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THE STOOGES FUNHOUSE - ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1970 ELEKTRA RECORDS STEREO LP EKS-74071
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
ORIGINAL BUTTERFLY ELEKTRA LABEL WITHOUT WEA LOGO ON THE LABEL S EDGE EARLY 70 s STYLE
ARTISAN PRESSING, PASADENA, CA
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD AMERICAN STYLE
CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS
FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe , we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.
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If I could award The Most Aggressive Garage/Heavy Metal/Psych album ever recorded medal to a band or album, this one would be a strong 1 contender. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that, as he was recording this album, Iggy Pop was nothing if not desperate / deranged man. One can simply hear the existential agony and anger pouring out from every groove and every song. The genuineness of this music simply cannot be questioned. This is Rock the way it was supposed to be in the beginning, and Rock that would have been, if we had not had Bobby Vees, Pat Boones, Fabians and their likes to spoil the party. The original album comprised of seven songs, four on side A and three on side B . The songs on side B still, some twenty years after I heard this album for the first time, remains for me the single most extreme form of Rock n Roll ever created. Comparisons with other fierce, unyielding and uncompromising RR cult classics don t do Stooges any justice. Maybe John Lennon s Plastic Ono Band album comes close in terms of sheer psychopathic intensity, but that s about it. This album is a category unto itself. Nothing else comes even close. Its a big cosmic vortex of pain, agony, anger, resentment, and nasty, unprintable attitude.
SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: This is not the album for the faint of heart: You are listening this at your own risk. Listening to other rock albums after this will make you forever lose interest in any other rock band. The songs are: Down on the street - Loose - TV Eye - Dirt - 1970 - Fun house - L.A. Blues. A truly historic, earthshaking album, if ever we heard one.
For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio AR man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye , Bruce Morrow a/k/a Cousin Brucie , Tim Rice of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita fame , Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan s first album , Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc. . For more details, see: Critics Choice: Top-200 albums compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 or click here for the complete album listing
PLEASE NOTE This is the original US-made gatefold cover of this album. All subsequent issues of this album came out with a plain, regular, single-slot cover. ALSO: we have heard many people claiming that this album originally came out on a red Elektra label with the large white E . Unfortunately, there is no such thing: EVEN THE WHITE LABEL PROMO PRESSINGS WERE ON A BUTTERFLY LABEL RED-LABEL US pressing of Funhouse does not exist AND will continue to not exist
If this is of any relevance and we do not claim that it is FUNHOUSE is an important entry in our personal top-50 favorite album list. Other entries- in no particular order- include Otis Redding, Love, Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Velvet Underground, The Byrds, Bob Marley The Wailers, Frank Zappa , Muddy Waters and others
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CONDITION:
RECORD
IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight
a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial and only moderately visually distracting nothing significant .For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
b The record is pressed on a RELATIVELY thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy dynaflex type , vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.
c The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.
d Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
COVER
THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD VG .
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
- Cover has a small, neat, circular cutout hole in one of the corners
- Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear nothing significant On the scale from 1 to 10 1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe , we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.
