Track Listing

1. Character
2. Wild America
3. Mixin' The Colors
4. Jealousy
5. Hate
6. It's Our Love
7. Plastic And Concrete
8. Fuckin' Alone
9. Highway Song
10. Beside You
11. Sickness
12. Boogie Boy
13. Perforation Problems
14. Social Life
15. Louie Louie
16. Caesar
17. Girls Of NY

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91981 in Music
• Released on: 1993-09-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

CD Description
While its predecessor, BRICK BY BRICK, was a streamlined commercial effort, 1993's AMERICAN CAESAR finds Iggy Pop keeping things down and dirty. Recorded in New Orleans with Daniel Lanois cohort Malcom Burn producing, the album is split fairly evenly between dark, swampy, somewhat blues-inflected low-key tunes and raw, fiery rockers that hark back to Iggy'ssalad days with the Stooges. Iggy's deep, Jim Morrison-meets-Johnny Cash voice serves him well when crooning the former, but he's equally adept at switching gears and hitting the rock & roll animal button for the latter. Unlike BRICK BY BRICK, AMERICAN CAESAR didn't earn Iggy any pop hits, but aesthetically it brought him right back where he belonged.

Customer Reviews

Hopefully Not The Last Great Iggy Pop Record!
It kind of amazes me that this album is ten years old now, it still sounds so fresh and convincing!
And unlike anything that's followed it, it only has one duff track on it - Caesar - which is like Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music condensed down to 7 minutes (so even there he must get bonus points for not giving us a whole album of it!!).
On the ample plus side, this album combines some of the best parts of Iggy into one album. We have tracks that could have come from Brick By Brick (Mixin' The Colours, Beside You), tracks that could've come from his 'Berlin' period (Perforation Problems, Jealousy, Girls Of N.Y.), and tracks that can compare to classic Stooges for their primevalness (Wild America, Boogie Boy, and a masterful remake of Louie Louie).
In fact, this album contains so much 'classic' Iggy it could almost past for a 'Best Of' album.
So, please excuse the cliche, but do yourself a favour and buy this album for the best album Iggy's done in the last decade.

a true must
this is one of the few albums that introduced iggy's music to me actually, apart from lust for life. it's long, statistically, it indicates that it's satisfying, you always want more, right? iggy's albums share one interesting feature, which is the very appealing final track! ha, regardless the previous tracks on the album, you can always have a beautiful ending. this album sounds like Bowie's outside, in many ways. iggy seemed to put out a rock drama just like bowie used to do.
all the songs are entangled with a heuristic yet clearly-defined theme,ends with a autobiographical monologue with beautiful beautiful guitar background.
just for the amount of effort iggy put in, for the last track, get it. believe me, it's very satisfying.
definitely iggy's second best album immediately after brick by brick.