Hate Iggy Pop-- but "Success" is one of those songs that is so perfect and so honest that it becomes an exception that proves the rule. Hank Jr's "Weatherman" is another.
Spent a couple of hours in a motel room with him, Merle Kilgore, and my boss, who had made a custom guitar for him and wanted to find out why he never played it. (Turned out he had gotten drunk and fallen, ramming it into the corner of a table and busting a chunk out of the back. I spent a week or so matching grain and trimming and sanding and lacquering a patch to repair it with.) He is-- or was then anyway-- very competitive with his father and measured their comparative success by sales figures, which seemed to me kind of silly and sad. Merle opened the show that night, and demonstrated an astonishing ability to look like he was playing his guitar without ever getting the pick within three inches of the strings. The band was plenty loud enough to cover for the absence of an acoustic, so the audience didn't know; but it was also loud enough to cover for any wrong chords on an acoustic, so I didn't really see the point...
I saw him at Billy Bob's in Ft Worth (late 70s/early 80s) before he really made it. He had recorded I'll Think of Something, which I really liked and was hoping for more, in addition to a few others. But after a few hits it just seemed like they were all about him, or his dad, so not really surprised.