Iggy Pop - Million in Prizes: The Anthology
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Free Music Review: a very good introduction to Iggy Pop
Hit: 5 Stars
Iggy Pop is an iconic figure, somewhat on the margins of rock `n roll and the entertainment industry, a cult figure, a charismatic whirling dervish messiah, and, miraculously, a long term survivor of rock `n roll excess.
Iggy Pop was/is also the lead singer and de facto leader of the Stooges, a band now understood to be as seminal as the Velvet Underground for punk rock and other forms of modern music. But whereas the VU were something like a group of grad student misfits, the Stooges were more a motley collection of trailer park dirtbags, from the wilds of Ypsilanti, Michigan (also tied to the great Detroit garage band/biker band scenes)
For these two reasons, this greatest hits package is divided, more or less into two: a Stooges/Iggy and the Stooges disk (along with selections from the Bowie produced Idiot and Lust For Life) and a solo disk. The Stooges cuts manage to convey the raw, wild power of the Stooges and thus to hint at their greatness as a band. The Bowie cuts, with their austere Berlin ambience, have aged well, even though Lust For Life has, by now (2005) been transformed by the culture industry into an overused commercial jingle, such as to sell Carnival Cruise bookings. I wonder what Iggy thinks about that?
Disk two covers some of Iggy's solo moments, and while the music becomes a bit more formulaic, it's still very good, as it becomes a blank canvas for Iggy to, well, be Iggy. Formulaic or not, his tunes here are catchy and fun. Real Wild Child is as close to bubblegum as he's ever come, but it's great bubblegum, right up there with, for example, Sweet or Joan Jett. Home is nothing less than a kick ass rock and roll dance number; someone ought to use it in a Broadway revue. In fact, his tongue-in-cheek duet with Debbie Harry is their version of an old prerock Broadway showtune, yet it rocks! Finally, starting with the delightfully noisy Wild America, the disk closes with Iggy taking things full circle, and returning to the Stooges; Iggy has finally located his inner Stooge and made peace with it.
This is highly recommended as either introduction to Iggy and/or the Stooges for those just beginning to check this music out, as well as for Iggy compleatists, who want to own every piece of product related to Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
Free Music Review: Five because...it's Iggy
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a reasonable selection, though the omissions are many. I think I own every Iggy CD ever produced, and everything ever pressed on vinyl. I also own the boxed set of the Fun House sessions. Obviously, I am a fan.
One thing that really struck me was the intelligence of all the previous reviewers. You CAN have your punk and cranial capacity. In fact, I'd insist that real punks were the smartest people around when I was coming up, back in the day. I agree. Iggy invented punk. But he also helped invent metal, industrial, glam, goth and a host of other styles as well.
I walked out on him in Onstead, Michigan, at the Wamplers Lake Pavillion, when he was real young and I was real young and the energy just terrified me. He was just too intense. He threw himself off the stage and onto some guy's girlfriend. The guy punched him and threw him back onstage. I later grew up. Iggy did not.
I saw him thirty years later. He threw himself off the stage and landed on some guy's girlfriend. The guy just threw him back onstage. No punch. Iggy will always be Iggy.
Recommendation: This is a great place to start an Iggy journey, but it's gonna have to end with owning the catalog. There are just too many great songs and great performances, record by record, to condense onto a sampler like this. Nice that it's out, but everyone interested in music should just buy the whole mess.
Thanks for signing my t-shirt, Iggy.
Buddy L
Free Music Review: Should be a box set!
Hit: 5 Stars
With a recording career begining in 1969 (or 65 if you count the Iguanas single) Iggy should be given four or five CDs- not just two. Granted this IS better than 1996's "Nude & Rude" comp but there are still several great and important songs that should be included: "Mona"/"I don't know why" (the Iguanas 45), "1970", "scene of the crime", "head on", "open up & bleed", "Louie Louie" (live 74), "I got nothin'", "Johanna", "dum dum boys",
"neighbrhood threat", "new values", "loco mosquito", "pumpin' for Jill", "bang bang", "Repo Man","Freddie's dead", "beside you", "I wanna live", "little know it all"... Here's hoping Rhino will include these (especially the Repo Man theme) when they do a Box set on the Igg!
Free Music Review: A Million in Prizes: The Anthology
Hit: 5 Stars
A Million in Prizes: The Anthology~ Iggy Pop is an amazing anthology collection from an icon in the rock industry and rock music history. Iggy Pop has surprisingly good vocals, the lyrics are not as simple as one would have like thought they would be. I must admit that I only heard Lust for life and to be even more honest I had no idea that this song was written by Pop and Bowie. I love the photos in the book-let and the cover photo is vintage Pop at his best. I was a bit ticked of that they had not included the lyrics for the songs in the otherwise amazing book-let. This is a compilation that I highly recommend.
Free Music Review: This Title Lives Up 2 Its Contents!
Hit: 5 Stars
Hey there, i have been a devout IGG-MAN Fan since 1971. Been to several of his Shows, etc. * This 2-CD Collection is STELLAR! there is Another 'Anthology' 2-CD set of him and The Stooges, which patches over the small holes leftout of "A MiLLion In Prizes"Both of them are Incredible and both have Great Liner notes.Oh, and the sequence of the songs on the discs is Brillant! There really is No Debate. He Is "The Godfather of Punk Rock" back when he started in the mid 2 late 1960's.. Rock was lovey dovey, "Let's ALL Love each other" music and Iggy was Un-Rivaled in his Hardcore lyrics,music and Intensity!