Iggy Pop

[adam]

Where should I start?

[joethelion]

ooh - that's actually a tough one

as there's well - a lot of crap. a friend of mine... who actually wasn't a bowie fan said that his best stuff other than with the stooges was when he was 'trying to sound like bowie' (so that'd be "the Idiot" "Lust for Life" "Blah Blah Blah" [which bowie actually produced / wrote on each] and also "Avenue B")

my first album I bought of his was 'the Idiot' but that may not be the best place to start, it's a very dense record (like in the same manner Tricky's Pre-Millenium Tension was)


...maybe "Lust for Life" might be the best - or his greatest hits package, which normally - I wouldn't recommend, but in the case of his career, it certainly separates the wheat from the chaff, you know what I mean

but -
The Stooges (self titled) album is great, and you get three of his best songs "No Fun" "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "1969"
and although the album's very dense and hard to get into at first 'the Idiot' is still a great album and "Lust for Life" is like one of those albums that you purchase it, it doesn't leave your cd player for a long time

(edit 2)
almost every single live album has crap sound quality (average bootleg radio broadcast at best). I really would not recommend any of them, unless you reeeallly like whatever phase of his career he's in, and you want to hear what the songs sounded like live.