Hitting its 40th anniversary, Julian Marszalek reckons that not only is Iggy Pop’s seventh solo record the most misunderstood of all of his LPs, but that it also happens to be David Bowie’s best album of the 80s
Well, no one saw this one coming. Having spent the previous decade lauded as rock & roll’s most compelling survivor – an intoxicating mix of self-destruction, self-sabotage and musical innovation – Iggy Pop found himself, improbably, with a hit album on his hands. Not a reissue, not a compilation or a soundtrack, mind, but a bona fide triumph that would go on to be his most commercially successful album. And if that wasn’t enough, he then ram-raided – for the first and only...
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