Iggy Pop - Idiot CD

 gritty, sleazey, suicidal
initially this album is quite funny, but then you realise this is actually a very sad record. it almost sounds like a heroin comedown personified. ex-girlfriends, old friends lost forever in the folds of time, feeling lost, mindless inebriation. allsorts of these heavy topics are in here, backed by sleazey honky-tonk Bowie beats and distant foghorns. once you realise this is actually Iggy at one of his lowest points mentally you start to piece together the rest of the history and you begin to realize why he named his albums how he named them. this is 'the idiot' - iggy feels like an outcast, an idiot, no-one cares what he has to say. the next album after this, 'lust for life', is exactly that, it conveys a feeling of regeneration, following a more upbeat, less heavy outlook. Just like 'lust for life' though, this album is a MUST for iggy fans! Just bear in mind that this album is not exactly a party and you might understand it better...however, this is just my interpretaton of things - I could be entirely wrong! look. just buy it.
Submitted by Moses (Yorkshire, UK)
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 The Genius.....
Few albums have been so aptly titled. It has often been forgotten that Iggy Pop was at his lowest ebb when this album was recorded with his only true believer David Bowie. The influence of The Stooges was slowly filtering through to new and upcoming bands on both sides of the Atlantic, but to the average rock fan circa 1975/6, Iggy was a very bad joke... Even so, the initial response to "The Idiot" when it was first released was one of huge disappointment but like many of his albums, his genius only becomes apparent many years later. The influence of this album has been enormous over three decades, although it is interesting to note that Iggy never followed the path he started. But why should he ? Possibly one of the most heartbreaking albums ever made, especially on "Dum Dum Boys" and " Mass Production" where the aura of immense sorrow projected is utterly overwhelming.( Pop learnt his lessons from Frank Sinatra well....) It came as no surprise, this music was the final thing Ian Curtis from Joy Division was to hear on one forlorn day in May 1980....
Submitted by Rob J (Letchworth, Herts)
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 Punk meets Electronica ... the seeds are sown
This is probably my favorite all time album and the start of my adulation for one I Pop. The album shows it's hand in the first 3 tracks introducing the listener to Euro-Industrial Electronica somewhat hiding the guitars. Nightclubbing has to go down as one of the funniest songs of all time, I mean how many time have you been caught with your mates at 4am looking for somewhere to go (which was better than the last dive you were just thrown out of). The middle section returns to glorious guitar with the riff for Dum Dum Boys truley memorable. Iggy also writes great lyrics just check out Tiny Girls and try not to smirk when Iggy delivers the killer line at the end - "What did you think?". Finally there is the closing Mass Production and if that isn't the seeds for Massive Attack, Radiohead then I'm not here.
Submitted by a reviewer (Sydney, Australia)
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