were never better on record. Raw Power comes close.

[@IanOConnor-mi2rb]

Your taste in music is exquisite! So well cultured.

[@leamanc]

I’ve never heard Fun House called the unloved middle child before. The consensus always seemed to me that it was their masterpiece. At least since that Rollins article in Spin, which IIRC he also extolled the virtues of White Light/White Heat.

[@ThiagodMoraes]

I love this album. The Stooges rocks!!

[@cradio52]

So I’m SUPER behind in watching your content because my lil’ running playlist of all the videos I’m interested in watching has been *stacked* over the past few months with all the lefty political content that I’ve been kinda sorta relentlessly obsessed with listening to because of the insane importance of this election; however, even in these rather intense times, I make it a point to literally watch every single Abigail DeVoe Original™ - I’m finally only 5 months behind now with Fun House! 😅 But I am absolutely determined to get caught back up and current with this channel, even if I have to engage the dreaded 2x speed occasionally…😅 Anyway, this one was great as usual - “Iggy bought the peanut butter himself that day” 😂 Keep up the incredible work! 👏

[@almishti]

I almost screamed like a teenage girl when I opened yt an hour ago and saw this in the home page! Thanks Abbie! Side 2 of Fun House is what I always wanted/wished jazz to sound like.

[@dannygreen1964]

Thank you for your wonderful review, Abigail. I'd like to think of 'Funhouse' as being the greatest live hard rock album ever recorded. The fact that there was no audience present and it wasn't recorded at a live venue is beside the point.

[@mullekeck6331]

Garfield is a liar, mondays are the best because of vinyl monday.

[@brianmiller1077]

At first I thought you meant Henry Rollins, who's birth name is Henry Garfield.

[@Goatchild90]

One of my favourite albums of all time. Have a vintage vinyl coy I play as much as possible. There aren't enough words in any language to describe my love for this album.

[@senatorjimdracula1603]

The best Stooges album, by a long shot. This is a top 10 desert island disc for me. I played in a band with Ron in the early 90's and we would play Down On The Street and TV Eye. That was when he told us that the "RIGHT ON" is actually "RAM IT!", which makes a lot of sense LOL. Ron was a cool, sweet guy, and of course had plenty of stories from his Stooges days.

[@mcfontaine]

Yet another BRILLIANT review, thank you.

[@melvinramone2605]

Greatest album ever made. I love that every song starts with a grunt, scream or yell. I love that it starts with a tight groove and every song gets looser and looser until it's just chaos. It's like the album rocks so hard it shakes itself apart. The thing about the box set that really stuck with me is that they pretty much used the last take of every song and they seem to know exactly what they want. For album that seems to so gloriously throw caution to the wind and just go for it, Fun House was actually seemingly meticulously and patiently crafted. You should definitely give Black Flag a listen. Jack White, Buzz Osborne, Mark Arm, and Kurt Cobain are/were also famously fans of this album. Great video. Thank you.

[@justinblumberg8101]

"Search and Destroy" is probably my favorite Stooges song but there are so many great tunes.

[@jonburan6090]

I don' t know whether or no this is the place to bring this up, but I was kind of surprised you didn't mention Funhouse in your John Coltrane review and you didn't mention John Coltrane's influence here. The Stooges was at least initially, an experiment to bring more improvisation into rock 'n roll and try to break away from that 3 minute pop song structure and make performances more improvisational and participatory for the audience. That (and the drugs, yes!) is what inspired Iggy to perform the way he did. I really respect what they were trying to achieve, but it's too bad the substance abuse just kind of swallowed them whole. I really loved this review, BTW. Keep up the good work, Abby!

[@dabhidhm4093]

I always thought the coughing thing in "TV Eye" was Ron Ashton taking a huge hit off a bong. I'm not giving up that image.

[@konowd]

Like Tony Iommi coughing on a joint in Sweet Leaf?

[@ApolloSuns]

Dirt is one of my favourite tracks of all time. 🎉🎉

[@davidellis5141]

Good Alice In Chains ⛓️ album as well 👌

[@ApolloSuns]

​@@davidellis5141will have to check that out!

[@robzo87]

This album kicks some serious 🍑!! I can’t really pick a favorite song because it’s just so radical from start to finish!! Fun House is my spirit animal for life!

[@peterlaffey6328]

Funhouse trounces Kick Out The Jams , as it does with just about any release . A truly monumental record . From an MC5 fanatic . Love your reviews by the way .

[@ronaldtdump2156]

Actually the 'Complete Fun House' boxset first came out on CD (7CDs in fact) in 1999 - LONG before it eventually came out on vinyl

[@Leo_ofRedKeep]

Oh! I was not expecting this. Fun House has been the most extreme thing I knew for a long time and I'm not sure it was ever surpassed. I remember someone describing it as "a journey to the end of madness" some 45 years ago. A relentless, calculated crescendo without a wasted moment. Iggy once said he wrote everything in it, even the guitar solos. I doubt he did but I believe there was method to the build up and little was left to chance. I know the first two tracks were meant to be swapped but I think it works better as they ended up, with Loose exploding from the tension of Down On The Street. That saxophone on side 2 is the wildest thing I ever heard on a hard rock album.

[@GCSoundArtifacts]

"L.A. Blues" is definetely my favorite, even though I love this album in its entirety. The final track is an apocalyptic meltdown, a free-form improvisation that shows how much power and madness are in their musicianship. It's beyond punk, and goes bravely into extremes. I love it, this is my favorite Stooges' album as well!

[@missionrd100]

Critic, Mike Jahn wrote that whenever he wants to clean out his mind with a vacuum cleaner; he simply listens to FUNHOUSE and the glorious loudness does it's job. I guess that means he likes it.

[@johncall7532]

The Henry piece in Spin turned me onto Funhouse and White Light/White Heat. Years later I thanked him in an email, he replied.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Iggy brought his own peanut butter. Imagine packing up to go to the show and thinking “I’m gonna need that peanut butter”. Funhouse is by far my favorite Stooges album. I once got arrested for playing LA blues. We have the same favorite albums. This blows my mind. Great album review and love the outfit. You are the best. Thanks Abbey

[@johnrush4571]

I originally had this album on 8-track. Glad I later found it on vinyl. In addition to the influences you mentioned, and the Radio Birdman comment, Steve Jones stated (in Johnny Rotten's book) that he learned how to play guitar by listening to this album. I finally saw The Incredible Ig live in 1996 at the outdoor stage on Brazos during the SXSW festival. He was fantastic! Down On the Street was the second song. At the time, Whitey Kirst was his lead guitar player, and probably the one with Ig the longest, roughly a dozen years. He basically stayed in one spot and played, while Ig used the entire stage. Lots of stage-diving from the audience, including a couple of girls who dove topless. Best outdoor show I saw, and that includes the Dead Kennedys.

[@MrWayout74]

The Ig's roar at the start of TV Eye says it all.

[@davidellis5141]

The last song The Sid Vicious era Sex Pistols ever performed was No Fun with Johnny Rotten asking the audience upon conclusion " Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated ? "

[@Driecnk]

Yawn

[@RaptorStudios]

And he was really just performing, cuz that guy couldn’t play bass at all, and they didn’t even plug it in a lot of the time. That was like January 1978 right?

[@kevindeforest6489]

It's impressive to realize how the Stooges went from an experimental noise band to this, probably the greatest rock album ever made, in the space of a couple of years of touring. There are no better versions of songs on the box set. But it's more than fascinating to hear the songs evolve with each take. If you want more Stooges, check out the Easy Action label. They have put out incredible unheard Stooges material, and put together a truly amazing coffee table book documenting every show the band ever played. Thanks for another passionate episode. I was waiting for you to talk about how great the record is sequenced. You've captured so well the manic energy of the record,

[@konowd]

Glad the MC5 are getting their due this year and Bob Ezrin is helping Wayne Kramer’s last album. The test of time is the hardest and most important test to pass

[@willhargreaveshf]

This is one of the records where listening to it makes me think it's my absolute favourite.

[@BIZARBIES]

I met Jimmy and Mike Watt at the same time in 2002. They were so nice and friendly, we talked for a couple hours about music. It was a dream come true!

[@davidellis5141]

Thurston ? Watt here ..calling you from Providence Rhode Island.

[@scott12xu]

Watt has always been a good person. I’m glad to see he’s playing Minutemen songs again.

[@Imontei]

YESS THE STROKES!! I SAW THAT! I FINALLY GOT ONE😼

[@davidoglesby6771]

Great to see The Stooges & MC5 getting some proper love ! 2 of my favourite bands EVER! A band that is loosely associated with the 5 and The Stooges is the original Alice Cooper band, especially the albums Love It To Death & Killer Would to see you delve into those 2 classic albums! Oh and the first KISS album or KISS Alive! Love the Vids Keep up the good work! 🤙🤙🤙🤙

[@Mrvictorfernandes]

Henry Rollins gave a great description of the "Fun House" album when I saw him speak about it - as well as express his hardcore idolization for Iggy, calling him "the true 'King of Rock n' Roll'" - at Toronto's Convocation Hall in 2003: "'Fun House' is a violent genius record that makes you wanna fight and fuck at the same time." I couldn't agree with him more...

[@bobertrobertson130]

great overview of an album that makes any band who thinks of themselves as "hardcore" or "punk" look like pretenders

[@dwellerintheden7973]

Listened to this just a few days ago and loved it, it was everything about their self titled I loved and more. Great video btw! This channel is like the biggest hidden gem of the music review side of yt.

[@richwhite4052]

As much as I love Vinyl Mondays, I can't wait for Mod Friday!!!

[@Felonious_Punk]

Super fun. The vid and the album. Turning a hellscape into a funhouse. Bravo all!

[@SugarSista820]

Iggy Pop is my dance inspiration

[@marklanier8657]

It was 1969 and I had bought the 1st Stooges album out of a cutout bin. I took it home and played it with my late brother listening. My brother hated it but for some reason it resonated with me and so I purchased the Funhouse album. Then Raw Power and all of Iggy’s studio albums that came after. But it is this album that is pure manic fun. I was a progressive rock snob but Iggy blew that all to hell. And he’s still going. His last album is pure gold. Thanks, Abigail, for your in depth analysis.

[@terryhu57]

I saw Iggy and David with the Sales bros. Great fucking show. Blondie opened with their first album and line up. Damn that is a great memory.

[@BillAdams-fb3jm]

"Why do The Stooges' first album and Raw Power both get more attention than Fun House does? I'd be willing to bet that the "other two" releases have more uncertainty embedded in their makeup; The Stooges' debut was an album about a band forming and Raw Power was an album about a band falling apart -- both of which were events which were action-packed with uncertainty. Fun House has a triumphant stance (like the band has already won) from the second Iggy howls to open the album, and it's tighter than a bull's ass at fly time until it closes. It's focused, it's vengeful and it's angry. Simply said, Fun House is everything that the other two original Stooges albums are not. That's why Fun House tends not to get as much popular notice. That said though, thanks for starting here, Abi!

[@bobertrobertson130]

agreed always thought Fun House was their best, can't beat TV Eye, Down on the Street, or Dirt

[@drewburns4745]

My mom used to work with a guy who was Don Gallucci's cousin. He told us a bunch of great stories about Don's Kingsmen days, playing "Louie Louie" at all the Portland-area clubs. Apparently, the band did a 45-min version of the song that transformed into a huge jam. Great video!

[@apolloc.vermouth5672]

I'd love to hear a mix of Funhouse with the reverb taken off, like on some of the box-set out-takes where you can really hear the raw live-in-the-room Stooginess!

[@SonofSethoitae]

I remember watching an interview with Anthony Bourdain, and he said his desert island record was Funhouse. Never having heard of it, i threw it on via streaming, and it blew my mind. This record, along with London Calling by The Clash and My War by Black Flag got me into punk rock.

[@stephenmcgowan1356]

Thanks Abby for a fantastic review. As an OG punk rocker, "Fun House' was a treasure map showing the way. What other band could inspire The Ramones, Black Flag, and predate the whole 'No Wave' movement? Plus ...Iggy! Living in SC we would go to Atlanta to see cool bands at the 688 club. Iggy had done a week there and the band panted the set list on the back concrete block wall of the stage, It was both a shrine and a warning for whoever played that night. I also got to see him on the 'Zombie Birdhouse' tour at a club called The I & I in Athens. Zombie Birdhouse was on Chris Stein's (of Blondie) Animal Records and Iggy's band was all the guys from Blondie minus Debbie and Chris. The band was killer, grinning from ear to ear like "We're playing with IGGY". Iggy was magnificent and during 'Louie Louie' he of course whipped it out. A pure night of rock from one of the best ever. The Stooges were the shit!

[@markfiori6515]

Thank you!!! I might’ve seen “Rock n Roll High School” on Cinemax one unsupervised weekend in the summer either before or after I came across “Fun House” by honest accident at my babysitter’s house. I had a box record player and a stack of Kiss records and “Back In Black” by AC/DC. Kiss hit their first career flange around then but I was 5 or 6. My babysitter took me aside about my choices in music then lead me to a shelf with a small children’s section chock with old Mickey Mouse club, chipmunk tv show song comps, Donnie and Marie…I shifted towards what I didn’t know till later was her husband’s section. First she stalled me by pulling out “Son of Schimilsin” for the spooky horror fx intro on one of the side opening songs…After I was left alone I went back to flipping through the records, and at first it was just a blare or red then the back of the next record, and Idk how many records I’d flipped to see if I could find that red cover…almost gave up but on the last flip…there it was…everything that Henry said and then some. Seeing them at the Wiltern w/ Watt on bass. Met a lady with a stack of instamatic shots from a gig in 1971 at an Elk’s Lodge. Mostly shots of Jim of course but she had a couple really good ones with Dave Alexander and of Ron and Scott limbering but none the less ferocious framing Iggy or filling in the background…Anyway, stoked you covered “Fun House”🤘

[@rjramone4051]

Funhouse was my introduction to The Stooges. When I first heard those first few seconds of Down On the Street, I was hooked.

[@charliedunn8541]

I’m growing evermore impatient for the sonic youth vid. I could see one on every album honestly but goo is definitely the one I wanna see most

[@Monetize_This]

I saw that version of the Stooges after midnight at a rock festival as I was coming down off a bad acid trip partially a result of our tent having been Commandeered by a biker who wanted a place to Ball his “old lady”. Iggy scared a lot of the hippies, writhing and contorting himself in impossible ways while dancing (?) madly often with the mic Cord around His Neck, alternately flashing the peace sign/middle Finger. I thought I was witnessing a demented acid casualty going fully mental. They finished their set by slamming their guitars to the ground and walking offstage, sending the surprised, stoned hippies running the sound, scurrying about as a massive swell of uncontrolled feedback careened between the audio towers. I wasn’t sure what I’d witnessed but it was an indelible memory. I came Home With the songs TV Eye and Loose playing in my brain . All I knew is that I wanted to hear them Again. And again..I was up front at the foot of the stage the whole time.

[@BillsBoxOfSound]

What can I say? Another winner in the books. This LP is one of the records that changed the way I listen to music. Shout out to my dear departed friend Eddie Wille, who made me listen to this record and enjoy it for what it is! Fun fact: "The Fun House Sessions" or iginally came out as a 7 CD limited edition box set in 2000. It sold out quickly. It was re-released as a download on '05 and the CD box again in 2010, before the 15LP deluxe box set in 2020. It slays. Pronunciation check: Ed Careff is "Care-Eff", and Stiv Bators' first name sounds more like "Stiff" than "Steve". Looking forward to the next one! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-WHOO! I feel alright.

[@rossamundbrennan7248]

Don't forget that Radio Birdman got their name from mishearing a Stooges Lyric.

[@robh1030]

Oh yeah, Birdman - one of my fave bands. They did a decent cover of TV Eye. A few of them toured with Ron Asheton and Dennis Thompson in New Race in 1979 I think - yeah hup! Great days.

[@griphfunk]

First off, another spectacular review with your passion for the music coming through loud and clear. Also, this episode had me laughing out loud several times, so kudos. As far as Funhouse, it's always been my favorite Stooges record. Something about Iggy screaming "I feel alright!" over and over in middle of the sonic chaos of frenzied guitar and post Coltrane free jazz sax squeals, just feels appropriate to soundtrack our present day worldwide societal fuckery. Screaming "I'm god damn fine" while everything crumbles around us. Heavy shit but oh so great

[@Unknown-yz8dc]

I honestly had a lot of trouble getting into this record at first but once I did it's all been over. Fun House is a fucking masterpiece, I've constantly been listening to it over the past couple of days and not only am I always finding new things but this album keeps consistently blowing my mind that it came out when it did.

[@troubadour723]

Well, now I wanna be your -- KZbin fan! 🙂 Did they pioneer the Star Wars font on this cover? Re: that TV broadcast: the play-by-play is just hysterical: "That's peanut butter." Iggy dives into the crowd: "There goes Iggy!" Incidentally, I think Bruce Springsteen and I comprise Suicide's entire fanbase.

[@johnlocust]

Not sure if anybody else posted this 'cause I didn't wanna read through 200+ comments, but the entire back archive of Spin magazine is available for free on Google Books. The Henry Rollins article on "Funhouse" (and his love for "Sister Ray" by the Velvets) is in the November 1985 issue with Bruce Springsteen on the cover.

[@manuelkatsos5104]

An English review said that it sounded like cavemen from Mars. Best tracks are TV EYE ,LOOSE DOWN ON THE STREET AND 1970. The first album and Raw power are my favourites no fillers .

[@31carrier]

I got lost early didnt find my way though before the end of the video So many bands i didnt know (I am to old) spending your precious time listen to music "I Am Aware, I Am Where I Put Myself"

[@buzzardsinuses4780]

So glad you got to this one! Has been my favorite stooges record forever now! You do need to get into Black Flag too. Damaged is easily the one you should get to first. Such an interesting band!

[@CoryChase2319]

Fantastic review and deep dive. You "get" this album, and your vocabulary to describe it is stellar. I'll be following you (and not in a creepy way) now. Thank you!

[@theprisonerofmars]

This album, it was the start of everything for me! This became my music and it informed all the music I made from then on.

[@anthony_dimaggio]

Idk about you, but the song '1970' is exactly how I want my rock n' roll from Detroit to sound like 😅

[@ThePogle]

Well done ! I am 61 and cut my teeth on this LP back in 1978 at 15. 1984 we did a cover of the song Funhouse at a demo studio and the engineer had his head in his hands gave up but we still have the recording :)

[@xxryder1]

Saw Iggy in 80' -81' at Bookies Club 870 on W. McNichols Rd. Bookies was the shrine to new wave music. He threw down!

[@christophermoebs5514]

I remember Bookie's!

[@peterjetnikoff]

When the '70s rock press made something of a figure from the previous decade it was either because the current landscape was considered barren or, later, to highlight the extended punk rock timeline. Stories about MC5 and The Stooges appeared around the 1977 mark. Iggy's case was aided by his fresh reappearance on the Bowie produced albums The Idiot and Lust for Life. I recall Iggy being almost the star of a long tour diary article about his tour as support for Bowie at the time. I knew the solo records before the Stooges albums but got to hear those in the early eighties. The sound and lyrics seem to reach well beyond the hippy era they were from. All this (as well as Iggy touring at an accessible level) put the Stooges into everyone's record stack and covers of the songs in bands from Detroit sounders to industrial sampling. Yeah, they made a dent. Thanks for another great video.

[@samuelsmoak2541]

I literally just bought a copy of “Funhouse” on vinyl today, because of this video. This album has always caught my eye, but never really listened to it because I wanted to hear it on vinyl, plus I was waiting on the perfect time to listen to it. As soon as I saw that you uploaded a video about this album, I knew that it was time. Thanks for giving me the inspiration to finally go out and get this record Additional note: It saids on my hype sticker that it’s a red and black split. So thats pretty cool

[@abigaildevoe]

oh man i'm glad my video got you interested in fun house! i hope you like it

[@samuelsmoak2541]

@@abigaildevoe Update: I’m currently listening to the album rn. I’m loving what I’m hearing so far. I’m in the middle of listening to “1970” and I just wanna say that I can’t believe this song predates Sonic Youth and all their solo material. The way Iggy sing the verses sound exactly the same way Kim Gordon would sing her verses on her song “Hungry Baby.” if that makes any sense.

[@steevvvippch5589]

Great review and history! Laughed out loud at a few of your quips. Now I have to go listen to their untitled record again to see if it is indeed stiff in my mind too. I'm sure it in comparison. Favorite song is TV Eye. So in your face. I had just the first twenty seconds or so on a tape from when I was a kid taping stuff off the radio and I had assumed it was a King Biscuit Flower Hour snippet. I shut off recording thinking WTH, but later on re-listening was hooked and was bummed I hadn't let it roll. It is hard to choose a favorite on there though. Some take a little time to hook ya but it can set deeper. e.g. Dirt

[@mickwinters3509]

Abigail, I have the Rhino box set. There are 28 takes of Loose, 15 takes of Down on the Street, 14 takes of T.V. Eye, 12 of Dirt. That’s not including the first reel that’s the start of the session where they play all the tracks a couple times to get things rolling. There’s even three takes of a song idea called “Lost In the Future” and another riff called “Slide (Slidin’ the Blues).

[@jayvincentmarchetto2633]

If anyone is interested you can find the 50th anniversary edition of Fun House with all the takes of the songs on their YT channel, have a good listen everyonee

[@UniversalBlackRocker]

Yay!! The Stooges. Funhouse is a great album. Love some Proto-Punk stuff. And can't wait for Mod Month May. Oh and Gimme Danger is my favorite song by The Stooges. And also, looking stunningly beautiful as always.

[@AACB_Empire]

10:20 I hope that someday a full recording of this performance gets released because it's too epic to be left as partially lost media (and I hope the same for the rest of the lost performances of this festival)

[@konowd]

I remember seeing that video, I rented it from a great video store in Los Feliz, I can’t imagine what a bunch of hippies post Woodstock thought of that show. Iggy’s stare could burn a hole through you

[@9999bigb]

Josh Homme has also said that this record is his favorite of all time

[@BRIANZ969]

I just got in-watching the prerecorded version. Great for me !!!!!!!

[@davidspinney2023]

Hi Abby if I didn't like this record before this video just hearing you describe it I love it now

[@ekayaniperforms]

Iggy Pop! Lived at Christadora House in the good old East Village for years! Right near Mingus widows apt !!!! Shout out to Phil Hartman founder of Howl! Festival (poem by Allen Ginsburg ) established in 2003! Wicked episode Abby 🎉

[@johnwilding4664]

When I saw les Stooges in Montreal at the Osheaga festival in 2008-they opened with Loose-great opener! They did a blistering hour set and i left afterwards-anything else would be seriously anti-climactic. Ron Asheton died a few months afterwards sadly. Depeche mode did an interesting cover of Dirt as a B-side for the Exciter album-it appears on the DVD for the deluxe version. Interesting analysis as always. Great album, they didn't do many, but they were all excellent.

[@chrisbidwell895]

It's interesting that you see Fun House as the underrated Stooges album. When I was discovering music lore in the 90's, I first came across the Stooges from the same two places you mentioned, Sonic Youth's cover of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and Henry Rollins talking about them in his book Get In The Van. Before the internet molded peoples' tastes, my go to source to discover all the weird music I missed out on was the Spin Magazine Alternative Record guide. In that book, Fun House ranked as the number 30 Alt record of all time, S/T was ranked lower, and Raw Power was rated highly, but not top 100 worthy. That along with the deadpan quote "Fun House is my favorite LP" from 1991: The Year Punk Broke, kindof cemented where I thought it ranked in everyone's head. I got all three albums and love them all, but FunHouse has that underlying groove in their beats that we don't really see much these days. It opened the door for me to get into music that wasn't always striaght 1/2/3/4. Thank you for your series. As an alt-diehard from the early 90s, I don't have an attachment to most of your 60s and 70s content. I understand the importance of those records, I appreciate the research you do, and I feel the love you have for your subject material, but when you hit my jams and show them the same love and respect as the rest of your work, it keeps me tuning in for every review. Keep up the good work.

[@danopticon]

I can’t find in what interview she said this - probably one for the _Chicago Reader,_ which we all read religiously through the 1980s and 1990s … our essential guide, as city youth, for finding one another - but Liz Phair once said, about her demos preceding _Exile in Guyville,_ that she took much of her musical and lyrical inspiration from _Funhouse._ As both a Stooges and a Liz Phair fan, I get a huge kick out of that.

[@guidoerfen7944]

Stooges is a great way to spend nights destroying your hearing ability with the headphones on. Couldn't get enough of it for some time. There was a moment of setting the course of my musical taste as a 15 year old: Should I buy "Fun House" or "Trout Mask"? I went for the original weirdos and the double album was more value for money. Got me "Fun House" some years later. I guess it was that Free Jazz approach convinced me, not at least because of "Trout Mask" and a resulting soft spot for Free Jazz. This is proto punk way beyond punk. Miles Davis? No way! Never knew! In Germany for years it wasn't common as a gatefold. I was so proud to get me an original German copy, but wasn't aware of collectability and mixed the original gatefold with an 1980ies pressing and send the scratchy vinyl with the 80ies cover to Ukraine. You don't need the same album twice, do you? 😀 For the prog fans: Check out Don Galluci's band Touch (respectively a Don & The Goodtimes successor) and their self titled debut. It's really worthwhile! The fun House actually existed. It was the shared house of the band members. If I don't mix things up totally, Nico's "Evening Of Light" music clip was shot somewhere in the neighborhood there. The Fun House also was the place of the night where the band managed to put off their Jewish producer Don Galluci: Ron Ashton proudly presenting to Don his collection of Nazi uniforms.

[@kNeczpal]

Is this it? Can see that controversial cover for a split second can’t wait 😅

[@MrThomyorkey]

Abie great vid. Now pls start the journey into the Stooges & Iggy solo discography

[@smaz9]

In my opinion, The Stooges, and the Detroit scene in general, embodied everything that proto-punk was, it was visceral, rebellious, full of energy, and commanded attention, there was nothing else like it, nothing came close to matching its energy, and while the radio at the time was mostly soft rock and bubblegum pop, these guys (Along with the krautrock bands of the early 70s) were embracing the DIY state of mind way before punk as a genre was even a thing. To them, chaos knew no bounds, and that sorta mentality helped manifest what was to come when the Sex Pistols and Ramones arrived in 1976, but even then, as hard as they tried, they couldn't quite match the one-of-a-kindness and trailblazing sound that made the Stooges & the MC5 who they were. In other words, they were a spectacle that will never be replicated. Awesome episode, Abby Also Iggy Pop is a badass 🔥

[@missionrd100]

I am curious about your opinion of fellow Detroit rockers such as BROWNSVILLE STATION, early BOB SEGER, MITCH RYDER, or even TED NUGENT.

[@smaz9]

@@missionrd100 I'm not that familiar with those acts, sorry.

[@josemaria8177]

I wonder how Abby's neck is still intact from the tonal whiplash between Nick Drake and The Stooges

[@abigaildevoe]

if this is whiplash just wait until a week from today

[@BlueSky...]

I need this album!!

[@christophermoebs5514]

I saw the Stooges live in 1970 and 1971 in Detroit and THEY ROCKED!! Down on The Street I'm Loose Dirt Search and Destroy Raw Power No Fun and I Want To Be Your Dog! I listened to the Stooges a lot and most of my timid peers couldn't take it

[@guidoerfen7944]

A real highlight of a cover version by Neneh Cherry and The Ting: "Dirt"! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXy8ZIJjaK2tick Unfortunately not on the vinyl version of that album.

[@glennandadriansrocktalk]

Easily their best album, in my view!

[@behelit1997]

Abigail and Iggy Pop are like Peanut Butter & Jelly. They are a super combo in both talent and cool, Three things i like, P&B and Jelly, Iggy, and Abigail!

[@VinceWhitacre]

I saw Steve Mackaye play side 2 of Fun House with Die Kreuzen at a small jazz club/art gallery in Milwaukee a few years before he passed. Fucking "I can die happy now" experience.

[@abigaildevoe]

that sounds INCREDIBLE. and must have been one loud art gallery!

[@VinceWhitacre]

Oh yeah... I also had the Rhino box set. 😂 The best "Loose" was the released version. The really amazing thing is that there were only 2 unreleased songs played in the entire session... and one of them barely counts, it was just a blues jam. And L.A. Blues (you might get to this in a minute, I'm not done with the video yet) was edited down from a *45 minute* deconstructed free jazz circle jerk mainly helmed by Ron & Steve. Listening to the full version is like listening to Metal Machine Music - awesome at first, gets boring after awhile, half an hour in you're starting to get annoyed... by the end you're pissed that the best music you've ever heard is over. 😎

[@MrmiK3]

20:34 DEATH MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❗❗❗❗❗

[@martinmcgrath1985]

LEADER OF THE VC

[@abigaildevoe]

if i’m the leader we’re all so screwed

[@martinmcgrath1985]

@@abigaildevoe nope you will lead us to VICTORY 😀

[@davidellis5141]

The VC doesn't deserve Abigail.

[@famousashtray]

Speaking of the VC, check out Dereck Higgins.He has a crazy collection.

[@martinmcgrath1985]

@@davidellis5141 💯 a superstar

[@tavonnorris8910]

I would love to hear (I know it's not Stooges related on the comments but...) Abigail's take of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band (1970 album) even Ringo (1973 album) to give each Beatle members their due since she did Paul and George. It would gladly intriguing for a vinyl Monday review.

[@richierugs6544]

Iggy and Divine somewhat cornered me at the Ritz in NY and tried to get me to 'have some fun' with them--i declined, i had the t-shirt concession there

[@abigaildevoe]

that’s hilarious

[@richierugs6544]

@@abigaildevoe actually it was icky af