Tuesday, April 30, 2024: 3pm ET: Feature LP: Iggy Pop – Brick by Brick (1990)

Brick by Brick is the ninth studio album by American singer Iggy Pop, released in June 1990 by Virgin Records.

The album peaked at number 90 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the charts for 37 weeks. The song “Livin’ On the Edge of the Night” was released before the album as a soundtrack for the hit movie Black Rain starring Michael Douglas and Andy García. The song reached number 16 on Modern Rock Tracks. “Candy” reached number 30 on Mainstream Rock Tracks, number 5 on Modern Rock Tracks and number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. The first single from the album, “Home”, reached number 2 on Modern Rock Tracks.

“Home” 4:00
“Main Street Eyes” 3:41
“I Won’t Crap Out” 4:02
“Candy” 4:13
“Butt Town” 3:34
“The Undefeated” 5:05
“Moonlight Lady” 3:30
“Something Wild” 4:01
“Neon Forest” 7:05
“Starry Night” 4:05
“Pussy Power” 2:47
“My Baby Wants to Rock & Roll” 4:46

“Brick by Brick” 3:30

Iggy Pop – vocals, acoustic guitar (tracks: A2, A3, A5-A7, B1, B3, B6), electric guitar (tracks: A3, A4, B2, B4, B5)
Waddy Wachtel – acoustic guitar (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B6), electric guitar (tracks: A2, A4, A6, B2)
Charley Drayton – bass (tracks: A2-A4, A6, B1-B3)
Chuck Domanico – acoustic bass on “Moonlight Lady”
Duff McKagan – bass (tracks: A1, A5, B4, B5)
Slash – electric guitar (tracks: A1, A5, B4, B5)
Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards (tracks: A2, A4, A7, B2, B5, B6); piano on “The Undefeated”; organ on “Starry Night”
Kenny Aronoff – drums (tracks: A1-B5)
David Lindley – violin, mandolin on “Main Street Eyes”; slide guitar, bouzouki on “I Won’t Crap Out” and “Moonlight Lady”; electric guitar, slide guitar on “Starry Night”; saxophone on “My Baby Wants to Rock & Roll”
David McMurray – saxophone on “Neon Forest”
Kate Pierson – duet on “Candy”
John Hiatt – duet on “Something Wild”
Ed Cherney – “annoying vocal whine” on “Something Wild”
Sweet Pea Atkinson, Sir Harry Bowens, Donald Ray Mitchell – backing vocals on “Neon Forest” and “Starry Night”
Alex Brown – backing vocals on “Pussy Power”
The Leeching Delinquents (Tom Black, John James, Whitehorn Kirst, Kreg Sludgemottom, Scott Slam, Joe Cooper, Josh Richmond, Paul H. Saylor, Scott Philips, Joel Randell, Darrell Spades, Brian Small, Ewreck Benson, Mickey Finn, Billy Rowe, Man Ray Wheaton, Mike Savage, E. Shepherd Stevenson, Bobby Durango) – backing vocals on “The Undefeated”
Scott Hackwith, Dale Lavi – backing vocals