It is an amalgam of funk and Krautrock led by Carlos Alomar's menacing and super cool guitar. "Sister Midnight' is the bastardized '70s child of The Doors' "The End"-Iggy's Oedipal dream of sex with his mother and being hunted by his father. The album's songs can be split into three categories: 1.) tormented love/lust ballads ("Baby" / "China Girl" / "Tiny Girls") which were already part of Iggy's lyrical consciousness (examples from The Stooges are "Ann" & "Dirt") 2.) celebrations of Berlin's nocturnal culture ("Nightclubbing" / "Funtime") 3.) autobiographical exorcisms ("Sister Midnight" / "Dum Dum Boys"). The original Rolling Stone review aptly summarized The Idiot as "the most savage indictment of rock posturing ever recorded" and "a necrophiliac's delight." The Idiot saved Iggy from certain self-destruction. He was reflecting on the ruins and wreckage of his past. Iggy was contemplative and introspective on the cover and in the songs. The album cover of The Idiot showed Iggy standing and staring into the void surrounded by falling snow. It sounds different than any other album he ever created. In complete contrast Iggy's solo debut was recorded during multiple months in a series of sessions at the Chateau d'Herouville in France as well as Musicland Studios in Munich. The album cover of Fun House showed Iggy swarming and writhing in a fiery maelstrom. David Bowie had already begun to immerse himself in the experimentation of Krautrock pioneers such as Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger of Neu! (whose incorporation of industrial noise on the track "Negativland" from their December 1971 sessions for their self-titled debut would later inspire Bowie's Berlin period especially the opening track "Speed of Life" from Low.)įun House was recorded in a frenetic and furious two weeks in Los Angeles with an acid-fueled Iggy who was only 23 years young. He invited Iggy Pop to embark with him on this voyage. During that same year David Bowie's cocaine psychosis was rapidly spiraling out of control as he recorded the sessions for Station to Station in Cherokee Studios. Iggy Pop checked himself into a drug rehabilitation clinic in a mental hospital in Los Angeles in 1975. Dave Alexander died at the age of 27 due to his alcoholism in 1975. The Stooges broke up for a second and final time in 1974. Their roadie and touring bassist Zeke Zettner died of a heroin overdose at the age of 25 in 1973. The band then briefly reunited in 1972 to record Raw Power. The band fired bassist Dave Alexander in August 1970 because he was an alcoholic and the band broke up for the first time in July 1971 (the same month Jim Morrison died). Iggy Pop had struggled with substance abuse throughout his tenure as the frontman of The Stooges. Iggy Pop had destroyed his mind through heroin and David Bowie had numbed his emotions through cocaine. “ In the middle of the 1970s David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions.
UNSUNG discussed the brilliance of The Idiot, and the fact both Iggy Pop and David Bowie were in bad places in 1976 (it was recorded between June and August of that year): Maybe not as regarded and acclaimed as Pop’s next album, Lust for Life (also released in 1977), The Idiot is a fascinating album that features some of Pop’s best tracks. Before then, there are articles and reviews that are worth combining, just so we can get a feeling of how important and enduring The Idiot is. I will come to the impact of the album soon. Bowie agreed to produce the album, and, between them, they created something wonderful! Even if The Idiot is a dark album and is a tough listen in places, it has endured and influenced so many others. The fact was each wanted to help the other. Bowie was also struggling with drug addiction (1977’s Station to Station found him heavily involved with cocaine). Struggling addiction and compelled to rehabilitate and stop, Pop accepted an invitation to accompany David Bowie on his Isolar Tour. It is definitely something that should happen more. Like, today, Charli XCX and Taylor Swift recording songs together and producing together. I often wonder whether The Idiot is more a collaborative album that an Iggy Pop solo album. Released on 18th March 1977, it was released following the breakup of The Stooges in 1974 (the band since reformed), it was co-written by David Bowie. When it comes to the upcoming forty-fifth anniversary of Iggy Pop’s The Idiot. IN THIS PHOTO: Iggy Pop and David Bowie during the tour for Pop’s 1977 album, The Idiot/ PHOTO CREDT: Rex Features, via Associated Press
0 kommentar(er)
