Iggy Pop -- they think he's genius in, like, Scotland

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Why does it seem the Iggy's most hardcore fans are overseas? Do you think he's underappreciated at home?

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

they think he's genius in, like, Georgia

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

is this even really true? xpost

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/02/27/ret.georgia.facts/map.georgia.russia.jpg

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

He is a genius.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

That's the whisky talking.

― Johnwalker, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Sapporo, actually.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Iggy is a genius in wherever he happens to be. Be they black, be they white, be they...whatever.

― Davlo (Davlo), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

so That's where all the Sapporo's gone!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

i like Iggy, have all the stooges, but i want an explanation as to WHY he is a genuis.

(please keep in mind that i am a fan, i just need some reasoning on this)

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Provable with forceps. It's the gray matter, y'see.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

i like Iggy, have all the stooges, but i want an explanation as to WHY he is a genuis.

Without Iggy, there wouldn't have been...blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Without Iggy there wouldn't have been "Blah Blah Blah".

If there wasn't an Iggy, we would have had to invent him.

For proof of genius, pick up a copy of "I Want More".

― Jon Hope (jarge), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

He's a natural genius, he never separated his mind (for fun he reads "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", unexpurgated, yeah) from his body (he sang ALL THOSE SONGS and wrote a lot of them too and I hear he gets MORE than his share of pussy), he merely needs to BE to be a genius. He inspires us ALL, man. He made it, why should he refine it to make it more obv to us how SEMINAL he is?

― Schwip Schwap (schwip schwap), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

it''s in our constitution under paragraph, sub secton 334. 'iggy pop is a genius'

― stirmonster in scotland (stirmonster), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Yep. Down there in black and white.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I think Scottish folks don't really groove on pretention, artiface or general fakery and Iggy has done a good job of being 4-real for a long time. You only have to read an interview with the guy to fall in love with his honesty. Neither Kiss, Alice Cooper or any number of US shock-rockers could get arrested in Dundee. In fact for decades there was this idea that Kiss and Alice never performed in the UK because "their show was too big". What a load of shite. It was simply because, to paraphrase Ian Faith, "their appeal was more selective".

― everything, Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Iggy reads Gibbon? Cool!!

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 8 April 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

I think Scottish folks don't really groove on pretention, artiface or general fakery

But we do, we do! And, by the way, Alice Cooper was massive in the UK AND in Scotland.

― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

I think Scottish folks don't really groove on pretention, artiface or general fakery and Iggy has done a good job of being 4-real for a long time.

Iggy, the guy who teamed up with Bowie, by-word for pretention, artifice and general fakery? Iggy's always been able to camp it up with the best of them.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Fucking hell, Bowie? He was like Jesus Christ in Glasgow.

― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure you're not mixing up Iggy Pop with Irn Bru?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

They're both made of girders

― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Since we're talking about glam and dementia in Scotland, I might as well be the first to say it:

Alex Fuckin' Harvey. Ya bass.

― Soukesian, Friday, 8 April 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure you're not mixing up glam and dementia with Glen Daly?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 8 April 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

A die-hard mid-seventies Iggy-Bowie-Reed-Roxy orthodoxy hung on well into the eighties in Scotland. (Can't speak for other places, because I wasn't other places much)

If you look at Trainspotting(the novel), that's really what the characters are all about. House/rave/club music (and The Acid House) came much later.

― Soukesian, Friday, 8 April 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure you're not mixing up Trainspotting with Para Handy?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I'm giving up on this thread, Marcello.

― Soukesian, Friday, 8 April 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I'm Scottish. I don't think Iggy Pop is a genius and don't personally know anyone who does. I don't know Irvine Welsh, though.

― frankiemachine, Friday, 8 April 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

He's more of a genius than Irvine Welsh that's for sure

― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

Iggy Pop can currently be seen in the advert for the Glasgow Herald, ruminating on lives lost in the First World War.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Lives lost in the First World War to methadone abuse and crystal meth?

― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Well it was either Iggy Pop or Cliff Hanley.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Now I Wanna Be Your West Highland Terrier

― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

That's kind of true in the film; the most recognisable moment is when Renton is at the rave and starts shuffling selfconsciously. It captures that exact moment when indie/punks realised we were backing the wrong horse.

― jim (jim5et), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

As opposed to Begbie cheerfully raving away with his arm around the woman until he too realises that he has horsed the wrong back, so to speak.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 8 April 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Thank you Ned for the following link (as noted on ilE): http://www.abc4.tv/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=91208A8F-EEC8-4221-82E4-1AEBB1631204

― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Saturday, 3 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

his name is IGGY POP for chrissake. and youre wondering why hes a genius.

― FlamesandDIRTandyknowwhatever, Saturday, 3 September 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Genius or not, he wouldn't have amounted to much without the Asheton brothers.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 4 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

He was Punk #1. You're not even supposed to say that because it was ten years before punk itself. Escaping categorization maybe also a sign of genius..

And Myonga you got it backwards : they were lucky to band around that figure.

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 4 September 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

It's all about CHEMISTRY.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Eeep! Elijah Wood? I thought they were joking about that! Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

― Luminiferous Aether (kate), Monday, 5 September 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

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