Monday's Song : Iggy Pop – Isolation [1986]

"Got a lot to do, got a lot to say, got a life to live"

“Isolation”, a song from Iggy Pop’s “Blah-Blah-Blah” 1986 album, was a success, with a sturdy, steadily-building melody for which Pop gives his strongest vocal on the record. But while Pop declared “Isolation” mainly his doing, it’s arguably one of the most Bowie-sounding tracks on Blah-Blah-Blah.

 

 

Needed you, you were only using

Needing you just tore me down

And here I stand in isolation

Feeling emptiness and doubt

Walking down the broken highway

Sucking sugar plain and sweet

Did your mother ever tell you

That the joyful are free