Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson "Candy" (1990)

One of the best lines is Kate saying, "Yeah, well I'm glad you got out, but..."

I loved it

Iggy & Kate

Loved it. It was on my mixed tape, along with I Touch My Self and The Replacement's Little Problem . I thought they were singing "Independent Candy."

Oh, and I thought it was David .Bowie at first

They have great chemistry. Iggy could eat her whole.

This is my favourite Iggy video performance

Kate is an underrated singer

Has no one posted the video? Loved both the song and the video. Jesus, I can't believe this was 28 years ago. I feel so old.

Shivers down the spine and a wee tear and in the eye; thank you OP. Brought back long forgotten memories of care free times.

I love them both.

Glitter Iggy

Everyone loves Iggy

Smirking Iggy

Iggy’s cum gutters

Iggy scaring the bass player

Robert Mapplethorpe Iggy

Oops.

Robert Mapplethorpe Iggy.

I Wanna Be Your Dog Iggy

Pussy eating Iggy

Life model Iggy

Fey Iggy

JCVD Iggy

He is still hot this very day, except for the dentures. Better than toothlessness I guess.

Iggy and big titty wife

Nice thick bush @ r21. Who knew he was a natural blond?

Iggy is a DLer at heart: he got fat (for him) from switching from a macrobiotic diet to eating too much ice cream when he was on heroin in NYC, so rather than putting on a shirt, he covered his body in Johnson’s baby oil and glitter as a distraction.

Stooges Of The Corn

Mic sucking Iggy

R25 Iggy's wife looks kind of masculine there.

r30 Call it the Ciara Syndrome

r21 Iggy Gyllenhaal

Iggy flops

Iggy's cut

Iggy... just hangin' out

It's THIS Big

Sexy Libertarian Iggy

Big fan of The B-52's and most of Iggy's work so I loved it. It also came out just as first hit the gay scene, and it reminded me of a boy I had a crush on who didn't like me back. 'All my life you're haunting me...I loved you so' used to go around and around my head. Now I can't even remember his name.

Ah melodramatic teenage gay years.

Does he have two different legs, one longer than the other?

Yes. Whether he was born this way or it was an injury incurred after 40 years of stage diving, I don't know.

She has one of the best voices in the industry.

Gay??

She’s a lesbian leaning bi.

He’s straight leaning pan.

Iggy said in an interview that when he was in high school, some kids pretended to be his friend. They came by the trailer park he and his parents were living in and tried to push it over.

Pretty Pop

This song just hits me in so many ways. I'm not sure exactly what it is but thanks OP.

Kate would have made a great Tabitha on Bewitched

Afterschool Special: Just Say No.

This is closer to Pebbles Flintstone.

I like the spoken vocals

Brilliant song, one of the best “alternative” jangly rock-pop songs of the era. I appreciate now even more than I did then. I think I was 13.

Kate Pearson has one of the best voices in rock, and this is one of my favorite songs featuring her. “Topaz” by the B-52’s is another. I wish she and Iggy had done a whole album together.

Did anyone even BOTHER to flip the cassette single over to listed to the B side? I thought not!

It was a decent rocking tune.

Will check it out, R52. Thank you!

A good song by two unashamedly older rock and rollers who refuse to act older, take it or leave it.

It’s because they’re genuinely cool, not to mention legendary. R54.

But let’s not forget this was 28 years ago and they were a lot younger then, and the song wasn’t particularly wild or “youthful”. Very middle of the road rock music, á la Tom Petty.

Candy was taken from the album Brick by Brick, which has a kidult theme running through it.

Yep R56, that kidult theme goes all the way to the album art itself. It was an odd era in his career in retrospect. I much preferred 60s garage punk Iggy, 70s glam rock Iggy, and even late 90s and 00s elder alternative statesman collaborator Iggy. Actually his two jazz/French chanson/easy listening albums in recent years have gone down very nicely too, another cool yet surprising direction for him.

But even though jangly commercial pop anthems like Candy weren't really the right fit for him i'm glad he has this song on his resume. It's unabashedly sentimental and romantic and it totally works. The spoken word vocals are very memorable and even though she far outsings him with her piercingly resonant higher register, he has a nice crooner quality to his voice here.

both fabulous, they cancel each other out here

How do you mean, R58? Like phase cancellation? Frequencies being canceled out? I can hear both their voices clear as bells, the song is mixed expertly. Pearson’s harmony, especially on “I loved you so-oh-oh” is gorgeous ringing out on top of (and slightly to the right of) Iggy’s croon.

I love her final, punkish scream “Candy, CAN-DAY!”.

And Iggy sounds so good, crooning the harmony.

They have great vocal chemistry.

This sound was a bit too “pop” for Iggy to be more than a one off, but I love it anyway.

As for his later stuff with the Stooges, I hated THE WEIRDNESS but READY TO DIE is a minor gem.

Kill City and The Idiot are the best Iggy Pop albums I've heard.

Love Kill City. The Idiot is a bit too much like a straight Bowie album for me, but by Lust For Life he got his own voice back.

Can't decide between The idiot and Lust for life, but it is true that The idiot is like a Bowie album with Iggy as guest vocalist.

Iggy about to tuck in for a snack

The video made it seem as if Iggy lived in the barn and just came out onto the field for the first time in years.

[quote]Iggy and big titty wife

What an unattractive woman, she looks like a man. Is she trans? I recall Lou Reed was involved with a transexual.

I thought he married a Japanese woman, a model. WTF? This must be his Japanese ex-GF or ex-wife. She's cute.

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"It's a man baby!"

No hips is also a dead giveaway.

Iggy's son!

Mr and Mrs Pop.

They are childless, because, says Iggy, they are pet people.

[quote]They are childless, because, says Iggy, they are pet people.

Yeah riiiight, they are childless due to Nina Alu being born a man and not having a uterus, that's the real reason!

R68 the bit between the fake breasts is also a giveaway. That clearly shows a male chest. There's a video on youtube which is very revealing.

To me, Iggy is the biggest gay/bi denier out there. At least Bowie didn't deny he'd 'experimented' when he was younger.

I think Iggy fucked trannies in Berlin. Probably had threesomes with Bowie, but didn't go for guys generally.

He cheerfully punched Bowie in the face in the early 1970s he tried to kiss him. It made the papers.

Double D's by Iggy and the Stooges.

Men think DDs are big. They're not, realy. This bitch has Fs, easy.

[quote]At least Bowie didn't deny he'd 'experimented' when he was younger.

No, Bowie just cynically rode the “gay–bi” train in the 70s while it was cool and alternative, and then denied it all in the 80s at the height of the AIDS paranoia and dread. Another fake gay using “queer” as a stunt while it could be milked. Loathsome creature.

R73 I never read that. Are you referring to Lou Reed who battered Bowie in a London restaurant ? That made the papers. It wasn't over a kiss though, it was over something Bowie said about Lou Reed cleaning up.

R75 I don't think being gay or bi was seen as cool in the 70s, though Bowie might have made it a little bit cooler.

Bisexuality was a gimmick for Ziggy Stardust.

Bowie was still saying he was bi in 1979, long after Ziggy stardust. There are interviews on youtube. There were also men who said they had sex with him in the 60s and 70s. Are they all lying?

And just to add, Bowie datedb lived with a preop transsxeual himself in Berlin. Her name was Romy Haag.

Bowie dialed back the Bi thing (and yes, it was just a marketing gimmick) when his management told him that it made it impossible for him to land a commerical hit in the US and he had to look for a more mainstream approach to sell his music there.

I seem to recall Kate Pierson made an offhand remark about iggy during her promo for Guitars and Microphones where she said that Iggy gave her total freedom about how to do her part (meaning either he didn't care or that he trusted her).

When I think of cool music from the 90s "Candy" comes to mind.

R81 you're probably right seeing as he was trying to break into the soul music market. Being bi definitely wouldn't have gone down well with the African American community. Maybe thats why he was so public with Ava Cherry. He ditched his management in 1975/6 though, no one told him to go to Berlin, shack up with Iggy Pop and fuck Romy Haag though. He did that off his own back.

R82 Thats how a lot of music was made then, musicians trusted each other and the producers let them to do their thing. It makes a difference in my opinion.

[quote] Thats how a lot of music was made then, musicians trusted each other and the producers let them to do their thing. It makes a difference in my opinion.

r83. I very much agree. Nowdays is much more about studios (and even artists like the artist formerling known as Kanye?) micromanging and listening to focus groups (who and what's hot right now).

Sorry, formerly known as Kanye

Romy Haag. Always thought she was one of the women on Roxy Music's Country Life LP

All my life you're haunting me I love you so-oh-oh

Ig's son is fat!

Laundry Day

Iggy would look GREAT if he gained 20 pounds, even 10. Not gonna happen though.

This song came out right in between 80s music evolving into 90s music.

I’m seeing him this year! I got the worst seats in ththe house!

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