“Pumpin' For Jill” by Iggy Pop

"Pumpin' For Jill" turns up on Party, the fifth solo studio album Iggy Pop released through Arista in 1981, and it carries the stamp of the partnership behind the whole record: Pop wrote it with Ivan Král, the guitar-and-bass man best known for his work with Patti Smith. Thom Panunzio produced it.

Party was the record where Iggy, of all people, agreed to play ball. He had promised Arista a commercial album, and once the label heard the finished thing it called in former Monkees producer Tommy Boyce to remix "Bang Bang", the song Pop had written because Arista wanted a single. It was also the end of the line: the last of his three albums for the label, after New Values and Soldier, which puts this song in the closing chapter of his Arista years.

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