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120 REASONS TO LIVE

120 Reasons To Live: Iggy Pop

Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten videos from the show’s classic era.

#3: Iggy Pop “Butt Town”

Admittedly, the Beavis and Butt-head framing of “Butt Town” isn’t exactly a fair-and-balanced remembrance of the 1990 single. Then again, Iggy Pop seemed more dinosaur than icon at the time—maybe his Stooges legacy hadn’t quite ripened on the vine—and he did, after all, record a song called “Butt Town” to rail against the shallow vibe and “Call me, babe” mantra of Los Angeles. In reality, 1990’s Brick By Brick allowed Iggy to gain some commercial ground. The Don Was-produced album was certified gold and featured contributions from the B-52’s Kate Pierson and Guns N’ Roses’ Slash and Duff McKagan. Whether he recouped any alt-rock cred is questionable, despite Butt-head’s insistence that “Butt Town” has the best lyrics he’s ever heard.