Though I liked certain aspects of Iggy Pop‘s last album, it contained nothing to suggest that the follow-up would have what it takes to eclipse much of its competition. While Pop talked his way through most of the previous disc’s one-dimensional odes to depression, he offers riveting vocals on the new Lust for Life, where he also tempers boredom with laughs and turns occasionally to outright exuberance. He still can’t write music, as evidenced by his one attempt here. But that hardly matters, since the captivatingly stark Bowie tunes that predominate fit Iggy’s lyrics to a T. In addition to the title track, key cuts include the rollicking “Success,” the triumphant, poetic “Passenger” and “Some Weird Sin,” which ought to be Pop’s theme song.
By Jeff Burger 
[…] a 40-page hardcover book, are remasters of the two 1977 studio albums to which Bowie contributed, Lust for Life and The Idiot. Both do a good job of combining Pop’s sardonic and twisted world view with […]
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[…] hardcover book, are remasters of the two 1977 studio albums to which Bowie contributed, Lust for Life and The Idiot. Both do a good job of combining Pop’s sardonic and twisted world view […]
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[…] late 1977, when Iggy Pop unveiled Lust for Life, he had begun to look like a perfect candidate for king of the burgeoning punk/new wave scene. The […]
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