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This Week's Best Line About Iggy Pop

Posted at 1:31 AM on April 11, 2007 by Steve Seel (1 Comments)

Just in time for this week's Musicheads -- which features discussion of the reunion disc from The Stooges -- comes Ben Ratliff's review in the New York Times of the band's Monday night show at the United Palace Theater. A favorite moment is Ratliff's description of Iggy, which may be the best I've ever read:

"Try to take your eyes off him. How he re-enacts fear, rage, sex, abject boredom, universal love and lethal cynicism, while dancing with originality, remembering lyrics and maintaining the delicate middle-state between having pants on and not having pants on, is why he is he, and you are merely you."

The rest of the review, plus pictures and video feature, here.

(Updates: links)

Comments (1)

Funny... I've been out sick the last few days, and rather than watch the Tyra Banks show and Montel again, I dusted off Please Kill Me, figuring it was time for a re-read. That book has reminded me of what a character Iggy Pop was/is. I'm glad he's chilled out a bit, though, if only so we could still have him around. The fact that I--born way too late--could have a chance to see The Stooges play live is both exhilarating and terrifying.

Posted by Jacquie Fuller | April 11, 2007 12:53 PM

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