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2[[caption-width-right:350: ''"Well, I'm just a modern guy / Of course, I've had it in the ear before..."'']]
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4''Lust for Life'' is the second studio album by Music/IggyPop, released in 1977. It was released in the same year as his first solo album, ''Music/TheIdiot'' and is the second of three to be co-produced and co-written by Music/DavidBowie (the third being 1986's ''Blah-Blah-Blah''). Unlike ''The Idiot'', which was primarily a Berlin Trilogy prototype, ''Lust for Life'' moves closer into the style of Pop's earlier work with Music/TheStooges, being a HardRock album rooted strongly in his ProtoPunk background with his former band. Bowie would later cover both "Tonight" and "Neighborhood Threat" on his 1984 album ''Music/{{Tonight}}'', which itself featured two original songs co-written by Pop.
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6Like its predecessor and Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, the album would be cited as a major influence on the PostPunk movement.
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8''Lust for Life'' was supported by one single: "Success".
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10This album is not to be confused with the 1956 film about Creator/VincentVanGogh starring Creator/KirkDouglas in the starring role.
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13!! Tracklist:
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15[[AC: Side One]]
16# "Lust for Life" (5:13)
17# "Sixteen" (2:26)
18# "Some Weird Sin" (3:42)
19# "The Passenger" (4:44)
20# "Tonight" (3:39)
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22[[AC: Side Two]]
23# "Success" (4:25)
24# "Turn Blue" (6:56)
25# "Neighborhood Threat" (3:25)
26# "Fall in Love with Me" (6:30)
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29!! ''I got the lust for tropes:''
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31* AlliterativeTitle: "'''L'''ust for '''L'''ife."
32* AlternateAlbumCover: The original vinyl cover has a monochrome border matching the photo, but CD versions and some vinyl reissues have an orange border.
33* AndStarring: Music/DavidBowie sings the lead vocals on "Tonight."
34* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: "Sixteen:"
35-->''Go out to the funky bar''
36-->''I get hurt -- crying inside''
37-->'''Cause everybody's so fine and''
38-->''And they don't need me''
39* CallAndResponseSong: "Success," with Music/DavidBowie on backup vocals. Towards the end Iggy starts improvising lyrics and Bowie follows him perfectly.
40-->'''Iggy''': I'm gonna hop like a frog!
41-->'''David''': I'm gonna hop like a frog!
42-->'''Iggy''': I'm gonna go out on the street and do anything I want!
43-->'''David''': I'm gonna go out on the street and do anything--
44-->'''Iggy''' ([[{{Corpsing}} Cracking up]]): Oh, shit!
45-->'''David''': [[RepeatAfterMe Oh, shit!]]
46* CarefulWithThatAxe: Iggy's screeching moaning in "Turn Blue."
47* CelebrityIsOverrated: "Lust for Life" in which Iggy sings about the shallowness of being rich and succesful and feels that life is more than that alone.
48-->''I'm worth a million in prizes''
49-->''With my torture film''
50-->''Drive a G.T.O''
51-->''Wear an uniform''
52-->''All on a government loan''
53-->''I'm worth a million in prizes''
54* ContinuityNod: The intro of "Tonight" has Iggy singing about his loved one turning blue because of heroin abuse. Another song on the album is also titled "Turn Blue."
55* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The black and white album cover.
56* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: A huge theme on the album. "Lust for Life" has the protagonist wanting more from life. "The Passenger" describes himself as just a passenger driven by life and "Some Weird Sin" has him trying to break into it.
57* DrugsAreBad:
58** "Lust for Life:"
59-->''Yeah I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk''
60-->''No more beating my brains''
61-->''With the liquor and drugs''
62-->''With the liquor and drugs''
63** "Tonight" and "Turn Blue" deal with heroin abuse.
64* EpicRocking: The TitleTrack, "Turn Blue," and "Fall in Love with Me" are all over five minutes.
65* FaceOnTheCover: The cover art keeps it simple and only shows Iggy's smiling face alongside his name and the album's name.
66* IntercourseWithYou: "Sixteen."
67-->''Baby, baby, I'm hungry, sweet sixteen''
68* {{Lust}}: "Lust for Life."
69* LyricalDissonance: "Lust for Life" is a pumping track about celebrating life, though it also deals with cutting a drug habit. This hasn't stopped many advertisers to use it as a cheery song in advertisements or other people to think it glorifies a life of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll. (Though, this is noticeable by the song almost immediately cutting to the chorus in said advertisements.)
70* ObsessionSong: "Turn Blue," "Sixteen," and "Fall in Love with Me" are all sung almost to the point of despair for the loved one.
71* OneWordTitle: "Sixteen," "Success," and "Tonight."
72* PepTalkSong: "Lust for Life" and "Success" both embrace life.
73* ThePowerOfLove:
74** "Sixteen:"
75-->''I give you my body and soul, sweet sixteen''
76** "Fall in Love with Me:"
77-->''Fall in love with me''
78-->''I wish you would''
79-->''Fall in love with me''
80-->''I wish you would''
81-->''Fall in love with me''
82-->''I wish you would''
83-->''Fall in love with me yeah, yeah''
84** "The Passenger:"
85-->''We'll see the stars that shine so bright''
86-->''The sky was made for us tonight''
87-->(...) ''And everything was made for you and me''
88-->''All of it was made for you and me''
89-->''Cause it just belongs to you and me''
90* RealLifeWritesThePlot: According to Iggy Pop, Bowie's celebrated riff on "Lust for Life" was inspired by the morse code opening to the American Forces Network News in Berlin.
91* RepurposedPopSong: "Tonight" would be re-recorded in 1984 by Music/DavidBowie as a duet with Music/TinaTurner.
92* {{Scatting}}: "The Passenger."
93-->''Singing la la la la lalala la la la la lalala''
94* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: "Lust for Life:"
95-->''Here comes Johnny Yen again''
96-->''With the liquor and drugs and the flesh machine''
97-->''I know he's gonna do another striptease''
98* [[{{Fetish}} Shoe Fetish]]: "Sixteen:"
99-->''Baby, I must be hungry because I go crazy over your leather boots.''
100* ShoutOut: The lyrics of "Lust for Life" contain a number of references to Creator/WilliamSBurroughs' experimental novel ''The Ticket That Exploded,'' most notably mentions of "Johnny Yen" (described by Burroughs as "The Boy-Girl Other Half strip tease God of sexual frustration") and "hypnotizing chickens."
101* SingerNameDrop: "Turn Blue:"
102-->''Jesus, this is Iggy''
103-->''You, you might as well come with me''
104* SpokenWordInMusic: Some lines in "Turn Blue" are spoken rather than sung.
105* TeenageDeathSongs: "Tonight:"
106-->''I saw my baby''
107-->''She was turning blue''
108-->''Oh, I knew that soon, her''
109-->''Young life was through''
110* TimeTitle: "Tonight" is named after the final night between the narrator and his girlfriend as he comforts her while she dies of a drug overdose.
111* TitleTrack:
112-->''I got the lust for life!''

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