Iggy Pop

A more introspective record than you'd expect but also much bleaker than most of Pop's canon, with disturbing titles like "Hate," "Jealousy" and "Sickness." Oddly, it's also a very melodic rendering; finding him in such a tuneful state of mind is disquieting, considering some of his ground-breaking proto-punk efforts. Iggy's ragged version of "Louie, Louie" is a standout.

Iggy Pop's last album, Brick by Brick (1990), seemed as if it might be his swan song – one last
blast of creative juice after a decade's worth of mostly uninspired dreck. Three years
later, however, it looks as if the record was the beginning of a second wind. On American
Caesar's 16 tracks, the protopunk rocker reclaims the slashing, psychedelic-tinged grunge
rock he helped pioneer as a Stooge and takes an uncompromising confessional j... More >