Avenue B Music Cd

Iggy Pop - Avenue B

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Avenue B      Artist : Iggy Pop      List Price : $41.49 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1999-12-07      Studio : EMI Int'l      Label : EMI Int'l      Avg. Customer Rating : (27 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Avenue B      Thinking Clearly Ain't Iggy's Thing      Rating:      You know something's about to go horribly wrong when Iggy opens his 16th album with: "It was in the winter of my fiftieth year when it hit me, I was really alone and there wasn't a lot of time left" What may have looked good on paper - and even that's hard to believe - doesn't even come close to panning out in the studio, the seemingly-indestructible Jim Osterberg's suddenly-fragile psyche laid bare via spoken-word interludes and softly-crooned tales of discontented, post-divorce alienation overlaid with soundtracky synths and bongos. The only thing that saves this newly-battlescarred sage is the blustery cover of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates' "Shakin' All Over" and the near-psych of the cranky "Corruption." The absolute nadir of his career. You've been warned...     Customer Reviews for Avenue B Cd      Everybody Bombs Now And Then      Rating:      Fans either love or hate this album. I fall into the later category for this is without doubt the worst Iggy Pop album, and quite probably one of the worst rock and roll albums ever recorded, bar none. The songs are unimaginative, the musicianship lacking and most amazing of all is that the production is completely incompetent, amazing considering super producer Don Was handles these chores. It surprizing that this didn't completely kill Iggy's recording career. A prime example is the cover of "Shaking All Over". The song shows potential then never takes flight, instead stalling and crashing big time. The Who never imagined the song this way, and with good reason. And its among the better efforts on the album. Try as I might, I just can't listen to more than a few minutes at a time. It is that bad.