Blah-Blah-Blah (Iggy Pop album)

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Blah-Blah-Blah
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Studio album by Iggy Pop
Released October 23, 1986
Recorded May 1986
Studio Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre
Rock dance-rock pop 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
"Cry for Love"
Released: October 1986[1]
"Real Wild Child (Wild One)"
Released: November 1986[2]
"Shades"
Released: February 1987[3]
"Fire Girl"
Released: April 1987
"Isolation"
Released: June 1987[4]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 2.5/5 stars[5]
Robert Christgau C+[6]
Blah-Blah-Blah is the seventh studio album by Iggy Pop. Originally released in
October 1986, on the label A&M, it remains 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.

Contents
1 Production
2 Release and reception
3 Singles
4 Track listing
5 Alternate versions and remixes
6 Personnel
7 Notes
8 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).[citation needed]

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 No. 75 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.[9] 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
"Real Wild Child" reached No. 27 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock charts and became
Pop's first Top 10 hit in the UK.[11] The song was featured on the soundtrack for
the 1988 film Crocodile Dundee II and 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 No. 19 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music chart and No. 34 on the Mainstream
Rock charts.[11]

Track listing
All tracks written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie, except where noted.

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
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 (original cd version, lp is 5:17)" 5:57
4. "Fire Girl"
Pop Steve Jones
3:33
5. "Isolation" 4:37
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
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" (Bonus track not on original LP release) 3:50
Total length: 46:12
Alternate versions and remixes
"Cry for Love" (Extended dance version) – 6:58 (also listed as Extended remix with
a runtime of 7:05 on some releases)
"Cry for Love" (7" edit) – 3:30
"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
"Shades" (Single / lp version) – 5:17 (This is the version from the original vinyl
version of the lp. It replaces the regular cd version on the Complete A&M
Recordings collection, its first digital issue)
"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
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[13]

Iggy Pop – vocals

Kevin Armstrong – guitar; backing vocals
Erdal Kızılçay – synthesizer; bass guitar; drums; string arrangements; backing
vocals
Steve Jones – guitar solo on "Cry for Love"
David Bowie – backing vocals
Production

David Bowie – producer; mixing

David Richards – producer; engineer; mixing
Nick Egan – art direction; design
Michael Halsband – cover photography
Notes
"45cat - Iggy Pop - Cry For Love / Winners And Losers - A&M - UK - AM 358". 45cat.
Retrieved 2015-10-04.
"45cat - Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One) / Little Miss Emperor - A&M - UK -
AM 368". 45cat. Retrieved 2015-10-04.
"45cat - Iggy Pop - Shades / Baby, It Can't Fall - A&M - UK - AM 374". 45cat.
Retrieved 2015-10-04.
"45cat - Iggy Pop - Isolation / Hideaway - A&M - UK - AM 397". 45cat. Retrieved
2015-10-04.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/r15538
"CG: Iggy Pop". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
David Buckley (1999). Strange Fascination - David Bowie: The Definitive Story:
pp.432-433
Album review at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
Billboard Albums at Allmusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
Album review at Rolling Stone. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
Billboard Singles at AllMusic. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
Iggy Pop - Topic (18 November 2015). "Fire Girl (Demo)". Retrieved 5 October 2016
– via YouTube.
Blah-Blah-Blah liner notes. A&M Records. 1986.
External links
Blah-Blah-Blah at Discogs (list of releases)
Rolling Stone review
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Iggy Pop
Studio albums
Solo
The Idiot Lust for Life New Values Soldier Party Zombie Birdhouse Blah-Blah-Blah
Instinct Brick by Brick American Caesar Naughty Little Doggie Avenue B Beat 'Em Up
Skull Ring Préliminaires Après Post Pop Depression
with James Williamson
Kill City
Live albums
TV Eye Live 1977 Roadkill Rising: The Bootleg Collection 1977–2009
Compilation albums
Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop A Million in Prizes: The Anthology
Singles
"China Girl" "Lust for Life" "The Passenger" "Bang Bang" "Real Wild Child (Wild
One)" "Candy" "Well, Did You Evah!" "Kick It" "Gardenia"
Other songs
"Funtime" "Nightclubbing" "Some Weird Sin" "Tonight"
Related articles
Discography The Stooges David Bowie The Trolls Sable Starr Josh Homme
Categories: 1986 albumsIggy Pop albumsAlbums produced by David BowieAlbums produced
by David Richards (record producer)A&M Records albums
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