Iggy Pop

Pop and guitarist/songwriter Ivan Kral attempted a crossover New Wave album but they only really succeed with the ever-appealing "Bang Bang" (catchy and eccentric, it's conformism with a whiff of danger -- like most good rock). Otherwise, you know there's a problem when Iggy's covers of "Sea of Love" and "One for My Baby" come off better than the majority of the originals.

Although the music's "tight," and sometimes kinda hip rhythmically too, I guarantee it took him longer to get the Uptown Horns on the telephone than to write these lyrics. Iggy: "Ivan, what rhymes with `touches my feet'?" Ivan: "How about something with `creep'--about how you're not a creep, you know?" "But Ivan, I am a creep." "No one will ever know." (Grade - C+)