Rock music's most enduring reprobate and a role model for every new generation of screaming nihilists, Iggy Pop once claimed to be "the world's forgotten boy". Conversely, A Million In Prizes reminds us that the man who patented punk several years before the first gob left the lips of Britains' Jubilee youth insurrectionsists grows less immemorable and more immortal (despite himself) as the years roll by. A thoroughly assessed and long overdue double CD anthology of Pop's entire career A Million In Prizes is an excellent student guide to what can - and ought - to be achieved with loud guitars and a cavalier attitude towards self-preservation. Despite its antiquity, none of the material on Disc One has dated in the slightest, least of all The Stooges' acrid riposte to Sixties hedonism on "No Fun" or the sonic chemical warfare of "Search And Destroy", the lurking "Gimme Danger" or the darkly poetic Bowie-assisted years of "Lust For Life" and "The Passenger". Disc 2 may, at first deceptive glance, throw up fewer established classics but the judicious sifting of the period spanning the Eighties and Nineties - everything from charity Cole Porter duets with Debbie Harry to the Stooges reunion on the Peter Gunn simulation of "Skull Ring" - certainly shows the Igster to have plenty more talent left in the bank. --Kevin Maidment
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