ILM Artist Poll No. 80 · Iggy & The Stooges · Results Thread

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01. Iggy & The Stooges - Search & Destroy
Raw Power · 1973 · 602 Points [ 4 Nº1 vote, 20 votes ]
https://youtu.be/EDNzQ3CXspU

Spreadsheet Full Results and Ballots. (now with correction for ‘I’m Sick of You’)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LHfKXNgbHwB6QCSwuhbTekW5vIiQluLB0twOXWuNm-Q/
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/57K16cv1nO4qpHf61uUvcQ
Imgur Top 08 Albums: http://imgur.com/a/Ma2vq
Imgur Top 50 Songs: http://imgur.com/a/Bt8Zq

Pretty unfuckwithable top 10.

jeez Fall In Love With Me isn't in the top 50 Iggy tracks?? i'm shocked, that's a killer!

Yea i did mine in a rush and forgot about a couple because i didnt have time to think too much but also i felt like anything and most orders would be good - most of these are interchangably just stone cold great - i guess for me talking points are that Search and Destroy was so clearly the number one and yea- fall in love with me IS a killer - and good to see that KILL CITY seems to have taken hold as some of his best work. Is it just me or has the reputation of Raw Power steadily gained in currency in the last few years - for a while there it always seemed like Funhouse was universally everybodies number one but now it seems like the momentum is changing. Funny how time goes.

Back in the 70s I recall that Raw Power was rated well above Funhouse - thanks to the first two Stooges albums being out of print and very hard to find, Bowie's involvement, the iconic Mick Rock album cover, and Search and Destroy becoming by far his most covered song.

You can't overstate the importance of Bowie to Iggy's career. He was pretty much just a myth, if anything, to the record buying public back then, someone Creem or Rock Scene magazine talked about but no one else did, until Bowie got involved with him again in 76.

He was pretty much just a myth, if anything, to the record buying public back then, someone Creem or Rock Scene magazine talked about but no one else did

I feel like this is true of Lou Reed, too - the guy somehow managed to sustain a four decade career based on nothing but the good will of rock critics.

You got from "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" to "I Wanna Be Your Dog" in five years. That to me always seemed kind of a mind blower.

That remixed Kill City was new to me. I had the old CD and while you could tell the songs were interesting, they were so murky it was hard to take them more as than just raw demos. I'm sure modern DAW software they were really able to clean them up and get such a clear mix. There is definitely a good album there. It would be cool if the multi-tracks were available of Mission Burma's two Taang records of demos to get a remix like that.

why ya gotta tease me with imaginary MOB remixes :)

that would be so cool

I'm really surprised 'The Passenger' didn't make the Top 10... that's one song I would have assumed would have been up there. Anyway, this was a great poll. It's a bit of a shame that ILX seemingly fucking fell asleep during it.

tv eye being so high is the surprise for me... always thought it one of the album's weaker tracks.

"TV Eye" was my #1.

My full ballot:

SONGS
1. TV Eye
2. Five Foot One
3. Down On the Street
4. Lust for Life
5. Girls
6. Repo Man
7. Mr. Dynamite
8. Knockin’ ‘Em Down (in the City)
9. Sister Midnight
10. Dirt
11. Nightclubbing
12. Funtime
13. Success
14. The Endless Sea
15. Bang Bang
16. Cry for Love
17. I’m Bored
18. I Got Nothin’
19. Gimme Danger
20. Look Away

ALBUMS
1. Fun House
2. Lust for Life
3. New Values
4. Blah-Blah-Blah
5. Soldier

is the '73 footage above the only existing footage of the Williamson version of the band?

I was p surprised at Search and Destroy at no. 1 tbh, but then I've never really liked either mix I've heard of Raw Power, they just make it a really unpleasant/frustrating listening experience.

When I think about it, the Spacemen 3 rip of TV Eye definitely had an influence on me voting it as high as I did.

Also, did anyone mention the Jarmusch film? (I might have missed it upthread.) Too bad poll didn't coincide more with that...

yea that footage above i hadn't seen before - one thing about that recent jarmusch doco that i thought was a bummer was - ok kool interviews and stuff but there seemed to be no new footage of primetime stooges that i saw - apart from the usual stuff

Saw the Jarmusch last night. Liked most of it, although I would have been more interested in 20 minutes on The Idiot and Lust for Life than the reunion stuff, even though I understand that it's a Stooges film, not an Iggy film. The Ed Sanders and Warhol anecdotes were really funny.

I rank the first fifteen years of his solo years.

You’re missing Kill City the same year as the idiot :(

an oversight!

It was recorded in '75 and isn't billed as a solo album, so I think you're OK there.

"Repo Man" is the last great song he recorded.

I love "Shades," man.

"The Endless Sea" was a track that really caught with me in my couple recent listens to New Values. It might be the closest Iggy track to what it 'might' have sounded like if a collaboration with the Doors would have worked.

otm "The Endless Sea" -> "Five Foot One" is a great pair of tracks, can't help but think that Sonic Youth must have paid attention to that pair