Iggy Pop, a fine product from the fine state of Michigan.

I love Piggy Op! He and that Snoppy Dogg Dogg are two of my favorites!

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Iggy Pop - "China Girl"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKs3t6lB9T8

greatest abs in rock.

But Iggy Pop is in Dead Man.

I first saw Iggy at the Columbus Agora with Bowie on upright piano. 1977?
Bowie never spoke or sang a word.
I saw him ten years later open for the Pretenders in Dayton.
People boogied.

When Chrissie Hynde came out she thanked the crowd for their enthusiam
toward Iggy cause at many venues on the tour the crowd were dicks toward him.

He's one of those acts.
Some towns want Firefall.
Some want Iggy Pop.

Guess I'm in the minority here. I watched his perf. at the R &R Hall of Fame. It sucked. Oh, and...earth to Iggy...time to put on a t-shirt, dude.

iggy just ain't for those that prefer their music safe and sanitized. love him or hate him, no one else puts on a show with the energy and intensity of iggy. and his place in rock history can't be denied, he and the ramones were pivotal influences to the nascent punk scene of the uk. iggy deserves your love for all of the little gems scattered through his spotty and tattered catalogue. dig into some tunes like "i'm a conservative" off 'soldier' for some tbogg caliber snark. if the visceral iggy is too much, there's always a tear dampened pillow and your smiths records to console you.

There's an Iggy/Jim Morrison link. Figuratively: both wanted to bring the crowd to a Dionysian frenzy. Experienced it myself. Supposedly Morrison say a show and proclaimed it good. Literally: it is said he did a try-out with the remaining Doors but Manzarek was leery of him. Probably a good call at the time because Iggy was heading toward some weird territory with heroin and steak knives on stage.

Iggy never became a "star" because the people who create "stars" - teenagers - for the most part - thought he was creepy. That was true in the 60's as much as it's true today.

The music mags of the middle and late 60's did their best to promote The Stooges from time to time but the vast, teenage wasteland wasn't having any. Compared to the superior British bands of that day, The Stooges had nothing to offer. Lots of energy, perhaps, but no 'there' there - and as Saloum, #17, accurately says - "No voice, no melody, no songs, no hooks, no talent."

But ALSO! He wasn't "cute" and most girls did not want to love him. That's a death-knell.

Sorry Iggy. That's that.

That guy looks like an EXACT twin from that one guy on MadTV.

'can't sing'? are you kidding? have you heard 'avenue b'? it's an acoustic laid-back cd with a jazz trio backing up. iggy pop is a GREAT singer.

i saw him live in 1990 in louisville, ky. still the best live show i've ever seen, bar none. if he's not in the hall of fame soon, the masses should riot.

I first saw Iggy and the Stooges at the Whiskey at a young impressionable age andthings haven;t been the same since. In the course of the louder-than-falling-in-front-of-a-truck concert, he choked himself with the mike cord, cut his chest up with a broken bottle, leaped off a speaker stack and didn't land so gracefully, and bashed his teeth with the microphone. Apparently, he was into auto-eroticism, is an active donatee to the Red Cross, was at one time a contender for Olympic diving, and is fully aware of the costs involved with teeth replacement. Plus, whilst singing and gyrating, he'd constantly pound the side of his leg with the mike in some attempt to keep time with the band in their smack-induced state, the result being that his blue jeans were completely worn away in the area and you could observe a grossly black-and-blue bruise the size of a Michigan meat pie on his outer thigh. Quite the entertainer. Question: What the hell was he doing with that no-talent Madogga?

I saw Iggy in the mid 70's in Cleveland as the opening act for a band called Slade who was a 2-3 hit wonder. After the first song hardly anyone applauded for Iggy and in the middle of the third song he was boo-ed off the stage. Sorry Iggy, you sucked then and you still suck now.

However, when Slade came on stage they looked worried after what happened to Iggy but as soon as they started playing the house began to rock.

Hmm, Stuart on MadTV looks exactly like Iggy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ax1kBi80U).

So Madonna, who isn't rock and roll by any stretch of the imagination, gets into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before Iggy Pop. Could there be better evidence why the RRHOF is an irrelevant joke?

As a solo artist, Iggy has been extremely spotty, some good albums, a lot of bad; however, the three original Stooges albums stand as among the greatest in the canon. People laughed at them then, but "No Fun" or "Not Right" or "Search and Destroy" or the whole of FUNHOUSE are still powerful and sound contemporary, while many artists contemporaneous with them are now forgotten, or sound dated. I've seen Iggy live three times, and I saw the reformed Stooges in their third ever concert back in 2004, and, solo or with the Stooges, he has been a galvanizing live performer. The strength of Iggy's writing early on was in its economy and cogent expression of feeling; the weaknesses in Iggy's later writing derives from his prolixity and over-rumination, from his eschewing the succinctness of his early expression for strained efforts at more "smart" lyric writing.

"I'm a street-walkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm; I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb! I am the world's forgotten boy, always searching to destroy!" Is there a more perfect depiction of modern day disaffected youth?

"Last year I was 21...I didn't have a lot of fun; this year I'm gonna be 22, I say 'oh my and a boo hoo'!" The same youthful disaffection, but with a sharp, knowing sense of humor. And "I Wanna Be Your Dog" is simply sublime in every respect.