Fuck-ass!
L’iguana mi ha sempre esageratamente preso, chi non si ricorda almeno una volta da giovane, Iggy Pop e il suo fun, no fun, fun time, fun house, la parola fun ricorre spesso nell’opera iggypoppiana, ma è un divertimento che ha del folle, è un divertimento deviato e laido, è un terribile divertimento tra bevute, stupri di comitiva, corse in auto, è come un vivere morendo.

A me piace la versione ripulita dalla mixatura di David Bowie che smorzò la ferocia del sound primitivo, Iggy nel 97 mise le cose a posto pubblicando i nastri originali, e cosa salta fuori? Una robba da bestie di satana, da far impallidire a distanza di 30 anni i fighetti di oggi...

Iggy sclera e Williamson ne asseconda la voce invasata, dilatata, drammatica, con graffiate grezze e corrosive.
"Sono un ghepardo che morde le strade, col cuore gonfio di napalm.
Sono il figlio vagabondo della bomba atomica.
Sono il bambino dimenticato dal mondo, quello che cerca e distrugge....
Amore ti prego, mi devi aiutare, qualcuno deve salvare la mia anima...
Bambina, entra nel mio cervello, ma fai attenzione cara, io uso la tecnologia..."

Search and Destroy è l’incipit poderoso, con Gimme Danger l’atmosfera si fa torridissima, il baritono di Pop tocca in devianza quello di Nick Cave, per una ballata acida che finisce annientata nel suo stesso riverbero esagerato di rientro, è il cuore drammatico del disco, che prosegue con Your Face Is Pretty Going To Hell, punk arroventato a rotta di maroni, le frequenze e i volumi sono talmente spinti e la voce di Iggy così luciferina che il pezzo ha ricevuto, pensate un po', l'imprimatur del cardinale Ruini.
Penetration è un incursione anale claustrofobica, come ci si puo sentire stretti tra le pareti di un ano? Ascoltate il pezzo e avrete la risposta.

Quello che l’iguana cerca di fare è allucinare con cruda potenza (raw power) e sotto effetto di veronal (come lui stesso ammise), eroina e sesso debosciato, una realtà (quella cittadina e cristiana) nello stadio opposto (campagna satanica).
Raw Power è un sabato satanico, è una notte nebbiosa e mannara per noi Romagnoli nei bistrot all'aperto riminensi (intendo le spiagge e tutto ciò che fa corollario ad esse), è un partecipare ad una celebrazione degli istinti più bradi dell’entroterra mammifero-felino (Iggy Pop non è più un uomo ma il risultato tra un accoppiamento di un felino con un mammifero, la potenza del leone abbinato alla movenza fisica di una pantera sul palco), ma è anche l’epica del quotidiano: e l'epica di Iggy Pop è quella che a partire dall'operaio all'una del pomeriggio già svaccato al pub, parte per la precocità del buio invernale e poi perdersi nella lunghezza notturna.

I Need Somebody, blues così sensuale come solo quelli di J.L. Hooker e dei Doors sapevano essere, mai più forse la voce di Iggy toccherà vette così eccessive ed esplicite di perversione.
E un caracollare del tutto privo di pudore, pensate alle urla debosciate di Iggy: “aaaaaaaaaaooooooooooohhhhh”, questo urlo ricorre sempre più spesso per tutto il disco, ma quello che risulta più osceno di tutti è l’ultimo: in apertura di Death Trip, il pezzo finale, ascoltate: “aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooouuuuuuuuu”
dà l’idea di un uomo che ha perso la bussola, mi sono sempre chiesto in che condizioni era Pop mentre cantava questo pezzo finale... un uomo sovraeccitato e lanciato ben oltre la follia, era il 1973, cose del genere non si erano ancora sentite.
Death Trip è un ammasso di chitarre non accordate che sputano riff reiterati cercando di tenere un barlume di melodia... we going down in the history... save me!!!!! save me !!! come on save me!!!!! La dea del rock (cioè il destino data l’agnosticità del rock) ha salvato Iggy dalla morte tante volte, ma io sono più che sicuro che Iggy non abbia mai voluto che qualcuno lo salvasse, ed è questo particolare che distingue i grandi come lui dai giovani di oggi che non toccheranno mai simili vertici di follia primordiale perché  troppo indaffarati a salvarsi il culo che a darci dentro nichilistici in onore del Rock.

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01   Search and Destroy (03:29)

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys

Honey, gotta help me please
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, detonate for me

Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight

Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind

And I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey, I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin' to destroy

Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight

Honey, gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby, penetrate my mind

And I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
And honey, I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
Forgotten boy, forgotten boy
Forgotten boy, said hey forgotten boy
Said hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

02   Gimme Danger (03:31)

And I feel with you at ease
Gimme danger little stranger
And I feel your disease
There's nothing in my dreams
Just some ugly memories
Kiss me like the ocean breeze

Now if you will be my lover
I wish you were insane
But you can't be my master
I will do you anything
There's nothing left alive
But a pair of glassy eyes
Left my feelings one more time

(......????.....) little stranger
Baby gonna feel my hand
Say you got a little danger (...??...) little stranger
Honey gonna feel my hand
Swear you gonna feel my hand
Swear you gonna feel my hand

Gimme danger little stranger
And I feel with you at ease
Gimme danger little stranger
And I feel your disease
There's nothing in my dreams
Just some ugly memories
Kiss me like the ocean breeze

03   Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (04:54)

Alright

Dirty face and dirty look
I knew right away that I had to get my hooks in you
Yeah yeah yeah
Want to know what a devil is
If you want to make a buck boy you gotta be demon
I say yeah yeah

I need it all, baby, that's no lie
I need a lover with an alibi
I wanna follow to a love so sweet
Honey baby give me all
I love you

Hot flesh and a touch of bones
Smells in the air but I'm feeling so alone, aha
I say yeah yeah
Lose your nation on true romance
I need your love but I holding up a piece, aha
And that ain't all

I'll tell you, honey, it's a cryin' shame
All the pretty girls really look the same
I want to follow to a love so sweet
Honey baby, give me all
I love you

Your pretty face is going to hell
Your pretty face is going to hell
Honey honey, I can tell
Your pretty face is going to
Hell, hell

Dirty face and a dirty look
I knew right away that I had to get my hooks in you
I say yeah yeah
I'm running low on memory
If you want to make a buck, boy, you gotta be a demon
And that ain't all

I need it all honey that's no lie
I need a lover with an alibi
I wanna follow to a love so sweet
Honey baby give me all
I love you

Your pretty face is going to hell
Your pretty face is going to hell
Honey honey, I can tell
Your pretty face is going to hell, hell
Honey baby
Honey honey

Your pretty face is going to hell
Your pretty face is going to hell
Honey honey, I can tell
Your pretty face is going to hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell, hell
Hell, hell
Hell, hell
Hell

04   Penetration (03:39)

Penetrate
Penetrate me
So fine, so fine, so fine
I get excited
I get excited
I'm alone, so fine, I'm alive
Every night in town
Every night in town
I'm going down, I'm going down, pulsating
A beautiful enemy
A beautiful enemy
Take a lay, take away, get out

Penetration

Come and take me
Come and take me
I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive
Stay down
Stay down
I feel fine, every time, penetration
Penetration
Penetration
Penetration
Penetration

05   Raw Power (04:21)

Dance to the beat of the living dead
Lose sleep baby and stay away from bed
Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you
If you're alone and you got the fear
So am I baby, let's move down here
Raw power will surely come a running to you

Raw power got a magic touch
Raw power is much too much
Every mess is a guarantee
It was made for you and me
Raw power honey just won't quit
Raw power I can feel it
Raw power honey can't be beat
Poppin' eyes and flashin feet
Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do
Everybody's always tryin to tell me what to do

Look in the eyes of the savage girl
Fall deep in love in the underworld
Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you
If you're alone and you got the shakes
So am I baby, I got what it takes
Raw power is sure to come a-runnin' to you

Raw power got a healing hand
Raw power can destroy a man
Raw power is a modern soul
Got a son called rock'n'roll
Raw power honey just won't quit
Raw power I can feel it
Raw power honey can't be beat
Get down and kiss my feet
Everybody's always tryin to tell me what to do
Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do
Everybody's always tryin to tell me what to do
Don't you try, don't you try to tell me what to do

Raw power has got no place to go
Raw power, honey, it don't want to know
Raw power is a guaranteed O.D.
Raw power is laughin' at you and me
And I want to know
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Raw power, raw power
Raw power, raw power
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Raw power, raw power
Raw power, raw power
Raw power, raw power
Can you feel it?

06   I Need Somebody (04:56)

But I am your crazy driver
Honey, I'm sure to steer you 'round
I am dying in any story
I'm only living when I sing this song
Just the same, baby

I need somebody, baby
I need somebody, too
I need somebody, baby
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you

But I'm losing all my feelings
Yeah, I'm running out of friends
You know, you lied to me in the beginning
Baby, now you gonna try and bring me
Try to bring me to the end
Shall I tell them about it?

I need somebody, baby
I need somebody, too
I need somebody, baby
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you

Well, I was trying to leave this signal
I'm in a fury and it is too strong
Yeah, I got my reputation
Write me anyway, not too long

I need somebody, baby
I need somebody, too
I need somebody, baby
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you

Somebody
Somebody
Somebody
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you
Just like you
Somebody
Somebody
Like you
Just like you

07   Shake Appeal (03:02)

Said shake appeal
Move so fast on me
Shake appeal
Move so fast to see
Move so fast, move so fast
Move little misery

I said shake appeal
Feel so high and low
Shake appeal
Feel so high and low
High and low, baby, high and low
Never really gotta go
Never really gotta go
Never really gotta go
Never really gotta go
Gotta go, never really gotta go

Said shake appeal
Baby fits so tight
Take appeal
Baby with your fits so tight
Fits so tight, fits so tight
Baby, you gotta fight
Realize you gotta fight
Realize you gotta fight
Baby, gotta have a fight
Gotta fight, baby gotta have a fight

Ooh, sex appeal
I said ooh, ooh, ooh, sex appeal
I said ooh, ooh, ooh, sex appeal
I said ooh, ooh, ooh

08   Death Trip (05:51)

And I always see you 'round
Some days are you blind
I moved to ask her mama if she
Did the women stand in line
Sick boy, sick boy going round
Remember who's in prayer
Baby, wanna take you out with me
If I'm on my, my, my death trip
If I'm on my death, if I'm on my death trip
If I'm on my death, if I'm on my death trip

I never knew you ever made
Once I care for you
Honey come and be my enemy
So I can love you true
Sick boy, sick boy baby, now
Learning to be cruel
Baby with me in the heat
Turn me loose on you
Loose on you, honey loose on you
Honey loose on you, honey loose on you

All night, all night, loose on you
All night, all night, loose on you
All night, all night, loose on you

Say I give you, you give me
Honey we are going down in history
Said I'll give you, you give me
Honey we are going down in history
We're going down, we're going down
Going down, going down
Going down, going down

Don't bite cool, bite my lips
See me through on my death trip
You must sink, keep me sane
Keep me, save me, everything
Save me, save me
Save me, save me
Save me
You gotta save me
You gotta save me, baby
Gotta save me, save me, save me now
Save me, save me, save me now
Save me, save me, save me now

I say I'll stick you, you stick me
I say I'll stick you, you stick me
I say I'll bit you, you bit me
I'll bit you and you'll bit me

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 Un morso psichedelico alle palle, soffocato e claustrofobico, le cui asperità affilate come coltelli sembrano fare a fette tutto quello che gli passi accanto.

 Adoro i The Stooges ed il loro animale da palcoscenico Iggy, anacronistici riescono a tirar fuori tutto ciò che è insito nel Rock, un fuoco ancestrale.