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 later, Iggy decided it was time to kick up his heels, as he traded in the mid-tempo introspection of his first album and began rocking hard again. Musically, Lust for Life is a more aggressive set than The Idiot, largely thanks to drummer Hunt Sales and his bassist brother Tony Sales. The Sales' proved they were a   [ read more ]

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Iggy Pop takes on the language of romance, putting a decidedly French twist on his new album Preliminaires. Produced by longtime collaborator Hal Cragin (They Might Be Giants, Sarah Mclachlan, Rufus Wanwright), Preliminaires focuses more on jazz arrangements and Iggy's distinctive, rich baritone. He even sings in French, performing a cover of the jazz standard "Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)," which was originally made famous by French legends Yves Montand and Edith Piaf. Other titles inc   [ read more ]

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In 1997 the press echoed the rumor of a STOOGES reunion: this was going to be "The Year Of The Iguana." To coincide with the event, BOMP released this awesome collection of material culled from the acclaimed Iguana Series, remastered with some PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED tracks, complete with liner notes by Greg Shaw and packaged with stunning photos by Leni Sinclair. As we all know, the highly anticipated STOOGES reunion did not occur, and the release went out of print. But The Year Of The Iguana still stands as   [ read more ]

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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 self-imposed stay in a mental hospital, a significantly more functional Iggy was desperate to prove he could hold down a career in music, and he was given another chance by his longtime ally, David Bowie. Bowie co-wrote a batch of new songs with Iggy, put together a band, and produced The Idiot, which took Iggy in a new dire   [ read more ]

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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! A seventeen-track live release from 1977, culled mostly from IGGY POP's classic Manchester shows featuring David Bowie on keyboards. Tracks featured include "Lust For Life," "The Passenger," "Gloria," "Modern Guy," "I've Got A Right," "Fall In Love With Me," "Neighborhood Threat," "TV Eye," "Raw Power" and "Nightclubbing." Live tracks are interspersed with classic interviews with Iggy also from 1977. Packaged with sleeve notes by Mick Middles.

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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 collapse, Iggy found himself in need of a stable career. The rise of punk rock finally created a context in which Iggy's crash-and-burn theatrics seemed like inspired performance rather than some sort of cry for help, and in 1979, with everyone who was anyone name-checking Iggy as punk's Founding Father, he scored a deal w   [ read more ]

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This box set is loaded. Featuring unheard and unreleased tracks recently discovered multi-track master tapes from 1972 at Olympic Studio, London. Also Unreleased rehearsal from recently discovered quarter inch tape from Morgan Sound Studios Ypsilanti, Michigan 1973. Plus Los Angeles and Detroit rehearsals from spring of 1973, but there's more (I know this sounds like an infomercial) this box set also has CBS Studios New York rehearsal for an upcoming show at Max's Kansas City along with the actual live perf   [ read more ]

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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 direction might seem, they always hold the promise that they'll jump back in the loop and deliver the goods again. Iggy Pop delivered a solid one-two punch (for the first time in a while) with Brick by Brick and American Caesar in 1990 and 1993, but after ten years and three major duds in a row (the uninspired {^Naughty Littl   [ read more ]

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Never before released in the US, and never released at all, anywhere, from the original master tapes, this is the Stooges' next-to-last appearance at Michigan Palace, which preceded the "Metallic K.O." concert, and has often been used in Europe as a "bonus" to make a double-CD. None of these CDs are fully legit, however, and none have been taken from anything but 4th-generation cassette dubs. The cover photos were taken within a few weeks of the gig, which is about as authentic as it will get. Even fans who   [ read more ]

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Iggy Pop's solo career seems to defy a neat and concise compilation album, given his numerous creative twists and turns as well as the long list of labels he's worked with, but that hasn't stopped anyone from trying to create one anyway, and this installment in BMG's Platinum and Gold Collection series assembles a dozen cuts from Iggy's work for RCA and Arista. The fact that nearly half the disc is devoted to material from 1979's New Values, while Iggy's best solo album (1977's {^Lust f   [ read more ]

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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 demise of the seminal Stooges), the pair would join forces on what would arguably turn out to be one of Iggy's best solo albums, The Idiot. The album would initiate the first in a series of love/hate collaborations between Detroit's bastard son and the Thin White Duke. With The Idiot in the can, Iggy set out to to   [ read more ]

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The timing of Iggy Pop's album Preliminaires is probably a product of coincidence and fate rather than careful planning, but it's hard to ignore the fact that just a few months after the unexpected death of Ron Asheton put the Stooges into limbo (at least for a while), Iggy has released an album that almost entirely avoids the issue of rock & roll. In a publicity piece for Preliminaires, Iggy wrote "I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars," and the man whose music he   [ read more ]

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