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Track Listing
1. No S*#T
2. Nazi Girlfriend
3. Avenue B
4. Miss Argentina
5. Afraid to Get Close
6. Shakin' All Over
7. Long Distance
8. Corruption
9. She Called Me Daddy
10. I Felt the Luxury
11. Espanol - (Spanish)
12. Motorcycle
13. Facade
Album Notes
Personnel: Iggy Pop (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Whitey Kirst, Pete Marshall (guitar); Don Was (slide guitar); David Mansfield (violin, viola); John Medeski (Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Michael Chaves (keyboards); Larry Mullins (vibraphone, drums, tabla); Chris Wood, Hal Cragin (bass); Billy Martin (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion).
Engineers: Mark Howard, Ray Martin, Hal Cragin.
Principally recorded at 262 Mott Street and The Theatre Studios, New York, New York; Teatro Studio, Oxnard, California; Oceanway #3 Studio, Hollywood, California.
Featuring jazz groovesters Medeski, Martin & Wood and produced by guru Don Was, AVENUE B finds Iggy Pop being quite the mellow-fellow as he uses a creaky voice a la Nico in quiet ruminations like the spoken-word "No Shit," "Afraid to Get Close" and "She Called Me Daddy."
Named after the street that Pop lived on for many years, AVENUE B overflows with the kind of introspection that one might expect to come after five decades of hard living. Songs such as "Miss Argentina," "Long Distance," and "Motorcycles" all address the fleeting nature of love. Elsewhere, "Corruption" finds Pop spewing acid over how life's dark side has seeped into his soul. Pop picks up the pace on a swirling cover of "Shakin' All Over" and "Ya Yo Habla Espanol," a track that sounds like Iggy fronting Santana. AVENUE B plays more like the soundtrack to the mosh pit of the mind than anything that might be tossed on for the pit at CBGBs.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #27 in Mojo Magazine's Best of 1999
Mojo (01/01/2000)
...obviously going through a midlife crisis. Once you get over the shock of hearing these bruised lullabies, you may warm to the tasteful, thought-provoking songcraft. - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (09/24/1999)
4 out of 5 - ...you can never write off Iggy Pop....AVENUE B is 'classic' Iggy...
Alternative Press (11/01/1999)
...here we have Iggy the poet-crooner: cerebral, but fiercely physical; pensive, older, a lot more worn at the edges, but f**king and fighting like a champ....This is an audacious, moving record...
Mojo (10/01/1999)
...fascinating....it's so honest, it's more painful, even....Iggy reurrects the stilted, vaguely hammy croon...on songs that anatomise his history, relationships and...showbiz persona....It is Iggy's painfully delayed rites of passage.
The Wire (09/01/1999)
3 stars out of 5 - ...stripped-down affair with The Detroit Demon pondering at length on his own mortality and corruption....seems to indicate this is less a cry for help than an artful musings of a horny old man.
Q (10/01/1999)
...obviously going through a midlife crisis. Once you get over the shock of hearing these bruised lullabies, you may warm to the tasteful, thought-provoking songcraft. - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (09/24/1999)
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