The Weirdness

The original lineup of The Stooges, including Iggy Pop, came together to record a reunion CD called The Weirdness, with Minutemen's Mike Watts on bass to replace the late Dave Alexander.

The lyrics on The Weirdness are weak. Pop purely wrote just to make the words rhyme, no matter how ridiculously they came out. Also, the song titles are just repeated enough times so it can be called a chorus. Each track sounds like it was banged out in a few hours.

Even in their sixties, The Stooges are still playing about picking up girls, like in the album's first track, "Trollin'": "My mind is blown and nothin' is true, the ones who don't know always say they do, there's a reason when you gotta look, it's the action and never the book."

They also speak about rich people, part of who Pop has admittedly become. Pop screams, "They drive those awful cars, and go to rich and s...y bars...I'm sad and lonely baby, because I can't live among my class."

If you're a Stooges fan, stick with their older releases such as Fun House and their self-titled, as opposed to The Weirdness.