An album a day, fuck you Passos, we won't pay!
"The Idiot", Iggy Pop, 1977
Dia: 10
Mês: Abril
Ano: 2013
Ano: 2013
O primeiro álbum em nome próprio de Iggy Pop, com a colaboração de David Bowie, na composição e gravação. Lançado no mesmo ano de "Low" de Bowie, é também um álbum da época de Berlim, onde os dois viviam na altura. No seu álbum "Trans-Europe Express" do mesmo ano (77), os Kraftwerk faziam homenagem a estes dois:
«From station to station
Back to Dusseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie
Trans-Europe Express»
O título, "The Idiot", vem do romance de Dostoiévski.
The Trouser Press Record Guide – Fourth Edition (Collier Books, 1991): After the Stooges ended, Iggy resurfaced as a solo artist, under the influence of David Bowie, The Idiot's producer and co-writer. Instead of flailing all over the place Iggy conserves his energy on numbers like surprisingly funky "Sister Midnight" and the menacing "Funtime". The album's tone is generally subdued ("Baby", "Nightclubbing", "Dum Dum Boys"), lumbering along in medium gear. It's disturbingly effective, but of mixed parentage.
The A to X of Alternative Music (Continuum, 2004): Iggy Pop worked with Bowie again in 1977, the year punk broke, and at the height of his notoriety as the Godfather Of Punk, he opted to make two albums which explored the possibilities of electronic music on several of the tracks, the sinister "Nightclubbing" reflecting Bowie's own current fascination with cold pulse-driven music.
The Rolling Stone Album Guide – Third Edition (Random House, 1992): Producer David Bowie modernizes the dense psychedelic blare of the Stooges, substituting synth moans for guitar wails and keeping the jackhammer beat largely intact. This stark electronic sheen alienated more than a few old Pop fans, but the Bowie association and the advent of new wave brought Iggy to a much larger audience. A unique sensibility inhabits the crunching rockers and burnt-out torch songs on these two albums [The Idiot, Lust for Life]: brooding, sardonic, restless, outraged, perceptive, funny as hell, slightly bitter. The Idiot knowingly pokes through the residue of hedonism-run-amuck on "Funtime" and "Nightclubbing". ★★★★
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Indie & New Wave (Virgin Books and Muze, 1998): In 1977 Bowie produced two studio albums – The Idiot and Lust For Life – using Hunt and Tony Sales, with Bowie himself, unheralded, playing keyboards. Key tracks from these two seminal albums include "Nightclubbing", "The Passenger" and "China Girl" (co-written with and later recorded by Bowie). Iggy also returned one of the several favours he owed Bowie by guesting on backing vocals on Low. ★★★★
AllMusic: 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. ★★★★★
Punk News: The Idiot remained a cult favorite. While not a big seller, moments have been permanently engrained in the pop culture landscape. "Nightclubbing" famously lent its electronic drum programming to Nine Inch Nails’s "Closer" and was prominently featured in the film "Trainspotting". (http://youtu.be/6u4S8XCiWZk) ★★★★1/2
The Quietus – Forget 'Lodger', Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot' Is The Last Piece Of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy: Iggy Pop’s debut solo album was actually recorded before [Bowie's] Low, and it’s fair to say much of the experimentation that was a feature of the latter started with the former, and not in Berlin, but at the Château d'Hérouville, north of Paris. (...) Château d'Hérouville was probably suggested by Tony Visconti, who had recorded The Slider with T-Rex there. (...) The 18th century chateau had been home to Chopin and George Sand, and was said to be haunted by the composer and his paramore. Years later, the country castle had fallen into disrepair, but it was revived in the 60s as a recording studio. Elton John, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and Gong (amongst many others) recorded albums there, the Bee Gees made ‘Stayin’ Alive’ and ‘How Deep Is Your Love’ at the famous address, while Jean-Michel Jarre once told me he worked there as an assistant when he was younger (...). Located in bucolic surrounds at least 9km from the nearest town – Auver-sur-Oise where Van Gogh and his brother Theo are buried – the only way to get there really is to drive. In other words, it was the perfect location for a couple of recovering misfits looking to avoid temptation and get on with the process of making music away from L.A.
Stereogum – Iggy Pop Albums From Worst To Best: There’s one really good song on The Idiot’s second side: “Dum Dum Boys,” a tribute to/elegy for the Stooges that begins with a poignant spoken rundown of what happened to them. Iggy says, “What happened to Zeke [Zettner, bassist]? He’s dead on a jones, man. How about Dave [Alexander, bassist]? OD’d on alcohol. Oh, what’s Rock [Scott “Rock Action” Asheton, drummer] doing? Oh, he’s living with his mother. What about James [Williamson, guitar]? He’s gone straight.” The song itself is slow and sad, with Iggy confessing that without the Stooges, he “can’t seem to speak the language” and ending with, “The walls close in and I need some noise.”
FeelNumb – Iggy Pop’s 'The Idiot' & David Bowie’s 'Heroes' Album Cover Photos Were Inspired By The Same Painting: Both album cover photos were inspired by the 1917 painting named 'Roquairol' by German artist Erich Heckel.
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