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Iggy Pop - Preliminaires
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| God rest the soul of dear Ron Asheton, but in truth the last Stooges album, ‘The Weirdness’, was no masterpiece. Buoyed nonetheless by the goodwill of anyone with even the slightest interest in rock’n’roll, it was a collection of serviceably sleazy riffs, over which Iggy howled stuff like, “My idea of fun!/Is killing everyone!” And fun it was, for certain. But fun of the ‘harmless’ variety, which was never really the point....full text |
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| Guardian |
| guitars," Iggy Pop said recently, perhaps obliquely referencing last year's vapid Stooges reunion album, The Weirdness. Either way, this is a major volte face. Out go guitars (mostly). In come wistful saxophones, old New Orleans jazz and music made to waft through a fog of Gitanes smoke in some forgotten European bar. Préliminaires is inspired by French writer Michel Houellebecq's book The Possibility of an Island, which enables Iggy to sing in French, tell stories and expand on the theme of escape - especially escape from himself. The old Iggy makes fleeting appearances on rocker Nice to Be Dead, but otherwise he is beautifully fatigued and insightful. On lines such as "You can convince the world that you're some kind of superstar, when an asshole is all you are, but that's all right," he sounds simultaneously invulnerable and immortal. This may be his best album since 1977's Lust for Life....full text |
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What does Iggy Pop do when he no longer has the riff-tastic guitar stomp of Ron Asheton (R.I.P.) backing him? Make an ambient classical jazz album dedicated to a French novel called Préliminaires , of course. Wait, what? That’s right, with the whole world wondering what Iggy Pop was going to do with the Stooges in limbo following the death of their guitarist, Iggy Pop had actually been thinking about Préliminaires (translation: Foreplay ) since reading the 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq. Saying he got sick of “listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music,” Iggy Pop, who once nearly kicked Mike Watt out of the Stooges after Watt merely attempted to play a bass solo, is going full-on jazz mode, with deeply influenced by New Orleans and slow-ballad songs of yore....full text |
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