The Stooges: No Fun (Elektra)
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 9 August 1980
POINTLESS, PERHAPS so late as to be irrelevant, maybe. An opportunity missed, certainly. No Fun is all these things, I guess, but it does provide an excuse to blabber on the nature of the mighty Iggy Pop (for this is he).
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