History Music / IggyPop

* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Iggy's vocal delivery was always sexy, suave and full of lust. He performed in his bare midriff and sang about IntercourseWithYou topics. Iggy often battled with alcohol and heroin addiction and songs like "Nightclubbing", "Funtime", "Dum Dum Boys" (from ''Music/TheIdiot'') and "Lust For Life", "Tonight" (from ''Music/LustForLife'') condemn the monotone and dangerous lifestyle that goes with it.

* ''Post Pop Depression'' (2016)

Iggy has also acted a few times, mostly in the films of Creator/JimJarmusch, among which ''Film/CoffeeAndCigarettes'' (with Music/TomWaits) and ''Film/DeadMan'', where he appears in drag. He also appeared in ''Music/SidAndNancy'' (1986), ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'' (1986), ''Film/CryBaby'' (1990) and ''Film/TankGirl''. He also appeared as Yelgrun in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', as a man with a whiplash injury in ''Film/SnowDay'' (2000), gave voice contributions to ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', and did the ExpositoryThemeTune for the animated series ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs''.

* MisattributedSong: "A Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins was not sung by Iggy Pop, nor a cover by him.

Bowie then helped Iggy with getting a solo career on the road. Iggy provides backing vocals on Bowie's song "What in the World" from ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'' (1976), while Bowie produced Iggy's debut album ''Music/TheIdiot'' and ''Music/LustForLife'' (both from 1977), which launched Iggy as a rockstar in his own right. His third album, "New Values" (1979), went back to his roots with The Stooges and therefore met with lesser sales. His next albums "Soldier" (1980) and "Party" (1981) didn't fare well either and he was dropped from his label. "Zombie Birdhouse" (1982) didn't change anything, but when Bowie covered "China Girl" (a song from ''Music/TheIdiot'') on his album ''Music/LetsDance'') the royalties and interest generated a new interest in Iggy Pop. Bowie produced and co-wrote his next album, "Blah Blah Blah", whichs spawned the UK Top 10 Hit "Real Wild Child". "Instinct" (1988) saw Iggy again returning to Stoogesque rock and once again he was dropped by the label. Virgin signed him instead and his next album "Brick By Brick" (1990) was his best album in years, with the lead single "Candy" (a duet with Kate Pierson from the B-52s) becoming a US Top 20 hit. As Iggy's career rolled on interest in his work was solidified by use of his music in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1996), frequent touring and covers of his songs by other artists.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Préliminaires'' and ''Après''. Both albums are LighterAndSofter in tone as ''Préliminaires'' is heavily influenced by jazz and bossa nova, and ''Après'' is a CoversAlbum of his favorite French and jazz songs. In fact, he called ''Préliminaires'' his response to being bored sick of the state of rock music.

Born as James Newell Osterberg in 1947 Iggy was one of many teenagers whose life was made more colorful by RockAndRoll. He started off as a drummer in the band The Iguanas at high school, then move on to the blues band The Prime Movers before Music/JamesBrown, {{Blues}} and Music/TheDoors inspired him to do something completely different. He founded a band with bass player Dave Alexander and the brothers Ron (guitar) and Scott (drums) Asheton, where he became the frontman. Initially called the Psychedelic Stooges the band were a PsychedelicRock band as there were thirteen in a dozen near the end of TheSixties. Under a new name Music/TheStooges the band eventually made the bridge between the peace loving hippie crowd and the protopunk music that would shape TheSeventies towards PunkRock.

Bowie then helped Iggy with getting a solo career on the road. Iggy provides backing vocals on Bowie's song "What in the World" from ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]'' (1976), while Bowie produced Iggy's debut album ''Music/TheIdiot'' and ''Music/LustForLife'' (both from 1977), which launched Iggy as a rockstar in his own right. His third album, "New Values" (1979), went back to his roots with The Stooges and therefore met with lesser sales. His next albums "Soldier" (1980) and "Party" (1981) didn't fare well either and he was dropped from his label. "Zombie Birdhouse" (1982) didn't change anything, but when Bowie covered "China Girl" (a song from ''Music/TheIdiot'') on his album ''Music/LetsDance'') the royalties and interest generated a new interest in Iggy Pop. Bowie produced and co-wrote his next album, "Blah Blah Blah", whichs spawned the UK Top 10 Hit "Real Wold Child". "Instinct" (1988) saw Iggy again returning to Stoogesque rock and once again he was dropped by the label. Virgin signed him instead and his next album "Brick By Brick" (1990) was his best album in years, with the lead single "Candy" (a duet with Kate Pierson from the B-52s) becoming a US Top 20 hit. As Iggy's career rolled on interest in his work was solidified by use of his music in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1996), frequent touring and covers of his songs by other artists.

Iggy has also acted a few times, mostly in the films of Creator/JimJarmusch, among which ''Film/CoffeeAndCigarettes'' (with Music/TomWaits) and ''Film/DeadMan'', where he appears in drag. He also appeared in ''Music/SidAndNancy'' (1986), ''Film/TheColorOfMoney'' (1986), ''Film/CryBaby'' (1990) and ''Film/TankGirl''. He also appeared as Yelgrun in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', as a man with a whiplash injury in ''Film/SnowDay'' (2000) and gave voice contributions to ''WesternAnimation/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie''.

Born als James Newell Osterberg in 1947 Iggy was one of many teenagers whose life was made more colorful by RockAndRoll. He started off as a drummer in the band The Iguanas at high school, then move on to the blues band The Prime Movers before Music/JamesBrown, {{Blues}} and Music/TheDoors inspired him to do something completely different. He founded a band with bass player Dave Alexander and the brothers Ron (guitar) and Scott (drums) Asheton, where he became the frontman. Initially called the Psychedelic Stooges the band were a PsychedelicRock band as there were thirteen in a dozen near the end of TheSixties. Under a new name Music/TheStooges the band eventually made the bridge between the peace loving hippie crowd and the protopunk music that would shape TheSeventies towards PunkRock.

The Godfather of Punk, the [[Music/RawPower World's Forgotten Boy]] and a mainstay in rock and roll since 1969, '''Iggy Pop''' may be one of the most energetic, threatening and exciting performers in the genre.

Iggy was TheFaceOfTheBand. He was an exciting and outrageously energetic performer during stage shows, just all movement. You couldn't take his eyes off him and often his antics were so audacious that a large part of the crowd actually felt frightened of him at times. Iggy smeared himself with peanut butter, rolled around in broken glass and even jumped into the crowd (which later became known as stage diving and crowd-surfing), all while baiting an verbally abusing his audience. This alienated a large part of the crowd, but attracted a dedicated cult audience. Their three albums, ''[[Music/TheStoogesAlbum The Stooges]]'' (1969), ''Music/FunHouse'' (1970) and ''Music/RawPower'' (1973) are now [[CultClassic cult classics]], but didn't sell well at the time. The band also suffered under extreme heroin and alcohol abuse. After Music/DavidBowie produced the Stooges' third and final album ''Music/RawPower (1973)'' the band had a GrandFinale with a grandiose album in every sense of the word, but nevertheless split soon afterwards. Bowie then helped Iggy with getting a solo career on the road. He produced his debut album ''Music/TheIdiot'' and ''Music/LustForLife'' (both from 1977), which launched Iggy as a rockstar in his own right. His third album, "New Values" (1979), went back to his roots with The Stooges and therefore met with lesser sales. His next albums "Soldier" (1980) and "Party" (1981) didn't fare well either and he was dropped from his label. "Zombie Birdhouse" (1982) didn't change anything, but when Bowie covered "China Girl" (a song from ''Music/TheIdiot'') on his album ''Music/LetsDance'') the royalties and interest generated a new interest in Iggy Pop. Bowie produced and co-wrote his next album, "Blah Blah Blah", whichs spawned the UK Top 10 Hit "Real Wold Child". "Instinct" (1988) saw Iggy again returning to Stoogesque rock and once again he was dropped by the label. Virgin signed him instead and his next album "Brick By Brick" (1990) was his best album in years, with the lead single "Candy" (a duet with Kate Pierson from the B-52s) becoming a US Top 20 hit. As Iggy's career rolled on interest in his work was solidified by use of his music in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' (1996), frequent touring and covers of his songs by other artists.

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* RefrainFromAssuming: "A Girl Like You" by Edwyn Collins was not sung by Iggy Pop, nor a cover by him.

* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Iggy embodies this trope like no other. His vocal delivery was always sexy, suave and full of lust. He performed in his bare midriff and sang about IntercourseWithYou topics. Iggy often battled with alcohol and heroin addiction and songs like "Nightclubbing", "Funtime", "Dum Dum Boys" (from ''Music/TheIdiot'') and "Lust For Life", "Tonight" (from ''Music/LustForLife'') condemn the monotone and dangerous lifestyle that goes with it.

* LargeHam: Iggy Pop, a CrazyAwesome one.

* CoolOldGuy: Steve Albini described the private Iggy Pop as this, of course as BadassGrandpa.

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[[caption-width-right:500:The Stooges in 1974. Left to right: front - Iggy Pop, Scott Thurston; back - Scott and Ron Asheton, James Williamson]]

->''"I am the world's forgotten boy''
-->''The one who searches to destroy"''
-->--'''The Stooges''', "Search and Destroy"

The Stooges were a proto-punk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]], Michigan, active between 1967-1974, who along with their fellow Michiganders Music/{{MC5}} proved to be [[TropeMaker enormously influential on the development of]] PunkRock.

The band's lineup was as follows:
* Iggy Pop - vocals (1967-1974)
* Ron Asheton - guitar (1967-1971), bass (1971-1974)
* James Williamson - guitar (1971-1974)
* Dave Alexander - bass (1967-1971)
* Scott Asheton - drums (1967-1974)

The band's SignatureStyle was aggressive, incredibly simple proto-punk based around Ron Asheton and later James Williamson's heavy, hypnotic riffs, Scott Asheton's tribal rhythms and Iggy Pop's awesomeness. One of the original CrazyAwesome frontmen of rock, Pop was famous for his extreme behaviour during live concerts, which included rolling around in broken glass, smearing himself with peanut butter, performing [[WalkingShirtlessScene without a shirt]], [[TropeMaker inventing crowd-surfing]] and baiting and verbally abusing the audience.

The Stooges, much like their fellow protopunkers the MC5, only released three albums during their initial career. Their first two albums were ''The Stooges'' and ''Fun House''. These didn't sell well but attracted a cult audience and were later VindicatedByHistory, recognised as classic protopunk albums. The group temporarily collapsed in 1971 after being dropped from their record label and suffering from severe heroin abuse, but were quickly rallied by DavidBowie, [[NetworkToTheRescue who got them a new contract and produced their final album]] ''Raw Power''. Bowie's mix was frequently the source of controversy as he was brought in to salvage the album after a botched, amateurish mix by Iggy. The band barely lasted another year before breaking up for good. Iggy went on to a solo career and remained friends with Bowie ever since.

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial to say the least 1997 remaster of ''Raw Power'', which is always cited as the worst possible example of the LoudnessWar. He also reunited the band in 2003, thankfully stayed away from the remasters of their other two albums and recorded a new Stooges album, ''The Weirdness''. Fan reaction has largely been... mixed, with frequent invoking of FanonDisContinuity.

Discography:
* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum The Stooges]]'' (1969)
* ''Fun House'' (1970)
* ''Raw Power'' (1973)
* ''The Weirdness'' (2007)
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* AlbumFiller: The band only had five songs written when they were due to record their first album (namely: "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "No Fun", "1969", "Ann" and "We Will Fall"). Iggy bluffed and said they had "hundreds" when the record company said there weren't enough songs. According to legend, half the album was written in a hurry the night before the first session.
* BreakupBreakout: Iggy Pop went on to a successful solo career.
* CarefulWithThatAxe
-->''LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD!''
* ContemptibleCover: Both ''Fun House'' and ''Raw Power'' show Iggy Pop shirtless.
* CreatorBacklash: Both [[http://www.i94bar.com/ints/james1.html James Williamson]] and [[http://www.i94bar.com/ints/asheton2.html Ron Asheton]] hate Iggy's butchering of ''Raw Power''.
* DoNotGoGentle: Their last gig (before the reunion) was in front of an audience full of bikers who hated the band and kept pelting them with beer bottles. Why were they there? [[DeathSeeker Because Iggy had dared them to come, and kept baiting them until they physically knocked him out.]]
* EpicRocking: "We Will Fall", "Dirt", "Fun House".
* GenreShift: "We Will Fall" is a 10-minute creepy drone-based song with screeching violas by the album's [[RecordProducer producer]] [[VelvetUnderground John Cale]].
* GratuitousPanning: ''The Stooges'' loves putting the guitar on the left.
* HotBlooded: Iggy, natch.
* IntercourseWithYou: "Penetration", with its cool bastardised RollingStones riff and Iggy's screaming vocals, ain't exactly subtle...
* LoopedLyrics
* LoudnessWar: Iggy's remaster of ''Raw Power'' is a terrible offender. One of the songs, in a sound editor, gives us the page image. Yes, it sounds as headache-inducingly loud as that screen-cap makes it out to be.
** And that's not even mentioning the ''original'' mix, later released as ''Rough Power'', where Iggy pushed every lever he could find into the red.
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: "No Fun", "Real Cool Time"
* ObligatoryBondageSong: "I Wanna Be Your Dog".
* SelfTitledAlbum
* SomethingBlues: "L.A. Blues"... Which musically has a lot more to do with SensoryAbuse than the blues.
* StageNames: Iggy Pop is actually named James Newell Osterberg. The "Iggy" part came from the fact that he used to drum for a band called The Iguanas while in high school.
* {{Suburbia}}: Some of their early songs are about just how fucking boring Ann Arbor was in TheSixties. No news on how boring it is today though...
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Yes, yes, they're a mega-awesome balls-out proto-punk band with a charismatic HotBlooded frontman. They also recorded "Ann", "We Will Fall", "I Need Somebody" and "Gimme Danger".
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth
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TheStooges were a proto-punk band from [[StrawmanU Ann Arbor]], Michigan, active between 1967-1974, who along with their fellow Michiganders Music/{{MC5}} proved to be [[TropeMaker enormously influential on the development of]] PunkRock.

* IggyPop - vocals (1967-1974)

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial to say the least 1997 remaster of ''Raw Power'', which is always cited as the worst possible example of the RecordOfLoudnessWar. He also reunited the band in 2003, thankfully stayed away from the remasters of their other two albums and recorded a new Stooges album, ''The Weirdness''. Fan reaction has largely been... mixed, with frequent invoking of FanonDisContinuity.

* RecordOfLoudnessWar: Iggy's remaster of ''Raw Power'' is a terrible offender. One of the songs, in a sound editor, gives us the page image. Yes, it sounds as headache-inducingly loud as that screen-cap makes it out to be.
** And that's not even mentioning the ''original'' mix, later released as ''Rough Power'', where Iggy pushed every lever he could find into the red.

** And that's not even mentioning the ''original'' mix, later released as ''Rough Power'', where Iggy pushed every lever he could find into the red.
* ScientificProgressGoesOi: James Williamson went into electronics after the breakup of the band.

Iggy was personally responsible for the controversial to say the least 1997 remaster of ''Raw Power'', which is always cited as the worst possible example of the RecordOfLoudnessWar. He also reunited the band in 2003, thankfully stayed away from the remasters of their other two albums and recorded a new Stooges album, ''The Weirdness''. Fan reaction has largely been... mixed, with frequent invoking of DisContinuity.