Album Rating: 5.0

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABY



YOU'RE SOOOOOO CLEAN

"Iggy Pop has said that the automotive factories and industrialism of Detroit had a huge influence on his music. The song opens with a tape loop created by Magma bassist Laurent Thibault, who played bass on the Idiot sessions. It’s a very cold and bleak sound that can be described as proto-industrial music."

https://genius.com/Iggy-pop-mass-production-lyrics

neat-o

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't care what people wanna say about this pretty much being a Bowie record in Iggy's name, but this still owns and Bowie wouldn't dare doing a song like China Girl or Mass Production.



It's also interesting to note how Bowie tried to get Eno and Fripp to play on this.

Bowie may have played and wrote instrumental parts, but Pop was in complete control of the direction the songs went. Pop has that Detroit grit that Bowie couldn't express. Eno would've been fine; Fripp wouldn't have been a good fit here.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah, while I love Fripp, his guitar parts would've been a bit too calculated while Phil Palmer's guitar was perfectly jagged and dirty. It complimented the cold industrialist rhythms, whereas Fripp would've injected a bit of life into what needed to sound lifeless, you know?

Yep. He played guitar on The Hurting. Makes sense when you finally see it.

Album Rating: 5.0

I will say, Palmer is very much this album's unsung hero.



Sure, Bowie's backing band is on fire here, but Palmer is definitely the essential sideman on the record. It makes me glad Eno and Fripp weren't on here, because otherwise, Iggy would've been overshadowed by what would've become "Bowie and Friends, featuring Iggy Pop"

I've yet to find an album where the guitar sounds like it does here. It's not really in the front of the mix, but it does drive everything. And it's always distorted and filthy. A quick look at Palmer's credits and it doesn't look like he played anything like it again.

Album Rating: 5.0

Tragic.



I'd say Stacey Heydon doing Station to Station on the Isolar tour in '76 is much like it, but Palmer has the benefit of having the mix put him in the position to really let it rip without overpowering the band.

I agree. The solos in "Nightclubbing" will never get old.

Album Rating: 5.0

definitely, it has the right amount of swagger and intensity in it

Album Rating: 5.0

Mass Production alone makes me want to bring this back up to a 5

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why was it never a 5 to begin with?

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It used to be a 5, there was just a point where I purged almost all of my 5s and have been rebuilding them for the past month

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hmmmm



you ought to 5 this (again)

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We’ll see

Album Rating: 5.0

it ain't about seein'



it's about believin'

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Tru

Album Rating: 5.0

YES I'M ALMOST LIKE HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM

Album Rating: 5.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KhxcTJcJcg