In another life, he would have made an amazing speechwriter. Both Reed and the Stooges’ wild frontman Iggy Pop signed to Bowie’s management company, MainMan, helping to resurrect their careers, while Pop himself was said to be an influence behind the.
Iggy’s lyrics have always been deceptively simple, boiling down an idea to its most basic form, making it both funny and badass in the process. Wither rock’s first and greatest punk?īack, apparently, with a flagrant self-awareness of how absurd and unexpected his career has been, Every Loser contains some of Iggy’s hardest rockers in years, and emphasizes all of the things the man does well: blistering rock, po-faced ballads, and a genuine way with words.
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But when in 2014 he became the last original Stooge standing (as impossible as that might have seemed 40 years ago), he began seeming entirely over being a rock star on 2016’s Post Pop Depression and nearly went full lounge lizard on 2019’s Free. Buy your ticket online safely for Iggy Pop - Festival Starlite 2023 en Marbella. Iggy had spent much of the first decade or so of the 21st century thrashing out his demons with the reformed Stooges, bringing their legendary Detroit garage-noise to old fans and young worshippers. Both Préliminaires, in 2009, and Après, in 2012, focused on his earthy croon (in French, no less).
While such a state used to be par for the course for the most shirtless man in rock, it’s been a while since his solo work has reflected that kind of intensity. “I’m in a frenzy!” 75-year-old Iggy Pop barks on “Frenzy,” the first track on Every Loser. 1999 Iggy Pop album written while he lived in New Yorks Alphabet City.
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