ILM Artist Poll No. 80 · Iggy & The Stooges · Voting Thread [Ends 10/01/16]

Kill City benefited more from remastering than any other album I can think of. Maybe the 1990s Virgin Records reissue of Exile on Main St. And yeah, you're right, it sounds like a Stones album.

kill city yea some days i think this is my favourite thing of his at least after gorging on the stooges first three for so long it has got more play than them in last few years

i guess also there have also been a few scattered singles which are not on iggy albums which i suppose are eligible

I've been promoting the Kill City tracks for a bazillion years, and yes it is one of the best Stones Albums ever. Lucky Monkeys also worthy of mention. The official Kill City version goes a little longer than an earlier bootleg version, and this is being ultra picky, but the older version that fades during the outro is better. Trying to find a version on youtube...

Ok, yeah: this is the one I'd call the definitive version. My favorite Iggy related album period. Sequencing is amazing, and a bunch of the versions are better than any others that I've heard.

https://www.discogs.com/Iggy-Pop-I-Got-A-Right/master/50902

I guess the version of Kill City in spotify is the remasterized one? I'm digging back the iggy pop albums due to this poll but I can't get past this album, I''m floored at how good it is, I don't understand the naysayers. I know I'm wrong but right now it sounds even better than fun house or raw power. There's a certain charm to it, the lyrics are some of Iggy's best nut the whole thing has a very effortless and cynical 'fuck you' vibe. It's really addictive.

But not nut ha

I like basically everything from the original Stooges record up through Blah Blah Blah, then I get more discerning.

Always thought it was funny how the guitars on "Wild America" from American Caesar sound like Thurston & Lee, but neither of them are involved in any way.

Ok, of the two versions on Spotify, the OOP version is better. I usually hate hair-splitting about releases, but the I Got A Right/Kill City tracks are some of the best songs by one of the best rock artists in the history of the medium, so it's worth making the effort. The Kill City remaster cleans things up too much, has a worse ending (the fade out for Lucky Monkeys on I Got A Right is still the best), etc. One of the really rare cases where seeking out a particular version of the album is worth the trouble. I'm still going with the Invasion/Revenge version, which isn't on youtube as best I can tell. Unfortunately that means spending $20+ on a used vinyl copy. It's worth it.

Only two ballots so far but they're wildly different. 30 different tracks have votes, which means they only agreed on 10 out of 40. I like how this is shaping up.

The Kill City remaster cleans things up too much, has a worse ending (the fade out for Lucky Monkeys on I Got A Right is still the best), etc. One of the really rare cases where seeking out a particular version of the album is worth the trouble.

embarrassingly i only know two Iggy Pop solo songs, "Lust for Life" and Nightclubbing any other songs i should check out for this poll?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSpAJwv9iI8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mBT2X3Humc

"New Values" is awesome.

i also know "The Passenger"

not so impressed with "Subtitulada."

good stuff like always Alfred.

you should hear dum dum gurls at least

also kill city

good stuff like always Alfred.

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There's a great live clip of "Five Foot One" (off the horribly produced but still fuckin awesome New Values) where Iggy clocks himself in the mouth with his mic and then does the interview afterwards smiling and bleeding. My #1 Iggy moment.

embarrassingly i only know two Iggy Pop solo songs, "Lust for Life" and Nightclubbing any other songs i should check out for this poll?

― Bee OK, Thursday, September 29, 2016 12:56 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Idiot and Lust For Life are essential albums and I recommend you listen to both in full. New Values has its moments - 'I'm Bored' in particular is a classic.

I won't be voting for anything beyond 1979.

and 'L.A. Blues' for the win.

Spinning New Values for the first time in memory. Still mostly fuckin awesome, but ... I wonder if Iggy, when the subject of "African Man" comes up, just grins sheepishly & says "cocaine's a hell of a drug."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQD32w2hHM

Oha, just discovered, wasn't aware of this at all.

Lobbying for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfivq3Ou4_M

Hey, I'll be away for most of the next week but keep the ballots coming in. We're only at 7 ballots so far, keep them coming!

Repo Man is so good. Also very fond of "Dog Food" and "Endless Sea" (both on regular albums) for their use on the soundtrack of Dogs In Space.

I'd forgotten that I had a very, very brief fling with the actress in this video (I didn't forget the fling, I forgot the video). I won't be voting for the song. I hope she got to actually meet Iggy, as it's hard to tell from the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI_OgLaWVH0

Voted!

that vid reminds me of seeing a song Iggy was working on when we were hanging out with him (ca. ~ 1984, when Bowie's "china girl" was in the charts). he was working on a tune that had working title "stars and stripes". i've always wondered if that ever turned into anything concrete.

Voted!

Xpost: Endless Sea is in my ballot, thought I'd be the lone vote.

Endless Sea is in my ballot, thought I'd be the lone vote.

Hell no. One of the best songs on New Values. I voted for it.

Very slightly OT, but I've always been impressed by the way Momus stole the idea of the ending of "Here Comes Success" for this song. Good example of productive stealing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5YXXZuMxd4

Last week to vote! 11 ballots in.

I'll definitely be getting a ballot in, don't worry!

Last weekend to vote!

Just voted

went to a pub yesterday and there is was: "blah blah blah" on tap. true story, but trying to sow seeds

got my shortlist down to 29 loco mosquito is a weird one

got kill city at number 3 albums

the song ambition is very bowiiie i guess soldier is one i hadnt listened to much

Only 14 ballots so far.

Of the previous polls I've run Stereolab got 40 ballots and Can 36. What is happening ILM? do not let Iggy down.

voted.

got kill city at number 3 albums

my go-to iggy album these days.

voted

Downloaded the non-remastered version of Kill City and now I understand why it got such bad reviews back then, Iggy's voice is buried and the whole thing sounds like crap.

I've never listened to it cuz thats what i always heard about it. Praise here is befuddling.

it's a good album!

the remaster is a top 3 iggy album, the original is a bottom 3.

Respectfully disagree. Original is a sludgy lo fi Stones Album (I think the sludgy lo-fi Stones Album "Exile" is considered one of their best). The remaster just sounds fake, vocals too forward, some bad edits, etc. I suppose it probably comes down to taste and what you heard first.

Also, looking at songs left off of the "official" version, Gimme Some Skin, Tight Pants, Sick of You all add a lot to the sequence, and the replacements don't really thrill me.

Last day to vote!

Only 17 ballots it seems... hope we get interesting results. I'll start counting them tomorrow so if any of you still want to send a ballot you can do it until I post in here that voting is closed.

kinda amazed not more interest or ballots in this - compared to other polls woulda thought this would be more popular - maybe too many people are sucked into trumpland to care

will probably be able to put together a ballot by this evening

Ballot sent!

19 ballots now! Can we get a 20 before I close it?

SENT!

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We're at 22 ballots! I'm almost done counting if you want to send a ballot now's the time!

Ok voting is over! Very happy to say there's no ties in the top 50 songs.

aw man... i've been very inactive lately due to work and life and stuff and completely missed the voting. looking forward to results and playlist!

My list. I don't think I participated in this poll.