While we’re all waiting for “Angle of the Dangle”, issuing four discs of live recordings and to summarize a career as Iggy Pop’s, it makes sense and we’re talking about a career for 40-plus years. “Préliminaires” was marked obviously by the death of Ron Asheton, Iggy took on a path down to blues with some jazz overtones and it was the less rock-oriented album he ever made, listening now into this raw sounding bootleg, reminds us of who Iggy actually is and why – most of us – love him since the 70s. And well, on the first CD features material from Pop’s legendary 1977 tour with Bowie on keyboards and the Thin White Duke, it is quite something even if the recordings are not surgically clean. And we also have the Stooges reunion gigs from 2003, the best proof that nobody else can play those songs like the guys who wrote them.
And we’ve got almost everything we could wish for from the infamous “Louie Louie” to “In The Death Car”, from “Lust For Life” and “China Girl” to “Skull Ring” and “Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)”, from the legendary “The Passenger” to “Fucking Alone”, from “Sister Midnight” to “Blah Blah Blah”. Magnetic and disturbing, Iggy is one of his kind. Just never forget this. “Roadkill Rising” is Pop’s best career retrospective to date: Raw Power!!!
Track list:
Disc 1: The ’70s
1. Iggy Pop Intro (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 11/16/77)
2. Raw Power
3. 1969
4. Funtime (Rainbow Theatre, London, UK 3/7/77)
5. I Need Somebody
6. Search And Destroy (Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH 3/22/77)
7. Turn Blue
8. Gimme Danger
9. Tonight (Masonic Temple, Detroit, MI 3/25/77)
10. Fall In Love With Me
11. Gloria
12. Rock Action (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 11/16/77)
13. Knocking ‘Em Down In The City
14. New Values
15. Play It Safe
16. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell
17. You Really Got Me (Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA 11/27/79)
Disc 2: The ’80s
1. Nightclubbing
2. Puppet World
3. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
4. Take Care Of Me (Bookie s, Detroit, MI 9/26/80)
5. Batman Theme
6. Hang On Sloopy (Music Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 12/3/81)
7. I Wanna Be Your Dog
8. Loose
9. Real Wild Child
10. Sister Midnight (Club 1018, New York, NY 4/5/87)
11. Blah Blah Blah
12. Winners And Losers
13. Shades
14. Some Weird Sin (Bay Street, Sag Harbor, NY 4/15/87)
15. Kill City (The Channel, Boston, MA 7/19/88)
16. High On You (The Ritz, New York, NY 7/20/88)
Disc 3: The ’90s
1. Lust For Life
2. China Girl
3. Butt Town
4. Home (Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany 1/26/91)
5. TV Eye
6. The Passenger
7. Louie Louie
8. Rip It Up (Phoenix Festival, Long Marston Airfield, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK 7/17/94)
9. Candy
10. Five Foot One (Leysin Festival, Leysin, Switzerland 6/12/91)
11. Caesar
12. In The Death Car
13. Fucking Alone
14. Hate
15. No Fun (Agora Theatre, Evry, France 4/23/94)
Disc 4: The ’00s
1. Corruption
2. Howl
3. The Jerk
4. Lost
5. Drink New Blood (Bizarre Festival, Weeze, Germany 8/20/01)
6. Dirt
7. Dirt #2 (Bol D’Or Circuit De Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, France 9/13/03)
8. Down On The Street
9. Real Cool Time (Glastonbury Festival, England, Pilton, Somerset, UK 6/23/07)
10. Funhouse (The FIB, Benicassim, Spain 7/19/07)
11. My Idea Of Fun
12. Not Right
13. Skull Ring (The 9:30 Club, Washington, DC 4/5/07)
14. Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)
15. King Of The Dogs
16. Spanish Coast
17. Willow Weep For Me
18. Shotgun (Studio 105, Maison de la Radio, Paris, France 5/28/09)
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