Iggy Pop - Party
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Artist: Iggy PopEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-07-11
Music Label: Buddha
Soundtracks:
- Pleasure
- Rock and Roll Party
- Eggs on Plate
- Sincerity
- Houston Is Hot Tonight
- Pumpin' for Jill
- Happy Man
- Bang Bang
- Sea of Love
- Time Won't Let Me
- Speak to Me [#][*]
- One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) [#][*]
Music reviews of Party
Music Review: I love pop, I love Iggy...but not this one
Rating: 2 Stars
I never found the Stooges material all that distinctive, mining the same territory as the MC5 with that muddy late sixties sound for hippies gobbling seconals. Nevertheless, there were some memorable tunes to be found. Then Iggy went solo. In spite of the ferocity of tracks like "I Got A Right", his personal life seemed to get in the way of putting his career over the top; the original production values on "Raw Power" were nearly unlistenable.
But things took a turn for the better with 1977's "The Idiot" and "Lust For Life". The first was a landmark, the second followed in its wake with a few good tracks. Next up was the strong "New Values", followed by "Soldier", two more of Iggy's best albums ever. Then the streak came crooning to a halt with "Party".
"Bang Bang" is the cherry to be plucked from this album. Bowie's cover in 1987 pales in comparison to this Tommy Boyce production that delivers quite possibly Iggy's most accessible rocker ever. As for the rest of the album, the horns work about as well as they did on The Doors' "Soft Parade"...which is to say, they don't. I've heard pop albums that effectively used the horns to give a punchier sound, or to fill out the sound, but here they just sound mushy and cluttered, as though the producer had some friends he needed on the payroll.
For my taste the only keeper is "Bang Bang" but in all fairness, the first three tracks aren't bad. At times you might think they almost sound like leftovers from the previous knockout, "Soldier". It spirals down until you reach the end of the album where there's no reason for the covers of "Time Won't Let Me" or "Sea Of Love". They don't surpass the originals and they don't reinvent them.
Iggy certainly had it in him to deliver a great pop album but to really knock the ball out of the park I get the impression that he needed one or two more killer songs and a change in some of the members of his team. I get by just fine with the old vinyl copy (with "Bang Bang" dubbed to the hard drive) so I can't say whether the bonus tracks are worth downloading.
The folks who handled the cover art did a great job of packaging Iggy to match his purpose for this album. It looks festive and Iggy comes as close to approximating Nick Gilder as he ever would. Titling it "Party" was a good move in pursuit of that goal. The next album, "Zombie Birdhouse" was thin as well. Pity that this album didn't take two years so the best moments of "Party" and "Zombie Birdhouse" could be combined into one consistent album.
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