Is Iggy turning into the next Serge Gainsbourg? It sure sounds like it on his new album Peliminaries. Iggy is actually quite a good crooner and sings these songs in smokey seductive baritone. Fans of Iggy the Wildman probably won't like Preliminaries but Iggy has never sung better. At age 62 Iggy may be ready to reinvent himself as Iggy the Lounge Lizard. Like it or not, Preliminaries is already being hailed as one of the more notable releases of the 2009 music spring/summer music cycle. The song Les Feuilles Mortes originally sung by French Canadian jazz chantuese Diane Nalini on an obscure 2001 indie label release. It's a song well suited to Iggy's meloncholy mood.
I'm one of those heretics that loved Brick by Brick, the 1990 album where Iggy used his expressive lower range of his voice to sing more pop oriented songs. I was also impressed with Iggy's duet with Francoise Hardy singing the old jazz standard "I'll Be Seeing You" on a tribute album to Parisian music about ten years ago. Don't worry, Iggy isn't about to turn into the American Maurice Chevalier, but he may just do a cover of Thank Heaven For Little Girls before he goes to the grave.
scottsy
07-16-2009 10:29 PM
Just seems a strange scenario, Iggy Pop crooning.... but not beyond the realms of possiblitiy and I think he might actually sound alright as a crooner...
Rickenbacker
07-16-2009 11:23 PM
Nobody would've thought Bowie would turn out to be a crooner.
Same principle.
Piss Me Off
07-17-2009 07:39 AM
Nightclubbing is a brilliant crooner. I just love the sleaziness.
lucifer_sam
07-17-2009 08:43 AM
just as long as his work with the Stooges doesn't go awry. he's still taking his shirt off for live performances so it may be a few years yet before he kicks the bucket.
Gavin B.
07-17-2009 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
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just as long as his work with the Stooges doesn't go awry. he's still taking his shirt off for live performances so it may be a few years yet before he kicks the bucket.
Iggy's career certainly has been one long strange trip. Iggy once said during one period after the breakup of the Stooges in 1973 and his career rescue by Bowie in 1976, he ended up working at a McDonald's hamburger joint in Michigan. A lot of people thought he left the land of the living after the Stooges broke up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, "There are no second acts in life," but he never met Iggy.
scottsy
07-19-2009 10:10 PM
Well, maybe he did kinda leave the land of the living, working at McDonalds does kinda leave you feeling brain dead at the very least.... been there, done that...
lieasleep
07-21-2009 04:57 PM
les feuilles mortes just got me REALLY excited to hear the new album. can't wait to get it.
scottsy
07-21-2009 09:36 PM
I am actually curious to hear a track or two and I am not even really a fan...
