Fun House | ||||
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Released | July 7, 1970 | |||
Recorded | May 11–25, 1970 | |||
Studio | Elektra, Los Angeles, California[1] | |||
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Length | 36:35 | |||
Label | Elektra | |||
Producer | Don Gallucci | |||
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Fun House is the second studio album by American rock band the Stooges. It was released on July 7, 1970, by Elektra Records.[3] Though initially commercially unsuccessful, Fun House has since developed a strong cult following. Like its predecessor (1969's The Stooges) and successor (1973's Raw Power), it is considered an integral work in the development of punk rock.[4][5][6]
Arguably punk rock's most essential and influential album, Fun House—The Stooges follow-up to their 1969 self-titled studio debut—found Iggy Pop, David Alexander, Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton at their finest and purest form as artists, digging deeper than any band before them, channeling slow-rolling jazz with gritty blues guitar licks, psychedelia with spurts of hammering drum fills, and licentious screaming and hollering with bass lines groovier than the bulk of Motown's discography.
The Ramones were still unknown teenagers in Forest Hills, Queens, when the Stooges laid the groundwork for punk on their first two albums, 1969's The Stooges and Fun House a year later in 1970.