![]() ![]() The final mix was revised by David Bowie in Los Angeles, and alongside a one off gig in London's King’s Cross, the album is widely regarded as the genesis of punk. While the band fell apart (twice) due to drug addiction and record label problems, they garnered enough interest for Columbia Records to finance the recording of their most influential record ‘Raw Power’ in London in 1972. ![]() Determined not to fall into the trap of aping British Invasion bands like The Beatles and Rolling Stones, they set about creating something much rawer in their appropriation of R&B: aligning with the nihilistic minimalism of the Velvet Underground and attaching it to lyrics that reflected the frustration and inertia of growing up in a Midwest trailer park. Returning to Ann Arbor he formed The Stooges with guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander. When Iggy Pop quit High School and his band the Iguanas, he travelled to Chicago to study the blues. ‘Gimme Danger’ from 'Raw Power' (1973) and title of Jim Jarmusch’s 2016 film about the The Stooges. But what about the music? Here we take tour (through the sewer) and explore the ten most commercial songs Iggy Pop never had a hit with, alongside those recordings (often by David Bowie) that did crossover.ġ. As did the documentary Gimme Danger, The Story of The Stooges: Iggy won the Critics' Choice Award for the “Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary Award” (2016.) And, in 2019, GQ crowned him “Man of the Year". The accompanying film American Valhalla earned plaudits. Riding the wave of this unexpected celebrity status, his 2016 album Post Pop Depression (produced by Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age) has been the best selling of his career: reaching number five in the UK and Top 20 in America. In 2004, when cruise-line Royal Caribbean appropriated ‘Lust for Life’ for a series of promos, one customer commented ‘Nothing says maritime comfort like a song about shooting up junk’. That sometimes this borrowed interest is a little incongruous does not seem to have harmed the brand. Since then, the corporate sponsorship deals have flooded in. The 1996 film Trainspotting habilitated his career in much the same way that Mamma Mia repositioned Abba: as a ‘franchise’. In his latter years, Iggy has found a new form of pop alchemy. A world in which heroin addiction seems glamorous and self-harm is a theatrical performance. In the 21st Century Iggy Pop has come to symbolise some kind of short-hand longing for a world that is less woke. I do not care, because they were not commercially conceived.” Iggy himself is phlegmatic about this tension between art and commerce: “My policy on that is, use them for sausage, use them for cars. The oft repeated mantra that "he never sold out" is now offset by the commercial power of his legacy. Like rock mythology itself, Pop is conceptualised as a ‘special case’ of mass consumption. Over the last twenty years his gnarled features and gravelly voice have become synonymous with car insurance, designer fragrances, travel agencies and surfwear. Winner of the 2020 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Iggy Pop’s music may be more familiar to contemporary audiences for its use in advertising and film than it is for its influence on punk. Iggy Pop’s POP Songs and the 10 SONGS that should have been HITS ![]()
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