The Stooges

Complete Funhouse Sessions 15xLP boxset

scum stats: claimed limited to 1970 copies, I have reason to believe they made far fewer than that number

The pained look on my face is from the sheer muscle strain it takes to hold 15 damn LPs long enough for the photobooth app to click down it's shutter.

If you feel like you're asking yourself "Do I need the 15 LP Stooges Fun House set?" then you certainly do not need this thing.

But if you want it...just get it.

Me, oddly, I must say, even though I had personally pitched Rhino on the idea of Third Man releasing this, I don't think it's a must have. I do not know how many times I will actually be getting into the nitty gritty and listening to all the outtakes.

Blasphemy, I know.

While I'm kinda left thinking "what more could be said about Fun House?" it seems like Henry Rollins has a 10,000 word response to that. I didn't feel like his notes added anything significant beyond what Ben Edmonds had already espoused in the original 7xCD collection of this material. Even the essay I wrote for this damn thing, I mean, shit, if you email me, I'll send it to you. I'm not expecting ANYONE to be so starved of Ben Blackwell blathering so as to spend $400 to read 500 words about this record.

The extras kinda make it special though...slip mat, 45 adaptor, two posters (though smaller than I thought they should be) bonus 7"s and the original album cut at 45rpm and spread across three LP sides....all good shit.

While I will never be as audacious to complain about TOO MUCH Stooges product being out there, I will just say that this one is clearly for the insane ones...and now I'm questioning if I'm even insane enough for this anymore.

Ah, who am I kidding...if I didn't think that Rhino would send me a free copy I would've been first in line to buy this shit. Longs lives the Stooges.