cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/11301182

The Pride of Muskegon and Ypsilanti…ladies and gentleman or whatever you consider yourselves…

Happy Birthday, Iggy Pop! Mostly shirtless but always dangerous since 1947!

Mr "Gimme Danger"

Mr "Gimme Danger" at Beale Street Music Festival, New Orleans, LA, 2007.
Photo: Bill Dierssen. Later version(s) uploaded by Pomte at en.wikipedia., CC-BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

How many second chances does Iggy Pop get?

– journalist/Rolling Stone editor David Fricke on Iggy and The Stooges’ Ready To Die

[…]the man doesn’t seem to know how to sell out, even when he tries[…]

– journalist Mark Deming on Iggy’s Party

Mr Dichotomy, the Peanut-Butter-Smeared One himself has said…

I just got sick of listening to idiot thugs with guitars banging out crappy music.[1][2][3]

“Idiot thugs with guitars” or not, Iggy’s still got the goods…and the voice…

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  1. https://ew.com/article/2009/06/05/iggy-pop-calls-fred-durst-a-thug/ ↩︎

  2. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/may/22/iggy-pop-preliminaires-music-review ↩︎

  3. https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1039625,1040653 ↩︎

  • raoulraoulOP
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    6 months ago

    For those who give a rat’s ass: I’m looking at this post from both Voyager and Jerboa and both apps completely yet uniquely mangle the citation’s footnotes, which render correctly in a web browser.

    If you’re so interested, you can view source and follow the links from there.

    – your friendly neighborhood OP, r2