Berlin Week: Iggy Pop- Lust for Life (1977)- Vinyl Rip (24 bit FLAC)

Lust for Life got missed during Hansa-By-the-Wall night, so we're squeezing it in during Berlin Week. And it's a fat, 24-bit vinyl rip, so there's guaranteed warmth.




From Mark Deming at allmusic:

On The Idiot, Iggy Pop looked deep inside himself, trying to figure out how his life and his art had gone wrong in the past. But on Lust for Life, released less than a year later, Iggy decided it was time to kick up his heels, as he traded in the mid-tempo introspection of his first album and began rocking hard again. Musically, Lust for Life is a more aggressive set than The Idiot, largely thanks to drummer Hunt Sales and his bassist brother Tony Sales. The Sales' proved they were a world class rhythm section, laying out power and spirit on the rollicking title cut, the tough groove of "Tonight," and the lean neo-punk assault of "Neighborhood Threat," and with guitarists Ricky Gardner and Carlos Alomar at their side, they made for a tough, wiry rock & roll band -- a far cry from the primal stomp of the Stooges, but capable of kicking Iggy back into high gear. (David Bowie played piano and produced, as he had on The Idiot, but his presence is less clearly felt on this album.) As a lyricist and vocalist, Iggy Pop rose to the challenge of the material; if he was still obsessed with drugs ("Tonight"), decadence ("The Passenger"), and bad decisions ("Some Weird Sin"), the title cut suggested he could avoid a few of the temptations that crossed his path, and songs like "Success" displayed a cocky joy that confirmed Iggy was back at full strength. On Lust for Life, Iggy Pop managed to channel the aggressive power of his work with the Stooges with the intelligence and perception of The Idiot, and the result was the best of both worlds; smart, funny, edgy, and hard-rocking, Lust for Life is the best album of Iggy Pop's solo career.




Technical Information:

Artist: Iggy Pop
Album: Lust for Life
Year: 1977

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: Vinyl Rip
Avg. bitrate: 2981 kb/s
Sample rate: 96000 Hz
Bits per sample: 24
Channels: 2
File size: 880 MB
Length: 0:41:16


Tracklisting:

01. Lust for Life (5:14)
02. Sixteen (2:26)
03. Some Weird Sin (3:42)
04. The Passenger (4:44)
05. Tonight (3:40)
06. Success (4:26)
07. Turn Blue (7:00)
08. Neighborhood Threat (3:29)
09. Fall in Love with Me (6:35)





Lust for Life Megaupload Link

Hansa by the Wall Night!: Iggy Pop- The Idiot (1977)- Vinyl Rip (24 bit FLAC)

This and Lust For Life are masterpieces. Influences are coagulating. Time to become a member of the Iggy Pop Fan Club.




From John Swenson in Rolling Stone, 1977:

Iggy Pop has always been the greatest rock comedian. As leader and frontispiece for that most extreme wing of rock nihilism represented by the Stooges, he at once defined and ridiculed the options left to punk rockers after "My Generation." The nihilist attitude meant plenty when it was a reaction to the pop status quo best exemplified by Dick Clark, but once nihilism itself became the status quo it was trivialized into mere decadence, a fashionable synonym for boredom.

Iggy's criticism is a brilliant, if depressing, argument in defense of that much debated assertion that rock is dead. The Idiot, recorded by Bowie, sung in a tired growl excoriated from Jim Morrison via Ray Manzarek, and steeped in the so-called "minimalist" ambiance currently so fashionable among young bands who've spent too much time listening to Iggy and taking him seriously, is the most savage indictment of rock posturing ever recorded.

Iggy's point, of course, is that rock is better off dead, but his is not the sentimental, transcendental approach to death. The Idiot is, on the contrary, a necrophiliac's delight, and Pop's next move may well go beyond flesh-tearing into live barbecue.




Technical Information:

Artist: Iggy Pop
Album: The Idiot
Year: 1977

Audio Codec(s): FLAC
Encoding: Lossless
Rip: Vinyl rip, split tracks
Avg. bitrate: 2898 kb/s
Sample rate: 96000 Hz
Bits per sample: 24
Channels: 2
File size: 803 MB
Length: 0:38:45


Tracklisting:

01. Sister Midnight (4:20)
02. Nightclubbing (4:16)
03. Funtime (2:54)
04. Baby (3:25)
05. China Girl (5:11)
06. Dum Dum Boys (7:12)
07. Tiny Girls (3:01)
08. Mass Production (8:28)





The Idiot Megaupload Link