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“A great piece of heavy metal cut in a form,” pounding out a new fender every minute, as Pop later described it. The tape, unrolled, would run the length of the room.īowie and Pop were inspired by Pop’s memories of seeing a machine press at Ford Motor’s River Rouge plant. “Like a child transfixed by a train set,” he told Paul Trynka. Thibault recalled Bowie sitting for an hour watching the tape spool around and around. The bedrock of the track was a tape loop of “overloaded industrial noises” that Laurent Thibault had assembled for Bowie and Pop-Thibault pieced the tape together in sections, then made a master tape of the sets of mixes. Pop initially sings his lyric for “Mass Production” (modern life is so dehumanizing that finding a new girl is like finding a new toaster, while the singer eventually realizes he’s just as disposable a commodity) in a voice that Lester Bangs, reviewing the record for Stereo Review, called “synthezomboid.” Pop eventually builds to a groaning run of phrases that he inflicts more than he sings, placing emphasis on whichever sounds he can strangle the most: “you’re not NOTHING NEW,” “it’s THERE in the MIRROR,” “breasts turn BROWN-so WARM and so BROWN.” “Beforrrre you GO,” he drones, “Do me a FAV-orrr…Give me a NUM-berrr…” Dennis Davis’ drum fill kicks the song into a semblance of life, and Iggy Pop appears, sounding like a man holding a hostage.
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The first thing you hear on “Mass Production,” the eight-minute industrial horror movie that finishes off The Idiot, is a synthesizer fading in, like a machine drawing breath it’s suddenly confined to the right channel, where it now drones a single note, like a foghorn, and it’s answered by four piping notes in the left channel, a mechanical birdsong that repeats through much of the track (though often drowned in the mix). Iggy Pop, quoted in Jim Ambrose’s Gimme Danger. Like the beautiful smokestacks and factories-whole cities devoted to factories. I would always talk to about how much I admired the beauty of the American industrial culture that was rotting away where I grew up.