Iggy Pop's The Idiot vs. Lust For Life: which is the superior album?

[Doctor Cringelord]

Both recorded around roughly the same period, both considered among his best non-Stooges albums. Personally I choose Lust For Life, by just a hair. I think it better captures the personality and essence of Iggy Pop. The Idiot is great but it feels more like a joint Bowie and Iggy Pop album considering the former co-wrote every single track on it. Iggy emerged fully on LFL

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Again, never listened.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

next year i'll have changed my opinion to the idiot. I go back and forth.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

next year i'll have changed my opinion to the idiot. I go back and forth.

hey I'm not an idiot!

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Sorry, that was a dumb joke.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

So I actually did listen to The Idiot and liked it. It was skeevy in a good way, if that makes any sense. 70's sleaze of the best kind.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

So I actually did listen to The Idiot and liked it. It was skeevy in a good way, if that makes any sense. 70's sleaze of the best kind.

yeah, it has that funky groove you hear on lots of 70s music, but then there's also this cold, metallic edge that's very alien and reptilian. If Pop were a Disney animal, he'd be some sort of lizard or snake. (I could see Bowie as a fox or some type of cat). It feels like a little dystopian futurism in the production too. I read Bowie and Pop were listening to a lot of Kraftwerk when they made it. The backing band were mostly American musicians with backgrounds in funk and soul, so the album sounds like the sound of German technorock bands reflected through american and english eyes. then of course I also am reminded of the fictional skeevy kraut band from the Big Lebowski.

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

Lust For Life on the other hand feels like pubhopping music, but when you're out pubhopping after the woman (or man) of your dreams just dumped you or left.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

yeah, it has that funky groove you hear on lots of 70s music, but then there's also this cold, metallic edge that's very alien and reptilian. If Pop were a Disney animal, he'd be some sort of lizard or snake. (I could see Bowie as a fox or some type of cat). It feels like a little dystopian futurism in the production too. I read Bowie and Pop were listening to a lot of Kraftwerk when they made it. The backing band were mostly American musicians with backgrounds in funk and soul, so the album sounds like the sound of German technorock bands reflected through american and english eyes. then of course I also am reminded of the fictional skeevy kraut band from the Big Lebowski.

I need to dip into that well next, haha.

 

[SearchingforPeace]

Lust For Life