Lust For Life

Fun

fuck iggy pop

Sólo por The Passenger le doy algo mas. Siento que no me produce mucho. Nota: 3.2

Who hasn't had it in the ear before?

Pretty fun and enjoyable to listen to. One of those albums that I plan to revisit soon!

Messy in a good way.

Had only heard the singles, especially Lust for Life off the Trainspotting soundtrack. Great record, oozing with Iggy's trademark salacious sneer, somehow making punk dirty sexy instead of just dirty.

Gøy! Æ hadde ikke trodd at æ e et menneske som like Iggy Pop, men æ tror æ e et menneske som like Iggy Pop? Æ får skylde på å ha bodd i samme by som Blårock i veldig mange år.

Obras maestra

Pretty solid album, couple of good hits.

Fine. Just fine. Not remarkable at all. I think I'm not a big fan of Iggy Pop. I don't really get it.

It's decent. Most other artists at the time did this style much better without the direct mentions of incest. So fuck you Iggy Pop

Me gusto mucho muy buen album

idk

it's just not that my type, but, it can be change. And the 2nd song is just too weird though, like youre listening a crime scene..

Loved it.

Heard Before; 4; Gravitas. Remarkable how so many songs with just one, two, maybe three chords can still fun and interesting. A lot of that has to do with the effects and rhythm throughout, and the songs are just a lot of fun in that many of them chug and gallop along, while the ballad-type songs feel emotional with the vocals. Favorite Song: Some Weird Sin

I mean this as a compliment: this record sounds like Iggy Pop doing killer covers of David Bowie songs. This was a brilliant collaboration. Both artists really brought out the best in each other. 5/5

Pop's second solo album and another collaboration with Bowie while both were absolutely fucked on coke and heroin and arguably at their peaks creatively. It rocks, there are pop hooks and the druggy revelry just adds that little bit of debauched, dark danger to it. Best Tracks: Lust For Life; Some Weird Sin; The Passenger

My dad use to play this album on occasion and I am familiar with most of the songs, but I never properly listened to it until today. And honestly, I really enjoyed it. The Passenger and Lust for life are definitely the best tracks on here. I did not even know that David Bowie produced and sang in it. My mum will be shocked that I was completely unfamiliar with this fact. I have also listened to some albums of Iggy and the Stooges, and they were definitely ahead of their time. This was where punk music was born, and it is all thanks to the big man himself Iggy Pop who is 78 and still going.

This was just fine. None of the songs were particularly memorable but I didn't dislike any of them

This is a pretty great album. Standouts obviously the title track and "The Passenger", but really, the whole thing is enjoyable. Love Bowie's backing vocals too. Some dubious subject matter but unfortunately that seems to be par for the course with seventies albums.

Me gustó, pero no es tanto mi onda. Aún así me interesó esa música de los 80. El mejor, "Tonight".

Was an interesting experience. I enjoyed the general vibe of most of the songs, but not really the content of what he was singing about. Saved the songs The Passenger and Tonight.

Im not really used to listening to protopunk and garage rock. This album was a pleasently surprise, even though it probably will not stick with me.

pretty good! not my usual type of stuff i listen to, but it’s important to respect the roots of my favorite music. Passenger mentioned! listened to this to calm my nerves before a shitty presentation.

Influence de Bowie, qui a participé aux paroles et musiques et production et ingénieur du son, est très présente. « The Passenger » est un must.

If Lou Reed's "Transformer" was Lou Reed with a David Bowie filter than this is the Iggy Pop equivalent. Which works in my favor because I like both Iggy Pop and David Bowie. The title track along with "The Passenger" are classics for a reason and the songs inbetween are great as well, with "Sixteen" being the one exception. All in all I can't complain with this as my Monday pull. 4/5

Quickly following The Idiot, the Pop/Bowie collaboration keeps bearing fruit.

I am a passenger.

Best Song: Passenger

Heard of iggy pop never listened to an album. I like how it opens with the title track, and I like how that track opens with a good musical intro. Sound is a little off, vocals aren’t loud enough. Catchy chorus tho. That was a very fun song. Great guitar on sixteen. Usually have cowbells but I actually think they work really well here. Really cool guitar in some weird sin. This is just another good song. Good lyrics. I think I’ve heard the passenger. Great guitar riff. This song is a banger. Background track on tonight is so good. Musically this album is so impressive/pleasing. Don’t really like success, but I appreciate how it’s different from everything else so far. Turn blue again shows the range. Very impressive. Even when he’s just talking I like his voice. Turn blue is a ballad that doesn’t at all feel like 6 mins. Fall in love with me is another really fun song. Good songwriting, great guitar even tho it’s pretty simple. Can’t believe how much I enjoyed the album. 3.8/5 stars. Would listen again.

High energy Good bass Transition to next songs iffy

Iconic stuff really isn’t it. Lust For Life might be one of the best running songs of all time. The Passenger is one of my favourite tracks and a stalwart of the THPS game soundtracks. Turn Blue is a mental song. Bowie’s influence on this record is noticeable but Pop remains front and centre and has one of the coolest voices in music. 5.0/5.0 I want to ow this record rn. Best Song: Lust For Life

What a corker of an album. So many bangers, 1977 but it feels so modern. Punk had only just come in, and here was Iggy doing his own mental thing. Hard to pick a favourite song but Fall in Love With Me is an outrageously good song.

Bowie had lots of things going on in 1976-1977. Recording 2 own albums + producing and composing most material on 2 Iggy albums, filming a movie, touring in Europe. From these 2 seventies Bowie/Pop collaborations i liked The Idiot more, but Lust for life is spontaneous rock album which is still the cornerstone of Iggy's live set.

I didn't know he had so much collaboration with Bowie on the two first albums. Nor that he played on these records _and_ as a touring keyboardist in Iggy's band. Some of these songs are pretty cool, but I prefer the massive sound of Stooges and MC5, that violent garage punk rock style is what I love.

pretty good actually

How much time did Iggy Pop spend in the tanning bed?

I love Bowie. And this is really good. Lust for life, The Passenger, and Tonight are enough to grant this one at least 4 stars. Success is also great. One of the albums I was looking forward to listening to, and it did not disapppoint.

fantastic album, tonight is one of iggy’s best songs

A lot of fun. Same great guitar riffs and catchy tunes and although Iggy’s singing probably isn’t to everyone’s tastes, it definitely fits this excellent punky record.

The title track and The Passenger never get old, but the rest of this is pretty hit and miss imo. Success and Some Weird Sin are other highlights. Lowlights include pedophilia, which (should go without saying) isn't ok - even if you are a heroin addict.

i love me a rock album

The Passenger is just an iconic song. Iggy Pop’s voice throughout the album is mesmerizing. Guitar and drums also hypnotic.

Echt zo niet mijn ding. Echt begging for this to be over. Ik weet niet waarom maar net als de white stripes voelde het zo saai en eentonig en theatraal op een slechte manier? Not for me, sorry miss Iggy.

muy buen album, guarde varios pero siento q hay canciones q no m gustan pq son largas

Iggy's amazing voice. Classic and legendary songs but very surprised with songs I never listened to: Turn Blue (Pink Floyd vibes) & Fall in Love with me.

6/10… glam rock / proto punk / *1977

meh

Genuine; Original; Interesting. What more can we ask for? (It's amazing how few artists give all three.)

idk. it’s cool i guess lol

Me llevo a un lugar de mi alma que no lograba identificar, porque no había Sido consiente de lo grande que es para mí detenerme y escuchar

hmm it’s an alright album, very pop… haha get it Iggy Pop. most of the songs were good, i liked the song passengers. yea i’d rate this like a 6/10.

such a classic

Solid, but not entirely for me. I do quite like the percussion and can see myself coming back to this on the occasional occasion

A real classic that can't he[p but make you feel good

Have listened to songs before, but new as an album to me. I didn't realize how much of this was written by Bowie. Not quite as good as The Idiot. 0 songs added to playlist but thoroughly enjoyed.

A weird and intriguing rock album. It has a very simple and straight-ahead sound in many ways, but it also has a very shady and detached tone that colors everything in a whole different vibe. Accessible, but with plenty of layers. I liked it.

сара 2 марко 2.5

Honestly? I listened a few times but take the Passenger off this and I can't say I really want to listen again. The title track is iconic and relatively unparalleled for the time, but the rest of the album reminded me of bits of Bowie that I don't enjoy that much, but with slightly less enjoyable vocals. I love the Stooges and some of Iggy'y stuff, but... yeah. And Sixteen... no.

i liked this enough but also think i’m never gonna listen to it again

Hmmm, I had high hopes for this. I like Iggy pop, I love his stooges stuff. I enjoy him live. I really like lust for life and the passenger, but this album as a whole didn't really do it for me in the way I hoped. It was quite fun, I'm just not sure it was particularly good. Beyond the mentioned singles that is. Maybe I'm tired, maybe I wasn't in the mood. It's better than a lot of things I've left as a 3, but I dunno if it's a really a 4. But I might give it a 4 cos lust for life is ace. I dunno.

clásico! grandes temas que quedaron en mi mente para siempre.

This whole album sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday, and if it was, it would probably sung by Julian Casablanca or Cameron Winter, if that says anything about who it has influenced. The title track is a fun interpolation of the Bo Diddley beat and has probably been ripped itself a thousand times. Other songs are great but few are as memorable as The Passenger, which Siouxsie and the Banshees absolutely nailed. Bowie's presence is appreciated and never overshadowing, definitely a solid listen, but never a record I had thought of going back to.

between a 3 and 4

It sounds so much like a straight up Bowie album. The singles are great, the rest of it is solid.

nothing crazy

Not impressed. There’s some fun riffs, very Bowie-esque which I liked. But everything in between, lyrically, sometimes spoken word, is not it. Solely for The Passenger it gets another star.

*Great rock-pop album

Decent, some songs super weird though. Album art shows him being pretty old yet he’s singing about sweet 16s and young girls. Yikes.

I need to listen to more Iggy

3/10. Fav Track - Lust For Life I really like the title track but that's about it, the sounds are nice but nothing pops beyond that first track. One song specifically I really didn't like.

I'm shocked it took me this long to listen to this album all the way through. Great album. Reminds me of a long drive on a summer's night with the windows down. Just something so satisfying about it. "Successs" was my favorite track.

Very catchy and energetic. This album is just fun to listen to, I enjoyed it much more than I expected. Sixteen has some weird lyrics, however the beat is so good that it makes me forget how creepy it is. Neighborhood Threat and Tonight are two of my other favourite tracks. All bangers throughout.

I love "Lust for Life" and "The Passenger". Such iconic songs. But the rest is okay-punk. Not my favorite genre, but by no means bad.

Essa capa é muito famosa, veremos o que vem. Achei nada de mais o álbum, passenger famosa, mas acho que é só. É, bem palhinha o álbum, esperava mais. 3* por ser ok.

Is rampant, and sinful.

The title track is the most palatable track on this album and much like Iggy himself its annoying trash. Albums like this are why I lose faith in humanity on a daily basis... who thinks this is so good you NEED to hear this before taking your final breath?

Pretty good!

didn’t know him, i like it

Not really what I like

I liked this a lot more than I expected. Only ever heard their stuff in passing, only song I was really familiar with was The Passenger, but this album does carry a prestige that shines through. Consistently good, will be listening again.

Seems like every classic rock album had to have at least one song about having sex with underage girls. This one is on the more egregious side. Musically it's OK. The title track has been played to death by a million commercials, but there are some decent cuts to be found here. Nothing earth shattering, and I much prefer the Stooges. Honestly gonna give it a 2 because of that blatant pedophilia anthem.

mi padre me mataría por ponerle esta nota pero siento que no me impacta tanto al no haber crecido en esta época. su impacto es innegable pero su replay value...... not as much

En total klassiker! Jämn, välproducerad. Fantastisk sång rakt igenom. Och ovanpå det The Passenger, the banger of bangers. En femma

I don’t think Iggy ever made a great album, but this has a couple of great songs on it.

1970-luvun lopulla Iggy Pop oli huonossa jamassa. The Stooges oli hajonnut liiallisen huumeidenkäytön seurauksena ja miehen tulevaisuus musiikkialalla näytti epävarmalta. Iggy sai kuitenkin David Bowiesta tärkeän tukijan ja ystävän. Kaksikon yhteistyö tuotti tulosta; vuonna -77 ilmestyi Iggyn kaksi ensimmäistä sooloalbumia, joista jälkimmäinen, Lust for Life, valikoitui kuunneltavaksi tälle päivälle. Lust for Life edustaa tyyliltään enemmän Iggylle tyypillistä särmikästä rockia, kun taas sen samana vuonna julkaistu sisarteos The Idiot muistuttaa Bowien saman ajanjakson kokeellisia albumeja. Bowieta kuitenkin kuullaan taustalaulajan ja pianistin roolissa. Albumi sisältää Iggyn soolouran parhaita paloja: Trainspotting-elokuvaan ikuistettu nimikkobiisi sekä ikimuistoinen The Passenger. B-puolen ylipitkät Turn Blue ja Fall in Love with Me latistavat tunnelmaa, mutta kyseessä on silti kivenkova klassikko, vaikka kokonaisuus ei olekaan täydellinen.

Iggy's first 2 solo albums are as big a part of the legendary Berlin Years as Bowie's trilogy. Everything Bowie produced for someone else was the best material those artists recorded IMHO. This album has Iggy Pop's best individual songs but I feel it doesn't hold up as well as an album compared to The Idiot. 4⭐️

Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (1977) On Day 89, I feel like I got blessed. This is a definitive masterpiece where the production smoothly blends with the vocals to create a truly immersive experience. Even though I don't share the artist's specific struggles, the delivery was so relatable it felt like I was right there in the room. "Turn Blue" is a standout and a "conscious" speech-driven track so good I didn't want it to end. "Success" is a moody classic, and "Some Weird Sin" is a great sleeper pick alongside high-energy anthems like "The Passenger" and the title track. You can really hear the influence of Bowie's production style throughout. It’s a great body of work that I will definitely be coming back to. A definitive 5/5.

Couldn’t get into it too much but didn’t hate it.

Album très très cool, avec une bonne cohérence musicale. Tonight est géniale

574/1001 2026.03.19 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

I don't understand. I love Bowie, Iggy Pop is one of the most venerated artists of the 70's, this is a well-regarded album, there's so much reason for me to like this, and yet... I just can't enjoy Iggy Pop. I don't know what it is. I've tried solo stuff, The Stooges - none of it lands for me and I don't understand why.

muuuuuuito top visse

This album is a huge hit or miss. A few great songs mixed in on a few songs that didn’t even sound like music.

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

I try to avoid looking up historical context for these albums to keep the review to just my experience listening. I say that because this feels like an influential album that inspired a lot of others (I hear Jet's "Are you gonna be my girl" in "Lust for Life", I hear Franz Ferdinand in "Fall in Love with Me") but I just didn't resonate with this at all. Lots of sung-spoken lyrics over familiar changes. Sorry Iggy!

6/10 doar cateva piese reascultabile. Cam creepy piesele despre tinere Lust for Life The Passenger Turn Blue

The sixteen song its weird af but this album has BANGERS 4.3 & 5 FO SHO

3.75. The drums are just so propulsive on the title track (and really most of the album).

This was ok, not what I thought Iggy Pop sounded like based on how he looked.

I liked

It's not bad but it just wasn't grabbing me

I listened to this one just after finishing "Highway 61 Revisited," and was surprised by how little of a gap there is between the sounds of these two albums. I mean, obviously Iggy is Iggy, and the distortion is cranked and the drums sound like "When the Levee Breaks" in comparison to Dylan's band's lighter touch, but I'd never appreciated how bluesy and tempered some of even the louder songs on this record were. Also, it's worth noting I'd never heard the full record before, but found that I already knew five of the nine songs from other contexts. I love the, "Oh I didn't even know this was an Iggy Pop song" moments -- they so rarely happen to me since I first heard the whole Beatles discography -- but it was news to me that "Success" and "Tonight" were both Iggy Pop songs. I've heard and loved both before, but didn't ever look into who sang them. That said, there are three tracks on here that I was very meh about, and one that I actively disliked (looking at you, "Turn Blue"), so I can only justify 4 stars even though I LOVE the majority of the record.

Tiresome posturing. Style over substance. Iggy pop, lou reed and floyd are basically brands but there is no more than a handful of memorable songs between them. This collection is devoid of charm and songs

Now this is more like it, rock with some actual flavor to it. Never listened to an entire Iggy Pop album before, and I really enjoyed this one. Fun grooves, risque subject matter, and good guitar work; kind of like a softer punk record. I was unsurprised to learn this album was produced by David Bowie, it definitely has that feel. I liked all the tracks except ‘Turn Blue’, that was a little too weird for me. I would definitely listen to this record again and want to hear more Iggy Pop deep cuts. Add this to the long list of artists I’d rather listen to than The Who. 4/5

Side One of this is probably peak Pop. Any side with both the title track opener and The Passenger is going to be right up there. Super creepy album cover, though. I can't look at it for too long. That photo freaks me out and I couldn't tell you why.

Although it would have been nice to have gotten this album a bit further spaced apart from "The Idiot", I'm still really impressed at how much better this album is than the earlier collaboration with David Bowie, certainly in terms of sounding like and reflecting Iggy Pop's persona and style. This gets four stars alone for the two hits "Lust for Life" (with a great, manic, and *very* post-dated, video that was clearly part of the "Trainspotting" mania, but showcases how well Iggy Pop fared twenty or more years later) and "The Passenger" (easily his best song ever), but most of the tracks are very solid (maybe not "Sixteen", and "Turn blue" reminds me a bit of the too-rambling nature of Lou Reed's "Heroin"), and I also enjoyed "Some weird sin", "Success" and "Fall in love with me". A shame that RCA buried this album due to Elvis' death right before its release, not even bothering to press more copies when the album sold out; I can see why Iggy Pop fled RCA as quickly as he could after that experience. And funny too that it took "Trainspotting" to (re)rocket him to fame and glory (I'll admit that's how I first became familiar with his music...).

My love for this album is irrational--how many times have I thought "Jesus, this is Iggy" over the years? The first five songs kill it--so much fiercer than The Idiot.

Favorite Tracks: Lust for Life / The Passenger / Success Rating: 2.6 For being the "less" Bowie-influenced Iggy Pop album, there's still plenty of tracks that sound like a late 70's Bowie knock-off. Some good moments, though, I enjoyed both the classics hits, and the rhythm section is rollicking throughout.

New found love for Iggy Pop in the last year and bought this vinyl. Love his stuff

Good! I really enjoyed this one.

Bah

This whole album just feels dated

Iconic rock sound but definitely reminiscent of the era. You can really hear the direct influence on some of the most successful artists that followed.

1,5/5

Great production

Repetitive

Goood!

HOLY FUCK!! Who knew two guys "in recovery" (while still behaving quite naughtily) could put together such an album!! It's rather simple but still Good, 7/10. (Why do I like it? Energy - tunes - arrangements. Punk, without threat/aura of violence.)

Sounded bowie esque. A whole lot of yap and weird screaming though which only sounds good on record. The music was okay.

one of the best albums with one of the worst covers

I liked turn blue

it just rips, man. no misses

Lust for life always makes me want to get up and do the Charleston This is so dope, every songs percussion is so jumpy

2.5 - This is not what I expected Iggy Pop to sound like. It's okay.

What was he cooking here? Sure sure Bowie and all that. But some of this? Like this hits generic AND he's a pedophile getting mad racial on the track like huh?

Mh

Straight 70s funky fun. Plus collab with David Bowie?? Yeah, it's 4 stars from me.

Eh

eh solid

Pretty solid one, I just avoided it cuz I don't like the cover Will I listen to again: 95%

genuinely shocked he is, but so happy iggy is still with us. required listening for anyone looking to know the soubd of punk fully realized. and (no pun intended) pop jam goodness to boot.

*listened before the project* The Man with the Mysterious Smile. I’d say it’s David bowie’s album.

This album feels like a great representation of art over commercial success. While there were only a few songs I could truly say I liked and would listen too regularly, it is clear how much of his own passion and life Iggy put into this album. The song Turn Blue is a perfect example, because while I found it rough to fully get through, it's obvious how much of his soul he put into it. I wish I could give this album a higher score, but so many of the songs were... rough to get through.

7 - GOOD

I'm going to be so honest I skimmed through this album but from what I heard the mixing of tracks was terrible and often made Iggy's voice very sharp, not as in pitch but like actively attacking my ears which isn't cool man

Cool album

The Idiot by Iggy, corroded with Bowie, is my favourite. The psychic and exciting approach on that album is just amazing. While this album is great, it's abit to poppy for me to have it on the same level. Still thats not a major criticism, as I like how this one is too. The Passenger is my all-time Iggy favourite.

Pretty decent album. Not my favorite message but there are some good songs. The Passenger is definitely my favorite song. Probably wouldn't listen to the whole album again. 6.2/10

A rough album -- not that it's bad, far from it in fact -- that encompasses the hedonistic yet nihilistic nature of rock and roll.

Love the tone, but compositionally simple. Fun, upbeat background music.

This album is an absolute classic, a mix of Iggy Pop's proto-punk sensibilities and Bowie's production genius to create something that has been a part of my life for years. It has some of the best songs in rock/pop history (The title track and Passenger), and is a culmination of Bowie's 70s sound that I think hits higher highs than even some of his albums. It begs to be listened to again and again. Now, despite all this laudatory comments, the album isn't perfect specifically Turn Blue which is too long and does not fit the feeling of the rest of the album. But besides that, this album is amazing. I've been listening to it for over 10 years, and I'll continue to listen to it long into the future.

A really good glamy album from The Stooges frontman Iggy Pop. I love the backing vocals from Bowie on some of these songs and the instrumentals are also very energetic and lyrically it falters at some points but still a really good listen 8/10 Favourite: Lust for Life Least Favourite: Success

Pretty neat

Turn Blue had some amazing depth. Overall, the album was fairly decent.

Pretty great tbh. Good songs and good performances. I love Iggy’s voice — here you can start to pick up on that deep warble that it turned into in later years. In general I feel like the energy of the album reflects the title and cover, it’s ebullient and brash and winking and funny. I would honestly listen to this over a handful of Bowie’s albums. It’s not perfect, but it’s a blast. Must-listen #306.

Альбом оч крутой на самом деле. Понравился мне больше, предыдущий. Такое ощущение, что музыка не пытается кому-то понравиться и в ней может происходить всё, что угодно. Даже наоборот она стремится не понравится как будто.

I quit like it, it's not super aggressive even tho it's rock

If I told you (whoever you are) to give me the most generic, soulless 70s rock album, this is exactly what I would expect.

It lost me halfway through. It's definitely good, but I don't think it's anything to write home about. I just found out that Iggy Pop is a person and not a band, so that's cool.

Lust For Life

Sweet 16 made me feel ill

Way better than I imagined it would be, better than the Stooges albums ive heard, better than the other iggy records. Good

Love the title track and The Passenger, really liked a lot of the rest of the album, point off for Sixteen though yikes.

yeah that's an iggy pop album, not too much to complain about, not too much to get excited over

Started out super strong, I was happy to have a straightforwardly enjoyable tune out of this thing for once, and then immediately got flung headlong into a song about hot sixteen year olds....rough one! I did still enjoy this and my extended listening session of other Iggy Pop albums, but it was really funny whiplash.

A wild & personal ride of an album. Felt as though Iggy (& David Bowie) both put everything they had into the album. Especially their honesty with how they viewed life at the time. Loved that the albums songs, Like "Sixteen" & "Fall in Love with Me", challenged me. "Some Weird Sin" & "Passenger" felt like they connected with us the most, especially with that relatability of being secondary to someone elses control on a journey. "Turn Blue" is one of those songs that you love because it is haunting. Felt both celebratory of life & the loss of it while also treating the event of an overdose as what it is, tragic. Will have to listen to this album once every now & then as it cut me deeply.

Okay not my favorite

Can't say I'm a fan of the album cover, but I did really enjoy this. Some really great tracks in there and a couple that show clear future influence on bands like The Strokes. I can't say that the production of this sounds particularly brilliant but I enjoyed it for its raw, unedited feel. Favourites: The Passenger Tonight Neighbourhood Threat Fall In Love With Me

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9/10 Lust for Life and The Passenger are two of my favourite songs ever, so this is a top tier album. Feels very cool, with a strong swagger.

It's a solid rock album but I don't totally see the hype. Catchy tunes to start but after that the only good parts felt like more of the same

choose your fighter lust for life (1977) o lust for life (2017) el sonido es muy distintivo no importa que escuches, la triada del final gran cierre, toca seguir confiando en la ia que da discos

Not totally for me. Liked the passenger so have added that to my list. Everything else did not quite hit right.

The first couple were a bit much for me. Really liked some weird sin on. Tonight especially was nice. I thought Bowie may have sang that.. he didn’t, but he cowrote it. The tangled webs we weave

I was at a party with a friend from my schooldays named Donald once and he just kept singing Sixteen over and over again until he disappeared into the night. Wonder whatever happened to him.

A very average album is carried by 2-3 hits. I doubt I'll revisit this much outside of The Passenger, Tonight, and Lust for Life

Not my thing

While I enjoy the Bowie influence and involvement , I don’t see myself revisiting

You can practically hear Bowie leaping out of the album. There are some high points like The Passenger and Lust for Life but for the most part it gets a “just fine” from me. Perhaps a little boring?

Had never heard any Iggy pop or the stooges before. Enjoyed this. Title track and sixteen were high points for me.

Fantastic! Songs I knew but didn’t realize were his. The Passenger is the best

Absolute peak of Iggy's career as either solo or with The Stooges

So cool. Wanted to dance to it all the time, don’t recommend for studying.

really enjoyed this album and the vibe. turn blue was my least favourite.

Fine, kinda fun

The journey through the 1001 albums naturally reveals certain breaks in music history. What I find particularly exciting at the moment is the diversification of rock music in the 1970s, which led to the parallel existence of stylistic devices from what were actually successive eras. “Lust For Life” is an excellent example of this: the music actually wants to move forward and break out of familiar patterns, but it cannot deny its roots in the 1960s and repeatedly incorporates elements that, from today's perspective, one might expect to find in folk rather than punk rock. At the same time, the band refrains from using a denser mix that would be more suited to punk rock, even though this was already available in terms of production technology. As a result, the sound is always on the verge of disintegration, especially in the wilder moments. The crowning glory of this “I'll show you tomorrow, but with yesterday's means” is the totally naive yet iconic cover, which I would rather associate with a folk pop singer-songwriter. Nevertheless—or perhaps precisely because of this—the nine songs around the title track and “The Passenger” were stylistically influential for the punk movement, and here and there you can already hear London calling.

I feel like I should like this more than I do, but Iggy's stuff outside of The Stooges has just never really grabbed me.

This album sounds fast more modern than it is. Maybe it's the vocals? I spent more time wondering what microphone Iggy was using than I have ever spent thinking about microphones before. Also, he's got some weird fucking lyrics in here. I prefer the Stooges, but this is excellent, too.

I was only familiar with two songs on this record, so I'm glad it came up. I enjoyed the ride but didn't find a ton of discoveries on this record besides Success. Really enjoyed that one. This is a soft 4, but I would listen again.

IP is a walking piece of beef jerky who seemingly never wears a shirt, but (and?) he does good work. About 1/3 of these didn't land for me, but the rest were excellent, especially the propulsive title track. I'm going to go watch the beginning of Trainspotting now, and maybe Repo Man for good measure.

3/5 - I prefer Iggy doing the Stooges and Bowie doing Bowie.

It isn’t straight-ahead punk but I see how it got there!

Lust for Life was a good way to start this album off! My other favorite song was The Passenger Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

So some people just have a knack for making music.

Not bad. A few classics

Kao mali deca mnogo sam se plašio omota ovog albuma jebemgausta matora. Tek sad prvi put slušam ovo i zapravo nije loše. Ocena za album 3,25/5 zbog mrtvog omota.

Okej je nervira me negde ovaj mrtvi efekat što stavi preko glasa

Today I learned that I know Iggy Pop songs. Pretty good album, I liked it.

i liked it

Hmm

dont like rock

Obviously 2 great singles but could take or leave several of the others . Could sense that Franz Ferdinand were influenced by this album . Last track lifted it off not a 3 review for me in spite of slightly uncomfortable lyrics .

Not my thing

I never liked Iggy Pop that much so this is just ok for me. I liked the instrumentals more than the vocals.

Genomgående starkt album. Iggy är kung och allt blir rätt.

Everything felt icky after "Sixteen"

Heard Before? Yes. Notes: - well at least this is an improvement over The Idiot. - backing vocals on the title track make me smile every time. - it is entirely plausible that the whole history of rock music is a grand conspiracy to normalize pedophilia. (see "Sixteen" and "Fall In Love With Me") - truly I never thought of Iggy Pop as a total cheeseball until I heard "Success" and "Turn Blue". Verdict: "David Bowie helps Iggy Pop cosplay as Lou Reed" sounds like an Onion headline. But here it kind of works, if you like your rock stars embracing their silly and creepy sides simultaneously. Listen Again? Besides the title track and "Tonight", I'll be very happy to never hear this again.

Probably Iggy Pop's most complete album with the standards "The Passenger" and "Lust for Life", as well as famously providing the drum beat in "Nightclubbing" that Trent Reznor sampled for use in Nine Inch Nails' "Closer". On this album Iggy finally found the perfect marriage of punk, glam, art, and pop rock genre sweet spot. Already in my collection: "Lust for Life" and "The Passenger"

I was really looking forward to listening to this album, but apart from lust for life and the passenger, I was left feeling a bit underwhelmed. Not that the rest of the album isn’t ok, but I was expecting that the rest of the album would be of the calibre of the aforementioned

Good stuff. I liked this a lot better than The Idiot.

I can’t with his voice

Sadly really good for what it’s about

This is so much more enjoyable for me than the Stooges. It does kinda sound like Bowie at points though. Pretty solid record. 7/10

I’ve never really listened to Iggy Pop. I enjoyed this album. Some Weird Sin and the Passenger were my favorites.

Fainuț.

One of those albums that I didn’t realize was the influence for so many iconic songs.

Great album. A classic.

Groovy 19?! The fuck, Iggy LALA LALA LALALALA

This album is epic.

What a great album. Everyone knows the couple of big hits on there, but the rest of the album is brilliant. Some absolute underrated bangers. Very very enjoyable listen.

Мне не очень понравилось

Now tell me. Who doesn't get excited about Lust for Life?

3/5

Loves a bit of Bowie. With added Iggy energy. Going to give it a 4 as I enjoyed it more on second listen. Some Weird Sin, Tonight and Turn Blue were the stronger songs (discounting the 2 well known ones). Not so keen on Success.

Absolutely loved this. Already knew the headline tracks but will add everything else. Was not expecting his vocals to be as good. Could hear a bit of how Happy Mondays, Strokes and even The Cure might have been influenced by this and obviously a bit of Bowie in there to

Another one I dip into from time to time..Passenger and L4L duh...but also Success (song du jour for car rides after securing Another Over 40s title...) and Fall In Love With Me (footstomper!)

Obvious biggies aside it’s a solid album throughout. Swear I picked up Bowie on backing vocals. Maybe I was listening to hard for him.

Best Song: Lust for Life This was pretty good. The title track I had known since the movie Trainspotting came out in the mid-90s. The rest follows suit, not as good but good nonetheless. I will have to admit by the end of the album it was beginning to morph into background noise and I found my mind wandering more than other albums I've listened to. 4/5.

I've had a lot of 70s albums recently and while I like a ton of classic rock, not many of the albums I have had over the last two weeks have been very good. This was, however, I fun album to visit. I hadn't really heard any of these songs before so this was basically all new to me, though I am sure the title track has been used in commercials previously as there were some sense of familiarity with this track. I really enjoyed listening to it fully for the first time, just a fun track of a dude rollicking through the world. Great stuff. Sixteen was a good track, just not as good as the title one. Things kept moving in the wrong direction with Some Weird Sin, but then picked back up with the Passenger. This was bordering on something you might have heard from a Jim Morrison, it had that type of feel. Really liked this one. It kept going with Tonight, which had an excellent flow to it. I have to say, for someone known as The Godfather of Punk, Iggy Pop really had more of a melodic bent to him, at least on this album. Success was probably more of a return to the punk type of style, or at least got closer to it. Not my favorite, probably because I am not a punk fan. But this wasn't bad though. Turn Blue . . . yeah. Not sure how to react to this one, as it was a considerable departure from others on this on this record. It's totally crazy, but it works somehow. Neighborhood Threat is another song not like others on the album. Frankly, this could have fit very easily into mid-90s alternative, which is a space that I love. Translation, I dug this song, making it the 4th one I captured from this record for my own personal playlist, which is probably 4 more than I expected. Fall In Love With Me is back to that Morrison type of feel, at least for me. Another good track and an excellent closer. Make that 5 in the library now. What's funny is that, as I have listened to this, I have had this nagging feeling that this sounded like something Bowie might have done in the 70s. Frankly, I thought I was crazy for thinking this, since Bowie is so revered. But now, I am seeing that he collaborated with Bowie on this record, which makes so much sense now (and reassures me that I am not insane). Never knew, as I've never bothered to listen to or explore anything that Iggy Pop had done. All summed up, this type of album is the type of thing I was hoping to find in this journey - i.e., something I never would have heard anymore, but was original and enjoyable. It certainly elevated my appreciation for who Iggy Pop is and what he is capable of doing. And I ended up downloading more than half the album. While I am stuck squarely between 4 and 5 stars, I am moving to 5 despite it not being a cover to cover listen for me, mainly because of how totally unexpectedly great this is.

Even when I escape Bowie, I can't escape Bowie. I thought I was hallucinating his voice on The Passenger until I looked at the Genius lyrics page and saw that Bowie does backup vocals. Scared me half to death. He also wrote and produced this album, and did backup vocals on a couple other songs. I'm going insane. The two songs about loving young girls and the one where he's high out of his mind and screaming about black women isn't helping. Must be Lusting for Life in prison.

Acho a canção introdutória e titular deste disco um pouco broxa, mas o resto do disco compensa bastante por isso. A sonoridade de Iggy Pop é simplesmente suja. Rock Sujeira, assim como o som dos Stooges. Sixteen e Neighborhood Threat sendo algumas das canções mais imundas que já ouvi. E se não ficou claro ainda, isso é um enorme elogio ao álbum. Às vezes é esse ‘edge’ que eu sinto falta em outros álbuns buscando um gole do doce néctar do legado Punk. Não vou mentir, o que mais me atrai neste disco e na carreira solo de Pop é a aliança com Bowie. O DNA do homem está em cada uma das canções aqui, para seu benefício. Na produção e nos vocais. É um daqueles casos interessantes (mais comuns nos anos 70) onde os grandes hits do disco não chegam nem perto de serem as melhores faixas que ele têm a oferecer. Adoro The Passenger, não gosto da canção Lust For Life, mas não acho que essas canções representam bem a sonoridade do resto das faixas. Infelizmente, o álbum me perdeu em algumas faixas específicas. A maior ofensa foi com a canção Turn Blue, que é infelizmente também a faixa mais longa do disco. Achei ela bem torturante, e até cheguei a cogitar pular ela. 4/5

first listen not too bad

Ballsy snarling attitude begging you to kick open the door and strut down to the bar. Occasional glimmers of a Bowieish croon break up the tone and provide some light and shade. Feels classic, lots you recognise from cultural touchstones, but not something I'll put putting into regular rotation, in spite of some epic needle drops.

yea i liked it

Meh...another fine but not super interesting album. Also, ended the album on a bad note with that weird, creepy song about a girl who looks older than she is. 5/10

Wir laufen ein in Düsseldorf City Und treffen Iggy Pop und David Bowie

Album Review 064 Lust For Life by Iggy Pop (1977) Rating 4.5/5 There has been so much written about Pop and his dear friend David Bowie’s work and lifestyle around this period. The pair, with other collaborators, moved to Berlin to get sober outside the glare of public life and to indulge themselves in the culture of the city. What they created is the stuff of musical legend: Pop’s The Idiot and Lust For Life, and Bowie’s Low, Lodger and Heroes. In March 1977 Iggy Pop released his debut solo LP, The Idiot; a dark, paranoid work of genius reflecting the lows that Iggy had reached. His follow-up, a mere 6 months later, couldn’t be more different in that it was optimistic, cheerful and accessible. Although it’s still characteristically sleazy in its themes.

Better than expected!

Blues vibes with david bowie cool beats and controversial lyrics.

Think I'd only heard Passenger of his, which seemed the best by far on this album

Not really my cup of tea, though The Passenger was alright.

Rarely do I enter an album hoping for more of the singles' sound and find just that. This was a perfect match for my expectations.

i can see why this would be 5 stars for so many people, but it’s not my thing. would still recommend people give a listen !

Okay

Wow this was a pleasant surprise. I never really cared for the Stooges but this is a great mix of Iggy’s rawness and a lusher musical approach. Four stars.

This album has a special place in my life and I can't review it objectively.

The first few were great and almost made me want to give it a 4. Tonight and Success were the start of the songs that were meh. Turn Blue was 7 minutes of iggy making random noises. Fall in love with me was boring. But I liked the first 4

Wunderbar und Schöne Musik mit Tonalität und ich habe nicht mal gelesen das es Iggy Pop Ist

Great songs, just been on so many adverts that it’sa little overplayed. Sounds very modern

Good

I enjoyed Lush for Life and The passenger. I loved the bluesy feel of Turn Blue. Overall, solid album. I had heard of Iggy Pop but had never jammed him.

The Passenger deserves 5 stars just for that one song. Everything was made for you and me ❤️

Iggy makes fine music that for whatever reason RARELY grips me (Tonight, success and fall in love with me are great). Its cromulent outside of some ‘concepts’ that haven’t aged well.

Alright.

MY FAVOURITE THING EVER love this album with all my heart love Iggy love the energy love the sound! Although I was familiar with some tracks, I was introduced to the whole album through trainspotting and not only is it an amazing record it's also a mind-blowing soundrack. I listen to "The Passanger" regularly when I need to go on some side-quest alone and it always feels like a movie. Every song is a statement. AND THE LIVE VERSIONS!!!! Iggy is an absolute legend!

Maybe my favourite solo Iggy Pop album. Outside of the big singles, the album tracks are some of his best (Tonight is a personal favourite). Yeah, just really good stuff.

Sceptic at first, but very nice discovery !

Do we not all lust of life...

it was fine! i honestly don't remember anything from my listen of it! all i know about iggy pop is that he played yelgrun the vorta in an episode of star trek: deep space nine!

"The Passenger" is on my Lifetime Playlist (my personal Greatest Hits), but "Lust For Life" always felt like it was trying to hard to court some pop success... so right off the bat, my opinion about this record is mixed. Thankfully, this record leans more towards the former, with the notable exception of "Success" which sounds like a Rolling Stones cover built for mainstream rock radio. Despite Iggy's influence on creating punk rock, he's not really making punk in 1977, he's still just kind of doing the same brand of hard rock he was doing in 1973. If you weren't aware of his history, you might even consider calling this post-punk. You can even hear a little bit of plastic soul in the vocals on songs like "Fall In Love With Me" (thanks, Bowie!), or maybe it's an attempt to mimic Jim Morrison as I saw someone else theorize. I think the effect is the same, and you're attribution of intent probably depends on your general opinion of Iggy. The more I learn about Iggy Pop’s history the more I get a creeping suspicion that he was more of a puppet than a proto-punk genius. Who is Iggy Pop without David Bowie? I suspect the answer exists somewhere in his discography, but I haven't gotten there yet. Regardless, their collaboration gave us some pretty great music on both sides and probably inspired an outsized portion of the records in my collection.

Absoluter banger. Showed the diversity that Iggy could produce. Just a great album

Perfect album

It's pretty much just mediocre rock and roll sung by a guy with a mostly fine but mildly annoying voice. Was hard to pick a best song since it's all just so eh. Best song: Fall In Love With Me

Well he's a punk rocker yes he am

Good

I like the vibe

I liked the beginning of the album specifically, of course Lust for Life and The Passenger, but the end of the album was unremarkable with some definitely some cringy lyrics. I got David Bowie vibes while listening, and what do I find out after listening that he collaborated and helped produce the album, so points for that.

3.6

Theatrical, like a punky version of Lou Reed. The classics outweigh the deep cuts. To my surprise the end is better than the beggining.

success is probably the best song turn blue has a really awesome guitar line and melody but omg those adlibs are not it. not really a fan of the music but it doesn't sound awful

Sounded generic. Nothing really stood out.

Some hits some misses

supongo

I didn’t vibe with it but still good music.

Such a great album. Let’s skip Tommy’s girlfriend’s birthday party for his concert. I found this album right after booking the Trainspotting revival movie. What a coincidence!

Some great gems like Lust for Life and The Passenger, but the album lost their appeal by the end where the songs just sound the same.

It was okay, nothing crazy, but I appreciate every time I can get to listen to a classic artist or album that I’ve never heard before.

Mmmmmm not it

8/10. Favorite tracks: Lust For Life, Passenger, Neighborhood Threat

I didn't know this singer. Some good tunes. A good album overall.

Really nice

Круто, жизнеутверждающе. Вайб есть определенно

Standouts: “Lust for Life” and “Passenger.” “Sixteen” is more than a little problematic.

Just like David Bowie this did nothing for me.

Punk yet melodic. Iggy is an icon, creepy, but relevant. He goes just as hard at 78 as he did in 78. Didn’t want to like this one as much as I did.

It's got a good sound but hearing Iggy go on about wanting to bang 16 year olds and young girls doesn't age well.

70

I was only familiar with the title track. Great, fun album! Just as much Bowie as Iggy.

Never knew, but this is a bowie album with a different voice. Quite enjoyable, but now I almost feel Iggy is somewhat of a fraud.

It says this is a rock/punk album. It doesnt really sound rock or punk to me, but I did like it more than I was expecting. Apparently he is the godfather of punk tho so he knows better than me🤷🏾‍♂️ Sidenote: Researching him was interesting. He was friends with David Bowie and worked on this album with him. He was one of the first people to stage dive. And he got scoliosis and one leg is shorter than the other, which is why he's always doing wierd poses

Solid throughout

Absolute Punk. 5 *

Fire album

The passenger ken ik wel!!! Best leuk album, wel voor herhaling vatbaar!

Here comes success

Possibly one of the greatest opening songs. Epic drum sounds, compelling guitar lines and solid bass driving it all along. Sadly only The Passenger is close to living up to this, and Sixteen drags it all right down. Still, complete banger of an opener.

Mostly enjoyed it musically. Bright, grinding, sleezy rock'n'roll. Half a point up for having The Passenger and Lust for Life on it, but a full point down for all the 'young girl' creepiness.

2 classics in a row! I bet the guy with bad taste hates this one too. He does!

Another fine album. The Passenger is by far the best song, but the rest of the album is decent.

Wow. Knew of Iggy Pop but nothing from Iggy Pop. This is awesome Best Song: The Passanger Rating: 9/10 Stars: 5

1. luzt - 1.5 2. zizteen -1 3. uueird - 1.5 4. pazzenger - 1.5 5. tonight - 0 6. zucezz - 0 7. blue - 0 8. threat - 1.5 9. love - 1.5

quintessential 80’s europop

okay.. the guitar riffs so crazy

Each song has a very different vibe, so it doesn't really flow as an album. But I really like each song. Some could easily fit in well with indie Noughties band like Hives etc al, so it's fab to recognise the Iggy influence. The backing vocals for Lust for Life always amuse me, and I found out today one of the chaps is Bowie. But of course! Also amused by the big grinning Iggy album cover.

I like this album, the songs are ok but it doesn't make me want to listen to it again. The passenger and lust for life are great songs but overused in media over the years and I think familiarity bred boredom.

It’s a great record, what can I say. Two strong singles do the heavy lifting, with some nice album cuts.

I heard most of the album before but was definitely a great listen.