Iggy Pop in the 80s - S/D C/D DTI

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So there's this big gap in Iggy's career between New Values and Brick By Brick that critics gloss over with a dismissal of it as Iggy's "lost years", but I've probably listened to Party (big sloppy new wave) and Zombie Birdhouse (abstracty Talking Heads influence?) more than any other Ig albums.

Anyway, there hasn't been a thread until now.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Right off the bat..

Destroy: the drum machine on Blah Blah Blah. It might work for the Jesus And Mary Chain, but not here.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"candy" = fucking awesome!! also "living on the edge of the night"..

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes... the latter's a veritable ballad. IIRC, it was in Wall Street or Falling Down, or one of those other weird Michael Douglas movies. I'm going to ressurect it in a short story essay thingamaroo I'm working on now, I swear to god.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"candy" = fucking awesome!!

"Candy" was the worst fucking thing he's ever done.

I quite like a couple of tracks off of Zombie Birdhouse (notably "Run like a Villian"). I don't mind the title track of Blah Blah Blah either.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Zombie Birdhouse" is very underrated

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Zombie Birdhouse is definitely underrated, but Instinct is even more so.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 19 August 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked Instinct, too. The diss on it always seemed to be , "Ooh Iggy's trying to do metal" -- not sure that's accurate, or necessarily bad if it is. The title song's great, and "High On You" used to be quite the rouser when he did it live. The show I saw on the Instict tour was the bet ever.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

BEST, I mean. And you can bet that.

― briania (briania), Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Instinct rocked my world in '88! I loved "Cold Metal", "High On You", "Easy Rider" and the mellow "Lowdown". Went to my first Iggy show that year (first gig I attended without 'parental guidance'), together with my cousin. It was so fucking loud and awesome. Great memories. Haven't played it in a decade though.

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― willem (willem), Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Search - Repo Man, from film soundtrack

― Bidfurd, Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, aren't 'Candy' and 'Livin' On The Edge Of The Night' 90s Iggy instead...?

― John 2, Thursday, 19 August 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got all of those records on LP, but I haven't put them on forever and it might be that long until I listen to them again.

I just stick to the three Stooges records and Iggy's first two.

That being said, when the video for "Butt Town" shows up on Beavis and Butthead is classic and quite funny.

― earlnash, Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Search - Repo Man, from film soundtrack

OTM, OTM, OTM!

His back-up band on that track, incidentally, is the mucho abortive Chequered Past (albeit without Michael "Scum of the Earth" DesBarres).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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