1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iggy_pop_lust_for_life_91.jpeg]] |
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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6 | Like its predecessor and Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, the album would be cited as a major influence on the PostPunk movement. |
7 | |
8 | ''Lust for Life'' was supported by one single: "Success". |
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10 | This 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) |
21 | |
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) |
27 | ---- |
28 | |
29 | !! ''I got the lust for tropes:'' |
30 | |
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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