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I still find it wild that Bowie, Iggy and Lou Reed all hung out together, and it’s fucking Iggy that’s still with us.
I think the only difference was Iggy didn’t wear shirts often. So it must have been chemicals in their clothes.
I’d never heard of the stooges until a few minutes ago. The stooges wiki mentions them as the father of punk rock, which i can see. But, i don’t think their music aged that well.
This would be an excellent post for unpopular opinions
It’s nostalgia if you enjoy them. Every one is entitled to their opinion. I didn’t grow up with them, and the sound, especially the instrument mixing is meh to me. You’re allowed to have a different opinion and that’s fine.
I was being sincere not snarky. Stooges and Iggy are still highly regarded and still end up in modern soundtracks for films, etc. So your opinion is probably an unpopular one. If you don’t like them, you don’t like them. Not a big deal.
I agree with both of your opinions
Coffee and Cigarettes comes up in newpipe. Not my favorite Jim Jarmusch but it works
Fun fact, during this era Bowie worked with Iggy to make Iggy’s first solo album, which became a hit, with the iconic song “Passenger” and, lyrics largely improvised on the fly in the studio. They made the album in a little over a week, well under the time budgeted for, and split the leftover money the label had given them. Read about it here: https://norselandsrock.com/the-passenger-iggy-pop/
Not quite accurate - they made Iggys first solo album, The Idiot, during this period, which is a fantastic album but a) basically just a Bowie album with Iggy doing all of the singing b) had no big hits. Bowie basically wrote that album and his own (Low) at the same time, but then decided touring with Iggy would be more fun, so he didn’t do a tour for Low and just started gigging with Iggy as his keyboard player.
During those live shows they came up with a bunch of ideas that they then whipped into Iggy’s second album, Lust for Life, with only a little only a week of studio time, and that second album became the biggest hit of Iggy’s career (because it turns out the computerized alien funk that Bowie made in a studio didn’t work great for Iggy, but putting him in front of a kickass rock band and just letting them burn the house down worked great).
I sure hope they didn’t spend it all on drugs…
You kidding? Those drugs created some of the greatest, most iconic music of all time, Hell, we should be thanking drugs
“See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do. And if you don’t believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor - go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn 'em. 'Cause you know what? The musicians who’ve made all that great music that’s enhanced your lives throughout the years… real fucking high on drugs.”
Bill Hicks, as sampled on Third Eye by TOOL.
Nah, such fine upstanding young men would never do that.
Bowie’s problems at the time were with cocaine, which LA was awash in. West Berlin was more a heroin town.
OK… But H is worse…
I think it was more the fact that Bowie knew all the dealers in LA and would have a mountain of whatever kind of drugs he wanted in front of him in less than five minutes if he had a craving there but he didn’t have that kind of connect in Berlin
Heroin was Iggy’s drug of choice though.
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Fun fact: Iggy Pop also kidnapped Quark’s mom.
Not to mention the 3 banger “Berlin Trilogy” Bowie albums made during this period.
Low, “Heroes”, & Lodger
It worked, though, so it’s hard to knock it. I thought Bowie was already clean, though?
Well he certainly hasnt taken drugs for at least a decade.
Oof that’s rough
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When he went to Berlin, not…oh, fuck it, my English sucks apparently.
No, it doesn’t, people on the internet just like to be dicks for their own amusement.
🤡 < me
When I was a kid in school, my teacher made the class watch Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.
I still don’t like the thought of needles… Or Berlin for that matter.
So they were roommates?
Let’s go to the Frankfurt train station instead. Nothing bad has ever happened there!
Pfft, I’ll raise you one Nünrberg Hbf.
I see nothing that could possibly go wrong with that plan.
