Iggy Pop-Blah Blah Blah (1986)


 

Artist: Iggy Pop

Title: Blah Blah Blah

Label: A&M

Format:  LP

Cat  SP-5145

Year of Release: 1986

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1986 Electrosound Group Midwest Pressing

Listed Condition: VG/P cover and inner sleeve heavy water damage

Sell Date: 5/7/22

Sell Price: $5.99

Discogs Last Sold: 6/11/22 VG/VG+ $6.99

Low: $5.99

Median: $10.00

Average: $11.40

High: $29.99

Current low price:$9.52 NM/VG+

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:30

Have/Want: 2316/198

Where Sold: Akron, OH

Time it took to sell: 7 years

Where and When Bought:Worcester, That's Entertainment used $2.99 within year of release

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No

I hated this record so much that it's taken me weeks to get around to listening to it on my hard drive.  I didn't bother to play the vinyl before the order shipped out.  Apparently the person that sold the used copy I bought felt the same way, because I found a used flawless copy within months of it's release.  I witnessed this tour by chance as I had purchased a ticket for the Pretenders in Worcester because Big Audio Dynamite were opening.  For whatever reason, perhaps postponement of the tour, BAD canceled and Iggy Pop was added to the show as a replacement.  I wasn't expecting him to be rocking Stooges, but the show won me over for him solo.

David Bowie co-produced this album with David Richards who went on to continue work with Bowie as well as later Queen (A Kind of Magic).  This production was made for commercial state of the art mid 80's, so you get your tinkly synths,robotic drums and canned horns.

Of course, when Iggy and Bowie are involved, there is greatness behind the gloss.  Everybody I spoke to has a favorite when I brought up the fact I'm dragging on writing about this album due to not wanting to listen to it.  The Pinch Point editor told me "Real Wild One" was his favorite even though "I never heard the rest...maybe by accident somewhere."  This was a cover of the Australian king of Rock 'n Roll Johnny O'Keefe and the Dee Jays from 1958.

My other friend Kevin Wyzzard gave faint praise to "Shades."  The one I liked back in the 80's was the title track with effects out of the Butthole Surfers canon.  On my first relisten the closer "Winners & Loser" with cool Steve Jones guitar was the highlight of album.  The Pistols Jones is on 5 tracks this album.  This was his most played live song from this release according to setlist.fm.

"Little Miss Dangerous" didn't make the vinyl cut although it was a CD and Cassette bonus track and was played live.  Relistening yet again, I thought better of "Cry For Love" and "Baby, It Can't Fail" so the album went up in my mind from a D+ to a C- to a C+.

I almost went as far as B-.  Almost.

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