Day 118: A song by a lead singer you think is too homely for words.

“Candy” – Iggy Pop (with Kate Pierson)

Iggy Pop is a scary-looking dude. Not literally frightening, but just really difficult to look at.

And thus, the subject of today’s post. (Well, as you’ll see, he’s not really the subject of today’s post, but anyway…)

I don’t have a lot of Iggy Pop’s music. I have “Real Wild Child.” And “Funtime” (but I only know about it because The Cars covered it once upon a time). And “Candy.”

This was recorded in 1990, when Kate Pierson (of the B-52’s) was all over the place. The B-52’s album Cosmic Thing seemed to put her on the map, and she ended up recording with Iggy Pop, R.E.M. (The B-52’s and R.E.M. were both from Athens, Georgia) and a little bit with Matthew Sweet. Read More