Lust For Life

For whatever reason, Iggy Pop was a glaring gap in my musical knowledge. Which is incredibly disappointing because this is an incredible album. Just a ton of fun, an all-around terrific listen. I could listen to this anytime, anywhere.

I’ve heard the hits enough. The rest does not stick out as particularly good. In fact, it sometimes felt unpleasant to listen to.

Great to hear the rest of the album where Lust for Life is from

Kind of a letdown. Lust for Life is a great opening track. Love it. But then the album devolves into a mishmash of punk, R&B, and some straight-up unlistenable tracks. I don't know. Not very punk, and very different than the opening track. All in all, a dud. Without the opening track, it's 2 stars, w/ it's 3.

Good energy, what you would expect from Iggy

The titular song Lust for Life - a great way to start off this album. Such high energy - matching the ecstatic punk icon Iggy Pop. This album is a weird one for me personally. I really love some tracks - the obvious Lust for Life and The Passenger (which would be my top two tracks - and possibly the most popular tracks in the album) but something about this album doesn’t click with me like some other punk albums that came out in the 70s. Namely Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks… that came out the same year. However, with that said, I still think this album has enough substance to keep my interest throughout, and I can definitely appreciate Iggy Pop as a performer throughout. Good album overall.

Groovy and accessible garage rock. It's a lot brighter and full-of-energy than his earlier release that year The Idiot. Bowie's influence is stronger on here than ever, with songs like "Tonight" screaming Bowie's glam work. No bad songs, there's a good diversity of sounds here. But overall, I like the rawness that the instruments sound like they're being recorded from underwater. Has that deep dark groove you see in later goth music yet feels full of life.

Really enjoyed this overall. Some timeless classics and others I enjoyed that I hadn't heard before like neighbourhood threat for example. Really enjoyed the whole thing and will listen again

Off to a great start - filled with others that were equally timeless but a bit of filler too.

Lust For Life and The Passenger are classics. I enjoyed this a lot on the whole.

Personally I prefer the idiot but man this is such an insane classic. how often does an older artist come back and male two back to back bangers.

Lust for Life is a great up beat rock track to kickstart the Titular Album. Starting off the album with a very high tempo track to hook the listener. Sixteen is a very broody track that really captivated me. Something about it just makes you really want to groove and snap your fingers like you're a goth in south park. The Passenger really steals the show, just everything you want from a track. Very joyous acoustics on this and a catchy chorus make this a very clear standout. Tonight is a switch of tone to a very somber track detailing the last moments of a woman's life due to heroin overdose. Overall this is a very good album that I can see why is so highly touted. A very great rock record that would inspire many of the best later down the line.

Album is ok got some classic songs on there

Didn’t love this but I expected to. Don’t know if his association with Bowie just unfairly raised my expectations or what but this album just didn’t do it for me

I feel like a broken record here, but the more of these albums I hear, the greater the influence I realize Lou Reed has had over the past half century. Listening through Lust for Life, I can’t help but think that Iggy Pop is just a cross between Reed and nineties punk rock in general. The record is driven by the title track and “The Passenger,” whose addictive opening riff is one of the best of the late seventies. Iggy himself may be the passenger in the song, but surely he wants us to realize we’re each the passenger at some point. For as much free will as we may or may not have, there’s always an element of surprise to either fear or to look forward to, but always to anticipate. No? Fuck, I’m not sure. There is promise in some of the other songs, like “Some Weird Sin” and “Neighborhood Threat,” but nothing much else really sticks with me here. There are two classics and a slew of skippable songs, plus the unnecessarily long “Turn Blue.” Some albums get three stars because of how vanilla they are. This album gets three stars because of how all over the place it is.

Solid. I recognized some tracks. Idk if I'd come back to this often. I should learn more about him.

Enjoyable but Iggy Pop isn't entirely my thing.

Pop!

Really solid album. Lust for Life remains a banger. Success is an underrated great song. David Bowie's fingerprints are all over this First time listening to the entire album and yeah, it cooks!

I do not like Iggy Pop and his blatant pedophelia, 16 is an atrocity and although the artistry on some songs is aight I am always less keen to give Iggy the benefit of the doubt compared to other artists. 3/10

Really fun! I like the energy. I feel like this is something that music has exceeded, though. Like there's music released recently that has the same vibes and style but is better. That's influence, though, so good for Iggy

lust for life - the melody is good energy but tires itself out pretty fast. and then it just gets into this repeitition saying the same thing. 2/5 sixteen - same drum rhythm it fees like. not into it. 2/5 some weird sin - great guitar licks, singer puts me off the rest of the song. 3/5 the passenger - i;ve heard this before on 92.5 rock. the singers cadance actually matches this time. 4/5

Look at that smile! Would you want to take that man home to your parents? He seems to have a bit of a lust for life. But in all seriousness, whilst getting out of Bowie's thumb, Iggy Pop was finally finding a way towards getting his groove back and this album was the perfect backdrop for this process. In the year of punk's ascendancy, Lust for Life provided the required addictive energy that made Iggy who he is and it is a shot in the arm for the listener (such as myself). So, if things get too straight and you can't bear it while feeling stuck on a pin, give this a spin.

Great album

It gives me kinda rebelious 16 years old teenage vibe. 8/10 bass is everything

Bowie and Iggy in Berlin

Starts off poor but improves as it goes on. Not my can of pop 🥤

Some great stuff here but I wasn't in the mood for the sort of chaos Iggy looked to unleash

There's a lot to like about iggy pop on this album.

Ok album. #2 song is my least favorite, I find it annoying. 3.5 if I could do it

2.5 rounded up. It was OKAY

Fun album. Especially the hits.

Nice 4*

This is one of the 20 best albums of the 70's. I do think it could be sequenced better.

Part of the soundtrack to my teenage years. Outstanding album form The Godfather.

First time hearing the album in its entirety. Really enjoyed the high energy all the way through. Appreciate the Bowie influence. To me, this hits as classic hard rock at some of its best. Fav. song: the passenger

Loppua kohde vähä huononi, mutta paree ku oletin!

Iggy ja Ziggy!

Blääh

Born of the cool. Every sound is very punk and "old" but I really enjoyed it.

Standouts: Lust for Life, The Passenger, Tonight. And I think Turn Blue is a damn good one too!

Songs I like. Lust for Life - reminds me to Just For Laughs comedy club in the 90s, since they used that song before the show started. Then used again in Trainspotting. The Passenger

Great album with Bowles influence evident throughout

Love the Bowie influence on this

This album has an interesting style. There’s a strong 60’s R&B/soul influence but filtered through glam-rock and punk. David Bowie produced the album and co-wrote a lot of the music and you can hear his dramatic style. Iggy Pop can be very theatrical with his vocals too and the production puts his voice front and center. The standout tracks are the classic “Lust for Life,” and “The Passenger.” Great rock songs.

"Lust For Life" the song is so dang good, I really just hate how it became so synonymous with TV ad's. I feel like there were a few companies that used it and used it the same commercial for years and I really can't hear the song without thinking about a TV commercial which is a bummer. "The Passenger" is another killer track. I love the laid back coolness. The melody sits on top of that cool swung guitar rhythm (almost a little like reggae/dub right?) and his voice tone and performance fits so well. What a great album cover. It kind of looks like a TIME magazine cover but in a goofy tongue-in-cheek way. I haven't listened much to Iggy Pop but this record sounded great.

Que mal ha envejecido sixteen

Fun!

An exploration about what makes life meaningful after being at your lowest point

Loved it from front to back. Not a single miss. Rating: 4.8

3.5/5

It's a really good, though not excellent, rock album. Bowie's presence is noticeable, but not as dominants as on The Idiot. Some really solid tracks, but there are a couple of fairly dull ones.

This was a really enjoyable album. I only really knew of Lust For Life and The Passenger, but this was a fun and energetic punk rush through and through. Not particularly surprised to find out that Bowie worked on this! Favourite: Lust For Life

Solid album but nothing jumps out that I have to listen to over and over. 2

Strong start. Better than I expected. Success is not good. Weaker second half for sure

One of the best, if not the best, Iggy's skills. Great band, the Sales brothers later on Tin Machine, and Ricky Gardiner (RIP) playing fine, clear and catchy guitars. And it includes "Tonight" the true and moving junkies love song.

4.5

This is the first album I’ve listened to that was good, not great. It has some iconic songs on it and I know Iggy Pop was very influential to the punk rock scene that came after him. It definitely takes you to the dark alleys and hole in the wall bars in your mind’s eye. It’s a fun album.

Really good album, mix of genres and stands up well

Really cool record with some great songs. Favourite tracks: Lust For Life (obviously), Some Weird Sin, The Passenger, Success. Least favourite track: Fall In Love With Me

Decent

Had some songs I knew about on here. Overall, it was a good album.

Wow! I can’t believe I’ve never listened to much of Iggy Pop. Solid from top to bottom with some standouts.

No

Now that’s more like it. Timeless

Sure, it's good. Not too big on it though.

see 7/10

This was good. More up-tempo than The Idiot.

A couple mega hit songs that are really amazing. Several other solid songs. And a couple dogs. But overall, an enjoyable way to start the day.

I remember parts of The Idiot but none of this one

I only knew the title song before listening. Really enjoyable. I like the pop-punk genre and Iggy was good at it. Didn't hurt to have David Bowie helping out. Turn Blue is a really interesting song. Apparently the lyrics were composed on the spot by Iggy for a tune Bowie had written. That's crazy.

Much more melodic and listenable than the Stooges debut. Good improvement, Iggy. The Passenger and title track are legitimately strong pop.

Superrrrrr

Pretty damn good time for someone apparently trying to kick a heroin habit.

4.5 Blew me away. Way better than expected. Almost every song a banger. No surprise Bowie produced it

4.5 stars, really liked this hard rock version of new wave. Felt ahead of it's time. Not a full 5 stars because some of the middle tracks didn't overly impress, but overall this was fantastic. "The Passenger" is a total banger. Title track also good.

Very enjoyable. The story about how Iggy and David Bowie made the album and how it was rediscovered 20 years later was interesting, too.

Knew the singles, but this is a good un. Worth a Relisten or two!

3rd August 2023 Still majorly out of the loop and a few days behind but will catch up today. This is a punchy, dark fit of a record as Pop drawls and yelps his way through. 4.5 if I could.

I've listened to Lust for Life and The Passenger many times before now, but never dug deeper into the album. Such a shame because I was missing out on some incredible music!

Perfect album to start the day with. The first track Lust For Life literally gives you a lust for life. The Passenger is amazing as well. I also learned some new songs from this album. The last three tracks are happily living their life now in my playlist. If I could give three and a half stars, I would, but I sadly can't.

NICE

This is the most well-known album by Iggy Pop as a solo artist. For a good reason! It has drive, power but it is all about dark stuff like heroin abuse. Trainspotting used the title track for a good reason.

Hittilevy, a-puolesta pidän kovasti. Aikansa malliin b-puoli menee hieman hajanaisemmaksi ja alun tempo alkaa rakoilla. Sitä ennen paahdetaan hyvin mutta tarpeeks monipuolisesti täysiä eteenpäin, tanssikeinahdellen toki.

On vaatinut hikeä ja kyyneleitä luoda näin monta näin arkkityypillistä taustaa. Mutta jos nyt rehellisesti puhutaan, kaipaisin silti VÄHÄN lisää melodista sisältöä.

Wonderful album, loved all the songs.

lust for life is a good track, the rest can be summed up as "this is fine but not particularly interesting to me". this includes the passenger, not sure why that gets the hype it does

Some really good songs but overall kinda boring album

i really liked this but it wasn’t really what i expected - great songwriting

Wow, great album! I really love Tonight - that sludgy, drippy discoesque croon. Overall I like the easy way the songs play out and feel easy, fun and just enough irreverence to feel like "who cares". Good listening for a summer day.

So much energy

Okay

I got to see Iggy live in 2011 and had the biggest adrenaline rush of my life after some huge biker guy said "you're going up there", lifted me up off my feet and yeeted me into the crowd. First and only crowd surfing moment, one of my greatest ever memories. I will simply never forget standing at the side of the crowd afterwards with a blobby cup of cider watching Iggy strut his stuff. Legend.

Straight out of Iggy's "A bit thirsty" period. I mean its still Iggy, but its a bit sus in places.

Very bowie in parts but good stuff

meh

I don't know why but I've always found Lust for Life to be a tedious song. I know I should like it but I don't. Then the rest of this album just washes over me and again, I should like Iggy. I just don't think it's that interesting.

Very energetic album ! With an old school sound and definitely a unique genre. Can listen to it any time ! 4.5/5

That photo cracks me up. Great album for cruising on a sunny day.

Čuje se da je na albumu radio Bowie 1. 4 2. 3 3. 4 4. 5 5. 5 6. 3 7. 2 8. 3 9. 4 3,67

I liked it. I get why he and Bowie hung out

Eh

This album is important to me only because of one song - "The Passenger". The main riff from this song is now of cultural significance, you just can't have any existential road movie without some version of this song in the soundtrack. Great track, forever in my heart. As for the rest of the album, you can hear influence (and his voice, pretty often really) from David Bowie. It feels more like one of his record than Iggy's. I wasn't 100% hooked though, I still don't like Iggy's vocal, even though on this record it was less aggressive than usual. Overall, I think one great song is not enough to give It the best rating, so this time just 4 out of 5.

Some pretty cool guitar parts. I was expecting basic punk riffs but pretty cool. Don’t think I’d go out of my way again for this album apart from the hits.

"Lust for Life" and "The Passenger" are my two favorite non-Stooges Iggy songs, so this album's a win for me regardless of the quality of the rest of it. The fact that it's solid just makes things even more satisfying.

I'd been listening to this album quite a bit in the last few months in preparation of seeing Iggy at Cruel World, and it gets better as I continue to listen. Lust for Life is one of my funeral songs & Success is something I play for myself to get pumped for my work. The rest of the album is fantastic & I love Bowie as a background vocalists. Excellent album. 5 stars.

I love me some early days Iggy Pop. Such a great album. Love Bowie on here.

Swag for sure ! 🎤🐈‍⬛

Classic banger? Blassic Blanger?

Tråkigt tbh!

There's a lot of good here. It's the right balance of pop and boundary pushing, and viewed in the context of its time I get why Iggy has such a following. I really liked it. Not sure if we're looming at a 4 or a 5. Coin flip said 4

I really liked this! I’ve enjoyed the Stooges and Iggy Pop stuff I’ve gotten thus far, so I was looking forward to this and it didn’t disappoint.

Just ok. I don't really get the hype surrounding Iggy Pop's music.

Listened Before? N I struggled with this one. It took me several days to get around to listening to it because I didn't want to. No particular reason other than I just really hate Lust for Life the song. Anyway it turned out okay. Decent punk album from the 70s. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: The Passenger

Good album and fun listen from the grandfather of punk. 'The Passenger' is a classic, 'Lust For Life' is a banger and I did like 'Some Weird Sins' too. I do thing Iggy peaked with The Stooges though.

It's so good. It's everything you want from 70s Iggy. It grooves, it grinds, it's raw, it's layered. You can feel the Bowie influence but it never overshadows Iggy himself. It was a high 4-star rating for me but "The Passenger" pushed it over the top. That song is just SO Iggy and I love it dearly. Everything from there on was a delightful coast to the end.

It just wasn’t really my jam overall.

This is a splendid album by Iggy Pop, arguably his best. It's kind of all elbows, ragged and chaotic, shaking off the more structured sound of his work with David Bowie on The Idiot. This is Iggy embracing himself as an artist and where he wants to go musically - raw hedonism, aggressive proto-punk energy, frank subject matter, surprising moments of vulnerability. Warts and all, somehow he makes it all work beautifully. What do most people think of when they think of Iggy Pop? Lust for Life, what's what. Fave Songs: The Passenger, Lust for Life, Neighborhood Threat, Tonight, Success

Still full of energy almost 50 years on. What a man

Finns ett par fina låtar på denna.

This cover is the eeriest thing in the world. This cover has only gotten better with age. I think the album has, too.

Yeah, okay - it ain't the Stooges, but what is? Heck, why should I expect more of the same? Why would I even want that? Nonetheless, there's Detroit garage rock in the DNA of this bad boy, and whilst a little uneven as a whole I like it. The sound is stripped-down and lean, a perfect vehicle for music that is simple, even repetitive, in parts - it packs a punch. The drums on the title track are the apogee of rock percussion in my opinion. Rama lama!

Really, really enjoyed this! Man, between "Lust for Life" and "The Passenger," I wonder how many homes Iggy has been able to buy just from the licensing fees for commercials. "Some Weird Sin" and "Success" were other standouts, but this thing is solid throughout. Now I know why Renton from Trainspotting was such a fan. But not from Trainspotting 2 because that was terrible.

iggy pop 😲

Really liked this album! Fave track probably mainstream but 'The Passenger'

A pretty dark album. The whole thing feels pretty strung out and puts me on edge. Standout track: The Passenger

devil music katsoppa tarkemmin album coveria. saatanan katse porottaa. huomaa kyllä bowie.. daavidin influenssi tässä kun sain tietää niin herra paratkoon ei varmaan valehdellut asiasta... populärisoidut laulut tästä todella hyviä, loppu albumi ei tarjoa tarjottimelle laita laittaa ehkä salaattia mutta puuttuu pihvit makkarat soosit.... mutta salaattiakin syödään moni kultttuuri ei muuta tee ja tota 300g ehkä mahdoton mutta ei ylikuormitusta aina tarvitakaan... 2x pedofiili hot streak btw passenger

Remember I mentioned here that I first got into David Bowie with the Let's Dance and Tonight records. I didn't know so much about Iggy Pop until much later. Hearing Lust For Life had me boggling as to why half the songs from Tonight were just covers from Iggy Pop. It may be they were close comrades with no clear boundaries for collaboration versus plagiarization. It's also clear Bowie was part of the production of this record and some of it draws from the funky first half of Low. I can't go back and hear this record before I heard Tonight, so it's difficult to sort out the association and to have an unbiased impression.

In don't have a lot to say about this album other than it's absolutely solid, not a bad track on it. Personal highlights include title track "Lust For Life", "Success", and "Neighborhood Threat". I wasn't all too familiar with Iggy Pop aside from perhaps one or two songs by The Stooges, so I'm glad this came up and let me hear more of him.

Neat. But definitely music for a different era, it seems to me.

I think I just don’t like iggy pop

Here we goo. Are you gonna be my girl by Jet sounds like Lust for Life on this album... Same riff.

So good. I wish we could rate using half stars because this is a 4.5. It’s definitely better than a 4 so I gotta give it a 5.

Great album.

One of the easiest 5 star ratings so far. I'm more than familiar with this album, and it firmly ranks among my favorite albums ever. As much as I love his work with the Stooges and The Idiot, Lust For Life is the culmination of everything Iggy had done up to that point and executed perfectly. It wasn't scattershot like Raw Power, nor heavy railroaded by Bowie like The Idiot, it struck a perfect balance between the two, with his personality shining and Bowie's contributions merely complementing what Iggy already has, not replacing it with something else. The title track is an all-time classic, endlessly catchy and captivating lyrically and musically, it really flies by. Sixteen and Some Weird Sin continue the trend of being insanely catchy Punk/New-Wave/Rock, and then comes The Passenger, which has a claim for being one of the best songs ever, let alone on this album. Absolutely brilliant songwriting. Then comes Tonight, a cinematic bridge track, and Success, which does what it sets out to do perfectly—function as a jam-session like earworm. All of the great tracks before lead up to what I consider the centerpiece of the album: Turn Blue. Despite its train-of-thought, almost improvisational like quality that reminisces of his earlier work, its truly a masterpiece which brings you straight into the world of addiction that Iggy sets out to paint. It's heart wrenching, eye-popping, and just an amazing track all around which makes the album worth it, if it wasn't already. The album wraps up with Neighborhood Threat and Fall in Love With Me, which are nice, catchy tunes to come down from Turn Blue with. The musical soundscape is deeply consistent throughout the whole runtime, yet each song has its own identity and is not at all mistakable for each other, which is a tough feat. I could go on all day about how much I love this album, but it easily stands among Bowie's Berlin trilogy which this album spawned out of, and I would even argue that it's debatably greater than any of those albums. It's that good, and a bona fide classic.

9/10 super fun! I really love this!

Classic, and can really still hear bowies backing vocals

The opening drum is so fun.

Good vibes, beat entraînant, belle tite guit, soleil qui se couche, soirée entre amis au chalet.

All throughout I was thinking "this guy is doing a pretty great Bowie impression" and, lo and behold, the man's fingerprints are all over this album. Therefore it gets top marks. Brill.

This is really good. I wansn't expecting the strength in depth here. Definitely one to keep coming back to.

Feels like this is the 1001 Iggy Pop albums you need to hear before you die…

Iggy's lust for life seemed to wane as the album went on, as did my enthusiasm. Three downward trends out of five 📉📉📉

A full star off for the heavy sexualization of teenagers. The fuckin' 70s, man. 🤮 Lust for Life and The Passenger are definitely the standouts here, and probably the only songs I wanna come back to.

4/9, 44%

This was so good

Bell'album, due tracce della fine ammazzano un poco il mood con la loro interminabile lunghezza di 6 minuti. Fatele piu corte le canzoni dio****. Senza le due canzoni lunghe easy 4 stars, con quelle merde 3.

Inaspettatamente ottimo, ogni canzone straripa di energia, in alcuni punti però cala un po' e si sente la mancanza. 4 stelle ma arriva molto vicino a toccare le 5 per me

3.5

Typical old music

Hressilegt stöff. Alltaf gaman að heyra lögin tvö sem David Bowie gaf seinna út, þetta eru svo allt öðruvísi útgáfur.

Fuckin’ YES. Sing it, Iggy. Great album that is Berlin through and through 🤍

Classic

This is basically how I imagined David Bowie would sound before I listened to any David Bowie. It’s fine.

Pretty ok, but some really questionable lyrics in Turn Blue.

Un album concept dans lequel Iggy va accrocher des fils à tous ses membres et se laisser manipuler par un marionnettiste professionnel. Un régal de désarticulation.

Iggy Pop est ici plus déchaîné que jamais. On peine à deviner sa présence, ses membres étant dissimulés dans divers tuyaux extrêmement fins, mais la performance n'en demeure pas moins de bonne facture. Excellente outro ou Iggy se dissimulera entre deux pages d'un livre posé sur la table du studio.

Interesting.

Solid 3

Goes very David Bowie at times and tracks 2&3 sag a little. But overall a fantastic energetic album with all time great tunes. Singles stand out but strong album all the way through just seems like the type of album which couldn't be made any more due to raw originality. 5

Great punk tracks

J’ai l’impression que les chansons sont plus longue qu’elle le sont vraiment. Globalement joyeux mais je trouve que sa manque de punch. WOWOWO Turn blue c’est vrai drôle et intéressant. Neighborhood aussi était cool. Ah on est de retour au style classique, mais pas trop, ça reste mieux que ce qui est passé avant turn blue. En conclusion, turn blue est très cool, mais le reste de l’album me laisse ni chaud ni froid.

Not a fan. Songs are very basic and repetitive.

Sorry iggy

te amo iggy

This is just amazing, never herd it before but it’s brilliant 5/5.

You know, as somebody who has known about Iggy Pop my whole life, i don't think I even knew that his most popular songs were by him. This ruled. Definitely added to my rotation.

I really enjoyed this album! The Passenger is a great song.

I really enjoyed this

This sounds like it was made to be performed on a shitty, grimy stage in a bar with dreadful stage decorations. I love it.

Love this. Just bought it. You can hear David Bowie's influence.

Not better than "The Idiot". Still has some really good songs like "The Passenger" (even if I prefer the Siouxsie version more) and the title track, but then there's also stuff like the song "Turn Blue" which is... something. I appreciate the strangeness at least, even if the song sucks ass. The moral of the story: Don't do drugs or you'll randomly wake up in Germany one day. Also stop smiling at me.

A very good album.

I dislike this just a bit more than The Stooges stuff. Just doesn't do much for me.

It was ok. It’s quite hard to judge without knowing the context in which this album is on the list.

Iggy Pop's second solo album (also produced by David Bowie), takes a more pop focused turn. This has the effect of of infusing Iggy Pop's proto-punk with a more commercial element leading to more of a New Wave feel. The guitars sound more jangly and with Iggy Pop's dominating vocal performance, this album predicts British alternative (Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand etc.) at least 30 years earlier. It uncanny how modern this album sounds. For me, the Berlin albums are better than his work with the Stooges.

Not a fan.

Kannte bis auf passenger eigentlich nix von dem, eigentlich echt gutes Zeug dabei

There's something off about the album cover that I love. Besides that, this was a pretty alright album. I liked the random speaking parts in some songs. Fave track(s): Some Weird Sin, Fall In Love With Me

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Genre: Punk Rock Review: Interesting, nothing extraordinary or earth-shattering but certainly a good piece of work. Rating: 7/10

Enjoyable listen. Drumming reminds me of John Bonham, and the singing/writing of Jim Morrison and occasionally of Plant. Parody? Or respect? Either way, it gets a high 3/5 from me; I would listen again.

I was on the shitter for some of this album, and when Turn Blue came on I pushed as hard as I could just so I could run back to the pause button. The rest of the album wasn't that much better. What a fucking disaster. 1/5.

Really enjoyed this one. Great variety of songs and The Passenger is an all time classic

Excellent album, the Bowie influence is super clear (not less than when you can actually hear him) but Iggys singing is also fantastic. And The Passenger is just an all time great song.

lol, this has the trainspotting theme song. It's a good song. I didn't realize it was Iggy Pop. This is definitely a more melodic Iggy Pop than the last album. I actually kind of like it. He's still a terrible singer though. Oh, it has The Passenger on it. That's pretty key!

I didn't like this album 2 stars

1. Lust For Life: energetic but not too special for me. 6/10. 2. Sixteen: nice song, good guitar play and vocals. 7/10 3. Some Weird Sin: nice track, enjoyable throughout. 7.5/10. 4. The Passenger: classic and nostalgic banger. 8.5/10 5. Tonight: chill song and nice solo. 7/10 6. Success: backing vocals really uplift this track. Pretty fun song. 7.5/10 7. Turn Blue: decent track, overall vibe is good and gets better to the end. 6.5/10 8. Neighbourhood Threat: really nice one. Good tones and complementation with the vocals. 9/10 9. Fall In Love With Me: guitar riff is really nice. Very nice song. 8.5

Standouts: Lust for Life Others: Sixteen, The Passenger, Tonight, Success Rating: 3.5

I hadn't realised just how many Bowieism similarities there are in Iggys music. Certainly a few tracks in there that have stood the test of time. Quite a good album that has aged well. I can't take too much of Iggy in one go though.

Enjoyed this one!

Just OK. I am onto the two tracks. I knew I had again I didn’t hear anything particularly special. A little bit agitating and probably not my genre.

Ok but I’m just not into the tinny sounding punk.

Spooky Skeleton man has always had a refined blend of punk and appeal. It i interesting to listen to the differences in the tracks produced by Iggy and by Bowie.

‘Twas alright. Surprisingly poppy and peppy which is nice but overall not totally my vibe. 6/10

This album just feels like good, clean, fun. The title track is outstanding and it's impossible not to bop along with the catchy tune. As far as influence and importance, I can hear the influence of David Bowie here coming through, and the album is not only fun but very well put together and produced. I'm not sure I'll be turning to this all the time, but it does make fun party/cleaning music.

Alltaf smá skrýtið að heyra lögin af Tonight plötunni hans Bowies hér, en Iggy útgáfan er einfaldlega mikið betri. Titillagið og Passenger eru stórkostleg, hin eru góð. - Bowie í bakröddum er frábær, bara Jagger í "You're so vain" kemst nálægt honum.

Ok

Solid

Pretty solid stuff. 'Sixteen' feels a bit out of place but an enjoyable piece nonetheless. The two longer tracks feel just a little drawn-out but still good. I might end up liking them a lot more if I give them a few more listens. Songs I Really Liked: Lust For Life, The Passenger, Success, Neighborhood Threat

Decent

A lot more boogie in this than I remembered.

Two of the biggest music powerhouses of their time, arguably at the peak of their creativity, collaborating once again on what is easily Iggy’s best album. The raw power of The Stooges work may be fading, but Pop still has the juice when he wants it. His worst impulses being reigned in by Bowie is what keeps this album flying though, and pushes his sound into territory Pop likely wouldn’t have explored on his own. The balance between the two is perfect, and the results speak for themselves. Hard not to enjoy an album when the opener is Lust for Life.

Maybe the only picture of Iggy Pop with a clothed torso. He looks like a smiley, happy man on the album cover and the record gives the impression he's having a lovely time making a fun and melodic songs. Given that the Lust For Life/Town Called Malice (The Jam)/Be My Girl (Jet) tune is used on here twice, the album feels surprisingly varied, and flows nicely. Would listen again. Rating: 4/5 Playlist track: The Passenger Date listened: 03/03/23

Decent album, few songs I wasn’t a huge fan of

Pretty average by todays standards. Definitely some good songs in there but a few snoozers, too.

It was fine.

не такой стрёмный как первый что я слышала, но повторять не будем)

This album gets better each time I listen to it. I listened to it 4 times yesterday.

Unique sound, up tempo

Really was digging this album, and when it finished Amazon Music just sent me into The Clash. Great way to spend the morning.

Alright, couple of good songs but not really something I liked

straight rock and roll. No real interest in 2023

Wow, this album came up only a few weeks after The Idiot. I love both of these albums, I was really obsessed with this period in Iggy Pop and David Bowie's careers. I go back and forth between which album I love more, this one is definitely more "Rock" oriented. Lust for Life, Passenger, and Tonight are my top tracks.

2/20- Driving to school Iggy delivers a more personal, quirky, and personality-filled album here than he was able to give with the Stooges. All of the integral factors of Iggy Pop albums are still present, and it shows the human side of him.

Had no idea that "Lust for Life" and "The Passenger" were actually Iggy's. This was a pretty good album and caught me by surprise, especially with the unexpected David Bowie collab. 7/10.

An amazing Friday album after a week of hit after hit. Absolutely adore this one.

Some classic hits but not something that I love.

Sorry Mr. Burns, I know 'The Passenger' is your ultimate villain song, but all I can think about is driving through endless wheat fields in bumf*ck Iowa. It's a really good cross-country roadtrip song, but I've done that once before and I don't really see the need to do it again, because that sh*t kind of suckeddd. I'm sad because I expected more from this album, but I was left disliking it more than I did at the start. How does that even happen.

Sure, he’s a creepy looking bag of skin. Sure, he wrote a song about boning a 13 year old girl (which was taken off of Spotify). Sure, this entire album was primarily Bowie music that Mr. Pop sang over. But hey, it ain’t that bad. Could have been a 4 if I was in a better mood. He’s the kind of weird I’d want to see live.

He's a weirdo, i like it

Look at this smug SOB staring back at me. “You sucker!” he’s saying, “No way you’re actually gonna listen to me. I mean, I’m a COMPLETE waste of time.” So it’s basically a collection of David Bowie songs that Bowie deemed too shitty to be released by him, so he let this schmuck do it.

I’ve sat on this and I just don’t think I can give an album that has The Passenger anything less than a 5. Not that the rest is bad, in fact it’s quite good. But man oh man is that a good song. So this gets the elusive light 5.

Iggy Pop is pretty cool to listen to. Very upbeat. Could listen to this album again.

Iggy. 77. 'Nuff said.

It's a nice sounding album. Not sure if I agree with the lust tho

Wow, an almost faultless album

Heel dichtbij 4 sterren, maar toch net niet. Lust for Life en Passenger zijn natuurlijk prima nummers (maar nou ook weer niet zó goed), maar de rest is minder interessant. Behalve Turn Blue, dat was wel even een hoogtepuntje en lekkere afwisseling. Maar al met al wat mij betreft dus nèt geen 4 sterren waard.

couldnt be bothered

I don’t know if this is the best Iggy Pop album, but The Passenger is for sure my favorite Iggy Pop song.

Largement inférieur au "Lust For Life" de Lana del Rey mais ce n'est que mon avis....

un 3.5 en esprit car jaime beaucoup 2 chansons de cette album

This being the 3rd or4th Iggy pop album that I have gotten and this is by far my favorite one so far and the only one that I would listen to again. Lust for life, passenger, and success were my favorite songs.

I'm a fan of Stooges. I recpect Iggy Pop and somehow always wrote this album off. First time actually spending time with it, and I find it nothing less than great!

The Passenger is een heel episch nummer, verder paar goede nummers, maar klinkt toch wat gedateerd.

Niet helemaal mijn stijl, maar een goed album is een goed album

Some solid, interesting music on this album, though sometimes the vocals weren't cutting it. You can definitely hear Bowie's influence (though Bowie does it much better IMO) and The Passenger is a fantastic song.

This album exists. That's about all I have to say about it. Not bad, not good. Just there

This album as a whole was fine except the song Sweet Sixteen creeped me out so much that I almost didn’t recover.

Really damn good

old school vibes

Lusty and lifey

the lust for life is strong in this one

Yes! Fabulous stuff. Admittedly led by two bangers, Lust for Life and Passenger. The Bowie is strong in this one.

7/10 fuvol

Strange as the campy cover artwork he comes around as a more glammy Rock’n’Roller than as Punkrocker he‘s been labelled. So british that one cannot think of the pilars of Britpop like Pulp or Supergrass without thanking Iggy with a sincere tie to the Stones and black roots of Rock. 3.7

My favourite Iggy album as it sounds more Iggy pop compared to the idiot which I feel is more a Bowie album, and probably due to the link to train spotting. Plus the passenger is one of my favourite songs. Probably personal choice more than a true masterpiece but this gets the full 5 stars.

Dance like hypnotised chickens.

ziggy iggy

Pretty good listen graded on how much I enjoyed it I would give it 3 but including impact on music it would be close to a five the fact that it came out in 1967 is pretty amazing

Band had great energy, there was no way this album could’ve been bad with Bowie production, still first few songs didn’t interest me that much and I found the album to be more backloaded. Overall 7.5 and I would like to hear more from this band

Maybe Iggy's finest collection of tunes, thanks in no small part to music composer, producer, and friend David Bowie, who also provides backing vocals and keys. He lets himself bask in the sun here, not hitting the darkness of the Stooges and some of his other solo stuff, and it suits him!

Overall I love how positive and energetic this whole thing is especially when you consider Iggy's previous album, The Idiot. It’s like a completely different thing and there was just a couple of months between both records. The two iconic tracks - The Passenger and Lust for Life - are all time classics. The rest of the album is top tier as well. I really liked the riff on Some Weird Sin, the Bowie-like melodies on Tonight. Success was great if not a bit too long and too repetitive (would have been great if it was cut earlier), Turn Blue is a great and atmospheric track. Neighbourhood Treat is ok. The last son fall in love with me is too much glam and less interesting. Sixteen is similar and they’re both the weakest tracks for me on the album. I really enjoy the instrumentals throughout the album: strong drums, nice guitar riffs and atmospheric keyboards from time to time. The lyrics are cool. Iggys delivery is great. Cover art makes me smile. He looks like such a nice guy here. It’s a 4 from me but I can easily see myself growing into loving it much more over time so a potential 5 in the future or if I had heard it earlier in my life it would have been a 5.

Not my favorite, still good

The second of IPs collaboration with Bowie ( though you be fair the DB album Tonight also has a lot of IP) and it shows. In not a massive fan of IPs drawl but there are some solid songs. As a student the Passenger was a indie disco mainstay. I feel it flags a bit on the 2bd side

Nice one, enjoyed listening to this for the first time.

Obviously know the hits on here, but hadn't heard the whole album. 'Sixteen' is awesome, Happy Mondays 8 years before the Happy Mondays. It all gets a bit flabby around the middle of the album and then 'Neighborhood Threat' hits. Ace.

Generic instrumentals, boring/weird lyrics

cause of trainspotting

Very nice, very Bowie too

Apart from Lust for life and the passenger, I didn't know any of these songs. I really enjoyed this and falls exactly in the genre I would normally listen to. Great album from start to end.

Upbeat version of Lou Reed’s Transformer.

Pretty nice album, easy listening and The Passenger is a masterpiece

Great album

Great album

Eh. Wasn't bad. Kinda tired of these rock albums though. I know they are influential and what not but I'd like to get other genres.

im so tired 2day i have nothing witty to say fav tracks: The Passenger, Tonight

The Passenger is such a ridiculously good song

There were a lot of songs on this album that I recognized from commercials and movies, but had no idea where they came from. It was ok! I might revisit some songs

It’s giving Bowie but not as good. Like Bowie without the 🤩💖✨💅🏻 or the vibes. Or the personality. Still like it though. Success is good. Hated turn blue. Was okay?.

Love it as always

Hugely enjoyable - Success gave probably the biggest smile of anything in a while, Bowie’s voice in the call-and-response in particular. Turn Blue another fav I think, plus The Passenger good to hear deliberately for once, and Lust for Life great to hear in full in focus after all these years. Sixteen another highlight hearing how it prefigured The Strokes, but the whole thing so solid I’m not sure by how much those tracknames I remember sat above the high-canopy of the rest of it. Great stuff, must listen again.

Really good :)

I can definitely hear how many of the modern bands I love today have been influenced by Iggy Pop.

Iggy does some weird stuff but good.

Noisy. Angsty. Iconic. Awesome.

Bowie produced it, but this one goes to Hunt and Tony Sales for providing Iggy with an unbelievable rhythm section. Lust for Life is a classic, but The Passenger has proved to be enduring as well. The best Iggy solo album.

Sounds too much like David Bowie. Not a surprise given he co-wrote a bunch of the songs and plays in the band. Fine but not special.

Pretty cool that this is essentially a collaboration album between Iggy Pop and David Bowie. You can definitely hear Bowie's influence all over this, as Iggy Pop's punk rawness has been softened slightly to fit some more melodic tunes. I won't be listening to this again most likely but it was well made with lots of different sounding songs yet having a cohesive feel throughout.

A more ambitious album than his earlier work which is ahead of its time when you even think of 2000s indie rock music. However, while I’ll remember the sound, the lack of memorable songs makes it less impactful after first listen.

For Iggy Pop a surprisingly calm and normal album. Decent background music but the lack of real hits make it fall short of 4 stars

good stuff. 4

Great album

Невероятно лёгкий и зажигательный поп-рок альбом, который смешивает лучшее из двух жанров.

Gonna come back to this one, seems like a grower (maybe becomes a 4 after another listen or two). I like the Iggy Bowie sound and 'Fall In Love With Me' has some Lou Reed vibes.

Brimming with energy, and the title track stands out even more. But... Each of the tracks, on their own, sounds a bit too simple to me; like they're made of a single riff that's on repeat.

I'm a big iggy pop fan. I absolutely love this album!

Loved this! The passenger 🤘

Están las dos famosas, y luego Some Weird Sin y Fall in Love With You, que no están mal.

Liked it. Can see where The Strokes got a lot of their influences from.

El álbum es algo agobiante, aunque cuenta con canciones las cuales llegan a ser muy buenas, cuenta en su mayoría con temas de relleno. la mejor canción es The Passenger (track 4) 3 de 5 estrellas

Lust for Life is a great opening track and this record has The Passenger on it as well. Lesser artists would be lucky to land these two tracks alone. Furthermore, there are other solid tracks here: Sixteen, Some Weird Sin, Success, Neighborhood Threat are among my other favorites. All strung together with enough of the Stooges vibe to remind you of his proto-punk roots and that also keep some of the Bowie influences in check. You might say, when would that ever be a good thing? Bowie is a genius. And yet, I'd argue for Iggy Pop leaning a little more Stooges only makes the Bowie bits shine more. To me, it feels more integrated and balanced as an Iggy Pop record than The Idiot for instance. The closing track Fall in Love with me runs a little long and I start to lose my patience with the album when that happens. I'm always slightly unnerved by the photo of Iggy grinning at me like some bad year book picture, but I've also figured that was the point.

Starts out with the hits before transitioning into more deep cuts. Good dad rock vibes, considered hard rock proto-punk when it was released but seems pretty tame these days

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Lust for life, The passenger, Success, Fall in love with me

Iskreno, nije mi se toliko svidilo koliko sam mislio da hoće. Dobar album, slušao sam ga jučer na ribnjaku dok je kiša rominjala, depresivno as fuck. Možda sam treb'o neki drugi album za tu priliku, ali kad je ovaj zadan pa reko da si pustim.

Good album. I like Iggy and had listened to this album before though. 4/5

It’s definitely less feral than the Stooges’ stuff, more polished, but still has the energy and ironic brilliance that you’d still expect from Iggy at this point. He and Bowie really were terrific bedfellows at this point; they compliment each other brilliantly. B+

A few big hitters. It was nice to hear 'Tonight' again.

This is a quintessential Iggy Pop album, and so worth a listen.

Great hits and other fantastic tracks on an enjoyable and incredible record, but Iggy Pop has done even better especially in the late 60s and early 70s with The Stooges.