Legacy
Whilst the album has become highly praised in its own right over the years, Iggy Pop purists have criticised the work as unrepresentative of his repertoire and as evidence of his being "co-opted" by Bowie for the latter's own ends. Bowie himself later admitted:
| “ | Poor Jim, in a way, became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound. I didn't have the material at the time, and I didn't feel like writing at all. I felt much more like laying back and getting behind someone else's work, so that album was opportune, creatively. | ” |
Pop himself has called The Idiot his "album of freedom". Siouxsie Sioux described it as "re-affirmation that our suspicions were true - the man was a genius and what a voice!" The album has been cited as a major influence on a number of post-punk, electronic and industrial artists including Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails and Joy Division, whose lead singer Ian Curtis was found hanged in 1980 with the record still spinning on his turntable. Martin Glover also described The Idiot as one of his favorite albums.
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