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[CRAZY-HORSE]

IGGY POP "lust for life" cd, 1977

career stats:
studio albums.................20
singles...........................15

this album...................#120 US...#28 UK
singles:
"success"...........................no chart action
"the passenger"..................no chart action
"lust for life".......................no chart action

Iggy's second release minus The Stooges....
written,recorded and ready for release in a couple of weeks, Bowie and Pop
made a bit of a monetary killing on this one because it was finished so quickly,
they hadn't used much of the advance given to them by RCA so they pocketed the
remaining cash...LOL.
hi-energy punk/r+r on this one, moreso than "the idiot"....
this was the album that inspired Joy Division to pick up their instruments...
again, like The Idiot, Bowie wrote or co wrote eight of the nine tracks on offer...
album was just heading up the charts when Presley died, RCA turned their attention
away from promoting the album and singles to the more lucrative prospect of using their cash
to press and reissue the Presley back catalogue, so Iggy suffered with sales...
"the idiot" had the original version of "china girl" which Bowie later re recorded himself, and this one
contained the original "tonight" which Bowie later re recorded and it became the title track of the album
of the same name around '85 ish...
all up, a brilliant album IMO and it scores up there with the best of them

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: some weird sin
best track: the passenger

[video=youtube;hLhN__oEHaw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhN__oEHaw&list=RDhLhN__oEHaw[/video]

tracks:

1...lust for life ***
2...sixteen ***
3...some weird sin **
4...the passenger ***
5...tonight ***
6...suicide ***
7...turn blue ***
8...neighbourhood threat ***
9...fall in love with me **

3s=7
2s=2
1s=0

rating: 2.8