Got a new/old CD by Iggy Pop the other day at the used bookstore. I'd forgotten how much I love his music; I haven't listened to him in a while. The album's called "Skull Ring", it's from 2003, and it's like he never aged at all. Iggy's the Grandfather of Punk, man, he's been around forever. I don't think he'll ever die. He'll just slowly...run...out of...steam.
Like, old punks never die, they just wrinkle away?
I don't know, but Iggy's about 63 or so, and he's still out there, thrashing himself around on stages everywhere. He can outdo Henry Rollins, as admitted by Henry himself. Yeah, he may not look the best, but the music's what counts here. It hasn't dimmed in intensity, or passion, or shock value. Just now, it has parental warning labels on it.
Let me leave you with one of my faves from "Skull Ring"; maybe it'll inspire you to rediscover, or discover, the Igster for yourself. Keep rockin.
Iggy Pop and Green Day "Supermarket"
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Its all about the love.
OPJ Meets RHPS
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Lovesong--The Cure
"However far away,
I will always love you;
However long I stay,
I will always love you;
Whatever words I say,
I will always love you,
I will always love you"
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For the Anon who left us this, thank you.
for The Original Punks
I know they like Henry Rollins
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have."
April 21, 2008 1:25 PM
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For the Anon who left us this, thank you.
for The Original Punks
I know they like Henry Rollins
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have."
April 21, 2008 1:25 PM
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Punk is something that you believe in not really dictated to you by something else. It's not a fashion style… it's how you live your life, how you choose to live your life, decisions that you make. If you even decide to acknowledge it as punk rock instead of acknowledging it as just being yourself… I mean, an old lady in the suburbs who decides to stop mowing her lawn because the town tells her to 'cause she likes the long grass... that's punk rock.
-Gerard Way
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-Gerard Way
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"...maybe this sounds dumb or naive, but when I started playing music and when I started growing up, all I ever wanted to do was to change the world in some way. Make a foot print. I think the worst thing you could possibly do is to live your life and have the world be the same way it was before you were here as it is after. I think that we’re here for a reason and if we don’t do something to make the world a better place, then we just wasted everyone’s time."
-Frank Iero
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-Frank Iero
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"Rise Above"- Black Flag
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"I'm your friend and that is what I do for my friends."- MarthaJones
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Always Remembered, Always Loved
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I am not certain if you go to Mayos blog anymore but if you do I wish to apologize for the horrible words written to you by people who believe I am you. I have tried to bring some level of peace to the blog and have underestimated the sheer amount of hatred from those who continue the attacks.
You were dragged into it unfairly so please accept my apologies.
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