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Iggy Pop - The Idiot

spaceman1  said about 5 years ago  or at  11:18AM on Tuesday, August 15 2006 in music

Underrated classic?

Discuss.


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

I danced on stage with Iggy Pop.

It was pretty cool.


Lordevilegg  said about 5 years ago:

bahahaha
Did you get to go backstage and fondle his dong ?


spaceman1  said about 5 years ago:

I was gonna ask the same thing. I would have lunged straight at it.


filterfeed  said about 5 years ago:

ANSWER THE QUESTION, ALEX! sheesh.


japanrodeo  said about 5 years ago:

discuss? who IS this?

i often sing street crazies to myself, it's one of those head-stick songs.
good arrangements


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

Whoah. Lee, you're gay is really showing there faggot.

filterfeed- No. Instead, you can contemplate whether or not you could fit it in your mouth instead.


Lordevilegg  said about 5 years ago:

But BA staright guys dont dance......especially with other men


spaceman1  said about 5 years ago:

what do you mean who is this? the album, 'the idiot' by iggy. in my mind a underrated masterpiece.

it was the start of bowie's berlin phase and some say he produced the album with iggy as guinea pig to test the sound out for himself.

i'd like to be a guinea pig sometimes, or a gerbil.


japanrodeo  said about 5 years ago:

i'm sure they tested a few guinea pigs


filterfeed  said about 5 years ago:

i can answer the question, though, so i don't really need to do anything. do do do do do.


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

Lordevilegg

But BA staright guys dont dance......especially with other men

Staright? Good fucking one gaylord. But here's something you don't know. Ask some chicks.

Can't dance, can't fuck. They'll tell you it's true. In fact, I''ve had sluzzahs tell me that they knew I was going to be a volcano just from seeing me move.

Poor lee. When was the last time you had a woman you didn't pay for? Never?


versionsporadic  said about 5 years ago:

>I''ve had sluzzahs tell me that they knew I was going to be a volcano just from seeing me move.

Hahahahaha - thanks BA for my first belly laugh of the day


Lordevilegg  said about 5 years ago:

Im pretty much married BA and I dont care for dancing much. Its usually those annoying extrovert tosswads like yourself that try doing some fucked up modern dance moves to pull the chicks. Then they talk to you afterwoods and realise you are an unemployed loser with a mind full of racist crap theories and repressed homo erotic fantasies


filterfeed  said about 5 years ago:

you do all know that this thread is about music, right?
hence my initial (x-)post. yet alex only has cock on his mind, and so...

poor spaceman1. you're trying, at least.


spaceman1  said about 5 years ago:

there's more important things in life than cocks and gerbils, guys.


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

versionsporadic

Hahahahaha - thanks BA for my first belly laugh of the day

See? I'm funny me. It's not my fault people are stupid.


Lordevilegg  said about 5 years ago:

and oh so modest


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

Lordevilegg

Im pretty much married BA and I dont care for dancing much.

Yeah. You're pretty much married to a man named ken. As for not caring for dancing, well, sucks to be you fuckhead.

Its usually those annoying extrovert tosswads like yourself that try doing some fucked up modern dance moves to pull the chicks.

Nah. It's called, being a party animal. Or, as I like to call it "having fun". You don't like dancing because you're an unco fuck who can't dance. Shit bitch, you've got all the grace and co-ordination of a clump of earth thrown by the hoof of the twice drunken ox.

Then they talk to you afterwoods and realise you are an unemployed loser with a mind full of racist crap theories and repressed homo erotic fantasies

Whoah. There you go again. Talking about how I can't drive when I can.

You really should have paid attention to that thread on how to pay me out.


Lordevilegg  said about 5 years ago:

Do you get the firesticks out BA? Those things pull hippy punani faster than Thai pants and muscle Tees combined


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

Sometimes yes. But I haven't worn thai fishermans pants since 94 or 95, and even then I only wore black ones.

You can't seriously be knocking fire twirling. I mean, that would be retarded.


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BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

hrggg. Iggy Pops new stuff is fine.


Barman  said about 5 years ago:

Name a worse album than Party, sister. Brick by Brick?

BA - you have no fucking idea. The bitch is your hand and she owns you.


montyclift  said about 5 years ago:

Instinct is pretty ordinary.


questionmark  said about 5 years ago:

Blech Blech Blech springs to mind


BADALEX  said about 5 years ago:

Barman, shut your fucking head. Brick By Brick is fucking great.

Uh. The bitch is your hand and she owns you? What the fuck does that even mean you seppo loving fuckspasm?

montyclift- Nah. Tuff baby is a rad song.

You lot are all fucked.


montyclift  said about 5 years ago:

but blah does have cry for love on it...


sister  said about 5 years ago:

brick by brick is very bad and blah blah blah.
that most recent thing is not great.

I liked American Caeser, however.


questionmark  said about 5 years ago:

I like Brick by Brick


Barman  said about 5 years ago:

Brick by Brick is chockful of soul-less session players. Ig sells out.

Instinct suffered from one-dimensional guitarwork from Steve Jones. with all the rough edges sanded back. It sounded like a heavy metal hack at work, but I admit I liked it at the time.

Party: An Iggy cover of Sea of Love. Say no fucking more.

Blah Blah Blah was the sound of bland, Bowie-fied hot air. As substantial as a fart. At least it got Iggy a house. Why can't Bowie go fuck up his own records? Wait a minute...

American Caesar was a vast improvement. Great playing, better songs.

Naughty Little Doggie had that horrible reverb vibe to the production (Rick Rubin strikes again?) but OK songs.

Anyway, thank fuck Albini is producing the new Stooges album.


scallywag  said about 5 years ago:

you've spent a bit of time thinking about this yeah, barman?


Barman  said about 5 years ago:

Not really, that's a bunch of random thoughts.

If you want a lengthy dissertation I can write one about how New Values was the only worthwhile thing Iggy committed to vinyl in the last 25 years.


mic  said about 5 years ago:

Im a street walkin cheetah with a heart full o napalm.
Genius


scallywag  said about 5 years ago:

no need for that barman. i'm already convinced of that


spaceman1  said about 5 years ago:

Well the idiot and lust for life are, for me, flawless records (though i could maybe live without the 'jesus this is iggy' track on lust...).

i think the idiot was a greater artistic statement for iggy and bowie than lust for life, because all the songs on 'idiot' had this constant noisy/industrial/distant soundscape thing going on which was unlike anything they'd done before. i see it as more of a cohesive whole, almost a concept album, whereas lust is more about the 'songs' with more polished production. i love both records equally, but for different reasons.

Sister: ive only had a cursory listen to his solo work after those two records but am i right in saying that with the exception of a couple of great singles per record here and there, they tend to be patchier affairs after the 70s?


spaceman1  said about 5 years ago:

i guess i started the thread because i never hear anyone talk much about iggy's solo stuff after the stooges. in that sense i say its underrated (although all music rightfully gives it 5 stars).j anyway, i just like how he did something completely different and a bit unexpected after the stooges finished.


ProDelgado  said about 5 years ago:

Watching the episode of the White Room where he wore see-through plastic trousers.

I remember being scared when i first saw this, it's still as scary now.


Vikinggod  said about 4 years ago:

The first time I ever heard of Iggy Pop was here. I must of been about 10, and it was the video of I'm bored. May have been before he was on Count Down even. It took another 6 or 8 years before anyone could tell me more about him.



not-ian  said about 2 months ago:

boring


sister  said about 2 months ago:

Sorry for not responding to you five years ago Spaceman1, although I'm sure I've gone one about this before.
I'm still pretty keen on the next four records or so even if some of the songs are a bit weak but I'm probably biased by the historical context in which I first heard them: drug and booze fuelled partying.

New Values, Soldier, Party and Zombie Birdhouse. I liked em all. Endless Sea from New Values just wormed its way into my head this afternoon.


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