A Million In Prizes The Anthology Music Cd

Iggy Pop - A Million In Prizes The Anthology

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A Million in Prizes: The Anthology      Artist : Iggy Pop      List Price : $24.98 USD        Your Price : $17.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2005-07-19      Studio : Virgin Records Us      Label : Virgin Records Us      Avg. Customer Rating : (21 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for A Million In Prizes The Anthology      Iggy      Rating:      If you are like me and you have heard about Iggy over the years. This anthology is a great way to go. I discovered that I loved the early Stooges and that everything after was hit and miss.     Customer Reviews for A Million In Prizes The Anthology Cd      Creative Anger Followed By Regular Anger      Rating:      Disc one exposes a man who could shift with the best of them: His Stooges days are marked by wild proto-punk riffery mixed with the most cantakerous nihilist lyrics this side of 1976. Fantastic. The latter portion of the disc sees our man taking a trip with Bowie, a trip where synths plod along within the most vacous soundscapes this side of dub. The legacy of drugs looms in the content of these tracks, and the clash of Iggy's vocal delivery and the atmospherics is unique indeed. A triump. Disc 2 is revelry smothered by cliches. The first few tracks on the disc have homogenous production values that make all the songs sorta blend into each other. The cod-Bill Idol phase (from the Blah Blah Blah album) is rather amusing, since the slick production makes Iggy seem like the glossiest rebel ever (and that's not a bad thing). After that, however, tracks like Cold Metal and the like reveal a complacency characterized by yelling over the most contribed riffs. Nothing special. The latter tracks share one thing: bloody awful production values. These sound like they were recorded in a Third World radio station's maintenace closet in 1965. At least the live tracks (re-hashes of Fun House tunes) revive the raw aggression of the Stooges. I'd say that forking over the extra dough to get this set, when you could get the one disc compilation, seems rather extreme. Just get the 1996 compilation and then buy all three Stooges albums. If you're really curious, get Iggy's late 70s albums and Blah Blah Blah. And that's about it. It's not plausible that you'll be tempted to delve into most of his 90s work.