Try turning this into a fun Lego toy. I dare you.

Okay, someone walk with me on this one, because I’m a little confused.

I was under the impression that the reason that Harmonix was cranking out a Lego Rock Band was to appeal to the “casual” crowd.  You know, Billy and Suzie and the soccer moms of the world, signing along to Hannah Montana and Taylor Swift songs.

So what in the holy double stuff Jesus Christ is the reasoning behind Harmonix’s inclusion of Iggy Pop to the Lego Rock Band lineup?

Who’s Iggy Pop?  Well, for those of you who were born in the 90s (damn you kids, get off my lawn!), let me give you a quick rundown on the punk icon that is Iggy Pop through some great quotes on his Wikipedia page:

“Later, while inventing the stage-dive in Detroit, rolling around in broken glass, exposing himself to the crowd, and vomiting on stage, among many other exploits…”

“Iggy was unable to control his drug use and checked himself into a mental institution to try to clean up.”

“The video attracted much controversy, as it featured much footage of Pop performing with his penis exposed to the audience.”

“Also in 1990, Pop starred in the controversial opera The Manson Family by composer John Moran…”

This is who they’re including in Lego Rock Band, alongside Bon Jovi, Elton John, and Counting Crows?  Bwuh?  I wonder if they’re going to actually draw in Iggy Pop’s abdominal muscles on his little 60+ year old Lego body? (Yamster’s note: yes, yes they are. Here’s a screenshot.)

(yamster woz here)

I mean, I understand the yardstick of a successful musician’s career can be measured in how many locker room shower size cocaine-fueled orgies that they can be a part of (go, go Metallica!).  But for most of the other artists on the Lego Rock Band, that lifestyle is very much muted.  When you hear the band names Good Charlotte or Sum 41, you typically don’t think “drug-addled train wreck”.

I just can’t imagine how that conference room meeting had to have gone down.  Nothing about this decision screams “family friendly”.  Instead, it screams “high powered executive who loves punk music” making this decision.

You know what? Why stop there?  While we’re still in the “Let’s make bad decisions” business cycle, why not add a little of Courtney Love’s band Hole to the line up?  We can get her up on the little Lego stage, screaming and crying off her eyeliner through “Celebrity Skin”, maybe while she’s trying to lift her dress over her head?

Sigh.  This world is going insane.

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