Iggy Pop Party

Personnel: Iggy Pop (vocals); Ivan Kral (guitar, keyboards); Rob Duprey (guitar); Michael Page (bass); Douglas Bowne (drums); The Uptown Horns.Producers: Tommy Boyce, Thom Panunzio.Reissue producer: Rob Santos.Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, New York in 1981. Includes liner notes by Paul Trynka.Digitally remastered by Elliott Federman (SAJE Sound, New York, New York).With New Values and Soldier, not to mention plenty of touring, Iggy Pop proved that if he wasn't the most stable man in rock & roll, he wasn't the burned-out waste case who hit the skids after the collapse of the Stooges, either. In 1981, both Iggy and his record company wanted him to deliver a hit, and Party was a typically eccentric attempt on his part to do just that. On Party, Iggy and songwriting partner Ivan Kral came up with a set of stripped-down but tuneful pop/rockers, and Iggy tried to steer away from darker lyrical themes in favor of relatively upbeat songs like "Rock and Roll Party," "Houston Is Ho