While it's by no means a great live Iggy album, it is a live Iggy album--and live is the only way pop can be fully appreciated. Out of print for many years, Virgin recently...
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Iggy Pop was touring to promote Instinct, one of his less impressive solo albums, when he performed the concert taped by the King Biscuit Flower Hour and presented here, on...
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From the time the Stooges first broke onto the music scene in 1967, Iggy Pop was rock's most remarkable one-man freak show, but by the mid-'70s, after the Stooges' messy...
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With the help of Chris Stein (Blondie), Iggy Pop attempts a self-consciously eclectic musical exploration with Zombie Birdhouse. By and large, the attempts are admirable, as...
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Iggy Pop reunited with producer David Bowie for Blah Blah Blah. While it adopts a number of different musical styles, the record isn't as cohesive or as ambitious The Idiot...
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While Don Was is best known for his work with mutant funkateers Was (Not Was), he was also a Motor City boy with fond memories of the Stooges' glory days, and when he was...
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Featuring the Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and cover art by famed Detroit artist Gary Grimshaw, Instinct bore the memorable "Cold Metal" and...
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Featuring the Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and cover art by famed Detroit artist Gary Grimshaw, Instinct bore the memorable "Cold Metal" and...
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After the pop-oriented smorgasboard of Blah Blah Blah, Iggy Pop teamed with producer Bill Laswell for the lackluster Instinct, a return to the pounding grind his early '80s...
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Kill City helped bridge Iggy Pop's musical career from the drug-fueled and blazing rock of the Stooges (Raw Power, etc.) to his artier (but just as influential and...
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Lust For Life 3/20/1990, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Coming sheer months after The Idiot and bearing one of the funniest facial portraits of Iggy Pop imaginable, this much more upbeat set opens with the power-packed title...
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On The Idiot, Iggy Pop looked deep inside himself, trying to figure out how his life and his art had gone wrong in the past. But on Lust for Life, released less than a year...
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Boasting a big-name producer and appearances from a handful of actual mainstream rock stars, Brick by Brick was a remarkably successful attempt (critically, if not...
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Iggy's finest post-Stooges album, this creepy but influential set contains nearly all of his best-known songs--including "Funtime," "Sister Midnight," "Nightclubbing" and...
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In 1976, the Stooges had been gone for two years, and Iggy Pop had developed a notorious reputation as one of rock & roll's most spectacular waste cases. After a...
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Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop is an excellent 17-track overview of Pop's career, from the Stooges into the '90s. With the exception of The Idiot, Lust for Life, and...
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This double-disc German import covers Iggy's best tracks during his three-album tenure at Arista Records from 1979-1981. All three albums (New Values, Soldier, and Party)...
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Iggy Pop has been the subject of many live CDs, all of varying quality. Many have been lo-fi audience recordings, while others are soundboard recordings. Heroin Hates You...
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In 1980, every punk rocker in Christendom cited Iggy Pop as a key influence, and Soldier was the album where he started asking for some payback. Original Sex Pistols bassist...
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Mr. (Grand-)Pop feels compelled to tell us more than once here that he has passed the age of 50. Well, I'm not getting any bloody younger, either, pal, but you're not gonna...
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It would be fair to say that David Bowie saved Iggy Pop's skinny ass more than a couple of times. In 1976, as Iggy made strides to get his life back on track (following the...
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There have been countless compilations of Iggy Pop's solo material released over the years. And as most longtime fans can automatically point out, most comprise tracks from...
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Another entry in the endless re-evaluation of the Raw Power album, this collection features three of the original demos submitted for the album, "Tight Pants," "Scene of the...
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In the seemingly never ending chronicling of the Stooges, this collection gives a glimpse-via CBS rehearsal tapes-of what might have been the next album after Raw Power had...
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With his health and his band in shambles, Iggy teamed up with guitarist/co-writer James Williamson and managed to come up with this three song mini-disc (originally issued...
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When Iggy and the newly reformed Stooges were starting work on what would eventually their final album, Raw Power, their initial efforts shocked their management and were...
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Live at the Whiskey a Go Go was recorded in 1973 at the infamous Whiskey a Go-Go in Los Angeles and captures the Stooges at a pivotal point, just as they were about to break...
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The era surrounding Raw Power seemed to be Iggy's personal Let It Be, yielding a seemingly bottomless well of unreleased recordings. Never mind that these are mostly tinnily...
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As one of the rowdiest and most confrontational live acts of all time, it's a shame that not a single professionally recording concert recording of Iggy & the Stooges has...
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Should you want to make your own Iggy Pop album, follow these simple directions:
1) Get pissed off.
2) Write down why you're pissed off.
3) Find musicians who play like...
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Love it or hate it, Beat Em Up is inarguably one of the most appropriate titles Iggy Pop attached to an album in years; after an ill-advised detour into something resembling...
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Live in NYC was recorded in November of 1986 at the old Ritz (known today as Webster Hall) in downtown Manhattan. This live recording is a faithful reading of Iggy's...
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With New Values and Soldier, not to mention plenty of touring, Iggy Pop proved that if he wasn't the most stable man in rock & roll, he wasn't the burned-out waste case who...
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Several Stooges reunion shows this past summer drove home to everyone present just how incredibly visionary the Detroit band was in its day. It was wonderful to see and...
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One of the key rules of rock & roll is there are some artists you can never count out -- no matter how many lame records they may make, no matter how misguided their career...
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One of the key rules of rock & roll is there are some artists you can never count out -- no matter how many lame records they may make, no matter how misguided their career...
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Pop Music is an inconsistent compilation from an inconsistent era -- namely 1979 through 1981. During those three years, Iggy only recorded a handful of good songs, and...
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With New Values and Soldier, not to mention plenty of touring, Iggy Pop proved that if he wasn't the most stable man in rock & roll, he wasn't the burned-out waste case who...
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From all the different eras of Iggy Pop's recording career, the period spanning 1979 through 1982 was not one of his strongest, as addiction began to hinder his life once...
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