It must have sounded like a tire factory.
October 20, 2016 12:17 PM Subscribe
In 2008, Iggy Pop asked Jim Jarmusch to make a documentary about Pop's wildly unsuccessful (until recently) but hugely influential band The Stooges. It took 7 years, during which time many of the original members died... but now the film is finished, and it opens in limited release on October 28th. Pop and Jarmusch interviewed each other in Rolling Stone for the release.
Bonus: Jarmusch previously interviewed Jack White, who has called the Stooges album Funhouse (YouTube warning: playlist of the 142(!)-track '1970: The Complete Funhouse Sessions' album) the greatest rock album of all time and is also releasing a book of interviews with and about Pop and The Stooges called Total Chaos.
Bonus: Jarmusch previously interviewed Jack White, who has called the Stooges album Funhouse (YouTube warning: playlist of the 142(!)-track '1970: The Complete Funhouse Sessions' album) the greatest rock album of all time and is also releasing a book of interviews with and about Pop and The Stooges called Total Chaos.
It's important to note that of all the original Stooges, only Iggy is still alive. He and Keith Richards will surely outlive the cockroaches after the nuclear holocaust.
posted by yhbc at 12:37 PM on October 20, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by yhbc at 12:37 PM on October 20, 2016 [5 favorites]
IMPORTANT PREVIOUS IGGY & JARMUSCH COLLAB
posted by beerperson at 12:45 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by beerperson at 12:45 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
For the record, Funhouse is the finest rock album ever made.
posted by vibrotronica at 12:47 PM on October 20, 2016 [8 favorites]
posted by vibrotronica at 12:47 PM on October 20, 2016 [8 favorites]
I just want to know how much Biggy footage this doc will have.
posted by tobascodagama at 12:55 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by tobascodagama at 12:55 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
he's usually called Bigfoot, and probably none
posted by beerperson at 12:57 PM on October 20, 2016
posted by beerperson at 12:57 PM on October 20, 2016
It's important to note that of all the original Stooges, only Iggy is still alive.
James Williamson may not have been a founding member, but he wrote the riff in "Search And Destroy", which is close enough for me.
That song is in a car commercial now. A street legal Chevy with a cup holder of lip balm. Spending runaway sums on the nuclear fam, y'all. I am the world's target market boy, the one who's shopping for new toys. Baby baby help me please. Somebody gotta save my soul. Baby baby wait in line. Look out honey, we're selling technology.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:32 PM on October 20, 2016 [10 favorites]
James Williamson may not have been a founding member, but he wrote the riff in "Search And Destroy", which is close enough for me.
That song is in a car commercial now. A street legal Chevy with a cup holder of lip balm. Spending runaway sums on the nuclear fam, y'all. I am the world's target market boy, the one who's shopping for new toys. Baby baby help me please. Somebody gotta save my soul. Baby baby wait in line. Look out honey, we're selling technology.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:32 PM on October 20, 2016 [10 favorites]
That song is in a car commercial now. A street legal Chevy with a cup holder of lip balm.
Actually, Search and Destroy is used in Audi A4 commercials, and a piece of me dies every time one of those damned things comes on.
Of course, it didn't help me much when Iggy was pimping for Chrysler's John Varvatos edition 300C, a few years back.
posted by Thorzdad at 1:42 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
Actually, Search and Destroy is used in Audi A4 commercials, and a piece of me dies every time one of those damned things comes on.
Of course, it didn't help me much when Iggy was pimping for Chrysler's John Varvatos edition 300C, a few years back.
posted by Thorzdad at 1:42 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
Here's a 40 minute TV show from 1987 where they show where it all began. My God, people were young back then!
posted by ouke at 1:43 PM on October 20, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by ouke at 1:43 PM on October 20, 2016 [2 favorites]
Is it an Audi ad? Huh. I wasn't really paying attention. It was on TV at work so I spent the rest of my shift singing "streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napaaaaaaalm" under my breath while refilling people's coffee.....
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:47 PM on October 20, 2016
posted by BitterOldPunk at 1:47 PM on October 20, 2016
Just for some counterpoint Funhouse is also the best musical album of all time.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:57 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:57 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
I have never looked forward to a documentary as much as this one, except perhaps for the rarely seen MC5 doc, which screened at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival and hardly anywhere else because of... disagreements. I do own a copy, though...
posted by AJaffe at 2:20 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by AJaffe at 2:20 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
That song is in a car commercial now. A street legal Chevy with a cup holder of lip balm. Spending runaway sums on the nuclear fam, y'all. I am the world's target market boy, the one who's shopping for new toys. Baby baby help me please. Somebody gotta save my soul. Baby baby wait in line. Look out honey, we're selling technology.
That's a line that could only come from someone named 'BitterOldPunk'.
posted by dfm500 at 2:39 PM on October 20, 2016 [7 favorites]
That's a line that could only come from someone named 'BitterOldPunk'.
posted by dfm500 at 2:39 PM on October 20, 2016 [7 favorites]
In other Iggy news, he's got his dick out again.
posted by Paul Slade at 2:40 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Paul Slade at 2:40 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
Here are some pics and Iggy's comments from the forthcoming book.
posted by Huck500 at 2:49 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Huck500 at 2:49 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
Search & Destroy was also used in a Nike commercial back in 1996. (Which still isn't as bad as Royal Caribbean cruise lines using Lust for Life, Iggy's ode to hard drugs, in an ad.)
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 3:31 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 3:31 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
My God, people were young back then!
I find that every time I look at the past, everything and everyone seems so much younger than they are today!
posted by hippybear at 4:48 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
I find that every time I look at the past, everything and everyone seems so much younger than they are today!
posted by hippybear at 4:48 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
My Polish grandfather was named Ignatius and we stuck that into the middle of my son's 3 names so we could call him Iggy until he tired of it and have something to switch to and I'd be surprised if boy doesn't keep it because the most dour people have to smile as they say it. Name just makes you involuntarily smile and kid works it. Go say "Iggy" in the mirror 9 times and watch your face. Nothing bad will happen.
He knows where his names come from and dealt with "What kind of name is that?" with "Mine" and then he's flipping through records and halts because his last name is not "Pop" and he'd like to hear this other Iggy's Berlin albums right now and I'm struggling to remember the content but the first song is ok?
And thus "I'm worth a million in prizes" became a standard response to criticism and rarely does anyone get the reference. He is aware of the other Iggy's scattered through out the Latinate world, but Mr. Pop must be important because DAD HAS PREHISTORIC MEDIA WITH MY NAME ON IT ONLY ACCESSIBLE WITH AN OBSCURE ANALOGUE DEVICE AND THIS IS THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE ENTIRE PAST.
Kid could give two shits that his actual namesake helped decimate the dreaded armored cars of the Konarmiya and organized unions in Ohio steel mills and I'd probably put him down if "Sweet 16 in leather boots" came out of his mouth.
It's always about unanticipated consequences this life it is.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 6:01 PM on October 20, 2016 [3 favorites]
He knows where his names come from and dealt with "What kind of name is that?" with "Mine" and then he's flipping through records and halts because his last name is not "Pop" and he'd like to hear this other Iggy's Berlin albums right now and I'm struggling to remember the content but the first song is ok?
And thus "I'm worth a million in prizes" became a standard response to criticism and rarely does anyone get the reference. He is aware of the other Iggy's scattered through out the Latinate world, but Mr. Pop must be important because DAD HAS PREHISTORIC MEDIA WITH MY NAME ON IT ONLY ACCESSIBLE WITH AN OBSCURE ANALOGUE DEVICE AND THIS IS THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE ENTIRE PAST.
Kid could give two shits that his actual namesake helped decimate the dreaded armored cars of the Konarmiya and organized unions in Ohio steel mills and I'd probably put him down if "Sweet 16 in leather boots" came out of his mouth.
It's always about unanticipated consequences this life it is.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 6:01 PM on October 20, 2016 [3 favorites]
Ron Asheton created some eternal guitar riffs.
posted by ovvl at 7:24 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by ovvl at 7:24 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
When I bought the LP of Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power in 1986, the record store guy held it reverentially and said slowly while staring at it, 'you have just bought the best record in the entire shop.' He was right.
posted by drnick at 10:19 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by drnick at 10:19 PM on October 20, 2016 [1 favorite]
Countercounterpoint: Funhouse is also Kid n' Play's second best album.
posted by Bob Regular at 6:51 AM on October 21, 2016
posted by Bob Regular at 6:51 AM on October 21, 2016
Hell yes. The Stooooooges, man.
"I'm a street walking cheetah
with a heart full of napalm"
is a fine way to start a song, short story, or prayer for the crumbling Republic.
posted by Bob Regular at 6:54 AM on October 21, 2016
"I'm a street walking cheetah
with a heart full of napalm"
is a fine way to start a song, short story, or prayer for the crumbling Republic.
posted by Bob Regular at 6:54 AM on October 21, 2016
is this the thread to talk about The Guess Who
posted by beerperson at 7:59 AM on October 21, 2016
posted by beerperson at 7:59 AM on October 21, 2016
When I bought the LP of Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power in 1986, the record store guy held it reverentially and said slowly while staring at it, 'you have just bought the best record in the entire shop.' He was right.
Huck500 gave me mine in 1989. My life wouldn't be the same without it.
posted by dfm500 at 3:00 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
Huck500 gave me mine in 1989. My life wouldn't be the same without it.
posted by dfm500 at 3:00 PM on October 21, 2016 [1 favorite]
Kill City is both under-rated and FUCKING GREAT. Seriously, if you don't know this 1977 Pop/Williamson album, do yourself a favour and check it out.
posted by Paul Slade at 3:56 AM on October 23, 2016
posted by Paul Slade at 3:56 AM on October 23, 2016
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