Iggy Pop - The Idiot (1977/2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

"The Idiot" is the debut solo album by American musician Iggy Pop. It was the first of two albums that Pop wrote and recorded in collaboration with David Bowie, who is credited as producer. The sessions for the album began before the recording of Bowie's 1977 album "Low"; as a result, "The Idiot" has been called the unofficial beginning of Bowie's Berlin period.

Described by Pop as "a cross between James Brown and Kraftwerk", "The Idiot" marked a departure from the guitar-based proto-punk of his former band the Stooges, and has been compared with Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" of albums in its electronic sounds and introspective atmosphere. Its title was taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title, three of the participants in the recording - Bowie, Pop, and Tony Visconti - being familiar with the book.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Tracklist:

01 - Sister Midnight
02 - Nightclubbing
03 - Funtime
04 - Baby
05 - China Girl
06 - Dum Dum Boys
07 - Tiny Girls
08 - Mass Production

Produced by David Bowie.

Musicians:
Iggy Pop - vocals
David Bowie - keyboards, synthesizer, guitar, piano, saxophone, xylophone, backing vocals, production
Carlos Alomar - guitar
Phil Palmer - guitar
Laurent Thibault - bass
George Murray - bass guitar
Dennis Davis - drums
Michel Santangeli - drums

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