I hear a lot of Iggy Pop in "Perfect," not just in...

2007-09-02T09:26:00.000-04:00

I hear a lot of Iggy Pop in "Perfect," not just in the sound but in the attitude. This to me sounds like Cale just rockin' out, having fun—it's perhaps the most unreservedly quote-unquote "rocking" song in his catalog.

Or perhaps the quote marks shouldn't be there. I mean, for forty years that's been how Cale usually approaches the act of rocking—with quotes around it, through a prism of formalism or provocation, certainly as a second language. On "Perfect," I hear the quote marks come off. So to speak.

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I hear a lot of Iggy Pop in "Perfect," not just in...