“High on You” by Iggy Pop

"High on You" comes off Instinct, the 1988 album where Iggy Pop answered the modest commercial success of Blah Blah Blah not with the hit A&M wanted but with a heavy, hard-rocking record. He wrote this one alone. Bill Laswell produced, with Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones on guitar, Leigh Foxx on bass, Paul Garisto on drums and Seamus Beaghen on keyboards; Martin Bisi and Robert Musso engineered, and Musso mixed it with Jason Corsaro.

A&M gave it a video, as it did "Cold Metal", but apart from a few spins of that single, commercial rock radio mostly turned a deaf ear to the album, which stalled at number 110 on the Billboard 200. Kerrang! later made up for it, ranking Instinct among its 100 greatest heavy metal albums.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.