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Iggy pop real wild child3/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Of course it brought the house down - even the '80s keyboard got reprised - but what followed to finish the encore was even more impressive.įew can convincingly Nick Cave's Red Right Hand, but if there's one man who's spent even longer staring death in the face than its author, it was this night's hero.Īs energetic and invested as Pop was - he asked for the house lights to be turned up a couple of times, and gurgled in genuine delight at the sea of adoring faces - there's always the chance this could be it. From the Album The Best Of Iggy Pop 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection. ![]() Pop couldn't come to Australia and not play Real Wild Child (Wild One), his Johnny O'Keefe cover long ingrained into our souls by its use as the theme song to ABC TV's Rage. Search And Destroy and 1969 packed albums' worth of gut-wrenching riffs into single songs, the whole front row was invited on stage to bop with Pop on No Fun, while TV Eye was as intense as it gets, Pop unleashing screams for the ages. He was clearly in a mood to brood, with I'm Sick Of You and Mass Production slowed down to wring out the discontent, while Repo Man was the sound of neuroses set to music: "I'm looking for the joke with a microscope," Pop snarled, eyes bulging.īut he kept bringing the party too, helped by his four-piece band being joined by a trombonist and trumpeter for many tracks. the whole front row was invited on stage. Only Iggy Pop could start a show with four classics in a row - I Wanna Be Your Dog and Gimme Danger from The Stooges, The Passenger and Lust For Life from the David Bowie-produced solo albums of the late '70s - and not worry about peaking early.Īll sinew and scar. Well I'm just outa schoolLike I'm real real coolGotta dance like a foo. Iggy's formula of bellowed, angsty lyrics over pummelling guitar riffs, booming bass lines and martial drumming sounded as fresh on this night as it did on The Stooges 50 years ago. Lyrics:I'm a real wild one, wild one, wild one. Not many people bought Stooges albums in the band's heyday, but it seemed like everyone who did was inspired to form a band. And drivel: at one point the punk icon gobbed on his pectorals, and watched with an idiot grin as it slid down into his leather trousers. Between his twisted spine and his constant ballet-on-coke moves, he was 100 per cent swivel. Iggy Pop quickly dispenses with his shirt at the Sydney Opera House.
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