The Stooges' Fun House: A half-century retrospective on the album that shattered the hippy zeitgeist
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A retrospective review of The Stooges' second album Fun House, describing it as a seven-track study in the feral and unhinged that marked the death throes of the hippy zeitgeist. The article explores how the album's raw, aggressive sound represented a shift away from the peace-and-love ethos of the 1960s toward something more primal and confrontational.
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· 3 pulledA half-century on and we're still riding the ripples of The Stooges' second album, Fun House.
It's a beautiful thing, a seven-track study in the feral and unhinged.
Essentially, but for its rock-friendly elements (guitar, bass, drums, vocals, attitude), it
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