6/27/2023 0 Comments Iggy pop workoutHe starts to use larger drum production, more synth backings, drum machines and even a Billy Idol-like sneer. Both songs are a mix of funk and sleaze that bands in New York are still trying to emulate today.Įven Iggy Pop couldn't escape the trappings of 80's music. Still, Iggy has that undeniable wild man tone to his vocals.ĭisc Two starts with "Some Weird Sin" and "I'm Bored," two songs that seem to act as the bridge between Iggy's Bowie phase and his eventual dabbling in the world of 80's music. The remainder of Disc One covers Iggy's early solo work and has much more of a David Bowie-inspired sound to it, a fact that isn't too surprising considering that Bowie produced the Stooges' Raw Power, was a friend and benefactor for Pop who got him writing again, and once referred to Iggy as his musical "guinea pig." As Disc One closes out, the raw garage punk sound of the Stooges is traded in for a cleaner psych rock vibe. Iggy claims he was inspired by Jim Morrison and Lou Reed, but he takes their dark underpinnings and wild abandon one step further, accidentally stumbling into the realm of what would be punk rock. The production leaves the band completely exposed and they use that to their advantage, showing that "heavy" doesn't come from massive distortion and crunching guitars, but from sheer passion and a "give it 110%" type of attitude. The guitars are a mess of fuzz and screeching feedback, while Iggy's voice is a distorted battle cry. Arguably his best output, these songs are raw, filthy, and bubbling over with sweaty energy and spontaneous explosiveness. The first half of Disc One covers Iggy's time with the Stooges. Iggy is able to master numerous styles and sounds and does it all in a way that makes him seem more like a genre course instructor than a bandwagon hopper. Spanning his whole career, from the Stooges up 'till his most recent album Skull Ring, A Million in Prizes is a two-disc collection that shows that Iggy is not only the drug-fueled, thrashing, screaming, and bewildering rock and roll monster he is usually portrayed as, but that he is also a musical chameleon. Iggy has always taken an abrasive and in your face approach to rock (most notably in his early works) that delivers incredible and passionate songs under the guise of "trashy old noise." The opening track on Mogwai's Come On Die Young features a sample of Iggy Pop telling an interviewer "You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise, is in fact the brilliant music of a genius: myself." As pretentious as this statement may sound, for the most part A Million in Prizes shows that it is true.
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