Iggy Pop - The Idiot (w/ guests Renee Maskin and Jim McGee)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

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

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2015

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Singer, songwriter, and musician Renee Maskin, solo artist and member of Lowlight and the Roadside Graves (soundcloud.com/reneemaskin, lowlightnj.bandcamp.com, and roadsidegraves.tumblr.com), joins Brian and Bill along with guitarist Jim McGee (jesseelliot.com) to talk about Iggy Pop's solo debut The Idiot (1977, RCA). Produced by and written with David Bowie, this landmark album gave a preview of what was to come in Bowie's "Berlin years." Recorded several years after the Stooges disbanded and Iggy did a stint at a mental institution, both he and Bowie went to Germany to kick their heroin habits and create new music. They ended up making this weird proto-industrial mood piece. Brian, Bill, Renee, and Jim talk about how this album affected them, what happens if future paleontologists discover The Idiot, and what to do when you "missed it" as they make their way through the album track by track.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The The
0:40.3	The Night clothing, we're nightclothing, we're an ice machine. Hello, welcome to the great album's podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And today we are going to be,
1:36.1	as you were just listening, talking about Iggy Pop's 1970 album, The Idiot. And we're not going to do it alone we actually have a couple of
1:48.5	guests today our first time having multiple guests at the same time so first
1:53.9	let's introduce the newest guest our our first-time guest Renee Maskin hi
1:58.9	hello how are you doing?
2:00.9	I'm okay. How are you guys doing?
2:02.3	All right.
2:03.9	Renee is a singer, songwriter, and musician who plays in a few bands as well as solo sometimes.
2:10.9	So I'll let you explain that to the world.
2:12.9	All right, well, I do my own solo thing, but I'm also in a band called Low Light, of which I sing and play guitar.
2:21.3	And I just joined a band called the Roadside Graves who've been around for a long time,
2:26.3	and I'm doing some guitar and some backup singing for them too.
2:29.3	That's cool.
2:30.3	Yeah.
2:31.3	I haven't heard them. I've heard Low Light several, several times.
2:33.3	Every time I've seen them, they blow every other band off the stage.
2:38.7	It's nice of you to say.
2:40.6	Every time we have to follow you, Small Planet Radio has followed you a couple times now,
2:44.3	and we're just like, oh, man, people are going to be so disappointed in us.
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