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Real Wild Child (Wild One) | Iggy Pop | 3:38 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Baby It Can't Fall | Iggy Pop | 4:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Shades | Iggy Pop | 5:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Fire Girl | Iggy Pop | 3:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Isolation | Iggy Pop | 4:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cry for Love | Iggy Pop | 4:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Blah-Blah-Blah | Iggy Pop | 4:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hideaway | Iggy Pop | 5:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Winners and Losers | Iggy Pop | 6:18 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Little Miss Emperor | Iggy Pop | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Songs |
iTunes Review
With his usual scrappy aplomb, Iggy Pop comes to terms with ‘80s-style glitz on Blah Blah Blah. This 1986 release reunites Iggy with old comrade David Bowie, who as co-producer steers things in a direction similar to his own Let’s Dance. The tracks are defined by cool keyboard gloss and relentless programmed rhythms, scuffed up in spots by ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones’ guitar thrusts. Mature expressions like “Fire Girl” and “Cry for Love” suggest Pop has outgrown the drooling lust of his Stooges days. “Hideaway” and “Shades” are thoughtful swipes at trendy materialism. On the more manic side are “Winners & Losers” (an outraged howl crackling with sexual envy) and the title track (a revved-up screed ripping into everything from Shimon Perez to “petrified food”). “Real Wild Child (Wild One),” a thumping remake of rockabilly artist Johnny O’Keefe’s 1958 hit, serves as a reassertion of Iggy’s rebel credentials. Overall, Blah Blah Blah plays to the mainstream while offering enough subversive elements to please a committed Pop partisan.
Customer Reviews
Iggy's Best Solo Albulm
This albulm is Iggy's best solo albulm IMHO. Every track seems like a very worthy song and you really feel the synergy between Bowie and Iggy at its best since the 1970's. There's the manic silliness of "Blah Blah Blah" and "Real Wild Child." There are also the deep and powerful tracks like "Shades", "Isolation", and "Cry for Love." And of course there are some plain old great Rock and Roll songs (with a Bowie/Eno/new-wave type feel) such as "Fire Girl" and "Little Miss Emperor." Give these tracks a listen and I'm sure you'll be hooked if you like Iggy at all.
Hands Down One of Iggy's Best
With or without the Stooges, this is one of Iggy's best and most consistent albums. His singing sounds better on this album than any other. It definitely has an eighties sound to it which is a bonus. "Winners and Losers" sounds like a leftover from the "Soldier" album but just because it sounds out of place on this album doesn't make it bad. I've never heard "Little Miss Emperoror" (it wasn't on my copy) but most of these songs are on every Iggy mix I make for people. They show his tragic, heartbreaking, soulful side in a way not heard since "China Girl" on "The Idiot." This album had a couple singles on it and I can't believe it didn't have several. Like anyone else, I love The Idiot, Lust for Life, the Stooges material, but this is easily my favorite of his 37 year career. Instinct would be a close second.
UNDERRATED MASTERPIECE
I absolutely love Iggy, almost everything he has done, with some exceptions here and there. This one is often called his "mainstream" album-- although in retrospect, that has to be reassessed-- The Passenger and tracks off Raw Power (Stooges) are much more well known than anything off this 1986 release. The only hit from this was the bland and by-the-numbers Wild Child, an obscure, regional hit which Ig must have had a personal love for--since it is not only an undistinguishable pop/rock song, it isn't even a good one. The rest of the tracks on this album betray a sensitive, romantic individual in love with his lady and with life. The lyrics are about real emotions-- loneliness, acceptance, a thirst for genuine experiece, for a home-- and the crooning is some of Ig's most polished and technical to date (I mean that in a sincerely good way). Yes, being a Bowie-produced album from the 80's, it does have that certain ceramic-surface polish which a lot of the synth-pop music from that era did, but we had different standards back then, and it was a bit bewildering then anyhow. Oh, what's the point-- the chances are like me, you are well over 21 and know s**t from shinola. If you are a kid and new to Iggy's music, don't start here--start at Raw Power, remixed by Ig, or at The Idiot. As for this one, just buy the album and enjoy it.
Biography
Born: April 21, 1947 in Muskegon, MI
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Iggy Pop
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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Real Wild Child (Wild One) | Blah-Blah-Blah | 3:38 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Passenger | Lust for Life | 4:44 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Lust for Life | Lust for Life | 5:13 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Candy | Brick By Brick | 4:13 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Cry for Love | Blah-Blah-Blah | 4:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Kick It | Kick It - Single | 2:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Passenger | Random Noise | 4:42 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitI Wanna Be Your Dog | Heroin Hates You | 4:17 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Electro Sixteen | Rock 'N' Rave | 6:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Real Wild Child | A Million In Prizes: The Anthology | 3:39 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
- $7.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Hard Rock, Adult Alternative, Alternative, Punk, Arena Rock, Pop, Pop/Rock
- Released: Oct 27, 1986
- ℗ 1986 A&M Records Inc.
