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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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Kevin Kain

THAT DUDE IS STILL ALIVE? Looks like the Cript Keeper before the skin
fell off.

KK

September 02 2009 at 11:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Martee Quillen

Iggy might have had a few hits in his "career". But still most of his music is pure garbage. The only reason he ever got any attention was because he acted like a maniac in his live performances. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. The Smashing Pumpkins look like Elvis next to Iggy Pop. In my opinion, Billy Corgin is a musical genuis. Hes one hell of a guitarist and excellent writer. Hell, I've never even seen Iggy Pop play any kind of instrument except his penis.

August 03 2009 at 9:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bret

He influenced me while taking a dump this morning. I named one of my toilet children Iggy. THERE'S some inspiration for ya.

July 20 2009 at 7:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NaeNae

Ugh. Brittany, people like you who reduce every statement a person makes as them being a "hater" or just "jealous" (usually misspelled as 'jelous'), makes my eye twitch. Anyhow, that said, I know maybe one or two Iggy songs, but not the names of them. All I know of Smashing Pumpkins is they have one pretty song that is rather popular, and that Billy is absolutely pathetic in hearing how he was with Emilie Autumn, who is an underrated piece of ear candy. Limp Bi--however they spelled it, yeah, they were terrible, and I know that NONE of these people are relevant in "today's" music.

July 16 2009 at 7:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jay L


Iggy"s ok,I like some of his tunes.He is right though,there"s really a lot of sub-par music out there these days.The ninety"s was,in my opinion,the last good decade music-wise...an un-ending supply of excellent music from every genre.There"s some exceptionally good bands around these days,but you have to look for them.They"re all mostly underground bands that the music critics/media pretty much ignore,and instead try to push a bunch of lame music on us devoid of any talent/creativity.

July 12 2009 at 2:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brittany

Sound like he mad cause he not as famous as he use to be. Haterrrrrrrr!

July 12 2009 at 10:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rockin

Hey !! I think ol Igore wants to make a comeback
LOL any cumbacks out there ?

July 09 2009 at 11:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
wld5054

I can't believe anyone really cares about it

July 09 2009 at 8:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ercnash

I was born in 1968 and love all kinds of music (except rap). I never relly like iggy but, I think there is some GREAT bands out now. Times change so does music.

July 09 2009 at 8:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pscottparker1

My favorites of Iggy's are 5 foot 1 and Punkrocker, the latter song adopted from the Teddy Bears. Both are awesome. I also like several other ones, I wanna be your dog, etc. He kicks ass. I would say that what he says is on the money. Most seriously successful bands today credit him with influencing them. The person who said he doesn't have any hits has probably taken too many hits to the head...

July 09 2009 at 8:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply