Good on you Bowie. Re-recording Iggy Pop's catalogue to give him due royalties is very admirable, but why didn't people just buy his albums to begin with, I wonder. Okay, Bowie was a megastar at this time, so people would, let's be honest, buy it regardless of worth. Singles were, after all, dirt cheap in the 80s. Still, I much prefer Iggy's 'dirty, filth ridden' version to Bowie's 'antiseptic' one, any day. Something profoundly gets lost in translation, here. But then, 70s Bowie was untouchable, and he did produce three Pop albums and they were buddies, so ...
Good on you Bowie. Re-recording Iggy Pop's catalogue to give him due royalties is very admirable, but why didn't people just buy his albums to begin with, I wonder. Okay, Bowie was a megastar at this time, so people would, let's be honest, buy it regardless of worth. Singles were, after all, dirt cheap in the 80s. Still, I much prefer Iggy's 'dirty, filth ridden' version to Bowie's 'antiseptic' one, any day. Something profoundly gets lost in translation, here. But then, 70s Bowie was untouchable, and he did produce three Pop albums and they were buddies, so ...