12 tracks · 42 min
Party is a 1981 album by Iggy Pop. For this album, Iggy collaborated with Ivan Kral, who is best known as guitar and bass player for Patti Smith in the 1970s It peaked at number 166 on Billboard's Top 200 albums. When Arista heard the album, they brought in former Monkee producer, Tommy Boyce, to remix "Bang Bang".[citation needed] It was released as a single, charting at #35 on the Billboard club play singles chart, and was later covered by David Bowie. According to Iggy Pop's autobiography, I Need More, he wrote "Bang Bang" as Arista Records wanted a single and he promised them a commercial album. He originally wanted Phil Spector or Mike Chapman to produce the song. Iggy claimed he got idea for the song from reading All the Right Stuff at a local bookstore. Party is the last of Pop's three albums with Arista Records, following New Values and Soldier. The Party tour was documented on the DVD Live in San Francisco. Buddha reissued the album in 2000 with two bonus tracks, "Speak to Me" and a cool jazz rendition of the standard "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)". The song "Pumpin' for Jill" appeared on the television show Chuck, in the episode "Chuck Versus the Ex" in whi…
