Self-Deprecation: Despite its unflattering title it's still Iggy who we see on the album cover.The song "China Girl" would later be re-recorded by David Bowie on his album Let's Dance (1983). Repurposed Pop Song: Bowie re-worked "Sister Midnight" with new lyrics and a new title as "Red Money" on his 1979 album Lodger.Real Life Writes the Plot: "Dum Dum Boys" was written by Iggy in remembrance of his former Stooges bandmates who succumbed to their wild lifestyle.One-Word Title: "Nightclubbing", "Funtime", "Baby".Both Pop and Higelin were recording at the Château d'Hérouville in France when the song was written. One-Woman Song: "China Girl", based on Pop's brief infatuation for Kuelan Nguyen, who was French pop singer Jacques Higelin's partner at the time.Mistaken Nationality: Iggy Pop's infatuation for an Asian woman was the inspiration for "China Girl".The sound meanwhile is the exact opposite, being a frigid and bone-splitting industrial tune with droning, deadpan vocals. Lyrical Dissonance: The lyrics to "Funtime" are energetic-sounding on paper, describing a particularly joyous and all-including night out.In the Style of: Bowie advised Iggy Pop to sing "Funtime" like Mae West.
Bowie would remain Two other stage players on the circuit, Todd Rundgren collaborators Tony Fox Sales and Hunt Sales (sons of Soupy), would later become Bowie's bandmates in the Hard Rock supergroup Tin Machine just over a decade later. To promote The Idiot, Bowie eschewed the possibility of a supporting tour for Low and instead acted as a sideman for Pop during his own tour. Bowie would co-write and co-produce two more of Pop's solo albums, Lust for Life later in 1977 and Blah-Blah-Blah in 1986. Recorded just before Bowie's album Low but released two months after, The Idiot acts as a direct prototype for Bowie's Berlin Trilogy (which makes up 1977's Low & "Heroes" and 1979's Lodger), featuring a similar Krautrock and ambient-infused style of art rock that builds off Bowie's earlier avant-funk experiments on Station to Station. Made after the breakup of The Stooges, the album was written and recorded with help from David Bowie. The Idiot introduced the world to a very different Iggy Pop, and if the results surprised anyone expecting a replay of the assault of Raw Power, it also made it clear that Iggy was older, wiser, and still had plenty to say it's a flawed but powerful and emotionally absorbing work.The Idiot is the debut studio album by Iggy Pop, released in 1977. Iggy's new music was cerebral and inward-looking, where his early work had been a glorious call to the id, and Iggy was in more subdued form than with the Stooges, with his voice sinking into a world-weary baritone that was a decided contrast to the harsh, defiant cry heard on "Search and Destroy." Iggy was exploring new territory as a lyricist, and his songs on The Idiot are self-referential and poetic in a way that his work had rarely been in the past for the most part the results are impressive, especially "Dum Dum Boys," a paean to the glory days of his former band, and "Nightclubbing," a call to the joys of decadence. Musically, The Idiot is of a piece with the impressionistic music of Bowie's "Berlin Period" (such as Heroes and Low), with it's fragmented guitar figures, ominous basslines, and discordant, high-relief keyboard parts. Bowie co-wrote a batch of new songs with Iggy, put together a band, and produced The Idiot, which took Iggy in a new direction decidedly different from the guitar-fueled proto-punk of the Stooges. Released on 18th March 1977, it was released following the breakup of The Stooges in 1974 (the band since reformed), it was. Iggy 's new music was cerebral and inward-looking, where his early work had been a glorious call to the id, and Iggy was in. when it comes to the upcoming forty-fifth anniversary of Iggy Pop’s The Idiot. Musically, The Idiot is of a piece with the impressionistic music of Bowie 's 'Berlin Period' (such as Heroes and Low ), with it's fragmented guitar figures, ominous basslines, and discordant, high-relief keyboard parts. After a self-imposed stay in a mental hospital, a significantly more functional Iggy was desperate to prove he could hold down a career in music, and he was given another chance by his longtime ally, David Bowie. 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. In 1976, the Stooges had been gone for two years, and Iggy Pop had developed a notorious reputation as one of rock & roll's most spectacular waste cases.
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