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The Great Albums

Bonus Song Thursday - Iggy Pop "The Passenger"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday, and Renee Maskin and Jim McGee are back to talkabout Iggy Pop's "The Passenger." In his second collaboration with David Bowie, Iggy decided to have a little more fun than the dour The Idiot. In this episode we discuss how we all first experienced Iggy Pop, his existence as a pop icon, and Problem Child (the movie)!

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0:00.0

I am the passenger

0:07.0

I am the passenger

0:21.6

And I ride and I ride

0:25.6

I ride through the city back sides

0:29.6

I see the stars come out in the sky

0:33.6

Yeah the bright and hollow sky

0:36.6

You know it looks so good tonight

0:40.3

Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast.

0:50.5

I'm Bill.

0:51.0

And I'm Brian.

0:52.1

And this is bonus on Thursday.

0:54.1

On Monday, we talked about Iggy Pops the Idiot. And I'm Brian. And this is bonus song Thursday. On Monday, we talked about

0:55.9

Iggy Pops the Idiot. And so now we're going to talk a little bit about some of his music from

1:00.9

his follow-up to that, another collaboration with David Bowie, called Lust for Life. And we were

1:07.2

just listening to The Passenger. That is our bonus song for the day.

1:14.0

We have with us, again, they stuck around.

1:15.8

Renee Maskin.

1:16.4

Hi, Renee.

1:16.6

Hi, Renee.

1:18.3

Hi, Jim.

1:19.5

Hey, how are you?

1:20.4

I'm okay.

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