tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post8459567743631264223..comments2024-03-24T08:17:55.097-04:00Comments on BLOG TO COMM: Christopher Stiglianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-52671862226430591882007-04-01T14:53:00.000-04:002007-04-01T14:53:00.000-04:00I think it's fantastic but surely I'm duping mysel...I think it's fantastic but surely I'm duping myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-32279322330136152382007-03-31T16:02:00.000-04:002007-03-31T16:02:00.000-04:00"The Weirdness" sounds good, but the songwriting i..."The Weirdness" sounds good, but the songwriting is lacking for the most part. It seems that the songs were just made up on the spur of the moment. Now I'm not expecting Iggy to be Brian Wilson or Burt Bacharach, but it seems like the songwriting was just tossed off rather carelessly and disposably and no effort was made to write good songs. It's all surface, no substance. It's hardly terrible but rather forgettable - perhaps because calling it a "Stooges" album raises all sort of false expectations. Maybe if it had been billed as an Iggy album rather than a Stooges album it wouldn't be judged so harshly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-37586089315275165972007-03-27T12:17:00.000-04:002007-03-27T12:17:00.000-04:00It's just HORRIBLE in every way, especially the ly...It's just HORRIBLE in every way, especially the lyrics. "My idea of fun is killing everyone?" I could shit that garbage out in my sleep. I hear better records from clueless teenagers every week. You're duping yourself. <BR/><BR/>-trickkneeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-2459851476036899282007-03-20T23:33:00.000-04:002007-03-20T23:33:00.000-04:00Geez, I just don't hear it. It sounds even more l...Geez, I just don't hear it. It sounds even more lackluster and uninspired than the Iggy records of the last two decades that I haven't bothered to listen to all the way through. If this was a completely new band, with no name in the band that anyone knew, how many people would care?David Houserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17763800393498414157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-40964657684540623522007-03-19T17:11:00.000-04:002007-03-19T17:11:00.000-04:00Ordinary songs. Woeful production. It's a close ru...Ordinary songs. Woeful production. It's a close run thing for which is worse, Iggy's vocal or the lyrics. <BR/><BR/>You can barely hear Ron's leads and the rhythm playing is often reduced to a dull grind. <BR/><BR/>It should have been called The Emperor's New Clothes.The Barmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816861742029266021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-84334294558089573622007-03-18T23:23:00.000-04:002007-03-18T23:23:00.000-04:00I hated this album when I heard the tracks on radi...I hated this album when I heard the tracks on radio - the track I heard - 'my idea of fun' - Iggy sounds like a male version of Kim Gordon.<BR/><BR/>I downloaded it, and am starting to really dig it, but it really is Asheton's record.<BR/><BR/>Steve Albini though should be killed. His production is more pederastrian than Gary Glitter on a Vietnam holiday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-19603441238274613662007-03-18T01:39:00.000-04:002007-03-18T01:39:00.000-04:00Here's the main thing for me: lyrically, this albu...Here's the main thing for me: lyrically, this album is way beyond the three old Stooges albums. Musically, I suppose I could say it's about equal, but the thing, I think, that sets it apart for me is the effective, primal simplicity of the melodic hooks Iggy is singing in these songs. Just about every phrase seems like a winner to me and there are a lot of them over the course of this album!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-56020920153816404322007-03-17T23:21:00.000-04:002007-03-17T23:21:00.000-04:00As usual, keep in mind that I wrote the above late...As usual, keep in mind that I wrote the above late Saturday night, after having been up since four in the morning (no caffeine in the system either...tryin' t' cut down) which would explain some of the mis-spellings and run ons that can be found therein.Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-12090943721276572942007-03-17T23:17:00.000-04:002007-03-17T23:17:00.000-04:00The "faggot" epithet comes off a little combative,...<EM>The "faggot" epithet comes off a little combative, Chris.</EM><BR/><BR/>Oh boy, I'm really getting into Ann Coulter territory now! I dunno, I've been using that word and so has Archie Bunker and Wayne McGuire on and on for <EM><STRONG>years</EM></STRONG> already and suddenly it seems as if more than a few people now think it's offensive...well it <STRONG>IS!!!</STRONG> Maybe that's the point of it. (I most certainly used the word in light of the recent brouhaha regarding Coulter and Edwards...I figure that, as a writer, I've <STRONG>GOTTA DO MY PART TO HELP KEEP AMERIGA FREE</STRONG> and that would include offending people who have been going outta their ways to offend me well over two decades! Really it is "tit for tat" and all, but why shouldn't I throw nasty words at folk who seem to revel in knocking midclass Amerigan suburban nuclear family structures every chance they get, and get a free pass from commentators at large?) Anyway, if I wanted to <EM><STRONG>really</EM></STRONG> be "combative" with regards to offending protected classes of people I could think of a lot stronger terms to toss about! (But I won't, since I really don't have a beef with folk even if certain segments of their population are little more than shills for a society I want no part of!) As you'd probably guess I believe "faggot" to be pretty mild a "slur" or whatever, on par with my usage of slang terminology along the lines of "dago" and "polack" which I know won't get me in trouble with any Thought Police cruising the web these days! Which would figure...they'd probably <STRONG>APPLAUD</STRONG> me if I used those words more often!<BR/><BR/><EM>I'm gonna throw out a challenge on one point, though. I think you are romanticizing the past. You say it's not as good as the three old Stooges albums, but how is it not? What is it lacking?</EM><BR/><BR/>Yeah, I can see myself "romanticizing the past" as you say, mainly because it's that very same past that formed almost all of my values, tastes and ideals towards what I listen to, read and watch. (I <EM>am</EM> a "stick-in-the-mud" at times, make no mistake.) And yeah, I probably was a tad derelict in detailing just what I thought <STRONG>THE WEIRDNESS</STRONG> might have been lacking as far as total jamz go. (But then again hey, I coulda done a two-parted like Lester Bangs did with <STRONG>FUNHOUSE</STRONG> in the pages of <STRONG>CREEM</STRONG> had I, like Bangs, all of the time, stamina and artificial energy to do so!) Well, I <EM>could</EM> say that the album didn't have the primitive teenage post-Diddley thunk or low-budget Seeds-derived snarl of <STRONG>THE STOOGES</STRONG>, nor did it blast out into pure nova energy like <STRONG>FUNHOUSE</STRONG>, nor was it a low-fidelity metallic street scuzz slapper like <STRONG>RAW POWER</STRONG>. Of course it has its own impeccable merits as you can read (and hear), but at least as far as initial impressions go perhaps it doesn't quite soar to previous heights. (But then again I could've said the same thing about <STRONG>THE STOOGES</STRONG> which I didn't quite <EM>absorb</EM> during my initial spin or <STRONG>RAW POWER</STRONG> which I merely "liked a lot"...both of those records eventually soaked in to the point of being all-time faves naturally! Oddly enough, <STRONG>FUNHOUSE</STRONG> was a hit upon my first spin!)<BR/><BR/>I'd say, if I were Jonathan Richman (who panned <STRONG>FUNHOUSE</STRONG> in the pages of <STRONG>FUSION</STRONG> as part of a pro/con review segment with Ben Edmonds taking the affirmative!), <STRONG>THE WEIRDNESS</STRONG> sorta straddles the "made it" line while the three original Stooges platters (and <STRONG>METALLIC KO</STRONG>) hover way above. Not that I was expecting miracles, but<BR/>maybe the toll of moderne thought, production and general Stooge deification did affect this even if only in the slightest.<BR/><BR/><EM>"The End of Christianity" is about monogamy, I think.</EM> <BR/><BR/>I originally thought it might have been about a return to pagan ideals! Then again, I doubt that Iggy and Company ever left those ideals in the first place...Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-34053628548154227642007-03-17T22:30:00.000-04:002007-03-17T22:30:00.000-04:00The "faggot" epithet comes off a little combative,...The "faggot" epithet comes off a little combative, Chris. : D<BR/><BR/>In any case, some really, really great lines about the album here. True insights, and allow me to say that you are truly one of the greats. Ever. I'm gonna throw out a challenge on one point, though. I think you are romanticizing the past. You say it's not as good as the three old Stooges albums, but how is it not? What is it lacking?<BR/><BR/>"The End of Christianity" is about monogamy, I think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com