Blah Blah Blah (album)

Infobox Album


Name = Blah Blah Blah
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Iggy Pop
Released = October 1986
Recorded = 1986
Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre = Rock
Length = 46:12
Label = A&M
Producer = David Bowie, David Richards
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fexqr5ldae~T0 link]
*Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Iggy+Pop link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/232779/review/5940366?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview link]
Last album = "Zombie Birdhouse"
(1982)
This album = "Blah Blah Blah"
(1986)
Next album = "Instinct"
(1988)

"Blah-Blah-Blah" is an album by Iggy Pop. Released on A&M in 1986, it became his most commercially successful album to date. "Blah Blah Blah" appeared after a four-year hiatus for Pop, with David Bowie serving as his prime collaborator. A successful tour followed the album's release.

Production

The collection included a cover of Johnny O'Keefe's "Wild One" (here titled "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" and three original songs co-written with ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. The remaining tracks were co-written by Bowie, who also produced the album with David Richards but, unlike his previous work with Pop, "The Idiot" and "Lust for Life" (both 1977), did not sing or play any instruments. Bowie biographer David Buckley has reported that Pop "virtually disowned" the record, calling it "a Bowie album in all but name".David Buckley (1999). "Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story": pp.432-433]

Release and reception

Described by Allmusic as "the most calculatedly commercial album of Iggy's career", [ [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fexqr5ldae~T0 Album review] at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.] "Blah Blah Blah" was certified gold in Canada (more than 50,000 copies sold) and reached top ten status in many European countries. In the U.S. it peaked at #90 on "Billboard"'s Top 200 Albums chart. [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fexqr5ldae~T30 Billboard Albums] at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.] "Rolling Stone"'s contemporary review complained of a "nagging homogeneity to side one" but continued that "even at its most familiar, Blah-Blah-Blah is as spiritually outraged and emotionally direct as commercial pop gets these days". [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/232779/review/5940366?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview Album review] at "Rolling Stone". Retrieved 31 December 2007.]

ingles

"Real Wild Child" reached #27 on "Billboard"'s Mainstream Rock charts and became Pop's first top ten hit in the UK. [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a9fexqr5ldae~T31 Billboard Singles] at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.] The song was featured on the soundtrack for the 1990 film "Pretty Woman". Other singles and videos from the album included "Cry for Love," "Isolation" and "Shades". "Cry for Love", described by "Rolling Stone" as "a ripping fusion of classic Iggy rage, Bowie cabaret and unexpected romantic vulnerability", made #19 on "Billboard"'s Hot Dance Music chart and #34 on the Mainstream Rock charts.

Track listing

All tracks written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie except where noted.
# "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" (Johnny O'Keefe, Johnny Greenan, Dave Owens) – 3:38
# "Baby, It Can't Fall" – 4:14
# "Shades" – 5:57
# "Fire Girl" (Pop, Steve Jones) – 3:33
# "Isolation" – 4:36
# "Cry For Love" (Pop, Jones) – 4:28
# "Blah-Blah-Blah" – 4:32
# "Hideaway" – 5:01
# "Winners & Losers" (Pop, Jones) – 6:18
# "Little Miss Emperor" – 3:50

Personnel

* Iggy Pop – vocals
* Kevin Armstrong – guitar, backing vocals
* Erdal Kizilcay – synthesizer, bass, drums, string arrangements, backing vocals
* Steve Jones – guitar solo on "Cry for Love"

Notes