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" Exceptional. Essential. Vital. None of those words apply to this particular Song of the Week, Iggy Pop&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;I Can&amp;#039;t Explain.&amp;quot; But I can almost guarantee that, given a playlist on shuffle and the right party, Iggy Pop covering The Who is going to turn heads in the &amp;quot;Wait! What was that?&amp;quot; kind of way that guys who program playlists for parties dream about. Even if this is Iggy operating in safe mode on what was probably a one-take affair, there&amp;#039;s still enough signature Iggy Pop strutting and shrieking that your friend&amp;#039;s first reaction will likely be followed by &amp;quot;Is that Iggy Pop?&amp;quot; Why, yes, it is. He&amp;#039;s slumming on a strange, and often embarrassing, tribute record, Who Are You \u2013 An All-Star Tribute to The Who, that also features Peter Noone of Herman&amp;#039;s Hermits, Peter Banks from Yes, and, most oddly, Gretchen Wilson. With that lineup, you&amp;#039;re going to be the only one on your block with this particular gem. In that way, it feels like a throwback, because these days, with the Internet, everything is available, nothing is a surprise. This still feels surprising, like a discovery, which come to think of it, makes it sound exactly like a Song of the Week should. Click on to listen to all the other songs of the week, including covers of Nina Simone and Freddie King, the Wallflowers, and more, and listen to a sampling of the songs on Spotify below...       MUSIC MONDAY: Listen to More of Andy Langer&amp;#039;s Songs of the Week &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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