Long Days, Long Months: 17 August

Recently got Iggy Pop's New Values [1979]; James Williamson was involved, but isn't the main collaborator as on Raw Power. Instead, Scott Thurston. I love the gaudy synths on "The Endless Sea." Iggy goes out of his way to deliver not-so-clever puns, fitting for the jubilant "New Wave" context. This album's good enough to group with the first two solo albums, The Idiot and Lust for Life, instead of the other two Arista albums that followed it. I like somewhat-random historical symmetry: the three Stooges albums - two fairly similar, with the same line-up, followed by a third with Williamson - plus the three Iggy albums - two fairly similar, with the same line-up, followed by a third with Williamson (and Thurston).