Iggy Pop - Preliminaires

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Release date: 25 May 2009

Iggy Pop - Preliminaires

Album review: Iggy Pop - 'Preliminaires'

The ultimate punk goes all French jazz on us, but, bizarrely, c’est magnifique!

God rest the soul of dear Ron Asheton, but in truth the last Stooges album, ‘The Weirdness’ , was no masterpiece. Buoyed nonetheless by the goodwill of anyone with even the slightest interest in rock’n’roll, it was a collection of serviceably sleazy riffs, over which Iggy howled stuff like, “My idea of fun!/Is killing everyone!” And fun it was, for certain. But fun of the...

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Iggy Pop - Preliminaires Lyrics

Iggy Pop - Party Time Lyrics

It's party time and I smell slime
You stupid people make me evil

Dicks and asses, cocktail glasses

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Iggy Pop - Les Feuilles Mortes Lyrics

Oh, je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes
Des jours heureux où nous étions amis
En ce temps-là la vie était plus belle
Et le soleil plus brûlant qu'aujourd'hui

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Iggy Pop - I Want To Go To The Beach Lyrics

I wanna go to the beach
I don't care if it's decadent
I don't know where my spirit went
But that's alright

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Iggy Pop - A Machine For Loving Lyrics

Two weeks after my arrival Fox died just after sunset
I was stretched out on the bed when he approached
And tried painfully to jump up he wagged his tail nervously
Since the beginning he hadn't touched his bowl once

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Iggy Pop - Spanish Coast Lyrics

Die, die, die on a Spanish coast
Die like a clown with no friend around
This used to be a Spanish town

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Iggy Pop - King Of The Dogs Lyrics

I got a smelly rear, I got a dirty nose
I don't want no shoes, I don't want no clothes
I'm living like the king of the dogs

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Iggy Pop - How Insensitive Lyrics

How insensitive I must have seemed
When you told me that you loved me
How unmoved and cold I must have seemed
When you told me so sincerely

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