Iggy Pop - Live at the Ritz NYC (1986)

Iggy Pop was in a peculiar position in the mid-1980s. On the one hand, the white heat of excitement that surrounded his re-emergence during 1977-1978 had been dissipated not only by time, but also by the succession of increasingly unconvincing albums he released at decade's end; on the other, he was now so firmly entrenched within the rock'n'roll furniture that it wasn't even a shock when he scored a hit single, with Blah Blah Blah's recounting of "Real Wild Child".

But he still put on a live show that left your jaw on the floor, and though the set list here owes nothing to the increasingly tightrope-like performances he gave in the late 1970s, < Read More