Lust For Life

Not much there for me. 2/5

Inegal

Little bland for me. Ensemble is decent.

Only enjoyed the Passenger song. Everything else felt old and racist

I’ve heard the hits enough. The rest does not stick out as particularly good. In fact, it sometimes felt unpleasant to listen to.

lust for life - the melody is good energy but tires itself out pretty fast. and then it just gets into this repeitition saying the same thing. 2/5 sixteen - same drum rhythm it fees like. not into it. 2/5 some weird sin - great guitar licks, singer puts me off the rest of the song. 3/5 the passenger - i;ve heard this before on 92.5 rock. the singers cadance actually matches this time. 4/5

Starts off poor but improves as it goes on. Not my can of pop 🥤

Blääh

Solid album but nothing jumps out that I have to listen to over and over. 2

Sure, it's good. Not too big on it though.

Some really good songs but overall kinda boring album

meh

I don't know why but I've always found Lust for Life to be a tedious song. I know I should like it but I don't. Then the rest of this album just washes over me and again, I should like Iggy. I just don't think it's that interesting.

Tråkigt tbh!

A pretty dark album. The whole thing feels pretty strung out and puts me on edge. Standout track: The Passenger

I think I just don’t like iggy pop

Not a fan. Songs are very basic and repetitive.

I dislike this just a bit more than The Stooges stuff. Just doesn't do much for me.

Not a fan.

I didn't like this album 2 stars

Ok but I’m just not into the tinny sounding punk.

Decent

Alright, couple of good songs but not really something I liked

straight rock and roll. No real interest in 2023

Sorry Mr. Burns, I know 'The Passenger' is your ultimate villain song, but all I can think about is driving through endless wheat fields in bumf*ck Iowa. It's a really good cross-country roadtrip song, but I've done that once before and I don't really see the need to do it again, because that sh*t kind of suckeddd. I'm sad because I expected more from this album, but I was left disliking it more than I did at the start. How does that even happen.

Look at this smug SOB staring back at me. “You sucker!” he’s saying, “No way you’re actually gonna listen to me. I mean, I’m a COMPLETE waste of time.” So it’s basically a collection of David Bowie songs that Bowie deemed too shitty to be released by him, so he let this schmuck do it.

The Passenger is een heel episch nummer, verder paar goede nummers, maar klinkt toch wat gedateerd.

This album as a whole was fine except the song Sweet Sixteen creeped me out so much that I almost didn’t recover.

cause of trainspotting

mid tbh. i dont like his crusty voice or creepy face lmfao. not for me idk how this is influential or good.

meh. lust for more pog if u ask me

not my style

This reviewer has a primary dislike of singer-songwriter, and something as rock and roll as Iggy Pop is not that much of an exception. Songs with proper choruses, relevant repetitive hooks, even some sense of predictability are arguably what songs are. Putting words to music if anything, is an oversimplification of song-writing. Either way, the reason "The Passenger" gets to be runaway hit on this album is because the song creates resolve. It is a great song, easily quite catchy and one that will remain in one's head for no short amount of time. The rest of the album however, most of it tends to fall into the singer/songwriter category where we are given wordy stories that have not much to do with the music that plays it, or so it seems. This album does do very well where most in this genre get scored horribly. Iggy's lyrics are not infuriatingly there for no reason, he does portend some intention and with that there is a level of interest in what the songs have to say.

I don’t like it. It’s too experimental for me. It has a Pink Floyd vibe (it is from that era to be fair) but it’s nowhere near the quality. I just wanted the album to end from the start. 2/5

Way boring, which is surprising because it has Bowie playing a role in writing. The grit and grime of The Idiot gets lost in trying to return to the Stooges. And Sixteen is just gross.

Rating: 2/5 Not a fan of Iggy Pop's style, maybe because the pop-punk subgenre isn't my forte normally. I didn't completely hate the album, just not something I would ever pick up again. Stand Out Song(s): Some Weird Sin, The Passenger

I couldn't really enjoy this album. Lust For Life is a catchy tune but lyrics aren't much. The Passenger is probably the best on here, a couple others aren't bad numbers but I can't rate this very high.

Mediocre album made possible by Bowie who is responsible for most of the good bits.

There are definite grooves and high points outside the frustratingly repetitive title track, but not nearly enough to elevate this album to anything memorable when it comes to rock.

Grand

Es un disho razonable Indicio post.punk

It's alright. Some songs were groovin' but others weren't terribly interesting.

Never really listened to Iggy Pop before and I found this to be okay. It wasn't anything special and I wouldn't go out of my way for it. It's somewhere around a 2.5 for me so I'm going to drop it to a 2 in an attempt to correct my supposedly flawed rating system.

I was never an Iggy Pop fan, I had heard his songs every once in a while and on a Kesha song and I was never impressed. Finally getting to listen to an album I can now say he should be called Iggy Dud. The confidence of this fella to post his mug on the album cover is hilarious and while I'm not saying I hate his music, it just didn't impress me at all. Just your basic late 70's rock. I would rather listen to Lana Del Rey talk about her Lust for Life than Iggy.

I like a couple of the more famous tracks, probably due to familiarity. If it wasn't for listening to pretty clear recordings of 50s/60s jazz that I've listened to due to this project, then I would have blamed the weird sound levels on the age, but this seems to have been mixed wrong or something. Everything blends in and is a bit dull. Tried a few different sources to check and it seems to have been how they meant it to be!

2.5

Probably not something I'd listen to again. No songs really stand out.

Lust for Life has a really good beat, I enjoyed this one. Sixteen is painful in some way to me...the beat is just constant in the same way...and the yelling/singing of the late 70s is not my jam. Some Weird Sin...lyrics repeated way too much. The music has an anxious quality to it, sort of frenetic. The Passenger, I like the tone and beat of his voice in this song. Again, the actual music just seems the same, repeated far too much in a very basic rhythm that grates. Tonight....the guitar has a screeching quality to it. I really like the uniqueness of Iggy's and how he plays around with it. The choice of his music in this album though....I am not enjoying. The opening beats of Success I like, the beats on top of beats is so interesting. The layering in this one I like. Turn Blue, I do not like, had to skip. Punk rock...I don't think it's my jam....Ended Neighborhood Threat with 30 seconds to go. Fall In Love With Me has that duh duh duh duh duh beat, the same beat over and over with a random screaming guitar. Didn't finish Fall In Love With Me, only made it halfway in. Maybe I just don't like Iggy's punk rock? It's just painful and makes me angry/angsty feeling.

Ein zwei Tracks Viben ganz gut der Rest wack

Enjoyable - I had not gotten into Iggy previously. Respect the contribution but I've already forgotten how it really sounded.

I’m sure this is somebody’s thing.

Top heavy album.

Iggy Pop is fucking overrated. This isn't awful but it doesn't deserve the praise it gets.

Nope

I found the album pretty boring to listen to, plus the guy is a creep. 1 star for the two songs on here that were alright.

Another pedo from the 70's.

Eww. Pedos get 1 star.

meh

lol nah again gotta wonder what the criteria is to make this list.

Iggy Pop is an excellent example of the fact that you don’t necessarily have to be a good composer, a good singer or a good musician to be a rock icon. For there is no doubt that Pop is an icon, embodying (proto-)punk and a brash yet uncompromising rock ’n’ roll attitude. “Lust for Life” was recorded in the same place and at the same time as Bowie’s famous Berlin Trilogy, with significant input from his drugs-and-rehab buddy Bowie, yet musically it bears no resemblance to it. Whilst Bowie explores krautrock, ambient and experimental art rock, Pop presents stomping punk and sing-along rock on “Lust for Life”, somewhere between the clichés of The Clash and The Rolling Stones. With its rumbling energy, the album is exhausting and irritating, but above all, it’s deadly boring.

I down't like him. ew. A littles ruste.

It just was not for me

i’ve decided my official ranking system has one hard and fast cardinal rule: if you sing about wanted to sleep with an underage girl, you get a 1.

I'm really sick of hearing grown ass men sing about teenage girls.

Saw there was a song called Sixteen and did not necessarily like this, but let's see how old Iggy... Oh fuck noooo you're 30 bro. Don't. Just don't. As for the rest of the album, it's not really my thing. It sounds subdued, and production is pretty messy. Maybe this was intentional but I don't love it. Reading that Bowie had a big hand in it makes sense, I don't love his stuff either. Okay I'm at Fall in Love with Me, and was thinking about giving this album 2 stars, but him singing "You're so young and pure/and you're young at heart" just ruined it. Ew.

1 de 5 Con un sonido enérgico que combina la crudeza del punk con melodías pop pegadizas y brillantes, crean una vitalidad cruda que se refuerza con baterías potentes y la inconfundible voz de Iggy. A destacar: Track 1 - Lust For Life Track 4 - The Passenger Track 7 - Turn Blue

pedo.

It's weird that Bowie cooperated with such untalented artist as Iggy Pop

Bastante meh en general, una o dos canciones buenas y el resto sin más. El género me mola pero hay cosas mucho mejores.

I thought this album was pretty all the songs, minus like 2, all sound terrible and are so boring, and then you have the awful song know as Sixteen. Bad album

explosion at the sweet 16, what did he mean by this? is this guy another british nonce?

Not for me

No me pareció un gran álbum, la verdad me aburrió un poco. Aunque tiene una vibra tranquila y bastante estética, no sentí que lograra atraparme demasiado ni que las canciones me dejaran una impresión muy fuerte. Se deja escuchar, pero en mi caso no terminó de engancharme, así que no creo que sea de esos discos a los que volvería seguido.

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.

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?

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!

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

1,5/5

Mh

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

dont like rock

Everything felt icky after "Sixteen"

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

this album was one of my favorite when I was a teen. it was one of the first classic rock albums I really resonated with. I was excited to come back to it after all these years and even more excited when it began and sounded just a good and full of life as I had remembered. then, the song "sixteen" came on and my heart ached for my teenage self. Iggy pop was 30 when this album was released. let that sink in.

not my cup of tea; wouldnt listen again.

not bad just not really my cup of tea.

2/10

This is not my type of music at all. But it was not bad, i'm sure a lot of people love it.

First up fuck Iggy Pop, fuck the song Sixteen and fuck him. Sable Starr was 13 years old. I understand, "it is another time", but I don’t give a fuck how sexy her leather boots are, fuck no and fuck you. And just in case you didn't grasp the point this creep is making in Sixteen, “Fall in love with me” hammers it home. Now, the music. Passengers is an all-time great melody. The writing, (riming sky with sky for example) is not all time great. I will add that if in your album, the parts I’m searching for and looking forward to the most are the Bowie parts, then that says a lot about you. There is no hidden gem on there. Sure it is not horrible musically, but does it deserve posterity as an album : no. Fuck this.

I so heavily dislike the vocals that it knocks the album down farther than it should the instrumentals are ok

1e nummer bekend

I don't like listening to pedophile music. Sixteen.

Not my thing really.

Osef tier

Sixteen basically made it unlistenable, and it’s kinda weird albums like these are still being put on iconic album lists knowing the predatory behavior that went on in the 70s. That being sad, musically? Everything in the 70s basically sounds like Bowie, eh.

Never been much of a punk rock guy

I don't quite get it. I think I hear Black Keys. Favorite Track: The Passenger

eh

Not so good

This album is just “meh”. Lust for Life is alright as is The Passenger. Turn Blue is not bad. I would have been ok never hearing it. 1001 album worthy: No - 77/141

I made better music in my 8th grade garage band.

Not very good or enjoyable. List for life and the passenger are the only things I didn’t terribly mind. Iggy pop? More like icky slop.

"Success" was the first song so far from an album on this list that almost made me stop listening to the album completely. Then, I was treated to that urge again and again, multiple times over while listening to Iggy's Lust for Life. And again during "Turn Blue," which was all the more disappointing because it started out seeming like it might be an ok ballad, only to turn into complete and utter garbage with Iggy Pop mumbling deranged ASMR in my ear. I wish I were exaggerating. The only even slightly redeemable song is "Neighborhood Threat", and I still would complain if it came on the radio. There might have been another mediocre (at least, not awful) song on the album, but I honestly can't recall because I'm still recovering from having to listen to "Success" and "Turn Blue" back-to-back. This is the only album so far that I haven't listened to at least twice through because it was completely irredeemable. I want to believe this is an example of the book/list editor's bias, coming from the UK. Sorry, but please include literally any other album for punk influence. Iggy without ridiculous stage antics is just annoying and boring. The editors should have just included a 10th David Bowie album instead of this album he produced if they wanted to further overinflate the European contributions to the album list.

Sorry...not my type of music.

More like uhhh iggy flop 👎*buzzer noise*

Ok not my style, like Lust for Stlye the best

No.

again found it a bit boring for my millennial cusp-ass brain

Actually not as bad as I thought it would be. Still not my thing though

Uu

No sé, me aburrió.

I don't care for David Bowie, but I cannot tolerate this Walmart version of David Bowie.

My relationship with this one is complicated. On one hand, it has been a major influence to so much music that I grew up with and love, and I have travelled with Iggy for most of my life, with the stooges or solo. There is Bowie, in all his Berlin glorious sound, jiving with Iggy and the two of creating something fresh, decadent, martial yet organic, sexy. Often demented, yet also often sensitive. And then there is sweet sixteen and its ode to sex with underage girls, and I struggle. There is Turn Blue. These were not good people, and yet they made great music. This poses one of the days' great questions, around how we value art made by people who hurt others in the process, and where this hurt becomes a theme in the music. If I think of art as a way to build community and find an expression of our common humanity, then this is highly tainted. Of course, then, there is the grotesque. The exaggeration of everything, of every excess, every evil, to give voice to the not glorious parts, the ugliness of this common humanity. There has to be a place for it. The selfishness, the uncaring, the alienation and the loneliness. One star, for the same reason as I gave one star to Doggystyle. I can't stand behind art that dehumanizes others.

The music is decent. Pretty standard 1970s pop-rock. Songwriting is strong and Bowie’s influence is felt. This is a strong 3 star album. However, self-admitted pedophiles get 1 star.

a 1 song album gets 1 star

vorta rights right but iiii hated every minute of this down to the scary ass album cover. thank god siouxsie came and swooped up the passenger.

This album was a disappointment. I really thought every song was uninteresting, and especially disliked the song sixteen. 1/5.

Erstaunlich poppig. Aber nicht meins. Auch zu viel Show.

Nope, just couldn't relate....

Quintessential noisy rollicking 70s rock ‘n’ roll

Favorites: Lust for Life Innovative but not my favorite

too oldie...

eh

idk man

Just didnt care.

I'm not impressed.

Not good.

I do not like Iggy Pop and his blatant pedophelia, 16 is an atrocity and although the artistry on some songs is aight I am always less keen to give Iggy the benefit of the doubt compared to other artists. 3/10

No

Sorry iggy

I was on the shitter for some of this album, and when Turn Blue came on I pushed as hard as I could just so I could run back to the pause button. The rest of the album wasn't that much better. What a fucking disaster. 1/5.

couldnt be bothered

Generic instrumentals, boring/weird lyrics

Hab ich keine Lust drauf.

He is a pedophile. Shouldn't be Here.

Oh just shut up

Didn’t like this one….

Apart from The Passenger, I am not sure why Iggy went into the recording studio

Meh. Not in to it. Sorry Iggy. I like your name tho…

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