The Stooges - The Weirdness
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Artist: The StoogesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Trollin'
- You Can't Have Friends
- ATM
- Idea of Fun
- The Weirdness
- Free and Freaky
- Greedy Awful People
- She Took My Money
- The End of Christianity
- Mexican Guy
- Passing Cloud
- I'm Fried
Free Music Notes for The Weirdness
Free Music Review: Probably not a good idea
Hit: 2 Stars
Iggy Pop's solo career throughout the years since the Stooges demise has largely been a joke. I suppose it's not too surprising that he figured he may as well destroy the Stooges credibility as well.
It should be understood from the start that the Stooges are really not and have never been that good of a band. What they did have going for them was an extraordinarily raw and raucous sound that in 1969, 1970, was pretty much unheard of in the rock/pop genre. In addition to that, Iggy had a vocal approach to match the mayhem of the music. He was of course, not a good singer in the traditional sense, but there was something engaging (to me anyway) about his maniacal and brutal vocals on most of the best Stooges tracks (particularly Raw Power era stuff). Well all of that is absent here. The music is nothing special, certainly doesn't touch the sound of the old albums and the rabid yowls and tortured screams of yore are long gone. That basically means that what you are left with is a third rate rock band playing pretty run of the mill hard rock music and a "singer" who has lost the one redeeming quality his vocals had.
Of particular note because it's so bad it's ghastly, are the lyrics of this sad comeback. As mentioned above, the Stooges had a couple of things going for them, but the lyrics were never among them. Iggy always wrote daft lyrics, but he's managed to do the impossible and produce even dumber lyrics on this album. Lines such as "my d*ck is turning into a tree" and "i'm fried, i'm fried, i'm fried, 'i'm [...] fried" are a bit embarrassing coming from a 60 year old man. I'm not putting him down for being 60 (we all get old) but they would be stupid from somone 23, they are positively inane from a geriatric. But it gets worse. There are a few tracks in which the subject matter pertains to Iggy's braggadoccio in regards to the amount of money he has accrued. "I pulled out of the ATM, my what a rich b*itch I am". It's as if he was "fried" watching some idiotic rap video full of "bling bling" and cash being tossed around in front of $70,000 dollar cars and thought to himself "this must be what's hip now." However silly his lyrics were in the original (may we add much more credible) days of the Stooges, they never stooped to such vapid, shallow, and banal rubbish. To be fair, there is one stand out track on the disc, "My Idea of Fun", which surprisingly deserves honorable mention because of the lyrics. There's a couple of quite good lines in that song that I really enjoyed. Too bad it stands so utterly alone in that respect.
The Stooges deserve their place in rock history as an undeniable influence on punk rock which was an undeniable influence on the course of rock music as a whole, but this pathetic attempt at a reunion album is an embarrassing footnote. With the recent death of Ron Asheton, it seems unlikely there'll be a follow up to this which is probably for the best. If they kept going in this fashion, they'd likely undermine and negate any shreds of credibility or claims to influence they ever had.
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Their rudely urgent brand of earsplitting garage rock and bawdy English blues straddled the '60s into the '70s, but, sadly, the Stooges disintegrated in 1973, leaving their insurgent leader Iggy Pop to power through more than three decades of music alone. But a phone call to the surviving members and siblings Ron (guitar) and Scott Asheton (drums) to play on Pop's 2003 record Skull Ring led to the improbable: a full-on reunion of a band that served as a precursor to the so-called birth of punk rock that would follow three years after its breakup. Employing producer Steve Albini (Nirvana) to capture a similar bare minimum to their legendary three-album catalog--three power chords and an archaic rhythm section co-anchored by bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE)--these Stooges let Pop's in-your-face vocals capture the mundane: cruising for women, teenage autonomy, and finding love in a cash machine. But never fear that these late-middle-agers (Pop turns 60 a month after the album's release) feel the need to impede the volume. Songs such as "Trollin'," "Greedy Awful People," "She Took My Money," and "Mexican Guy" detonate like outtakes from 1970's Fun House. And with Iggy Pop showing no signs of slowing down and the Ashetons having nothing else to do, this band of Stooges stands a chance of outliving the first one. --Scott HolterClassic Rock Music CDs
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