The two hundredth album: #200 The Stooges - Fun House
While the songs list pushed me past punk yesterday, even if arguably it was still in the air, my list of albums is driving towards it. Fun House is arguably too rocky and - dare I say - musically creative in places, without the politically charged lyrics that are more common in punk and with more of a focus on the music and its variety that punk has up to a point, but not as in depth as we get here. It's clearly improvised at times too, and rough and raw to go with that.
As far as jazz improv goes, these generally feel a bit more listenable to me - perhaps showing that the style of music matters as much to me - but even so the non-jazz songs earlier in the album work better for me. The improv tends towards a cacophony of noise near the ends, which really doesn't work as well and seems to have been more something fun for the musicians to do rather than creating something listenable. In the end, the proper rock here is fine - especially when the hints of punk are there - but it loses a lot of that in the second half.