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Blah Blah Blah (Iggy Pop album)

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Blah-Blah-Blah is the seventh studio album by Iggy Pop.

Released on A&M in 1986, it became his most commercially
successful album to date. Blah-Blah-Blah appeared after a
four-year hiatus for Pop, with David Bowie serving as his
prime collaborator. It would be their final collaboration. A
successful tour followed the album's release.

Blah-Blah-Blah

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Production
Release and reception
Singles
Track listing
Alternate versions and remixes
Personnel
Notes
External links

Production
The collection included a cover of Johnny O'Keefe's "Wild
One" (here titled "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" and three
original songs co-written with ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve
Jones. The remaining tracks were co-written by Bowie, who
also produced the album with David Richards but, unlike his
previous work with Pop, The Idiot and Lust for Life (both
1977), did not sing or play any instruments. Bowie biographer
David Buckley has reported that Pop "virtually disowned"
the record, calling it "a Bowie album in all but name".[7] It
has never been specified what tracks on the album, if any,
originated during the sessions of Bowie's 1984 album Tonight
(that album's co-producer, Hugh Padgham, has recalled that
Bowie and Pop collaborated on some songs that Bowie
ultimately rejected for inclusion on Tonight).

Release and reception

Described by Allmusic as "the most calculatedly commercial
album of Iggy's career",[8] Blah-Blah-Blah was certified gold
in Canada (more than 50,000 copies sold). In the U.S. it
peaked at #75 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.[9]

Studio album by Iggy Pop

Released October 23, 1986
Recorded 1986
Studio

Mountain Studios, Montreux,

Switzerland

Genre

Rock

Length

46:12

Label

A&M

Producer David Bowie David Richards

Iggy Pop chronology
Zombie
Birdhouse
(1982)

Blah-Blah-Blah
(1986)

Instinct
(1988)

Singles from Blah-Blah-Blah

1. "Cry for Love"
Released: October 1986[1]
2. "Real Wild Child (Wild One)"
Released: November 1986[2]
3. "Shades"
Released: February 1987[3]
4. "Fire Girl"
Released: April 1987
5. "Isolation"
Released: June 1987[4]

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Rolling Stone's contemporary review complained of a

"nagging homogeneity to side one" but continued that "even
at its most familiar, Blah-Blah-Blah is as spiritually outraged
and emotionally direct as commercial pop gets these
days".[10]

Singles

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source

Rating
[5]

Allmusic
Robert Christgau

C+[6]

"Real Wild Child" reached #27 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts and became Pop's first top ten hit in the
UK.[11] The song was featured on the soundtrack for the 1990 film Pretty Woman, also both Problem Child
films, and has been the theme song of the Australian TV music program Rage since 1987. Other singles and
videos from the album included "Cry for Love," "Isolation" and "Shades". "Cry for Love", described by Rolling
Stone as "a ripping fusion of classic Iggy rage, Bowie cabaret and unexpected romantic vulnerability",[10] made
#19 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music chart and #34 on the Mainstream Rock charts.[11]

Track listing
All tracks written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie except where noted.
1. "Real Wild Child (Wild One)" (Johnny O'Keefe, Johnny Greenan, Dave Owens) 3:38
2. "Baby, It Can't Fall" 4:14
3. "Shades" 5:57
4. "Fire Girl" (Pop, Steve Jones) 3:33
5. "Isolation" 4:37
6. "Cry for Love" (Pop, Jones) 4:28
7. "Blah-Blah-Blah" 4:32
8. "Hideaway" 5:01
9. "Winners & Losers" (Pop, Jones) 6:18
10. "Little Miss Emperor" 3:50 (Bonus track not on original LP release)

Alternate versions and remixes

"Cry for Love" (Extended dance version) - 6:58
"Cry for Love" (7" edit) - 3:30
"Cry for Love" (Extended remix; B-side of "Shades" single) - 7:05
"Fire Girl" (Single remix) - 6:54
"Blah-Blah-Blah" (Live; B-side of "Fire Girl" single) - 4:48
"Real Wild Child (Wild One)" (Single mix) - 3:30
"Real Wild Child (Wild One)" (Extended version) - 8:28
"Hideaway" (12" edit) - 3:51
"Shades" (Single version) - 5:17
"Baby, It Can't Fall" (Extended remix; B-side of "Shades" single) - 6:10
There are demo versions of some songs in circulation online. "Fire Girl" features David Bowie's backing vocals
far more audible than in the album. [12]

Personnel

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Iggy Pop vocals

Kevin Armstrong guitar, backing vocals
Erdal Kzlay synthesizer, bass, drums, string arrangements, backing vocals
Steve Jones guitar solo on "Cry for Love"
David Bowie - Producer and backing vocals.

Notes
1. "45cat - Iggy Pop - Cry For Love / Winners And
Losers - A&M - UK - AM 358". 45cat. Retrieved
2015-10-04.
2. "45cat - Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One) /
Little Miss Emperor - A&M - UK - AM 368". 45cat.
Retrieved 2015-10-04.
3. "45cat - Iggy Pop - Shades / Baby, It Can't Fall A&M - UK - AM 374". 45cat. Retrieved
2015-10-04.
4. "45cat - Iggy Pop - Isolation / Hideaway - A&M UK - AM 397". 45cat. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
5. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r15538
6. "CG: Iggy Pop". Robert Christgau. Retrieved
2012-01-22.

7. David Buckley (1999). Strange Fascination - David

Bowie: The Definitive Story: pp.432-433
8. Album review (http://www.allmusic.com/album
/r15538) at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
9. Billboard Albums (http://www.allmusic.com/album
/r15538) at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
10. Album review (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews
/album/232779/review/5940366) at Rolling Stone.
Retrieved 31 December 2007.
11. Billboard Singles (http://www.allmusic.com/album
/r15538) at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7jygsjZkvU.
Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links
Rolling Stone review (https://web.archive.org/web/20081110073721/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews
/album/232779/review/5940366?)
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