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| Iggy Pop - Lust for Life Band: Iggy Pop Tracks: - Lust for Life - Sixteen - Some Weird Sin - Passenger - Tonight - Success - Turn Blue - Neighborhood Threat - Fall in Love With Me 1977: What a busy year for Iggy and Bowie! Once you think about it 1977 was year with David Bowie and Iggy Pop stuck in the studio recording Low, The Idiot, Lust For Life, and "Heroes". Yet in this one year, came some of the best music I've ever heard! These are albums that changed the face of Bowie and Pop! Bowie, wanted to escape from fame and wealth, and Iggy wanted to ditch his obscene concerts and image, and Move into a more mainstream area of music. Bowie was the perfect person to get him there. Iggy was the perfect person to get Bowie out of the mainstream. Lust For Life is a classic that no one can stop listening to once they buy it. Not only does it have the infamous pop tunes of "Lust For Life" and "The Passenger" but it also has Iggy oriented songs like "Some Weird Sin" and "Neighborhood Threat". What a great piece of rock history! The return of Iggy Pop After the shadowy sound of Iggy Pop's first post-Stooges album, The Idiot (which was as much as an effort from producer David Bowie as an Iggy Pop album), Lust for Life is the return of Iggy Pop, the crude social misfit. Iggy and Bowie, who is again producing, realize that the jagged, brutal sound of Pop's former Band is impossible to reproduce, but Bowie and the backing Band can still fashion some thumping rhythmus and hard-edged riffs and let loose the memorable uncouthness which made the Stooges-era Iggy Pop infamous. So what does it mean to be Iggy Pop in the late 1970s? First of all, Iggy is back to being ugly, deviant and gross and loving it all. Songs such as "Sixteen," "Some Weird Sin" and the title track ("I'm just a modern guy/Of coarse I've had it in the ear before") highlight the gross-out sexuality of Iggy's persona. Secondly, the first to get the infamous Iggy Pop spit in their Faces are those who accused him of selling out by collaborating with Bowie on a more polished sound. The sly sing-along, "Success," and the tongue-in-cheek cover image are pointed at them. But most of all, Iggy was about having fun in late 1977. After the vampiric feel of The Idiot, Iggy and Bowie seemed to realize that, like The Rolling Stones or MC5, there is little reason to listen to Iggy Pop and not feel pumped and listeners can attest the minute they press play and hear the title song's thumping drum beat and driving bass line and can't help but strutting like a fool. Lust for Life undoubtedly has a recipe and authenticity set to Iggy Pop back on the right track as one of the rock and roll's most enjoyable rebels. classic pop album Most people are probably know "Lust for life" as "the song in trainspotting" or "that song in the gap ad", definitive proof that Iggy Pop was 20 years ahead of his time. But Lust of Life is also the name of his brilliant second album. Every song on this album is ridiculously overblown, laughably melodramatic, and absolutely perfect. This album is the epitome of 70's pop, even though it did not get the recognition it deserved. So if you want to listen to the song "Lust for life", don't buy it from some compilation, buy this album and get 9 brilliant pop songs instead of just one! Buy Iggy Pop Lust For Life at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
