Idiot, The - Iggy Pop

Advantages: Rocks on full of power and enthusiasm with witty lyrics
Disadvantages: Lyrics might be a bit repetitive on some of the choruses.

...Skull Ring is one of the best Iggy Pop albums in my opinion. It's amazing to think how old he was, when this album was made and to put so much energy and power into it is simply phenomenal. Every song on the album just bombs along with raw power! Superbabe, Motor Inn, Little Electric Chair and Nervous Exhaustion are just legendary anthems. This is probably Iggy's heaviest album ever and he pulls it off easily, some of the songs don't have the same effect live as on the album, they definitely did a good job on the recording of the songs. If you just want one Iggy Pop album, I would choose this or Raw Power everytime but this shouldn't undermine his other albums which are also great fun.... Read review

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Advantages: Part of the musical history of "David Bowie"
Disadvantages: A bit to much input from "David Bowie"

...In between the release of the 2 seminal Bowie albums “Low” and “Heroes”, David Bowie got together with Iggy Pop to record what would turn out to be the most significant albums of Iggy career in my humble opinion. First to be released on March 18th 1977 was the “Germanic” sounding album “The Idiot” with its doom-laden soundscapes influenced by Kraftwerk,Neu and Can. On September 9th 1977 “Lust for Life” was released, running at just under 42minutes and just having 9 tracks, with it’s opening track that barks into life with it’s musical themes stolen by Bowie from the tune that introduced the American overseas radio network in Germany. But with the words of Iggy it became something else that was so much more threatening, so much so that the song with forever... Read review

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Advantages: The cover artwork is excellent
Disadvantages: The music is rubbish

...Bowie does an about face from his triumphant "Let's Dance", returning with his worst album yet, quite possibly one of the worst rock records ever made. For some reason a lot of the songs David and Iggy Pop wrote or co-wrote for the latters 1977 album find their way onto here. Why? Opening track Loving The Alien is solid, Bowie fare, but after that it is downhill all the way. ALERT ALERT ALERT ****1977 Iggy Pop Castoff Number 1 Ahead***** yep, here it comes an awful cod-reggae revamp of Don't Look Down. More like Don't Turn The Volume Up, Please. Topping even the former for mind numbing awfulness we have God Only Knows!!! God only knows indeed why this awful cover made it onto this album, as DB turns one of pop's all time great songs into a kareoke singalong. Wait...surely the great Tina Turner can save the day... Read review

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