Iggy Pop - Million in Prizes: The Anthology
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: Iggy PopEdition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2005-07-19 Music Label: Virgin Records Us Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Iggy took a little of The Doors and the MC5, and created Punk Rock. His music was dark. "I Want To Be Your Dog" was the first moment of Art Rock. This was Marcel Duchamp drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa. Iggy was the music at its most raw. The Stooges did two albums and they were out of here. Mr. Pop was a homeless junkie for a few years. He reformed the band with James Williamson and produced Raw Power. This was the heaviest American music ever made. Iggy Pop was a gifted lyricist. I forgot to add that everyone hated this band at this point. They had one hundred fans. He had a revival in the late 1970s and did a bunch of cool albums with David Bowie. He lived in Berlin and influenced plenty of post-punk bands and goth people. The early eighties was a good time for Iggy. A few mediocre albums. Later in that decade he had top 40 success with "Cry For Love." In the 1990s, Iggy Pop played big concerts in Europe and Asia. But he has always been called the Godfather of Punk: a title that he doesn't really like. Finally we have a career spanning double CD to look at the work. There are four punk songs from the first two albums. All the jazz noise and weirdness is omitted. There is a lot of Raw Power, since it's more musically advanced and even futuristic. This sound has been copied but never equaled. Then we have four songs from his two Berlin period albums: Lust For Live and The Idiot. This is the real solo Iggy. This guy is a riot. On songs like "Sister Midnight" and "The Passenger" he has influenced the whole goth movement, including especially Bauhaus and Siouxsie and The Banshees. CD two focuses on the more commercial stuff he did in the later 1980s, and early 1990s. Sometimes it works, on "I'm Bored," and "Run Like A Villain." Sometimes it doesn't. Unlike Bowie who produced whole albums that stunk, Iggy Pop would do albums with a few interesting moments that gave us hope. There are some collaborations included and the bizarre bits. Some live early songs are included. His last album before this, Skull Ring, was probably his best in ten years. This is for those people who need a little Iggy in their lives, but not the complete works. Along with Neil Young and Lou Reed, Iggy Pop is an American musical genius. He has become an icon. He has music on TV commercials. There is always hope with Iggy.
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