This sadness does something to you. I remember exactly how I bought Sketches of Spain in a store for used vinyl at Mercer Street corner Bleecker in New York, for $3,99. It was the time after CD’s had conquered the market and people sold their vinyl records in order to replace them by discs. That’s …
“Sinatra is American culture at its peak” Iggy Pop Frank Sinatra was one of my aunt’s favorite singers when I was little. She lived in the trailer next to ours, she was ill, and my Mom cared for her. And her only comfort in life was to sit next to her old, gigantic record-player and …
What else in hell should be so great about the USA, other than this music? When this album got released, I listened to it over and over and over again. I can still sing along to songs like It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) und Subterranean Homesick Blues. Back then, I sat in front of …
Suddenly I felt anger and shame This record is important to me, because in a certain way it saved me. When Music For 18 Musicians was released, I lived the rock’n’roll lifestyle with every fibre of my body and continued to incite myself. I went through every wall with my head first. I tried to …
I discovered Noveller alias Sarah Lipstate when I was looking up something else for my radio show. Because I was already at it, I ended up searching for other exciting newcomers and was specifically looking into the field of electronic music. At one point, a little square with her picture and name turned up, and …
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot In the middle of the 1970s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions. Iggy …
The Idiot is the most important album of my life, because it almost made me give up music forever. I have to explain this. It was 1994, I was 21 and still playing with Kyuss. Back then I almost completely refused to listen to anything else than Kyuss. I was young and stupid, and I …
When Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself, his body was discovered with Iggy Pop’sThe Idiot still spinning on his turntable. The choice made sense, as the record directly inspired the dreary post-punk that Joy Division was beloved for. It’s odd then, that The Idiot was actually a stylistic detour for Iggy, an outlier …
I was 14 and trying out some guitar riffs with my first band. There was an older guy, and throughout one of our songs he said: “That sounds like Gimme Danger from The Stooges– and you sound like James Williamson.” I didn’t know the Stooges back then and was quite pissed off: when you’re 14 …
All societies have their points of least resistance, their wounds. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard. Michel Houellebecq, To Stay Alive The adolescent years are crucial for the development of your spiritual and intellectual lineage, and your future track along it. You are and will always remain what you read and …
