Fuck-ass!
The iguana has always excessively fascinated me, who doesn't remember at least once in their youth, Iggy Pop and his fun, no fun, fun time, fun house, the word fun often recurs in the work of Iggypop, but it's a fun that borders on madness, it's a deviant and sleazy fun, it's a terrible fun filled with drinking, gang rapes, car races, it's like living while dying.
I like the cleaned-up version by David Bowie's mix that tamed the ferocity of the primitive sound, Iggy in '97 set things straight by releasing the original tapes, and what comes up? A satanic beastly stuff, enough to make today's trendy guys pale even after 30 years...
Iggy freaks out and Williamson supports his frenzied, expansive, dramatic voice with raw and corrosive riffs.
"I'm a street-chewing cheetah, with a heart full of napalm.
I'm the runaway son of the atomic bomb.
I'm the forgotten child of the world, the one who searches and destroys....
Darling, please, you have to help me, someone has to save my soul...
Baby, get into my brain, but be careful darling, I use technology..."
Search and Destroy is the powerful start, with Gimme Danger the atmosphere becomes torrid, Pop's baritone deviatingly touches that of Nick Cave, for an acid ballad that ends obliterated in its own exaggerated returning reverb, it's the dramatic heart of the record, which continues with Your Face Is Pretty Going To Hell, punk heated to boiling point, the frequencies and volumes are so pushed and Iggy's voice so devilish that the piece received, believe it or not, the imprimatur of Cardinal Ruini.
Penetration is a claustrophobic anal incursion, how can one feel confined between the walls of an anus? Listen to the piece and you'll have your answer.
What the iguana tries to do is hallucinate with raw power and under the effect of veronal (as he himself admitted), heroin and debauched sex, a reality (that of the city and Christianity) at the opposite stage (satanic campaign).
Raw Power is a satanic Saturday, it's a foggy and wolfish night for us Romagnoli in the outdoor bistros of Rimini (I mean the beaches and all that is correlated to them), it's participating in a celebration of the most untamed instincts of the mammalian-feline inland (Iggy Pop is no longer a man but the result of a mating between a feline and a mammal, the power of a lion combined with the physical motion of a panther on stage), but it's also the epic of the everyday: and Iggy Pop's epic is one that starts from the worker already collapsed at the pub at one in the afternoon, sets off due to the premature winter darkness and then gets lost in the night length.
I Need Somebody, blues as sensual as only those of J.L. Hooker and the Doors knew how to be, perhaps never again will Iggy's voice touch such excessive and explicit heights of perversion.
It's a staggering completely devoid of shame, think of Iggy's debauched screams: “aaaaaaaaaaooooooooooohhhhh”, this scream recurs increasingly throughout the album, but what turns out to be the most obscene of all is the last one: at the opening of Death Trip, the final track, listen: “aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooouuuuuuuuu”
gives the idea of a man who has lost his bearings, I have always wondered in what conditions was Pop while he was singing this final piece... an overexcited man launched far beyond madness, it was 1973, things like that hadn't been heard yet.
Death Trip is a mess of detuned guitars spitting repeated riffs trying to maintain a glimmer of melody... we going down in the history... save me!!!!! save me !!! come on save me!!!!! The rock goddess (that is, destiny given rock's agnosticism) has saved Iggy from death many times, but I am more than sure that Iggy never wanted anyone to save him, and it's this particular that distinguishes the greats like him from today's youth who will never reach such heights of primordial madness because they are too busy saving their own asses rather than going all out nihilistically in honor of Rock.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Search and Destroy (03:29)
I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Honey, gotta help me please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, detonate for me
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind
And I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey, I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin' to destroy
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind
And I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey, I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy, said hey forgotten boy
Said hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
02 Gimme Danger (03:31)
And I feel with you at ease
Gimme danger little stranger
And I feel your disease
There's nothing in my dreams
Just some ugly memories
Kiss me like the ocean breeze
Now if you will be my lover
I wish you were insane
But you can't be my master
I will do you anything
There's nothing left alive
But a pair of glassy eyes
Left my feelings one more time
(......????.....) little stranger
Baby gonna feel my hand
Say you got a little danger (...??...) little stranger
Honey gonna feel my hand
Swear you gonna feel my hand
Swear you gonna feel my hand
Gimme danger little stranger
And I feel with you at ease
Gimme danger little stranger
And I feel your disease
There's nothing in my dreams
Just some ugly memories
Kiss me like the ocean breeze
03 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (04:54)
Alright
Dirty face and dirty look
I knew right away that I had to get my hooks in you
Yeah yeah yeah
Want to know what a devil is
If you want to make a buck boy you gotta be demon
I say yeah yeah
I need it all, baby, that's no lie
I need a lover with an alibi
I wanna follow to a love so sweet
Honey baby give me all
I love you
Hot flesh and a touch of bones
Smells in the air but I'm feeling so alone, aha
I say yeah yeah
Lose your nation on true romance
I need your love but I holding up a piece, aha
And that ain't all
I'll tell you, honey, it's a cryin' shame
All the pretty girls really look the same
I want to follow to a love so sweet
Honey baby, give me all
I love you
Your pretty face is going to hell
Your pretty face is going to hell
Honey honey, I can tell
Your pretty face is going to
Hell, hell
Dirty face and a dirty look
I knew right away that I had to get my hooks in you
I say yeah yeah
I'm running low on memory
If you want to make a buck, boy, you gotta be a demon
And that ain't all
I need it all honey that's no lie
I need a lover with an alibi
I wanna follow to a love so sweet
Honey baby give me all
I love you
Your pretty face is going to hell
Your pretty face is going to hell
Honey honey, I can tell
Your pretty face is going to hell, hell
Honey baby
Honey honey
Your pretty face is going to hell
Your pretty face is going to hell
Honey honey, I can tell
Your pretty face is going to hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell
Hell, hell
Hell, hell
Hell
04 Penetration (03:39)
Penetrate
Penetrate me
So fine, so fine, so fine
I get excited
I get excited
I'm alone, so fine, I'm alive
Every night in town
Every night in town
I'm going down, I'm going down, pulsating
A beautiful enemy
A beautiful enemy
Take a lay, take away, get out
Penetration
Come and take me
Come and take me
I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive
Stay down
Stay down
I feel fine, every time, penetration
Penetration
Penetration
Penetration
Penetration
05 Raw Power (04:21)
Dance to the beat of the living dead
Lose sleep baby and stay away from bed
Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you
If you're alone and you got the fear
So am I baby, let's move down here
Raw power will surely come a running to you
Raw power got a magic touch
Raw power is much too much
Every mess is a guarantee
It was made for you and me
Raw power honey just won't quit
Raw power I can feel it
Raw power honey can't be beat
Poppin' eyes and flashin feet
Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do
Everybody's always tryin to tell me what to do
Look in the eyes of the savage girl
Fall deep in love in the underworld
Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you
If you're alone and you got the shakes
So am I baby, I got what it takes
Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you
Raw power got a healing hand
Raw power can destroy a man
Raw power is a modern soul
Got a son called rock'n'roll
Raw power honey just won't quit
Raw power I can feel it
Raw power honey can't be beat
Get down and kiss my feet
Everybody's always tryin to tell me what to do
Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do
Everybody's always tryin to tell me what to do
Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do
Raw power has got no place to go
Raw power, honey, it don't want to know
Raw power is a guaranteed O.D.
Raw power is laughin' at you and me
And I want to know
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Raw power, raw power
Raw power, raw power
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Raw power, raw power
Raw power, raw power
Raw power, raw power
Can you feel it?
06 I Need Somebody (04:56)
But I am your crazy driver
Honey, I'm sure to steer you 'round
I am dying in any story
I'm only living when I sing this song
Just the same, baby
I need somebody, baby
I need somebody, too
I need somebody, baby
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you
But I'm losing all my feelings
Yeah, I'm running out of friends
You know, you lied to me in the beginning
Baby, now you gonna try and bring me
Try to bring me to the end
Shall I tell them about it?
I need somebody, baby
I need somebody, too
I need somebody, baby
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you
Well, I was trying to leave this signal
I'm in a fury and it is too strong
Yeah, I got my reputation
Write me anyway, not too long
I need somebody, baby
I need somebody, too
I need somebody, baby
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you
Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you
Somebody
Somebody
Like you
Just like you
07 Shake Appeal (03:02)
Said shake appeal
Move so fast on me
Shake appeal
Move so fast to see
Move so fast, move so fast
Move little misery
I said shake appeal
Feel so high and low
Shake appeal
Feel so high and low
High and low, baby, high and low
Never really gotta go
Never really gotta go
Never really gotta go
Never really gotta go
Gotta go, never really gotta go
Said shake appeal
Baby fits so tight
Take appeal
Baby with your fits so tight
Fits so tight, fits so tight
Baby, you gotta fight
Realize you gotta fight
Realize you gotta fight
Baby, gotta have a fight
Gotta fight, baby gotta have a fight
Ooh, sex appeal
I said ooh, ooh, ooh, sex appeal
I said ooh, ooh, ooh, sex appeal
I said ooh, ooh, ooh
08 Death Trip (05:51)
And I always see you 'round
Some days are you blind
I moved to ask her mama if she
Did the women stand in line
Sick boy, sick boy going round
Remember who's in prayer
Baby, wanna take you out with me
If I'm on my, my, my death trip
If I'm on my death, if I'm on my death trip
If I'm on my death, if I'm on my death trip
I never knew you ever made
Once I care for you
Honey come and be my enemy
So I can love you true
Sick boy, sick boy baby, now
Learning to be cruel
Baby with me in the heat
Turn me loose on you
Loose on you, honey loose on you
Honey loose on you, honey loose on you
All night, all night, loose on you
All night, all night, loose on you
All night, all night, loose on you
Say I give you, you give me
Honey we are going down in history
Said I'll give you, you give me
Honey we are going down in history
We're going down, we're going down
Going down, going down
Going down, going down
Don't bite cool, bite my lips
See me through on my death trip
You must sink, keep me sane
Keep me, save me, everything
Save me, save me
Save me, save me
Save me
You gotta save me
You gotta save me, baby
Gotta save me, save me, save me now
Save me, save me, save me now
Save me, save me, save me now
I say I'll stick you, you stick me
I say I'll stick you, you stick me
I say I'll bit you, you bit me
I'll bit you and you'll bit me
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