Iggy Pop/Josh Homme -- Post Pop Depression

Well this could work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/arts/music/iggy-pop-josh-homme-post-pop-depression.html

huh that's intriguing

would swear i saw a ref to this project on ilx, which i thought was just inspired fiction, in the past week?

After a while the only thing I noticed in that article anymore was all the "Mr."s - no idea what the content was, only that it said Mr. Pop and Mr. Homme a lot :(

And yet another roadblock is thrown in the path of the second Them Crooked Vultures album.

i wonder if it will be better than the last 10 iggy albums i ignored.

having said that, was listening to zombie birdhouse the other day and man oh man that sounded great. i love that album. the last one i love. or want to hear. (just a smidge off my own bowie love timeline...)

I don't like that album at all. But I like Blah-Blah-Blah, so...

Mr. Osterberg

Scott otm.

i mean i wish him well and everything and hope he's happy. he seems like a groovy guy. and i really can't thank him enough for everything i do love. i'm not sneering or anything. but every time i hear a latter-day thing...yeah, just not my kinda thing.

maybe this will be different though! who knows? maybe it will sound EXACTLY like zombie birdhouse.

In some ways, “Post Pop Depression” also picks up where “Lust for Life” left off. “Where those records pointed, it stopped,” Mr. Homme said. “But without copying it,” he continued, “that direction actually goes for miles. And when you keep going for miles you can’t see these two records any more.”

Let's do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DngIWkQVPgU

Aaaaand I'm out.

Lame.

But not entirely unexpected.

It sounds like something he's had laying around since the mid '80s. With properly '80s production it could have been an outtake from Blah-Blah-Blah.

Buncha fickle fucks. I listened to the studio version first and liked it: https://youtu.be/1m8TmlS20ZA

There was a Kyuss song called Gardenia, seems an odd choice for a song title

Buncha fickle fucks

My expectations were always extremely low; the only positive thought I had about this, when reading about it in the New York Times, was that at least Dave Grohl wasn't involved.

i think the studio version is pretty fun! (didn't listen to the live)

It's great. People get very specific ideas in their heads of what something should sound like.

idk in terms of instrumentation and groove this reminded me of berlin bowie kinda, but that could just be me overdosing on that for the past week

i like it

But it's so slow and boring!

it might be his homage to 90's bowie. #restinpeace

Studio version is totally ok. Hints of Shades, and I actually like all that space/pauses in the verse.

i like this a lot. homme's harmonies >>

Xpost Depending on your perspective, "slow and boring" could potentially apply to the majority of the tracks on <i>The Idiot</i> and <i>Lust For Life</i> as well, which is where this is meant to pick up from. I think they achieve a similar vibe here and it makes me look forward to the rest of the record.

Depending on your perspective, "slow and boring" could potentially apply to the majority of the tracks on <i>The Idiot</i> and <i>Lust For Life</i> as well, which is where this is meant to pick up from. I think they achieve a similar vibe here and it makes me look forward to the rest of the record.

No, I disagree. "Lust for Life," "Some Weird Sin," "The Passenger," "Sixteen" - all uptempo, rockin' songs. The Idiot is a slow, creepy-crawling album, but it's also much more electronic - it's going for a particular vibe. This song is slow in a rhythmically lazy way that's very common in post-grunge "alt" rock. When compared with Iggy albums of the past, particularly New Values, Soldier, and Party, it feels very slack.

Quite simply, it's too early to pass final judgement. Even if you take The Idiot off the table, the new track has more of a spiritual kinship with Lust For Life than most things he's done since that period. This one grooves more, has the high harmonies and hooky guitar figures punctuating the verses that are common to a lot of the tracks from that era. A slower tempo track as first choice of single may be all there is to it at this point. Either way, I think it points in a more intriguing direction than, say, any of the recent solo or Stooges records. Lots of uptempo rockers on those records heading absolutely nowhere.

that's great! doesn't remind me much of LfL or Idiot, but it does remind me that I.P. very seldom relies on shopworn lyrical tropes… and for that matter, neither does J.H.

when Grohl shuts his mouth and isn't making mini series about how terrible it is that the kids today don't do exactly what he did at that time of life, and instead puts stick to snare and pedal to kick, he's just fine.

I have word from a reputable source that this band will be doing "Sixteen" and "Some weird sin" live.

I know it's easy to be disappointed after Lust For Life. From New Values on, every Iggy and Stooges album has been disappointing to me. I'm appreciating this rare moment when "Gardenia" has pleasantly surprised me. It's not his best but I'm optimistic that the album will not suck.

it could have been an outtake from Blah-Blah-Blah

^ this. Perhaps why I'm keen on it.

Like this a lot!

Is that Matt Sweeney on bass?

yep

I kind of dig this, I am curious to hear the whole record

Never remember the NY Times calling Iggy "Mr. Pop" instead of "Mr. Osterberg."

Oh yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnzzvoEWlzg&feature=youtu.be

Double yes.

Sounds like recent Queens/Vultures so yeah, I like.

Tour dates
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/iggy-pop-and-josh-homme-announce-post-pop-depression-tour/

Stockholm - Copenhagen - Berlin appears to be a very attractive sequence.

"sunday" is another great track.

Iggy posed nude for a life drawing class; the results will be exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum.

“The life class is a special place in which to scrutinize the human form,” [London-based conceptual artist Jeremy] Deller explained in a press release. “As the bedrock of art education and art history, it is still the best way to understand the body. For me it makes perfect sense for Iggy Pop to be the subject of a life class; his body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture. His body has witnessed much and should be documented.”

streaming on NPR

i really like this so far!

in fairness there's also a bit of this where, because i have tickets to the show coming up in minneapolis, i'm also kinda judging this in terms of how awesome i think this band is gonna be at playing the idiot/lust for life stuff they are doing live

I saw the setlist - I'm most amazed they're doing the Repo Man theme song.

Ha, I saw that too, I wonder if they threw a dart at a list of Ig solo tunes?

"Ah crap we gotta do 'Africa Man'?"

lol

I really would appreciate them doing The Endless Sea though.

i'm also kinda judging this in terms of how awesome i think this band is gonna be at playing the idiot/lust for life stuff they are doing live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-qj5A1zwQ

I really would appreciate them doing The Endless Sea though.

Hell yes!
Got tickets for a May gig, thrilled! Iggy in '88 was my first gig without parental guidance

Great interview with both these dudes on Nerdist this week.

i really like this album!

I wound up not liking it as much as I hoped to. More detail than that (a lot more) on Stereogum tomorrow.

^^ i agree (sadface)

I like it couple duds but overall it's fun

Co-sign with Maura. This is brilliant music, project. Great convo w/ two of 'em on World Cafe on the context/ideas around the album. http://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2016/03/18/470954110/iggy-pop-on-world-cafe

going to the show on Monday nite so excited!!!!

missing tomorrow because tix are expensive as fuck and I have a conflict, but really hoping they come through again later in the year. I think this is a great record; probably better on the whole than Lust for Life actually.

akm - this is probably the only shows they're doing...

I really can't handle the Chocolate Drops song.

Seriously go see this tour...so amazing

This is good to hear, as the complete album does seem a bit underwhelming to me. So what's the ratio regarding older songs they play in the set?

I totally love "Sunday" and "Paraguay."

it's about 1/3 new album, 1/3 Lust for Life, 1/3 The Idiot, with some variations (you can check out setlist.fm there are some little changes but they are doing pretty much similar sets it looks like)...also they do "Repo Man" from the movie soundtrack but in a version that totally smokes and sounded based on this 83 demo version you can find on a dodgy comp on spotify

but man...the band and arrangements are so good...here's what they played in mpls last night

Lust for Life

Sister Midnight

American Valhalla

Sixteen

In the Lobby

Some Weird Sin

Funtime

Tonight

Sunday

German Days

Mass Production

Nightclubbing

The Passenger

China Girl

Encore:
Break Into Your Heart

Fall in Love With Me

Repo Man

Baby

Chocolate Drops

Paraguay

Success

Gardenia

This looks indeed really promising, thanks!

I'd love "I'm Bored," "Run Like a Villain," "Five Foot One," and "Wild America," but I guess I shouldn't hold my breath. Psyched that "Repo Man" has been dusted off.

i looked at other nights, and it's pretty consistent setlists

the band was so great, Homme & the Arctic Monkeys drummer were great and man-about-town Matt Sweeney was awesome on bass...other guy I didn't know, I think he's from a newer lineup of Queens of the Stone Age? he was kind of the ultility guy, playing guitar and keyboards depending on the songs

I'm warming to "Gardenia." Beyond the oddball title and some signature oblique Iggy lyrics, I'm starting to enjoy it way more than I initially did. The chorus still feels odd (especially the "'what-to-do-tonight," bit), but I'm digging it. I'm no botanist, but gardenia's aren't that lovely a flower, are they? I keep thinking of Marlon Brando's schizo monologue at the end of "Apocalypse Now" when he mentions seeing an overgrown gardenia plantation in Ohio as a boy.

Seriously go see this tour...so amazing

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this otm.

Concert in Berlin surprisingly awesome, currently checking out how to make it to Paris for the last tour gig on Sunday. The atmosphere during The Passenger and China Girl back to back at the end of the regular gig was insane.
Also experiencing a live version of Mass Production, completely surreal but pulled off quite well.

Homme seemed to be really invested in playing the older songs, I wonder how big his part was in coming up with the concept of giving LFL/TI so much space.

after losing Bowie the way we did, the title "Post Pop Depression" has me worried -- should I be doing everything in my power to see Iggy this go-'round?

It certainly won't get any better. He seemed fit but really hindered by his leg/hip condition. On the other hand during an extended version of 'Fall In Love With Me' he somehow managed to completely cross the venue in the audience from left to right while singing.

Plus he's not hard to catch atm. He seems to be doing some festival gigs during summer, labelled as 'Iggy Solo', though I suppose these being a more standard affair song-selection wise and of course without Homme, Helders etc.