Not the most influential album that The Stooges ever came out with, but certainly a very important album nonetheless. This gave Iggy the setting for a good solid album that has some really great moments. The Songs "Real Cool Time" and "No Fun" really seemed aimed at an apathetic youth with a good round of repetitive and sarcastic lyrics:
I say we will have a real cool time tonight.
I say we will have a real cool time tonight.
I say we will have a real cool time tonight.
I say we will have a real cool time tonight.
I say we will have a real cool time tonight.
This kind of message to its extent wasn't ever produced before, and in its overly aggressive simplistic manner, had a huge effect on people.
Iggy was mostly known for his energetic and manic performances, and while there are many of these moments on this release there are only two songs that show the band's more experimental take on music, with "We Will Fall" and "Ann". A truly interesting listen if you can time warp back around 40 years. Recommended!
a famous quote by iggy in a tv interview, it reads:
I don't know Jonny Rotten, but I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise is in fact the brilliant music of a genius: myself. And that music is so powerful that it's quite beyond my control, and when I'm in the grips of it I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain , either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what i'm talking about? Have you ever felt like that? When you just couldn't feel anything and you didn't want to either. You know? Like that? Do you understand what i'm saying sir?
Listen!
Amazing listen. This album has some great bowie/bolan revival highlights. Really felt like listening to one of the classics right away. The opening song "Big Store" is a deliciously sour piece of satire with a kickass opening guitar riff (nerr nerrrr nerrr nerrr neeeeer neeeeerr!!!). Aside from looking like vampires, Jacobites have some of the loosest swagger of any other while still putting forth a huge amount of emotion into their songs. You have to listen to track 8 on the 2nd cd "Before I Die", while it has a much different sound to the rest of the album, still a gem. Worth every minute!!
