Iggy Pop

[Guest ChgoBoy]

There was something very sexual about Iggy Pop for me when he was performing in his younger years. He always performed shirtless and his performances were always somewhat sexually charged.

 

Here's a picture of him back then:

 

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss204/Srb412/iggy_pop_metalhead_berlin_91_front.jpg

 

 

And here's a picture of him now, just last week while he was in performance in London over the weekend. Iggy Pop is now 63 and obviously has lost much of his physical appeal.

 

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss204/Srb412/0503-iggy-pop-wi-credit.jpg

[Kippy]

Yikes!!!! Someone get a blanket!

[+ Charlie]

A worthwhile lesson for every hot young man.

[doitb4ugo]

Help Me!

 

Please tell me I have more than 3 years left before I look like that....As vain as it sounds, I'm not ready to be THERE yet.

 

Perhaps we should be clapping our hands for Iggy just for still doing what he does...The fact that I am bothered by his looks seem of less concern to him....Good for him.

[Guest ChgoBoy]

Perhaps we should be clapping our hands for Iggy just for still doing what he does...The fact that I am bothered by his looks seem of less concern to him....Good for him.

 

One of my thoughts as well.

[AdamSmith]

http://www.posterart.com/ourposters/images/TheMummy.jpg

 

Nonetheless I agree: Good for him. Fuck what people think.

 

(I say that suspecting that I will end up looking like Christopher Lee one day. )

[JT Brooklyn]

A worthwhile lesson for every hot young man.

 

Totally Agree! "That ain't gonna be me" in Youth turns to this eventually!

 

My Theory.. just be Happy you were around a long time to see it and "Deal with It"!

[instudiocity]

There was something very sexual about Iggy Pop for me when he was performing in his younger years. He always performed shirtless and his performances were always somewhat sexually charged.

 

Here's a picture of him back then:

 

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss204/Srb412/iggy_pop_metalhead_berlin_91_front.jpg

 

 

And here's a picture of him now, just last week while he was in performance in London over the weekend. Iggy Pop is now 63 and obviously has lost much of his physical appeal.

 

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss204/Srb412/0503-iggy-pop-wi-credit.jpg

 

There is something to be said about carrying a few extra pounds around.

[Guest OCBeachbody]

that mummy poster was classic. But OMG .... what did he do to himself..... my grandsires don't even look that bad... Yikes!

[NYTomcat]

I sit here cheering the good for him crowd. Isn't it great he is comfortable in his own skin. Now excuse me I have to hit the gym and a tanning salon after I get my back waxed. And where did I put my Gucci shades oh hell I'll wear the prada. Goes better with my d&g and diesel's anyway.

[Antinous]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...

[AdamSmith]

Nice appreciation of Iggy by The Guardian...

 

In praise of … Iggy and the Stooges

We say Iggy Pop was the Stooges' singer but he was more like a human shock absorber

Editorial

The Guardian, Wednesday 5 May 2010

 

Before he began flogging car insurance, Iggy Pop, aka James Newell Osterberg, aka the Iguana, aka the Godfather of Punk, was the singer for the Stooges. Well, we say singer, but he was more like a human shock absorber for a band that did not so much give concerts as go to war with audiences. Going by this newspaper's review page yesterday, some of that antagonistic spirit is still on display as the band tour the UK this week: our man noted that Iggy Pop "flings himself into the audience at the slightest provocation". Such gonzo hostility was never merely a matter of idiosyncratic stagecraft, but ran all the way through the band's albums too. Search and Destroy, on the 1973 classic Raw Power, sums it up nicely: "I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm / I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb". Like many good things in pop music, the Stooges came out of industrial Michigan in the 60s, but Iggy's band didn't go in for Motown's melodic optimism; no, their songs were marked by a reckless nihilism. I Wanna Be Your Dog, for instance, combined lyrics such as "Now we're gonna be face to face / And I'll lay right down in my favourite place" with a leering, distorted guitar and a one-note piano riff. Perhaps their best album was Metallic KO – ostensibly a concert recording, but it sounded more like what would happen if you stuck a rock band in a Cortina and drove them off a cliff. Its high point? That would have to be Louie Louie, which must be the closest pop has ever come to a public flagellation.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/may/05/iggy-and-the-stooges-editorial

[+ purplekow]

Should change his name to Icky Poop. Just because he is comfort in his own skin does not mean he should be subjecting the public to it. I am comfortable being nude in the proper environment and I would still go to a nude beach, but I don't walk around shirtless out of courtesy to society in general.

[NYTomcat]

Should change his name to Icky Poop. Just because he is comfort in his own skin does not mean he should be subjecting the public to it. I am comfortable being nude in the proper environment and I would still go to a nude beach, but I don't walk around shirtless out of courtesy to society in general.

 

You and me both pk. I firmly believe God invented clothes for a reason and unless you look like some of the professionals here you should take advantage. Hell I ever think most of the pro's look betterclothed. Well sometimes. ;-)

[Toulouse]

I used to think he was bad-boy sexy, too. Damn, He looks rough! Sad.