Iggy Pop - Idiot
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Track List: Idiot
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Album Details: Idiot
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1977
- Label:
- Virgin Records Us
- UPC:
- 077778615224
User Reviews: Idiot
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Re: Iggy at his best
, October 17, 2000Reviewer: Dan Z - See all Dan Z's reviewsI have owned this work since it's release date, Iggy is not an artist who has range, he is not an artist. If you called Iggy an artist to his face he would slap you like a whore. Iggy is an angry man, he vents his anger on recordings and the transference works in most cases. Iggy has not made a truly great record since Raw Power. Since that time he has been shackled by the industry and pre-packaged as the God-father of punk. Even though the Ig is bound and gagged these last 20 or so years he is usually able to break through the confinements once or twice on each LP. "Oh Jimmy, just you shut your mouth..." some China Girl passages and most of Sister Midnight are close to what Iggy really tries for but isn't allowed to do in most cases. Buy it and look for the hidden treasures of truth in anger and frustration. ... -
The Idiot, a precurser to a great album
, September 6, 1999Reviewer: garethpenrod - See all garethpenrod's reviewsThe Idiot doesn't catch Iggy Pop in his finest hour, although it does provide an insight into how he progressed from the stooges frontman, to the Lust for life Iggy.
Bowies production is excellent and the album does contain 2 classics, Dum dum boys and of course nightclubbing.
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Pro Reviews: Idiot
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews In 1976, the Stooges had been gone for two years, and Iggy Pop had developed a notorious reputation as one of rock roll's most spectacular waste cases. After a self-imposed stay in a mental hospital, a significantly more functional Iggy was desperate to prove he could hold down a career in music, and he was given another chance by his longtime ally, David Bowie. Bowie co-wrote a batch of new songs with Iggy, put together a band, and produced The Idiot, which took Iggy in a new direction decidedly different from the guitar-fueled proto-punk of the Stooges. Musically, The Idiot is of a piece with the impressionistic music of Bowie's "Berlin Period" (such as Heroes and Low), with it's fragmented guitar figures, ominous bass lines, and discordant, high-relief keyboard parts. Iggy's new music was cerebral and inward-looking, where his early work had been a glorious call to the id, and Iggy was in more subdued form than with the Stooges, with his voice sinking into a world-weary baritone that was a decided contrast to the harsh, defiant cry heard on "Search and Destroy." Iggy was exploring new territory as a lyricist, and his songs on The Idiot are self-referential and poetic in a way that his work had rarely been in the past; for the most part the results are impressive, especially "Dum Dum Boys," a paean to the glory days of his former band, and "Nightclubbing," a call to the joys of decadence. The Idiot introduced the world to a very different Iggy Pop, and if the results surprised anyone expecting a replay of the assault of Raw Power, it also made it clear that Iggy was older, wiser, and still had plenty to say; it's a flawed but powerful and emotionally absorbing work. - Mark Deming, All Music Guide |
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