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Title: Dead End Street
Review: It should not come as a surprise to long-time fans that Iggy Pop veered into a spoken word setting, since his gigs over the many years would find him dipping into Beat Generation-inspired gritty prose between songs.But besides the semi-autobiographical title track and a surprising solid cover of the rock-n-roll classic Shakin' All Over, Pop seemingly does not have the motivation or lyrical focus for this style of performance art. Produced by Don Was, the album had one single - Corruption - but it ultimately fails to be that open door into Pop's psyche after living on the edge for nearly a lifetime; simply, a failed psychophysical experiment where the bulk of the 13 tracks sputter down a dead end street.
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