Album · Iggy Pop
Zombie Birdhouse by Iggy Pop
Zombie Birdhouse is an album by Iggy Pop, released in 1982. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Run Like a Villain”, on 2 lists with a best position of #89.
Zombie Birdhouse, Iggy Pop's sixth solo studio album, surfaced in September 1982, cut on 16-track at Blank Tape Studios in New York that June with Blondie's Chris Stein producing. It's about as far from the Stooges' primal stomp as the Godfather of Punk ever strayed: synthesizers drone, the beats lean on Afro-style rhythms, and Iggy free-associates over the top like a street-corner poet who has lost the thread and doesn't care.
Five years after The Idiot and Lust for Life, the records he made with David Bowie to launch his solo career, this is him wandering off the map on purpose. Critics have since filed it among his oddest and most experimental outings, his last album of the new wave years and the close of an erratic, intriguing stretch, and writers have reached for Suicide, Throbbing Gristle and Talking Heads to describe it. "Run Like a Villain" had enough pulse for the countdowns.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Zombie Birdhouse on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run Like a Villain | 2 | #89 | – | 1982–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.