Is there anyone cooler than Iggy Pop? Born James Newell Osterberg Jr., Iggy is credited with laying the groundwork for punk as the frontman of The Stooges in the '60s and developing the post-punk sound with his debut solo album, 1977's The Idiot. And if he's not collaborating with a wide range of artists, he's hyping them up on his BBC Radio 6 program, Iggy Confidential.
Iggy has always been happy to praise another artist, as seen in the interview clip shared by Instagram user @120revisted. The account unearths clips from the landmark MTV program, 120 Minutes, and on Aug. 21, it shared a clip of Iggy's visit in 1990. When host Dave Kendall asked Iggy his top three albums of the day, Iggy immediately mentioned Stay Sick by The Cramps.
"I like the new Cramps album a lot," said Iggy. "It's just got a real good life in it. And [guitarist Poison Ivy] guitar playing is terrific on this record." Iggy also said that the "lyrics are good on this record" and he thinks The Cramps' pure rock and roll sound is "real down music."
Iggy also noted that The Cramps were influenced by guitar legend Link Wray, best known for his song "Rumble." The legend goes that "Rumble," released in 1958, sounds so menacing that it was banned from the radio, even though it's a pure instrumental. Iggy said that the Cramps "took a lot" from Wray in both style and sound, but they're not the only ones.
"If there wasn't a Link Wray, there wouldn't have been a whole lot of things," he said.
Iggy also mentioned playing a Halloween show with The Cramps in the late '70s, though he couldn't remember the date. As music writer Madeline Bocarowould detail in a 2022 blog post, the show took place in 1979 at The Palladium in New York City.
Bocarro wrote that guitarist Bryan Gregory was dressed as Vaslav Nijinsky's character from Afternoon of a Faun. Poison Ivy "had rubber snakes in her hair," and vocalist Lux Interior was "insane."
Poison Ivy and Lux Interior of The CrampsPhoto by Malzkorn/ullstein bild via Getty Images
Founded in 1976, The Cramps incorporated elements of punk, rockabilly, surf, Western twang and classic rock and roll into a sound that was distinctively their own. While loved by icons like Iggy Pop, the group always seemed to fly under the mainstream's radar.
Their most significant brush with fame came when Netflix's Wednesday featured their version of Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads' "Goo Goo Muck" in a dance scene.
But even then, fame and fortune eluded The Cramps: online fans took the Wednesday clip, stripped out the song, and replaced it with a sped-up version of Lady Gaga's "Bloody Mary." The clip went viral, causing a spike in "Blood Mary's stream numbers. The sped-up version was used in a teaser for the second season of Wednesday (which features Gaga playing a new teacher at Wednesday's school).
The Cramps went through a crew of players, with Lux and Ivy (partners both onstage and off) remaining the constant members. Sadly, the group disbanded in 2009, following Lux's death due to aortic dissection. He was 62.
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