In the booklet accompanying this re-release, James Williamson describes this album as 'another record in a long line of flops that were later resurrected as a masterpiece'. Kill City seemed doomed to a flop and not because the music on the album was that bad. James Williamson and Iggy Pop recorded the album in 1975, a year after their group The Stooges broke up. Record company Elektra threw the
… group out on the street after the disappointing sales of their latest CD Raw Power and the continuous fumbling with drugs. The pair tried to convince other labels, but Iggy's admission to rehab stifled the duo's ambitions. Williamson did not release the album on the small Bomp! Label until 1977, after Iggy Pop's breakthrough as an international star that year. Kill City later turned out to be a key album in Iggy's work, it is halfway between the maniacal trash rock of The Stooges and his accessible solo albums. It is not a 'masterpiece', but two songs, the title track and Beyond The Law, are among the best songs in the oeuvres of James Williamson and Iggy Pop. (PdK)more
