"You're wearing a mask. You look better that way."

Iggy Pop is the man. Anyone who doubts this is wrong. There's no room for opinion here. This is fact.

We all know and love The Stooges. His solo stuff is hit and miss, but the hits really do. Takes some looking and most of the solo Iggy is worth not looking into. But every now and again there are some real gems.

I bring you one of them. The outro of this song lists the ingredients any decent rock band should have. In fact if you measured every rock band up against these things you can see exactly what is is they're missing.

1. Irony
2. Balls
3. Brains
4. Soul

The Stooges, Funhouse, and Raw Power have all of these things in spades. And everyone of those albums is fucking perfect.

I bring you "Mask" from the album "Beat 'Em Up." I also give you the live performance from The Late Show with David Letterman, August 2001.

Enjoy,

-james

Iggy Pop- Mask