Iggy Pop

Pop, helped by old fan Don Was, greeted the 1990s with his commercial apex. The duet "Candy" became Iggy's most widely heard tune before his earlier "Lust for Life" was reborn as a jingle and movie theme. A respectable release, this contained three hit alt rock tracks and Iggy's in good voice throughout. Wadja want? When Pop truly was great you weren't buying.

I had a dream that no one else could see," intones Iggy Pop on "Candy," a tough lost-love
elegy from his strong new album, Brick by Brick. Indeed he had. More than twenty years
ago, powering out of Detroit with his proto-thrash cohorts the Stooges, Iggy fashioned the
dream self that built his career – point man for all that's outcast, mutant, lonely and lost.
Having refined that rock & roll persona through violent theatrics, self-mutilation a... More >