Holy shit this slow downed cover of the Black Keys tune "Lonely Boy" almost sounds like someone is sitting on the needle of an old 33rpm.
The drumming by the infamous Baker is dance hall kick drum. Its hard to hear a song sounding so …old. I realize that Iggy and Gingy ARE old but they have taken a really upbeat tempo and dragged it down to an almost Nick Cave garble. Its just wrong and it works.
Every former cool suburban commando is going to call this thing genius. Every assbag with a PC and a subscription to Spin is going to think this is 'amazing'. It's crap.
Iggy is a genius, Ginger Baker is legend and together they take a kid tune and make it an oom pa pa slow decent into auditory hell. But why? This crap is coming off of a new album in as tribute to The Black Keys titled "Black on Blues". Why the fuck do The Black Keys deserve a tribute album when they've been around for 11 years and up until a couple ago you didn't even know who the hell they were. This is the equivalent of Legs McNeil giving tribute to me– its fucking moronic idiotic and sucks harder than a crack fueled man- hoe.
Black on Blues Tracklist:
01. Lonely Boy – Iggy Pop & Ginger Baker
02. Tighten Up – Walter Trout
03. Girl Is On My Mind – Mike Zito & Cyril Neville
04. Gold On The Ceiling – Tab Benoit
05. I Got Mine – Leslie West
06. When The Lights Go Out – Papa Mali
07. Next Girl – Oli Brown Band
08. Money Maker – Dave Davies & Huw Lloyd-Langton
09. Howlin For You – Albert Lee
10. Everlasting Light – Pat Travers
11. Chop And Change – Larry McCray
12. Little Black Submarines – Devon Allman & Mani Neumeier