![]() Unfortunately, this artistic upswing didn’t last, and after 1979’s great New Values, Pop spent the next few years with a reinvigorated heroin addiction while making mostly terrible records, ranging from watered-down new wave ( Soldier) to clunky synth-pop ( Party). Along with a newfound respect as an artist, he shed his image as a drug-crazed madman (which countless up-and-coming punk bands simultaneously attempted to imitate). 1977 saw the release of Pop’s first two solo albums, The Idiot and Lust For Life, which received rave reviews and have since become classics. He soon moved to Germany with his old pal, and fellow addict, David Bowie to sober up-a period in which both men would arguably create their best work. After the Stooges disbanded for the second time, in 1974, Pop was left a broke junkie who spent the next two years floating from couch-to-couch in L.A., trying to get clean, finally winding up in a mental hospital. Swinging between these two ends of the spectrum was somewhat deliberate, but mostly a by-product of Jim “Iggy” Osterberg’s wild personal, and career, path. As Dictators guitarist Scott Kempner described, “This was living and being born and coming for your fucking children in the middle of the night right in front of you.”īut to parents reading that same warning in 1993? The same Iggy Pop who played Johnny Depp’s goofy backwoods uncle? The same Iggy Pop who recorded an ode to campy horror villain Freddy Krueger? The same Iggy Pop who sang that love song to the gal from the B-52’s? Really, how bad could it be? Every incessant nightmare or despair held by the baby boomers-from Charles Manson to Mad magazine-were projected onto Iggy and his Stooges during their seven-year life span, and they responded by spewing it right back, in a torrent of heroin and glitter, blood and peanut butter. ![]() “Parental Warning: This Is An Iggy Pop Record”: There was a time when reading this would have harpooned fear straight into the hearts of any red-blooded American mom or dad unlucky enough to know who Iggy Pop was, or what they imagined he stood for. Whether it’s new to you or just needs a revisit, we’ll highlight the Hidden Gems that reveal the bigger picture of our favorite artists. MAGNET’s Bryan Bierman focuses on an album that, for whatever reason, slipped through the cracks in favor of its more popular siblings. Each week, we take a look at some obscure or overlooked entries in the catalogs of music’s big names.
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