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1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions

The Stooges

1999 · Rock

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1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions by The Stooges

1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions is a Punk album by The Stooges, originally released in 1999. On Gatefold: 2 pressings tracked.

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If you ever take the eight or so hours required to listen to the sessions for The Stooges’ second album—collected on the box set <i>1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions</i>—one thing you’ll notice is its repetition. There are no alternate arrangements or variations in approach, no experiments or added instrumentation. There’s just take after take of the same simple songs, at roughly the same tempo, played one after the other in punishing, glorious succession. It doesn’t necessarily make for a varied listening experience, but it <i>does</i> give you a clue to what makes <i>Fun House</i> so great. While 1969’s <i>The Stooges</i> connected the dots between the inspired primitivism of garage pop and the eventual rupture of punk, <i>Fun House</i> went further, mixing free jazz and noise (“L.A. Blues”) with Chicago blues (“1970”), and combining the rhythmic drive of Motown (“T.V. Eye”) and James Brown (“Fun House”) into a sound that had the force of punk, but the hypnotic quality of minimalist composition. This is music whose apparent simplicity is complicated by the feats of lockstep endurance that drive it. <i>The Stooges</i> had captured the sound of bored teenagers lighting the fringes of carpet on fire in the basement; <i>Fun House</i> found the same kids having an internal meltdown on the factory line, and being egged on by the screaming, moaning caveman named Iggy Pop. At a moment when the hippie era was dissipating into the fussiness and sentimentality of prog and arena rock, <i>Fun House</i> was a reminder of the intuitive quality that made rock so appealing in the first place. From here unfolds an entire history of underground music, from the brute elegance of The White Stripes to the psychedelic ugliness of Wolf Eyes to the high- and low-culture obliterations of Sonic Youth and Nirvana. Whether you listen to the original 36-minute <i>Fun House</i> or wade into the hours’ worth of sessions that birthed the album in the first pace, you’ll hear power, purpose, and singular presence in every note.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Fun House (Tape Glitch Fragement) [Reel 1]0:21
  2. 2Studio Dialogue (#1)0:39
  3. 31970 (Incomplete) [Reel 1]1:50
  4. 4Studio Dialogue (#2)0:19
  5. 51970 (Take 1) [Reel 1]7:04
  6. 61970 (Take 2) [Reel 1]3:07
  7. 7Studio Dialogue (#3)0:30
  8. 81970 (Take 3) [Reel 1]7:34
  9. 91970 (Take 4) [Reel 1]6:02
  10. 10Studio Dialogue (#4) [Reel 1]0:14
  11. 11Loose (Demo)1:13
  12. 12Studio Dialogue (#5)0:06
  13. 131970 (Take 5) [Reel 2]5:47
  14. 14Loose (Take 1) [False Start]1:36
  15. 15Loose (Take 2) [Complete Funhouse Version]3:41
  16. 16Down on the Street (Take 1) [Reel 2]2:05
  17. 17Studio Dialogue (#6)0:11
  18. 18Loose (Take 3)3:45
  19. 19Down on the Street (False Start Take 2) [Reel 2]3:31
  20. 20Down on the Street (False Start Take 3)0:20
  21. 21Studio Dialogue (1) [Reel 2]0:34
  22. 22See That Cat (T.V. Eye)5:15
  23. 23Studio Dialogue (2) [Reel 2]0:11
  24. 241970 (Take 1) [Reel 2]6:26
  25. 25Fun House (Take 1)10:03
  26. 26Studio Dialogue (#9)0:09
  27. 27Lost in the Future (False Start -#1)0:27
  28. 28Studio Dialogue (#10)0:08
  29. 29Lost in the Future (False Start -#2)1:10
  30. 2.1Lost in the Future (Take 1)5:41
  31. 2.2Studio Dialogue (#11)0:11
  32. 2.3Lost in the Future (False Start -Take #2)1:21
  33. 2.4Lost in the Future (Take 3)4:35
  34. 2.5Studio Dialogue (#12)0:14
  35. 2.6Loose (Take 1)3:38
  36. 2.7Studio Dialogue (#13)0:19
  37. 2.8Dirt6:17
  38. 2.9Loose (Take 2)3:41
  39. 2.10Loose (False Start Take 3)0:25
  40. 2.11Studio Dialogue (#14)0:32
  41. 2.12Loose (Take 4)3:38
  42. 2.13Studio Dialogue (#15)0:13
  43. 2.14Loose (Take 5)3:38
  44. 2.15Studio Dialogue (#16)0:07
  45. 2.16Loose (Take 6)3:42
  46. 2.17Loose (False Start Take 7)1:10
  47. 2.18Loose (Take 9)3:40
  48. 2.19Loose (Take 11)3:41
  49. 2.20Loose (Take 12)3:41
  50. 2.21Loose (Take 13)3:47
  51. 2.22Loose (Take 14)3:41
  52. 2.23Loose (Take 15)3:42
  53. 2.24Slide (Slidin' the Blues) [Take 1]4:35
  54. 2.25Studio Dialogue (#17)0:12
  55. 2.26Loose (Take 16)3:43
  56. 2.27Loose (False Start Take 17)0:27
  57. 2.28Loose (False Start Take 18)1:00
  58. 2.29Loose (Take 19)3:37
  59. 3.1Loose (Take 20)3:41
  60. 3.2Studio Dialogue (#18)0:20
  61. 3.3Loose (False Start Take 21)3:14
  62. 3.4Studio Dialogue (#19)0:43
  63. 3.5Loose (Take 22)3:40
  64. 3.6Studio Dialogue (#20)0:13
  65. 3.7Loose (Take 23)3:42
  66. 3.8Loose (Take 24)3:43
  67. 3.9Loose (False Start Take 25)3:13
  68. 3.10Loose (False Start Take 26)1:59
  69. 3.11Studio Dialogue (#21)0:13
  70. 3.12Loose (Take 27)3:37
  71. 3.13Loose (Take 28)3:36
  72. 3.14Down on the Street (Take 1)3:57
  73. 3.15Down on the Street (Take 2)4:11
  74. 3.16Down on the Street (Take 3)4:07
  75. 3.17Down on the Street (Take 4)4:15
  76. 3.18Studio Dialogue (#22)0:07
  77. 3.19Down on the Street (Take 5)4:14
  78. 3.20Studio Dialogue (#23)0:18
  79. 3.21Down on the Street (Take 6)4:26
  80. 3.22Down on the Street (False Start Take 7)0:17
  81. 3.23Down on the Street (Take 8)4:15
  82. 3.24Down on the Street (False Start Take 9)0:25
  83. 3.25Down on the Street (Take 10)4:24
  84. 3.26Down on the Street (False Start Take 11)0:40
  85. 3.27Studio Dialogue (#24)0:27
  86. 3.28Down on the Street (False Start Take 12)1:23
  87. 3.29Down on the Street (Take 13)4:00
  88. 3.30Down on the Street (False Start Take 14)2:10
  89. 3.31Down on the Street (Take 15)3:42
  90. 4.1T.V. Eye (Take 1)5:21
  91. 4.2T.V. Eye (False Start Take 2)4:28
  92. 4.3Slide (Slidin' the Blues)1:00
  93. 4.4T.V. Eye (Take 3)5:28
  94. 4.5T.V. Eye (False Start Take 4)0:33
  95. 4.6T.V. Eye (Take 5)5:54
  96. 4.7T.V. Eye (Take 6)5:43
  97. 4.8Studio Dialogue (#25)0:25
  98. 4.9T.V. Eye (Take 7)5:21
  99. 4.10T.V. Eye (Take 8)5:20
  100. 4.11Studio Dialogue (#26)0:16
  101. 4.12T.V. Eye (Take 9)4:17
  102. 4.13T.V. Eye (False Start Take 10)0:11
  103. 4.14T.V. Eye (Take 11)4:16
  104. 4.15T.V. Eye (Take 12)4:46
  105. 4.16T.V. Eye (Take 13)4:17
  106. 4.17T.V. Eye (Take 14)4:45
  107. 4.18Studio Dialogue (#27)0:17
  108. 4.191970 (Take 1)5:27
  109. 4.20Studio Dialogue (#28)0:12
  110. 4.211970 (Take 2)5:19
  111. 4.22Studio Dialogue (#29)0:09
  112. 4.231970 (Take 3)5:09
  113. 5.11970 (Take 4)5:44
  114. 5.2Studio Dialogue (#30)0:23
  115. 5.31970 (Take 5)5:24
  116. 5.41970 (False Start Take 6)1:00
  117. 5.51970 (Take 7)5:46
  118. 5.61970 (Take 8)5:17
  119. 5.7Fun House (False Start Take 1)3:09
  120. 5.8Fun House (Take 2)9:15
  121. 5.9Fun House (Take 3)11:19
  122. 5.10Studio Dialogue (#31)0:41
  123. 5.11Fun House (Take 4)8:24
  124. 5.12Fun House (Take 5)7:46
  125. 5.13Studio Dialogue (#32)0:38
  126. 5.14Dirt (Take 1)7:30
  127. 5.15Dirt (Take 2)7:04
  128. 6.1Dirt (Take 3)7:02
  129. 6.2Studio Dialogue (#33)0:30
  130. 6.3Dirt (Take 4)7:07
  131. 6.4Dirt (Take 5)6:39
  132. 6.5Dirt (Take 6)6:39
  133. 6.6Dirt (False Start Take 7)0:45
  134. 6.7Dirt (Take 8)6:51
  135. 6.8Dirt (Take 9)6:57
  136. 6.9Dirt (Take 10)7:09
  137. 6.10Dirt (False Start Take 11)0:07
  138. 6.11Dirt (Take 12)7:03
  139. 6.12Freak (Take 1)17:25
  140. 6.13Freak (Take 2)4:55
  141. 7.1Down on the Street (Mono Single Edit)2:42
  142. 7.2I Feel Alright (1970) [Mono Single Edit]3:18

Sound DNA

  • Punk
  • Punk Rock
  • abrasive
  • chaotic
  • punky

Album notes

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Box set compiling all thirteen reels of multi-track reel-to-reel tape recorded during the sessions for Fun House at Elektra Sound Recorders in Los Angeles, California in May 1970. Twelve reels of tape had been used during the sessions; the thirteenth reel was the one that held the takes that would be used for the album. The set also includes a CD replica of the original "Down On The Street / I Feel Alright (1970) (US 1970) (opens in a new tab)" mono single, featuring edited versions of the aforementioned tracks.
A two LP album containing highlight from these sessions titled Highlights From The Fun House Sessions (US 2017) (opens in a new tab) was released on October 20, 2017.

Credits

The people behind it.

Production & Engineering

  • Don GallucciPRODUCER [ORIGINAL SESSIONS]
  • Roland Worthington HandCOMPILATION PRODUCER

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