Funhouse is the pinnacle, where Iggy and/or the Stooges are concerned (and where that kind of we're-about-to-crash-into-that-brick-wall-and-I'm-okay-with-that-FTW! music is concerned, for that matter). Everything he did after that is less than, which is a drag, you know, when your best record is only your second record. Where do you go from there? It's kind of like releasing your first single, having it go to number one then for the rest of your life having everyone who ever meets you say, "Why can't you make another good song like that?"
I always find it puzzling when someone says they prefer
Raw Power, which sounds like a million starving hamsters high on quaaludes and angel dust going around in a cement mixer, and eating each other in a desperate attempt to survive the unsurvivable. The only way you could prefer
Raw Power to
Funhouse is if you never heard
Funhouse, which I believe is the case much of the time.
When you see the 90 year old Iggy today, shirtless and gingerly flinging himself about all out of breath, it the
Funhouse-era Iggy Stooge he's trying to channel and sell to a new generation, and it's just kind of sad for a lot of reasons (not sad like Rolling Stones sad, but almost). But it's good that he's finally taking some of the money.
RIP/FTW Ron Asheton!
