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Blah-Blah-Blah (Iggy Pop album)

Blah-Blah-Blah
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Studio album by Iggy Pop
Released October 23, 1986 (1986-10-23)
Recorded 1986
Studio Mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland
Genre
Length 46:12
Label A&M
Producer
Iggy Pop chronology
Zombie Birdhouse
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Blah-Blah-Blah
(1986)
Instinct
(1988)Instinct1988
Singles from Blah-Blah-Blah
  1. "Cry for Love"
    Released: October 1986
  2. "Real Wild Child (Wild One)"
    Released: November 1986
  3. "Shades"
    Released: February 1987
  4. "Fire Girl"
    Released: April 1987
  5. "Isolation"
    Released: June 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 2.5/5 stars
Robert Christgau C+

Blah-Blah-Blah is the eighth 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.

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". 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).

Described by AllMusic as "the most calculatedly commercial album of Iggy's career",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.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".


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