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Originally Posted by viewtiful alan redux
Iggy can be so hard for me to stick by sometimes... I hate to say it but I think he needs to stop with new material, it hasn't been legitimately good in a long time.
We can pretend all we want, but he hasn't made a genuinley goood album since Brick by Brick (and even that was pretty spotty).
He can't write an interesting song anymore, and his voice isn't really surviving. The live show is still great, but unfortunately both Iggy and the Stooges are better suited to a throwback act these days.
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I tend to agree. He's become a kind of mascot for some bygone era. The punk equivalent of Mick Jagger. If he wants to carry on that's up to him and I don't blame him for doing it, but he's not my friend or a member of my family, so I'm not gonna buy any of his later stuff out of any kind of loyalty. I'll carry on listening to the stuff he did in the 60-70s with The Stooges because it's good. I'm not gonna bother with what he's doing now, though, unless it gets excellent reviews or seems in some way interesting (as with his upcoming album based on 'Democracy in America'). But a 21st Century Iggy, cavorting around like it's 1969 again (baby) just doesn't interest me.