Iggy Pop

Certain Songs #677: Iggy Pop – “Lust For Life”

October 22, 2016 by Jim Connelly

Album: Lust For Life
Year: 1977

Because “Amount of Music > Time in Life”, we all have our blind spots. Artists that have been around forever that are loved and respected and that we’ve never been able to get around to doing more than barely scratch the surface of their career.

And for me, one of those blind spots is the full catalog of the inimitable James Newell Osterberg, Jr, AKA Iggy Pop.

Certain Songs #183: Cat Power – “Nothin’ But Time”

May 5, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Album: Sun

Year: 2012.

At first, the greatest song on Cat Power’s greatest album (from the standpoint of someone who respects her more than loves her) starts off kinda slowly, with squealing synths over a John Cale piano while Chan Marshall gives encouragement to what she’s probably always imagined as her fan base: a weary kid alone in her room.