Reviews (page 7 of 14)
Some great songs on this. Passenger is really good as is Lust for Life, Some Weird Sin and Fall In Love with Me. Quality stuff.
Great album. A couple of true bangers on there
Has quite a few hits and memorable songwriting.
I dig it
If you've never listened to the lyrics of "Turn Blue", I recommend it. I think I might be missing something culturally / generationally: "How come the blacks, how come they They copy you so good? They get off on you, so sexually If you wanna make it Young man, you gotta make somebody come Come out of your black, come out of your black Black and strong and black"
An excellent album! I knew Lust for Life (how could you not after its hijacking in so many commercials and soundtracks) but every song on the album is an equal punk/pop (but not pop punk) gem. So many catch but still edgy songs. Definitely going into my regular rotation.
I’d listen again.
I used to hate the song the passenger but now I’m different. Good album!
Lust for Life 4 Sixteen 3.8 Some Weird Sin 3.9 The Passenger 4.2 Tonight 3.9 Success 4 Turn Blue 3.9 Neighborhood Threat 4.1 Fall in Love with Me 4 Score: 3.97
The idiot is more experimental, but Lust for Life is more emblematic of Iggy's persona. The hits are legendary, Bowie's sharp even if he sometimes overshadows Iggy, and the songs are both intelligent and immediate. Next to Fun House as his best record, with or without the stooges.
Great stuff
Just a really good Iggy Pop album. Lust for life and success are great tracks.
Love the music but the singing does get repetitive
Great album. Knew a couple of songs, exposed to a couple ones I’ll listen to again. Really like Fall in Love with Me. And the intro to Lust for Life is fantastic. Each instrument has a unique flourish.
Solid album. I had heard about half of it before. Enjoyed listening to it end to end. Not something I regularly listen to though.
This was good old fashioned rock n’ roll fun with a couple of bangers! Festing another overhyped hipster classic, I was positively surprised.
dosta hitova
Ne moze biti lose kad su Iggy i Bowie u kombinaciji. Neighborhood Threat mi je bas draga s albuma
This is fucking great and so much fun.
Parece una tia en la portada pero crec que es un tio, ta roquero. Tipico al que llaman "iconic" cuando hablan de él
Pretty good and classic. Kinda sounded like a loud Beatles. Had some classics I was familiar with like "The Passenger". Album art is a weird mix of sweet and creepy.
I thought this was going to be rubbish! But I was not aware of the golden touch of David running across this record. His influence is so strong, and combined with Pop's rough and rowdy ways, you have a winning formula. There's times (Turning Blue!) when it sounds like very bad David, and you get the sense that he might have been holding something back for the Berlin Trilogy, but when it works, like on Success, it's an absolute diamond. Great stuff.
Favourite song - Lust for life
Last fall I skipped an Iggy Pop concert because “I’m not really into him”. I’m starting to realize I was wrong. I loved Raw Power and despite not thinking much of the title track my whole life, I love Lust For Life. A great combination of the raw Iggy, yet more accessible. The Passenger, Neighborhood Threat, Some Weird Sin. Success. There is a lot to like here. 8.8/10
didn't realize these songs were iggy pop
This is one creepy-ass album cover. Great record, lots of fun noisy punk/jangle.
That's a great album. A couple very recognizable ones in the mix with other very good songs. It's hard to miss when you have peak David Bowie writing for you.
Pretty cool album. Took a few songs to get into, but then it was downright groovy.
good but not as good as people want to think
Good good good
Iggy Pop: looking like your lesbian aunt since 1977
This is the type of album this list is good for. An album that I should have listened to a long time ago that is really good. Solid album with some great songs
Conocia las canciones populares, pero me sorprendió que todo el disco se mantenga con energia y dinamismo.
Funny to think of this as Punk... it isn't as angry and aggressive as I think of. I dare even say that I like his vocals and don't even question hierarchy, consumerism, or my existential existence after listening. Favorite tracks are Neighborhood Threat and Fall in Love with Me. I can easily imagine a modern cross-over country band covering them.
7 / 10 Buen sonido punk-rock. Con el toque de Bowie que produjo el trabajo.
Enjoyed the sound and its uniqueness, a sort of punk-y, Velvet Underground-sounding, full of witty lines type of record
Somewhere between The Beatles and punk rock gets you this classic by Iggy Pop. Energetic and catchy without a skip on it.
This album is the chronicle of excessive appetites of youth, desiring to experience everything, visit every place, and taste every person. The sun is shining, so smile like Iggy.
Favourite tracks: lust for life; the passenger; neighbourhood threat; fall in love with me; success
punkigt och gott, passenger är ruggigt fin
Som med all albums är det några dåliga låtar men overall riktigt bra
Listened to this a few times - really good album and a clear influence on a lot of the post-punk/garage type band and albums of the 90s and 00s. I am sure this one is going to head into my rotation now.
The song, "Lust For Life", lives rent-free in my head. It's a timeless piece of rock and roll. To me, it sounds as fresh today as it would have in 1977. Just an astoundingly good song.
The Strokes dos 60... maneirinho
Another album, that without Bowie, we wouldn’t have.
If VH-1 had been around in the late ‘70s, IP would surely have starred in the first “Behind the Music.” The record is very good, gloriously ragged, and certainly better than The Idiot. And IP is all-in – there’s no doubting the commitment. There a handful of excellent songs – "Tonight" and "Success" the lesser known one. But I can’t escape the feeling it has a bit more cred than it deserves. LIkely that’s down to the “recovery” backstory, which doesn’t actually add anything musically.
Favorite Tracks: Lust For Life The Passenger Success
Arh et nemt lyt, og faktisk første gang jeg høre det fra ende til anden! 😁👌Ærgeligt at jeg aldrig har set dét art work før nu!
Do I like Iggy for once? Usually I just am not a fan of Iggy Pop, his later work just doesn't do it for me and his work with The Stooges is also just not my thing. But this album does actually do it for me! It is a great album in a way I wasn't expecting.
Dig it
Iggy my man what an album
Pretty good. Never listened to an album by him before
Lust For Life is such an iconic track. And Bowie on backing vocals throughout? Great!
Classic rock
A side is just hit after hit after hit. B side is slightly weaker and trails off so can't give it a perfect score, but an iconic album nonetheless. His voice is great on this record and love the raw, almost live feel to it.
It's alright
The Passenger is timeless, and all the rest of the songs that sound a bit like it are great. The remaining few I didn't like that much. Stand-out: Neighborhood Threat
Enjoyed all I was able to listen to and will be adding it to my playlist.
When it’s good, it’s excellent. But a few songs should’ve been left on the studio floor.
it aight -7/10
No real duds, I found the last three songs a bit boring but still not bad. I enjoyed the expressive vocals
I liked it, I felt like the shouty bits were pretty well balanced with melodic stuff. Bro is very down bad in the last song. 7/10
7.5/10 - I quite enjoyed most of the songs. None of them were bad but none of them were amazing.
this one was pretty good. I didn't really like lust for life but everything else was decent enough. 7/10
It was okay
Ye
Maravilloso
Öfter hören, gutes Zeug. Passenger!!
There have been a lot of fours lately because all of the albums have been good. Iggy did a good job here. I liked the album. It also doesn’t change my life but it’s just really solid.
Can’t listen to this and not think of Trainspotting. One of my favorite movies with such an iconic soundtrack. And those guys loved their Iggy Pop, didn’t they. For me it's probably a 3.5ish... up to 4… I like some of the songs (Lust for Life and The Passenger ) a lot, mostly from nostalgia. The Bowie involvement is cool. Actually, Turn Blue is pretty good when I sit down and listen. Fall In Love With Me is good too, Doors kinda song.
The Assenger
Ez 4.5
legal
This is horny in a way I don't understand...
I forget how bluesy Iggy Pop was since he was such a punk icon. Lust for Life is probably one of my favorite songs, but this whole album holds up. Some of these songs sound like they could have been recorded by Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen even. Anyway - good stuff from start to finish.
What a classic!
Another solid Iggy Pop entry. I preferred the previous (The Idiot?) but this is still full of what made The Idiot great, and more smooth round the edges. It’s definitely poppier and less edgy, but not entirely to its detriment. Just shows a level of versatility I didn’t realise he had. Ive been a casual Iggy / Stooges fan for years but stuck to the same few records. The entries on this list are proving to me that he’s up there with the likes of Bowie in terms of being a genius. Some Weird Sin brought back nostalgic feelings of embarrassment after the band I was in as a teenager tried to cover it. I managed to forget the song ever existed. 4.5
Enjoyed this, the hits are great and there were a few more tracks not too far off the level. Quality fell off toward the end but it was fun and the songs were generally as long as they needed to be. Think I still generally preferred the stooges, the punk sound was a bit subdued here, but I think as an album this was better than his band stuff.
Thought the first half of the album was absolutely banging - Lust for Life and The Passenger of course, but Some Weird Sin and Tonight were great. I think it falls apart a bit from just over half way though, ends up being a bit grating. The influence of Bowie is somewhat evident but Iggy certainly carved his own path.
This album is miles better than "The Idiot" that we had previously. I can barely believe that these two albums were made in the same year. The first four tracks are so good it makes the later half seem less than. Overall really enjoyed. Highlights: Lust for Life Sixteen The Passenger
Didn't enjoy the previous solo Iggy album ("the idiot") we have had very much..... This was much better though. Think it came out around the same time but felt more like an Iggy album and not a Bowie album. Could still sense Bowie's influence at times though. The passenger and lust for life are both great tracks. 3.5 but it's Christmas so 4
Mi ricorda Trainspotting
драйвовый альбом
I know Iggy Pop wanted David Bowit to have less of a grip on this album, but I feel if anything this just feels like if David Bowie had continued his glam-ish hard rock rather than experimenting with different musical mediums in the late 70s. That leads to a record that has got some great emotion and gripping parts of it, as well as that Stooges edge that can be enthralling if done right. It does lose me a little on some of the lyrical choices (especially on songs like Sixteen) and a good chunk of songs losing me when they were oh so close to bringing me in, but this is still a rocking tune that feels like the perfect blend between that proto-punk sound and that more intense grip music had going into the 80s, and I think it pulls it off really well.
4 - Difficult one for me. I love Iggy at his best but some tracks just bring the album down. I think he’s so himself that I can’t not like it though.
Never been a huge fan of Lust for Life, I think it's a fine track but it just doesn't do much for me. Some Weird Sin's intro is fun. The Passenger guitar riff has a lot of gravitas. This is a much better hit than Lust for Life for me - the vocal is much more effective. Tonight is pretty good too tbh. Don't mind Success either. Turn Blue is a bit slow and annoying. I feel like Iggy feels the need to try something different with his voice but it doesnt really work. Liked this album a fair bit more than expected. Fave Tracks: Some Weird Sin, The Passenger, Tonight, Fall in Love with Me 3.8/5
Can't get past how much he looks like Jason Gunn on the album cover
first time listening to the full album, it's great
Wahrhaftig coole Songs. Order: 1) The Passenger 2) Neighborhood Threat 4.3
4 iggy is geil
Sehr cooles Album! "Lust For Life" macht richtig Stimmung und motiviert. "The Passenger" ist natürlich auch ein Klassiker! 8.5/10
Great album, some strange subject matter though
Један светски хит, веома добар албум. 8/10
Fantastic piece of work. Thank God for David Bowie's involvement making this album. This wasn't my first time listening to it. Even though I'm praising the album I'm still not giving it a 5/5. There are a few songs that are ok compared to awesome songs like The Passenger.
A solid rock album, a bit bowie in places but it seems everyone was then and they were friends so he was just copying his mate a little and have him write the best bit of homework, that's what friends do.
Really like this album. Gained a better appreciation for Iggy. Looking forward to hearing more from him. Have three songs added and could see listening to the album in full in the future. A very solid 4-4.5/5.
Groovy
Soundtracking the iconic opening scene to Trainspotting, the intro and title track evokes powerful memories of my teenage years. It's such a good romp it takes something away from second track, Sixteen, before picking up again with Some Weird Sin and then into standout track The Passenger, its upbeat swagger, instantly recognisable riff, "La la la" chorus making it utterly timeless. The thing that struck me most with this album is there's a lot more to Iggy Pop than what appears on the surface, which I guess is what happens when you have spent a significant amount of time as David Bowie's protege. The Bowie-esque "Tonight" and "True Blue" with their soaring harmonies, shining guitars and varying vocal styles showcase a well-rounded musical offering beyond the bare-chested punk posturing. It's up there with Lou Reed/Velvet Underground and Bowie himself (if not quite hitting the stratospheric heights of the latter, which is an unfair comparison in itself). At 41 mins and with 9 tracks it's not an opus, but with the aforementioned Lust for Life and The Passenger, two almost culture-defining tracks, on the same album - it's hard not to love this album for this fact alone.
I would like to believe anything David Bowie touched turned to gold. This is closer to silver. Iggy kind of was the king of garage rock in the 70’s though. For an album released so late into the 70’s, it definitely feels like it’s taking from that raw power of the late 60’s and early 70’s more than anything. And you can definitely hear the Bowie on the album. Not only does he play on it, but his production style is all over this. Really, Bowie paved the way for rock artists like this. He did it with Lou Reed too. I am continually blown away at how much influence that man really had. Iggy’s voice took me a second to get used to. He has always been an interesting personality, and that bleeds through into this record. It’s dirty, energetic, and full of life. Listen to Turn Blue. The way that song ramps up and then suddenly comes to a conclusion is super cool. Objectively the most interesting song on the album. Rating: 7/10
continuing to have a real cool time. music: appreciated. (⌐■ ̮ ■)
I’ve listened to the Stooges so much but never much Iggy Pop beyond the singles and a few other songs here and there. Big mistake?? I liked this better than most of the Stooges stuff I know!
3.5-4: Similar vibe to the Ramones album but with a bit more to it, some duds later on can't spoil it. Enjoyed more than i expected
My experiences of Iggy have been quite hit or miss. The Idiot seems to be regarded as one of his best albums, yet I didn’t really like it at all. However, there are two songs on today’s album that I already know I enjoy so I’m somewhat more hopeful with this one. Let’s listen! Songs I already knew: Lust For Life, The Passenger Favourites: Lust For Life, The Passenger I will say that I enjoyed this album as a whole, but there are certainly two tracks that stand high above the rest in terms of quality. There were no bad songs here, but the rest of the album doesn’t really make itself memorable. This was certainly much easier to enjoy than The Idiot to my ears, which I’m most definitely glad about. The music is very raw, and would definitely fit under the umbrella of garage rock. I miss the days of music not being overproduced. The rawness of this was very welcome.
All good except for maybe a slow song near the end - a Berlin Bowie album in all but name and pretty upbeat (even Tonight - about a dying girl - is relatively upbeat). There are more conventional song structures here than on some of Bowie’s equivalent LPs of the period and no long Eno textured sound-scapes.
Listened Before? No Album Art: 3 / 5 (This is some prime 13or30 content right here.) Alright so here we go again with Iggy Pop (this time sans Stooges). Opens on the beach-rock inspired title track that I know him best for. This song is pretty sweet even though the mixing is utter garbage. Sounds like vocals were recorded in isolation in some concrete hallway with Iggy at one end and the mic at the other; the instrumentals all lay flat beneath. I think re-mixing with the bass punched up would do this song a huge service; bassist is putting on a clinic, but you can barely hear him. The Passenger is a really cool song. Sounds like The Strokes or one of those early-2000 UK-Indie bands 40 years earlier. Once again, I wish they pushed up the guitar mixing just a bit. Tonight actually feels heavily Bowie influenced. Like the guitar work through the bridge. Neighborhood Threat is another standout track, with Fall In Love With Me tapping into that pre-Strokes sound (I think its mainly the vocal effect). In any case, this is a fine one. Definitely preferred it over the Stooges album several weeks back. Pop is clearly front and center in this one; not only in name, but also in the way that each track is mixed. I would say that generally, the songs are quite good, but I think that the mixing doesn't do the instrumental enough credit. Overall though, this is a solid one. High 3, leaning 4 here. I'll give it the nudge, because I could see myself enjoying more than one listen. Added to Library? No Songs Added to Playlists: - Lust For Life (Sunny-vibes) - The Passenger (Driving)
Unfairly went into this album thinking I wasn't going to like it because I thought it was going to be punky like him with the Stooges. But it's turned out to be a nice groovy album that I really liked . Great album to run to while listening. Adding Tonight to my playlist that song was mad funky
The Passenger // Tonight // Turn Blue // Fall In Love With Me //
Vital, energetic production supports unique view on life. Classic. Timeless.
It’s 77 and Iggy has already transcended punk. It’s got the attitude and energy but feels well composed and deftly performed. I’m not really a fan of “punk” but this feels like something more.
I honestly had only the vaguest idea of who Iggy Pop is and I had never heard any of the songs on this album. But I'm a fan! I found myself bouncing my foot along to the beat, always a good sign. On the whole, catchy and peppy in just the way I like. Standouts were Lust for Life and The Passenger and it seems that I am not unique in thinking so.
The music is iconic. Iggys voice is grating at points. Some songs have aged badly - like sweet sixteen. But there’s a couple of pretty perfect songs on it. I’ll be humming lust for life and Passenger all day.
Recognised a couple of songs, and listened twice so a strong 4
Fire out of the gate! Songs I “knew” but didn’t really know.
Lust For Life was quite the ride for me in terms of quality. The first 3 songs were great and really groovy but the album fell off at the fourth song and stayed that way until the eighth song which was when it got a bit better. It was quite the mixed bag but the first 3 songs were so good, it gets a 3.5 from me (adjusted to 4 for this website) Best Song: Lust For Life Worst Song: Turn Blue
Love some Iggy!
Easy to listen to and has some really catchy songs, first half of the album, is definitely better than the second half. 3.5-4
Powerful and energetic, takes a hold of you and doesn't let go.
Enjoyed. Trainspotting probably has part to do with it
A collection of really good songs. Really like the production style. A couple of songs go on for way too long
Ah, so we have the David Bowie album we need to file under P do we? Notwithstanding two stellar singles - the title track and passenger - this record just oozes Bowie. But, interesting in my view, the thin white duke was already on a different level. Whilst he was helping Pop with this he was working on Low, a far more adventurous work. 7 years later Marillion would create Misplaced Childhood in this same studio, Hansa, overlooking the wall and East Germany. You can feel the starkness of this place in the production. The singles would be enough to give the album 4 stars alone. The rest of the tracks can’t get it to a 5/5 because of the overriding Bowie feel. But there are places where Pop even sounds a little Jagger. Enjoyable album but the history of the time is slightly more interesting than the music overall.
7/10. Kinda cool, nothing mind-blowing
Pretty solid album. Could definitely see how The Passenger was influential on a lot of the alternative and garage rock stuff that came out in the 80s and 90s. 7/10
Prefer Stooges Pop to Bowie Pop, but this is still good.
Energetic but sounds a lot like Bowie. Seems like there’s a general ‘70s pop sound’ that a lot of the non rock albums emulated back then. Still a fun album though. Lust for Life is a classic
Bonkers amounts of energy, and performances I would die to see live. Creepy lyrics tho
Ein paar sehr gute Lieder, aber auch ein paar nicht so gute
I'm glad I've never seen, felt or touched 1970s. It was a confusing and slimy place. Most of the songs end in a fade-out, since humanity had too much to handle back then to take time to finish songs. Production-wise everything is surprisingly very nice. I expected way more "punk" but got a decent "rhythm and blues". From reading about but not really listening much Iggy Pop except mandatory Lust for Life and I Wanna Be Your Dog I expected way less "sadder Rolling Stones". Lyrics are very repetitive, but that's the whole deal. Feels trance-ish. A great album still, but a bit too much of the same thing to my taste. Read up on it - I knew David Bowie was involved!
Игги Поп очень крутой. Слышатся нотки панка, который скоро будет мейнстримом. Альбом для меня как недостающий паззл в истории музыки, потому что я раньше его целиком не слушал, но все знакомое, заочно родное и на своем месте. Как встретить старого папиного друга, о котором он много рассказывал.
Fine
Cool! These are some catchy songs with nice production. Even though the songs feel better as individual songs sometimes, and some weird moments, this one is pretty cool! I’d see myself coming back to some songs here.
Yes
I didn’t realise how good this album was. I’m only really aware of Iggy for his hits and his popular culture personality. This was really good. A solid rock album from beginning to end.
Lust For Life is the GOAT!!!! Seriously fucking love this song. The Passenger is so good too, didn't take notes of other standouts but this is some top tier glam rock and I'm a big fan.
Groovy glam jams. Very relistenable, I think I slept on Iggy before but I am coming around to Mr. Pop.
I dig Iggy!
Iggy sort of returns to his former glory. It’s easy to understand why this is the record people gravitate to.
Completely different from his debut, Lust For Life is Iggy Pop developing into his own legendary persona and stepping out of Bowie's shadow (even though this is very much still a collaborative effort). It's aggressive without ever losing sight of musicality - reminding me that the name Iggy Pop is almost as false advertisement as the name The Killers.
Iggy dives deeper back into his Stooges roots while still keeping up with the incredible partnership with David Bowie. It’s what I missed on The Idiot.
Brilliant for its time
Rollicking good time.
Very strong start, but kind of tails off in the second half. Loved Lust for Life and The Passenger.
I enjoyed it quite a bit
Very good
classic
Good tracks.
decent, but didn't engage me.
Great to hear the rest of the album where Lust for Life is from
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
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.
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!
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
Nice 4*
Iggy ja Ziggy!
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!
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.
An exploration about what makes life meaningful after being at your lowest point
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.
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
Had some songs I knew about on here. Overall, it was a good album.
Now that’s more like it. Timeless
This was good. More up-tempo than The Idiot.
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.
Pretty damn good time for someone apparently trying to kick a heroin habit.
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!
NICE
i really liked this but it wasn’t really what i expected - great songwriting
Very bowie in parts but good stuff
Very energetic album ! With an old school sound and definitely a unique genre. Can listen to it any time ! 4.5/5
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
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.
"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 love me some early days Iggy Pop. Such a great album. Love Bowie on here.
Swag for sure ! 🎤🐈⬛
Classic banger? Blassic Blanger?
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
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.
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
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'
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.
Here we goo. Are you gonna be my girl by Jet sounds like Lust for Life on this album... Same riff.
The opening drum is so fun.
Good vibes, beat entraînant, belle tite guit, soleil qui se couche, soirée entre amis au chalet.
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…
4/9, 44%
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
Interesting.
Great punk tracks
te amo iggy
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.
A very good album.
Kannte bis auf passenger eigentlich nix von dem, eigentlich echt gutes Zeug dabei
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Genre: Punk Rock Review: Interesting, nothing extraordinary or earth-shattering but certainly a good piece of work. Rating: 7/10
Really enjoyed this one. Great variety of songs and The Passenger is an all time classic
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!
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
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.
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
A lot more boogie in this than I remembered.
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
This album gets better each time I listen to it. I listened to it 4 times yesterday.
Really was digging this album, and when it finished Amazon Music just sent me into The Clash. Great way to spend the morning.
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.
Iggy Pop is pretty cool to listen to. Very upbeat. Could listen to this album again.
Iggy. 77. 'Nuff said.
I don’t know if this is the best Iggy Pop album, but The Passenger is for sure my favorite Iggy Pop song.
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.
Niet helemaal mijn stijl, maar een goed album is een goed album
Really damn good
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.
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
Dance like hypnotised chickens.
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.
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.
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.
Pretty nice album, easy listening and The Passenger is a masterpiece
Great album
Great album
The Passenger is such a ridiculously good song
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.
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.
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
Loved this! The passenger 🤘
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
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.
God bless Bowie. He took Iggy to Berlin, got him off smack & helped him record the best post-Stooges album of his career. It still amazes me that Jim has outlived Davy. Love this record. Side One is a killer. Is there a better opening track than the title track here? The drums are a wonder. The rhythms on The Passenger are equally infectious. Bowie has his prints all over the album - co-producer, vocalist & pianist. I saw Iggy at The Capitol in Sydney in the early 80’s, and it wasn’t that thrilling, but saw him again at The Hordern in Sydney in 2013 & he was sensational, limping around, wearing nothing but jeans, and sounding as great as he ever did. You have to wonder what course his career would have taken without the friendship of Bowie & then later the use of the title track of this album in Trainspotting? My fave Iggy story - his dad was a high school English teacher. His students used to call him Iggy’s Pop.
Supposedly, Noel Gallagher once said that he got all the songwriting royalties I n Oasis because “ nobody ever hums the bassline of song”. Some wag is said to have responded that he had clearly never heard Lust for Life. Critical reaction to Iggy’s previous album, The Idiot, was that he had lost his ability to rock, and that Bowie had taken over too much. In retrospect, we can see that album as part of Bowie’s Berlin period and the hugely influential shift in rock music that was. But another Stooges record it sure ain’t. So, after a few months touring The Idiot, Iggy went back to the studio, he wanted to be a bit more in control over the songs, the arrangements and the sound. It’s a lot more straightforward rock and roll (although not enough to satisfy Lester Bangs). There is still quite a bit of Bowie here. Lust for Life and the Passenger are two absolute classics. I am also quite partial to Success. I find the rest of the album pretty great rock ‘n roll fun, and would happily listen to it almost any time. It’s probably the most focused and rockin’ that Iggy ever was post-Stooges.
Good music but if I had a teenage kid I wouldn't want Iggy Pop near them
Det er jo godt, bliver aldrig kæmpe Iggy fan, men man kan ikke sige at det er er dårligt album!
The title track just kicks everything off with so much energy, it's an irresistible start to the record really. This may be Iggy's most vocally diverse album, he's just all over the place and sounding fantastic on pretty much everything. A couple of songs don't quite hit for me, but on the whole it's just a very fun time
Pretty great album. A handful of incredible songs and no duds. Was familiar with the hits but it was nice to finally hear some of the lesser played stuff.
This was the second solo album for Iggy Pop since the break up of the Stooges, and his second of three albums he would make that year. He was spending his time in Berlin with David Bowie, trying to get clean after a period of drug addiction. Bowie provided keyboard support to Iggy on this album, allowing more of the spotlight to be cast on Iggy himself instead of on Bowie. This album was apparently written, recorded, and mixed in 8 days!! This is a great rock/post punk album! A few songs dealt with heroin abuse (notably Tonight and Turn Blue), however there are a few lighter songs to counteract that heavy topic (Lust for Life, Success). Apparently, Bowie's famous riff in the song Lust for Life was inspired by the Morse code intro to the American Forces Network News in Berlin. Overall, a great record! I really enjoyed it. Before this listening experience, I was only familiar with Iggy's work with The Stooges. I'm glad I listened for sure! Favourite songs: Some Weird Sin, The Passenger, Lust for Life, Sixteen, Neighborhood Threat Least favourite songs: Turn Blue, Success (just didn't like the repetitive, simplistic lyrics. The music was great though) 4/5
Fun!
Great album with some excellent production by David Bowie
Another classic 4+/5
Iggy's best. 2 great classic songs with a few minor classics thrown in. 4.5 stars
Buen disco de rock suave con algunas canciones míticas. No muy guitarrero y no es incómodo de escuchar
Nice
Sometimes a little musically repetitive, but this one is pretty good. Some tracks smoother than truffle oils.
Classic
Rock. Muy bueno!
Álbum muito famoso do Iggy, que tem talvez o seu maior hit: The passenger. Gostei. Melhores músicas: Lust For life e Tonight.
Sixteen was like comically bad, but I felt like the album got a lot better in the second half
What can I say other than it's Iggy Pop and produced by David Bowie. He pretty much built the bridge between rock and punk. Good stuff.
Habe mich bisher kaum mit Iggy Pop beschäftigt, aber Passenger kannte ich. Insgesamt nicer sound!
Why had I never listened to this?? Great album, easy and fun to listen to. Apparently I'd never really listened to Iggy Pop, and I have no idea why.
It's not 'the idiot', but it's still bloody great
Solid album. Didn't love every song but I liked the majority of them.
Iggy iggy iggy
Not quite the lightning bolt that The Idiot was, the second of the Iggy/Bowie albums is still a great collection of tunes, perhaps stronger in its predecessor. Great album, at a period when music just flowed out of Bowie like a river.
Fun and energizing listen
Ok in the first half of the album, but got really good in the second half. Developed a David Bowie-type sound.
Chulo.
Good one to work out to.
Super fun!
Enjoyed, added some music to liked
Solid stuff