{"id":1785,"date":"2010-01-18T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.wordpress.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:54:45","slug":"album-review-iggy-pop-preliminaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Iggy Pop – Preliminaires"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Iggy Pop – Preliminaires
\nRelease date: June 2, 2009
\nHighlights: Les Feuilles Mortes, Spanish Coast, How Insensitive, A Machine For Loving, She’s A Business<\/p>\n

So I can’t say that I have ever been a fan of Iggy Pop nor have I ever disliked him.\u00a0 He always seemed like a cool guy but I never really dove into his material.\u00a0 When I was given a copy of “Preliminaires” by a friend I couldn’t wait to just check it out.\u00a0 There’s a reason Iggy Pop is held in such high regard as a groundbreaking performer and writer.\u00a0 This album is everything that I love about music.\u00a0 It’s an album that is full of diversity and it really kept my attention.\u00a0 So much that by the time the last song ended, I couldn’t believe that it was already over.<\/p>\n

You’ve got Iggy and his deep, brooding gothic voice singing in french over a samba on the opening track “Les Feuilles Mortes”.\u00a0 You get Iggy singing jazz on “I Want To Go To The Beach” and you get Iggy sounding like a Jim Morrison fronting The Talking Heads on “Nice To Be Dead.”\u00a0 My personal favorite is “A Machine For Loving” which has Iggy Pop sounding like a cross between Jim Morrison and what could be dialogue from a Clint Eastwood western.<\/p>\n

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This record does have a concept going on.,\u00a0 I’m not quite sure about the concept of this album as the liner notes say that it was inspired by the Michel Houellebecq novel “The Possibility of An Island.”\u00a0 Even going into this album not knowing or understanding the concept I was still able to enjoy this album 100%.<\/p>\n

This album possesses a lot of substance quality.\u00a0 This is one of those what I like to call “mood” records.\u00a0 If you are looking for a nice chill out album yet an album that you can zone in on the lyrics, this is it.\u00a0 The songs have a way of pulling you in and taking you deep into the core of each and every one of them.\u00a0 By the time I have written this review I have listened to this album three times and each time I hear something different; I get something out of it that I didn’t the first time.\u00a0 I actually feel that my brain is working while listening to these songs.\u00a0 It’s easy to see just how huge of an influence Jim Morrison is on not just Iggy’s writing but in his delivery as well.<\/p>\n

This is an album that everyone should check out and own.\u00a0 It’s more than just an album.\u00a0 It’s a work of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iggy Pop – Preliminaires Release date: June 2, 2009 Highlights: Les Feuilles Mortes, Spanish Coast, How Insensitive, A Machine For Loving, She’s A Business So I can’t say that I have ever been a fan of Iggy Pop nor have I ever disliked him.\u00a0 He always seemed like a cool guy but I never really dove into his material.\u00a0 When I was given a copy of “Preliminaires” by a friend I couldn’t wait to just check it out.\u00a0 There’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19891,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/19891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}