The BPA has released the official video for their single “He’s Frank” featuring Iggy Pop… as a puppet! The puppetized punker gets to some punching toward the end of the video. Very entertaining. In addition to this there are 8, count ‘em 8, remixes of the single available here.
January 27, 2009
March 16, 2007
Stooges Huh? Weird.
Artist: The Stooges
Title: The Weirdness
I originally heard of The Stooges and Iggy Pop through reading about Joy Division and how their lead singer hanged himself after listening to Iggy’s “The Idiot”, then I heard about Iggy Pop later when I was reading about David Bowie’s many collaborations. Iggy’s latest collaboration with TeddyBears for the single “Punkrocker” was also excellent. From the forays into finding out more about Iggy and the Stooges, I discovered that most of their songs are based on carefree atonal rocking. I’m not saying that in a bad way, he is after all, the godfather of punk. If you’re looking for a youthful disregard for order, you’ll still find it on this disc; just don’t expect anything like “Lust For Life”. You can hear the strain in Iggy’s voice from all the wear over the years, but that still doesn’t stop him from giving it his best shot. Although most of the songs sound the same, there is one departure that involves a tempo change; “The Weirdness”(5) and it is refreshingly different from what you would think of when you think of a Stooges song. The successful results from the familiar formula include “My idea of Fun” (4), “Free & Freaky” (5), and “Passing Cloud” (11). It’s remarkable that they even released a new album, how could some of the founding punks possibly be around after so many of their followers died so long ago? I think it was because they took up swimming.
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