Fun House
by The Stooges

Album
Fun House by The Stooges
Year: 1970
Release date: 1970-07-07
Overall rank: 199th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 1,110 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1970 (10th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1970s (47th)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (199th)

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The Stooges bestography

Fun House is ranked as the best album by The Stooges.

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- This album (199th)
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Fun House track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Down On The Street
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Loose
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T.V. Eye
Average Rating: 86 (222 votes)Comments: View 1
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Dirt
Average Rating: 88 (218 votes)Comments: View 1
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1970
Average Rating: 86 (217 votes)Comments: View 1
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Fun House
Average Rating: 85 (198 votes)Comments: View 0
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L.A. Blues
Average Rating: 75 (183 votes)Comments: View 4

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Fun House rankings

Fun House rankings summary
Overall rank: 199th | 1970s rank: 47th | 1970 rank: 10th  Overall chart history
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 !		09/03/2026 18:07 ecocruzr  Ratings distribution  22169/100

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Fun House forum mentions

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From 05/03/2014 13:34 | #110652 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Kick out out the Jams, motherfuckers! Turns out the MC5 were just the warm up band. Utterly stripped down, Funhouse basks in being lean and young, stalking & swaggering through the city streets. After being restrained by John Cale for platter number one, Iggy Pop turns into a feral beast on this bad boy, alternating rasping primordial screams with the seductive cooing of the world’s slimiest playboy. Every time I hear this, I feel dirty. Rock would never sound this dangerous and menacing again. (Edited)
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From 01/15/2012 13:47 | #35232 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
One of the most brutal guitar riffs and bass lines you ever heard. It seems like they managed to transform the way of their living into music. Drugs, alcohol, sex orgies, wild dissipation, middle finger to everything that represents perfection and harmony, all that in just a half hour of music. (Edited)
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From 04/12/2015 18:57 | #139394 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Jesus Christ... Where do I start? If this isn't 'punk' I don't know what is. You can almost smell the sweat, piss and vinegar leaking from this record (this can be said for debut and raw power too). Every time I remember that this was released in 1970, my brain melts. Incredible stuff from Iggy and co. (Edited)
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From 05/21/2015 01:51 | #142100 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album is just brilliant. Iggy sounds like a completely different person compared to the debut, and the record is a far better package compared to their first. It may not have any hits like "I Wanna Be Your Dog", but there's nothing to skip over in this album.

I think this may be the first example of a Punk rock song cycle, Side 1 is pretty much about doing a ton of drugs, starting fights and having sex, while Side 2 is about the crash, the comedown.

This album is so brilliant. I love it so much. (Edited)
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From 04/26/2011 00:30 | #20715 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Some of the best rock ever. Punk starts with early Who and the Stooges.
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Best Albums of  1970
1. Paranoid by Black Sabbath
2. After The Gold Rush by Neil Young
3. All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
5. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
6. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
7. Moondance by Van Morrison
8. Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival
9. Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin
10. Fun House by The Stooges