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Iggy Pop - Préliminaires
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I love Iggy Pop. I don’t just mean that I love his music — although listening to the early Stooges albums or Lust for Life remains a source of never-ending pleasure for me — I mean that the mere mention of his name fills me with a tingling giddy sensation. There are artists with more consistent catalogues or broader emotional ranges, but few, if any, can touch Iggy Pop’s sheer entropic magnetism, a stage presence at once so sexy and scrotum-clenchingly terrifying. This is a man who redefined the art of performance for rock ’n’ roll. Indeed, perhaps the most gratifying aspect of Préliminaires is that Iggy is so clearly engaged in it. His satisfaction gleams from every lovingly-crafted detail, and that in itself is quite gratifying. Whatever else you think of the album, it’s hard to deny that Préliminaires may be Iggy Pop’s most ambitious album since his work with The Stooges. Tired of “idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music,” Iggy decided to make a jazz album, taking for his inspiration Michel Houellebecq’s satirical 2007 novel, The Possibility of an Island. While not all of the elements come together successfully, it sounds fresher than almost anything the godfather of punk has put out in recent memory....full text |
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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. Now though, for his latest solo offering, the Godfather of all things punk has decided to reprise a much more appealing bit of his past, glimpsed on half of ’77’s ‘The Idiot’ and ’99’s rubbish-but-mad ‘Avenue B’: namely eccentric Ig. “A jazz album based on French author Michel Houellebecq’s novel The Possibility Of An Island”, you say? That’s more like it....full text |
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If there is an industry more conservative and less likely to take chances than popular music I'd be surprised. Now obviously I'm not talking about the independents who operate on the fringes of the business, but the big players for whom this is a multi-million-dollar industry. They're about as liable to take a risk as Bush and Cheney are to be invited as guest speakers at an Amnesty International convention. It's why when you turn on your radio or listen to the Top Forty, you're only going to hear the same few songs played over and over again. Oh there might be some variations — perhaps the lyrics will change or the face behind the voice will be different — but pretty much everything else is just a variation on a few themes. Don't fool yourself into believing that the music industry has anything to do with artistic creation; it's all about making money, which means taking no chances and not messing with a formula that works. Both of which are the antithesis of artistic creation, as taking risks and doing things differently are how an artist breaks new ground. When was the last time you heard an established popular musician or band do something radically different or even change their sound in a minor way?...full text |
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