List of songs recorded by Iggy Pop
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American musician Iggy Pop has recorded over 300 songs in a career spanning six decades. Known as the "Godfather of Punk",[1] he began his career as a drummer with local bands from Ann Arbor, Michigan, including the Iguanas, who recorded several songs in the studio in 1965, among them a cover of Bo Diddley's "Mona" and Pop's first original, "Again and Again".[2] After departing that group, he joined the Prime Movers,[1] in which the band members gave him the nickname "Iggy".[3] From 1967 to 1974, Pop was the frontman of the rock band the Stooges, who released three albums–The Stooges (1969), Fun House (1970), and Raw Power (1973), which were not commercially successful but were influential in the development of punk rock.[1][4][5]
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After the breakup of the Stooges, Pop launched a solo career with two albums produced by David Bowie, The Idiot and Lust for Life, both released in 1977.[1][6] The same year, a group of recordings Pop made with former Stooges member James Williamson was released as Kill City.[1] Pop reunited with Williamson for 1979's New Values, after which Pop experimented with new wave sounds on Soldier (1980), Party (1981), and Zombie Birdhouse (1982). He reteamed with Bowie on 1986's Blah-Blah-Blah, featuring his first hit single in the US, a cover of Johnny O'Keefe's "Real Wild Child (Wild One)".[1] In 1990, he had his first top 20 hit with "Candy", a duet with Kate Pierson of the B-52s, from the album Brick by Brick.[1] Throughout the 1990s, he continued recording, releasing American Caesar in 1993, the Stooges-like Naughty Little Doggie in 1996, and the less-intense Avenue B in 1999.[1]
Pop has continued to experiment and collaborate since the 2000s. For 2003's Skull Ring, Pop recorded with his former Stooges bandmates, the Trolls (a Pop-fronted rock band who made their debut on 2001's Beat 'Em Up), Peaches, Green Day, and Sum 41.[7] He toured again with the Stooges and released two more albums with them: 2007's The Weirdness and 2013's Ready to Die.[6] Pop also released the jazzy Préliminaires in 2009 and the French-sung Après in 2012. In 2016, Pop teamed with Josh Homme, Dean Fertita, and Matt Helders for Post Pop Depression.[1] These were followed by the jazzy, atmospheric Free in 2019 and Every Loser in 2023, a return to punk rock.[8][9] Pop has released collaborations with Underworld, Kesha, Praxis, Teddybears, and Catherine Graindorge.[1]
Songs
| † | Indicates songs not written or co-written by Iggy Pop |
|---|---|
Notes
- Also recorded by the Iguanas, which was released on The Iguanas in 1996.[15]
- English translation
- Includes a hidden track called "Sterility"