Iggy Pop announced he is working on a album of covers songs named 'Apres'. Some of the covers getting Iggified? The Beatles 'Michelle' and Frank Sinatra's 'Only The Lonely' to name a few. But most of the tracks on the album are French songs.
"All popular music forms of today get their strength from the beat. Rap, hip-hop, metal, pop and rock producers will tell you that the beats they use imitate the human heartbeat and that is where the power lies. I've always loved this other feeling, one that is intimate, sometimes a little sad, and does not try to beat me on the head." Iggy told NME.
"I wanted to sing some of these songs myself, hoping to bring the feeling I felt as a listener to my listeners through my voice. Many of these songs are in french, probably because it is French culture which has most stubbornly resisted the mortal attacks of the Anglo-American music machine."'Apres' will be released May 9th.
'Apres' Track list:
'Et Si Tu N'Existais Pas' (Joe Dassin)
'La Javanaise' (Serge Gainsbourg)
'Everybody's Talkin' (Harry Nilsson)
'I'm Going Away Smiling' (Yoko Ono)
'La Vie En Rose' (Edith Piaf)
'Les Passantes' (Georges Brassens)
'Syracuse' (Henri Salvador)
'What Is This Thing Called Love?' (Cole Porter)
'Michelle' (The Beatles)
'Only the Lonely' (Frank Sinatra)
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