Potent Quotables: Iggy Rips Rockers
- Posted on Jul 8th 2009 1:05PM by Kim Davis
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"[They're] idiot thugs with guitars ... Anyone from Smashing Pumpkins to – what's the one with Fred Durst?" --Iggy Pop
The punk legend told us all how he really felt about the state of rock recently when he accused Billy Corgan and Limp Bizkit of producing, in his words, "crappy music."
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ele9999at 7-09-2009
Ohhhh kettle callin' tha pot black.
Saw him on late night a few days ago, my God !!!
Terrible crap HE DOES.
BOBBYWat 7-16-2009
We've finally found Eddie Haskell's grandkid!!
Damon King Midasat 7-19-2009
Iggy is "The Father of Punk Rock and so many bands today and whole genres of music are his doing!!! Iggy Lives forever. What is he, 62 and he'd still kick your ass !!!
Kevin Kainat 9-02-2009
THAT DUDE IS STILL ALIVE? Looks like the Cript Keeper before the skin fell off.
KK
molicesonat 7-09-2009
I actually agree with Iggy about the crappy music, and everybody really should agree with the man who had so much (not) good music in his career. Go ahead, quick, name a hit by Iggy.
saklaat 7-09-2009
"Go ahead, quick, name a hit by Iggy."
Are you kidding?
"Lust For Life"
"China Girl"
"The Passenger"
"Search and Destroy"
That is off the top of my head. Iggy Pop has influenced tons of people and there are tribute albums to him.
THose bands he criticized are probably influenced by him.
verageminiat 7-09-2009
Lust for Life.
aceat 7-09-2009
with the stooges =tv eye, 1969, 1970, solo= china girl,im bored, 5 foot 1, etc.....
Hello, You Bastaat 7-09-2009
"Candy" was hit for Iggy circa 1991
pattysue4at 7-09-2009
china girl!!! o baby just you shut your mouth
bluegeisha111at 7-09-2009
Don't forget "I Wanna Be Your Dog"...Great song
dansamgaat 7-09-2009
China Girl
Lust For Life
The Passenger
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Raw Power (one of Rolling Stones top 100 albums of all time)
There are many more though they did not get the air play that those above did. Iggy is to Rock and Punk what Elvis was to Rock & Roll. Go back to your trash bubble gum mainstream music when you don't know what you are talking about. Almost every Rock & Punk band today that is worth hearing will credit Iggy & The Stooges with heavily influencing their talents! Just because you don't hear them on your Michael Jackson and Madonna station doesn't mean it isn't out there, it just avoids you as it should!
Baileyat 7-09-2009
how about Down on the Street? 1969? Nightclubbing? All great songs
Suloat 7-09-2009
Iggy is a legend. Forget any singles. Singles get played out anyways. But what about Lust For Life, Real Wild child, I'm Bored, and the Passenger to name a few. He's got a biopic coming out with Elijah Wood set to play Iggy even though I think Elijah Wood isn't the right actor for the role but we'll see. I grew up listening to Punk Rock. Iggy is one of my main inspirations as a frontman for my punk band Authentic Sellout.
Now I consider Iggy Pop a musical genius. Rock n Roll is dying right now. Michael Jackson is proof of that. He was dubbed the King of Pop and was one of the most influential musicians and entertainers of all time. He's a freak just like Iggy but in a different way. My point is that musicians like Fred Durst and Billy Corgan are assholes and write some decent songs but mostly ego driven crap. I have met both of them nd they are they are dicks. I don't care who you are attitude is everything and as a musician and people never forget that. So they need to spend more time writing good music rather than being cool. Iggy Pop can definitely do that and has for many years. I like to think he followed in Jim morrison's footsteps.
Sulo
tattoo josephat 8-03-2009
The 16 shots of straight bourbon and line of cocaine kicking in all at once, and him hitting the cheap hotel room floor....
That was definately not only a a number one hit, but it was also the only decent sound that has ever came out of him...
Rockinat 7-09-2009
yep its all crap Igore
guess the only hit you had was "candy"
the crap you hit in your arm
Rickat 7-09-2009
I dont think its a question of Iggy having written hits or great songs. I do not write music but I have my opinion, as I am sure you do yours about todays mostly crappy music and its his opinion. Its funny how in these articles how people automatically make assumptions rather then listening or reading what is being said. It doesnt take a good actor to see a bad actors work, its doesnt take a great chef to know when someone else makes something that taste like crap. Such narrow minds out there.
BostonMalachyat 7-09-2009
lust for life, candy, search and destroy, death trip, loco mosquito, endless sea, the passenger, sweet 16, fall in love with me, and many many others, this guy is AWESOME!!!!!!
Rockinat 7-09-2009
but then again that wasnt billboard
that was mtv
with kate p.
Rockinat 7-09-2009
its all cheeseburgers n fries
and then again pure shit