Iggy Pop

Here's a cover given the James Osterberg touch.  And here's the original:

Yesterday I posted "Toe Jam", the latest single from Fatboy Slim's Brighton Port Authority.  Today I found the band's myspace page, which offers a few more details.   It turns out there's a full album in the works, including more stellar collaborations like Iggy Pop, Martha Wainwright and Ashley Beedle.  Some of these songs have been circulating for awhile now, but this will be the first time they are released together.  Iggy Pop sings on a wonderful cov... MORE

CRANK IT UP!!! Maximum Volume required for full effect! . Only a few songs have ever caused me to set them on repeat repeatedly like some obsessed teenie-bopper. This here is probably the one I’ve done it with the most over the years. Iggy rockin’it out in massive dose of piss, love song, social commentary, and brilliant yet cheesy (Mountain gets steep? We're gonna make it-in a jeep) lyrics. . It just don’t get better than this… . HOME . I work so hard, man, so... MORE

This UK version of Buffy is well shite.

In case you didn't know, founder of the National Review, conservative pundit William F. Buckley Jr. died. I don't really have anything pro or con to say about this, but I found this little funny little mistake I found over at Wired.com

I took quite a few pictures through my rock-tutelage. It started in high school with the old kodak and proceeded through college when I graduated to a Mamiya-Sekor slr Most of these pictures only exist in an album. I'm trying to put them on digital. Did a first pass last week. By the mid-seventies, Bowie and Iggy had been, ahem, pal-ing it up for a few years. Bowie even toured with Iggy, doing piano and backing vocals. I've read some reviews that pan this par... MORE

It's been a while since I posted anything to make you blush with aural coyness.
I hope you'll enjoy this deceptively reflective little tune
I want to fuck her on the floor
Among my books of ancient lore
So I will make a full report
I got a Nazi girlfriend
Its not the four-inch heels she wears
Its not her baby-fine blond hair
Its more the desert in her stare
Ive got a Nazi girlfriend
She's not the colt
That she once was
She's elegant
But youth is lo... MORE

On the one hand Bowie may have befriended Iggy to save him from himself. On the two hand he may have wanted a subject on which to test his Neu Motorik musik theories. On the three hand he may just have wanted a buddy with which to drink beer and terrorise girls. Whichever, 'The Idiot' was still the strangest album of 1976.... MORE

Sometimes he is good for my spirits, this is from 1981. Those crazy daze in Manhattan.

Just read the new bio of Iggy Pop "Open Up and Bleed." Think I'll hop in the shower and get that decadence off-a me! Needless to say I could hardly put the book down. Great photos too! Not much needs to be said about the influence of Iggy and The Stooges. I am impressed by his "indomitable spirit," as the saying goes. Not to mention physicality, which seems to keep getting more pumped up, the older and more sober he gets! Here are a couple of clips from his mid-career si... MORE

Older than punk technically. But, on the jukebox at Max's Kansas City...and played regularly....during the punk era of 1975-79

He's in his bathroom. I'm sitting on the edge of his bed, fussing with the sleeve of my shirt. I can feel him turning faucets off and an through the wall. I can feel the rush of too much air conditioning from the vent across the room. It's one of those new apartments built in a converted hospital. It seems like there are hundreds of them all over town now. Everyone in this town must have been ill a hundred years ago. I get up and walk around the place. Everything's in it... MORE