Ha! This, with a bit of Clash and Killing Joke was on my pre-pub mix tape back in the '80s. Just a punk rocker from Peckham getting ready for a night of fun and frolics. Even now that song makes me feel pumped up and ready for a bit of mischief and I'm 57. Ought to know better at my age. I moved to Orpington and then to Bromley where I played bass in a band, we used to cover Rebel, Rebel and Jean Genie by Bowie, Funtime and Lust For Life by Iggy Pop. We were bloody terrible but, again, Iggy was there with me. The 80's were my wild years, Iggy Pop and Iggy and the Stooges were a part of my life's soundtrack.
"Lust For Life" (with a London accent) is a buoyant, propulsive track that snarles with attitude. It induces you to move and listen to the longing in the lyrics. It's a rock n roll carnival assault! And if you're lucky enough you may be able to have free lunch for life as well...
The tambourine, I believe, was the glue between punks and hippies when it came to music. It was just a universal driving instrument, just like you can get the saxophone to play in anything roughly
Iggy was, and still is criminally underrated. He made punk rock happen, convinced blokes you can be a rock star with three chords and no musical training.
I hated Lodger when it came out because Bowie announced the end of his collaboration with Iggy in the song Red Money (declaring the "project canceled" to the music of Sister Midnight).
Lust For Life and The Idiot have also been very, very influential in germany. It was all around and a must in every club playlist or private record collection. I listened to both maybe a thousand times or more, mostly from a shabby cassette player in my old car. And as I remember, they really sounded really well and dynamic, even with small and bad speakers, which might be an interesting detail in perspective of music production.
Super video, this song made me climb over the fences of the Pinkpop festival, I dropped of a friend with my car, didn't have a ticket, wasn't thinking of going myself but they were playing Lust for life in the campingfestival tent, it worked like a magnet to me, I climbed the fence, went dancing and had a three day free festival in the end!
The Passenger is the greatest song ever. Iggy Pop manages to capture the feel of a random night out to a tee in that song. It's kind of spooky the mood that song sets. The mystery of the sum of the parts being greater than any part. So much of the LFL beat is that kick sound. It sounds almost like the kick is the snare. This song was THE MAJOR song tagline of an American Cruise Ship corporation for many years. Selling out or not, that is no small payday, or it sure shouldn't be.
Bowie’s voice is all over the place on ‘The Idiot’ and ‘Lust for Life’ and tbh it makes it so magical. Just like Iggy’s on ‘What In The World’. I’m living in Berlin and chill at Iggy’s and David’s favorite spots, including a bar right next to Hauptstraße 155. You meet people who’d met that duo and learn a lot. This is exactly why I’d moved here years ago. Berlin’s changed but not fully, you still absorb the atmosphere. I don’t know why my brain took me here but here we are😅🖤 Cheers!
I always wondered why Iggy Pop danced and moved like he did onstage, now I know it was because he was standing in front of Hunt Sales and that heavy right foot on the bass drum pedal, What a sound he makes!
When people talk about Iggy growing up in a trailer - well, his father was a high school teacher. At the time, Detroit and the surrounding cities like Ann Arbour and Ypsilanti attracted more and more people due to the growing automobile industry. Since construction of houses couldn't keep up, several trailer parks were built for ordinary people like the Osterbergs. The place Iggy grew up in was not what we today think of when we hear "trailer park". Awesome video, BTW. I wish I could hear this song again for the first time. One of my all-time faves.
Love this breakdown of this classic, thanks for all your insights! One small error: the Toppop performance with the creative rearrangement by Iggy of the decor pieces was NOT pre-arranged. It was Iggy being not happy at having to do a playback performance, sulking in his dressingroom, and storming out when they started the music anyway. PS: I am a Dutchie and was 14 when I saw it on TV. Parents in shock, and me dancing around the room!
Finally! An in depth look into what I consider the greatest rock-n-roll song of all time. Dripping menace, and basically about in Iggy's words- A song about how things you enjoy doing can fuck you up. If I could go back in time, hanging out at Hansa Studios the evening of June 8th 1977 would be one of them. A song so well produced and perfect, it defies explanation. Ricky Gardiner's guitar alone sums it up perfectly. (A 1971 Stratocaster w/a built in sustainer. He told me himself.)
That. has. to. be.. THEE rawest, most bombastic drum sound! ..at that time.. The Sales Bros, A Teutonic Terror! Thank You! thank you! for featuring this song & making several attitude point..
Great song and great album, my favorite song on this album is still “Neighborhood Threat”. I’m originally from the Detroit area and we have deep music roots which I’m very proud of. Thanks Warren. R.I.P. Ricky Gardiner.
I thought I was the only one!! ‘Neighborhood Threat’ speaks to me on so many levels. I grew up in post communist Warsaw and that was the vibe more than 20 years ago
Great moment in “Desperately Seeking Susan” with Richard Hell in a van blasting Lust for Life. So late 70s NYC. With a soon to be discovered Madonna. Amazing song!
Funny thing I saw Iggy and David Bowie on the Dinah Shore television show in January 77. I was fascinated by the energy. I bought the album a short time later long before it had made any kind of splash. I still have that piece of vinyl. Thanks for your insight Warren!
Maybe the most energetic recording ever! Bowie did a wonderful version of this song himself in a very different, but yet typical Bowie fashion. I've always loved this song. I remember when it was aired on TopPop. The next day everybody was talking about it. A lot of people were literally shocked. But know that the Netherlands only had two tv stations at the time, so half the nation saw it. It was huge! And I loved it soooo much! ❤️
Bowie did a wonderful version of this song himself in a very different, but yet typical Bowie fashion. Oh, really ? When did he? And you are right about Toppop, I saw it too when I was 9 in 1977 and was totally blown away , everybody talked about it the next day, but I was the only one who like it, the rest of the kids in my class thought it was stupid that he trashed the place.
Thanks for talking about Hunt Sales' drums re: how it sounds and not just the beat. It's the ambience and how he tuned it that's a huge key of the song. The bass drum sounds loosely tuned. Clearly the room mic was brought up high on the board and used in the mix.
Nailed it. The groove is infectious and the song iconic. Been practicing to this drum lick for a very long time and get it. But Hunt is never duplicated nor imitated. You can just kinda sound like him in your way. And that is the magic of music. Awesome channel btw! Cheers!
I think I hear a bit of “I Feel Fine” in the guitar part(s), with the “Last Train To Clarksville” answering/cohabitating with it. And Warren is SO correct, the brothers’ rhythm and groove is an absolute swagger. Those two guys were BREATHING together. Bowie added some Jerry Lee Lewis as well. I am positive that both Bowie and Iggy were massive fans of rockabilly, and much of the glam stuff from Roxy Music and the like came directly from Little Richard, Jerry Lee, and Bowie’s man, Elvis. Put Iggy on top of all that? Genius. Put that song on anywhere; a rock club, punk dive, r’n’b room, whatever…and EVERYONE moves to that song. That song is simply undeniable. It just IS.
Great to hear you mention John McGeoch and Magazine. How about doing "Shot By Both Sides" from 1978 ? It was hugely influential in defining what post-punk could be. As was the whole Real Life album.
About 20-25 years ago Carnival Cruises used the beat and 2-chord riff on their commercials. A song about heroin withdrawal selling cruises. Yep. That was the '90s.
Listening to the isolated sections, it has the same logic as krautrock, say, Neu! The song is all about the drum and bass (90% is there) and the job of the guitar is to float around, seasoning the music, but not taking centre stage like in American rock. Which makes total sense in Berlin. I love this song since I first heard it tearing apart the opening of Trainspotting.
When I first got back into vinyl, and had my TT set up, "Lust for Life" was the first album I played. It's such an energetic, bright, live sounding recording. Sounds fierce through a pair of B&W DM601 S2. speakers. Great album.
I love the guitar parts, yet I don't think I ever would have come up with those parts for this song. Very simple and clean and very light. Stylistically the guitars seem to be on another planet from the very primal rhythm section's groove, at least to my ear. Yet when you play it all together it's magic. Thanks Warren!
And some of Bowie's little keyboard licks within the song are so good I was like is that really Bowie or some wrecking crew type pro session musician behind that element.
I lovef Berlin at that time - the spirit, energy, dirt and desperation was totally unique in this universe! It was *the* place to be. The world was easy to understand in Cold War times. Berlin is not that place anymore. But, as always, things go and never come back again. And this is alright. Life was not only glorious (which it was), it was also way more dangerous and unhealthy at the same time. I was lucky to be there and I'm glad it's over, because I survived (and some didn't).
Nice to see Iggy Pop AND the other musicians getting credit for this song and for the music of this period! Thank you! Yes, WE go way back on this! HAHA! Thank you!😀😀😀
Your right all the way about opening doors, I was often in Berlin on tour at the time and the atmosphere in Berlin was unique, so happy that I was able to experience it…-
Always great to see you doing videos about musical shakers and movers, funny how at the time you never realise how iconic things will become, eg being on the Nirvana tour in the UK when the album exploded, at the time it was like just another tour..always the same kind of statements, „that must have been amazing!“ , and you’re like, yeah it was a good tour and great people , but at the same time still remembering at the time thinking it’s just another job…funny how legends become exactly that afterwards…..
@@Producelikeapro my favorite song by him is still "You're Pretty Face Is Going To Hell." Also, check out his "Coffee And Cigarettes" skit with Tom Waits. Really funny.
@@mariodriessen9740 Yes probably my fav too. Please ee my comments above and copied below... "Assume Alomar does the more chuggy rhythm stuff with Gardiner doing the more riffy elements. Bowie had just used this guitar combination on the excellent first side of Low with a rhythm section of Dennis Davis/George Murray adding a touch of funk to the grooves. The harder feel of Lust does come down to the Sales Brothers."
Epic Indeed. Like on "Be my wife" for example! But i've always thought that on "Lust for life" both track and album it's not just him but Carlos Alomar as well! Right???
I love the way you are enthusiastic about music that mattered to me in my formative years but was pretty obscure at the time as far as the average person was concerned. My teenage self is dragged into the present and the joy this song evoked back then comes to the fore as you explain exactly the things I felt when listening to this. I've been a musician ever since and often when coming up with ideas for songs this beat surfaces when I'm not expecting it. It's deeply ingrained in anyone that's heard and appreciated it I reckon. Thanks for a really enjoyable look at one of my favourite songs.
I was born near the end of the "Generation X" birth years. I think most of my peers first became aware of this song through the movie, "Trainspotting". After that movie it was on 107.7 "The End" in Seattle all day long. It sounded really fresh in 1996. It fit right in with the times. How much of this song's popularity/longevity do you think is attributed to that movie?
Vielen Dank für die interessante Aufarbeitung des Song! The drums and the bass really are 5 dimensional because it’s brothers doing it together …. Good explanation from you !! And as I said before: your pronunciation is very easy to understand for a non native speaker! Hervorragend 😊
As a kid, I did not know how sound was engineered. But I knew that this big drum sound and the rest, were BIG! Wild kid dancing stuff back then, lol. and thx!! I was 14. I m dutch btw and saw the " plants" video on Toppop while my parents were in shock hahaha
Great mention of John McGeoch. Genius player. I’ve heard so many mention his playing in Magazine and Siouxsie as an influence. The Edge, Ed O’Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Johnny Marr, Dave Navarro, John Frusciante…
Love your comment about facing up to our influences. Who we borrow from and how is the foundation of our "sound" or "voice." I recorded a song where I blatantly attempted to sound like the Everly Brothers. The musicians who heard it thought I was playing some John Hiatt for them.
Thank you very much for this enthusiastic analysis and breakdown of a great song! Those of us in the university radio scene here on Canada's west coast in the latter 70s were closely following what was happening in the UK (copies of NME and Melody Maker strewn around the office), and even in Europe, as well as our local scene and the rest of North America. And you're so right! Iggy Pop in the mid to late 1970s worked with Bowie and co to craft some irresistible grooves that are riddled with attitude. Along with "Lust for Life", "I'm Bored" was a personal favourite, leading me to Buzzcocks' "Boredom", and the hilarious - and well played - later Magazine cover of the song. Thank you for mentioning John McGeoch and Magazine, still one of my favourite bands (was lucky to see and hear them live back then, but sadly after McGeogh had gone). Please consider "The Light Pours Out of Me" as a song to investigate. That said, I really enjoy the tracks on Secondhand Daylight and The Correct Use of Soap, too, but not sure if any were quite as influential. Please feel free to correct me if you think otherwise. I also enjoyed John McGeoch's sonic contributions to Siouxsie and the Banshees, after he had departed Magazine. Thank you once more for this series of videos!
Thank you so much for sharing. The Light Pours Out On Me is something we could do. We have a very special collaboration with a guitarist in the future that would warrant us to do a piece on that track. Magazine are brilliant.
Yet another maahh-vellous video Warren. I'd set this one aside to watch later and I'm glad I did because just tonight I caught a documentary on William S. Burroughs, and Iggy Pop appeared in it talking about his influence on this very song. Also, the film mentioned just how much of later rock music was informed by Burroughs: Steely Dan was the name of a certain apparatus in the 1959 novel 'Naked Lunch', his 1961 book The Soft Machine (yet another later band name) had a character in it called the Heavy Metal Kid, which is kind of wild. Patti Smith was greatly influenced in the song 'Horses' ("The boy looked at Johnny..."), again, the Johnny Yen character from 'The Wild Boys'. And, of course Lou Reed was deeply influenced by William Burroughs as well. Not bad for a guy who was born in 1914. He hung out with everyone from Sonic Youth, Blondie, U2, R.E.M, Bowie (of course), the Clash, Throbbing Gristle, David Johansen, Ministry... And he was one of the pioneers of the "cut up" method of writing which was adopted by many, including David Bowie.
@@Producelikeapro The night the Wall "came down", we were cruising* up and down the Ku'damm, passing bottles of sekt from car to car. *for values of cruising. SO many cars, just barely moving. LOL
Yes thought the same. Assume Alomar does the more chuggy rhythm stuff with Gardiner doing the more riffy elements. Bowie had just used this guitar combination on the excellent first side of Low with a rhythm section of Dennis Davis/George Murray adding a touch of funk to the grooves. The harder feel of Lust does come down to the Sales Brothers.
Great analysis Warren. When you we're speaking about the feel of the song and how it's been copied by bands like Jet etc... it reminded me of another with the same sort of beat. "International Dateline " by Ladytron has that rhythm to it.
Another brilliant and informative video. I love to hear the history of these songs, and taking the recording apart to hear each instrument is just incomparable for intense music fans. I also love the reference to the Onion. Leave it to the Onion to come up with the most hilarious and insightful satirical comment on any topic.
Classic. I’ve always wanted to hear a more slamming mix of this song. Would there be a cover version coming???? :) Love the Jet reference.. Nic Cester has a killer voice!
Agree with you about John Mc Geoch.. Mc Geoch was an innovator. At his level he could have been in a prog band his arrangements were really off the beaten track.. BTW I love you channel, your analysis are often very thorough without being overly technical or nerdy..
Another album from 1977 only released in Europe is Hard Attack by the Bloomington IN band MX-80 released on Island Records...sounds like Sonic Youth on acid......the midwest had some progressive music coming from many of the weird college towns like Ann Arbor, Bloomington, and Madison, Wisconsin. Europe always seemed to be tapped into it more than the coastal US like techno and house later on.
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I think sweet child in time was a cool track. the fastest milk man in the west benny hill lol come on it was funny .
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@@michaeljarzy2837 Also Hone Computer was a huge hit in America.
Since Lou Reed was brought up Walk on the Wild with its gay subject matter changed society as well as music.
Johnny Kidd & the Pirates ‘Shakin All Over’
Ha! This, with a bit of Clash and Killing Joke was on my pre-pub mix tape back in the '80s. Just a punk rocker from Peckham getting ready for a night of fun and frolics. Even now that song makes me feel pumped up and ready for a bit of mischief and I'm 57. Ought to know better at my age.
I moved to Orpington and then to Bromley where I played bass in a band, we used to cover Rebel, Rebel and Jean Genie by Bowie, Funtime and Lust For Life by Iggy Pop. We were bloody terrible but, again, Iggy was there with me.
The 80's were my wild years, Iggy Pop and Iggy and the Stooges were a part of my life's soundtrack.
"Lust For Life" (with a London accent) is a buoyant, propulsive track that snarles with attitude. It induces you to move and listen to the longing in the lyrics. It's a rock n roll carnival assault! And if you're lucky enough you may be able to have free lunch for life as well...
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
The tambourine was, imo, a BIG part of the driving energy of this epic song. Perfect accompaniment to the drums.
Thanks ever so much Joyce!
The tambourine, I believe, was the glue between punks and hippies when it came to music. It was just a universal driving instrument, just like you can get the saxophone to play in anything roughly
Iggy was, and still is criminally underrated. He made punk rock happen, convinced blokes you can be a rock star with three chords and no musical training.
Lust for Life and Boys Keep Swinging (Bowie), I'll never forget when I first heard those songs. To me so representative of that era.
I hated Lodger when it came out because Bowie announced the end of his collaboration with Iggy in the song Red Money (declaring the "project canceled" to the music of Sister Midnight).
Lust For Life and The Idiot have also been very, very influential in germany. It was all around and a must in every club playlist or private record collection. I listened to both maybe a thousand times or more, mostly from a shabby cassette player in my old car. And as I remember, they really sounded really well and dynamic, even with small and bad speakers, which might be an interesting detail in perspective of music production.
Super video, this song made me climb over the fences of the Pinkpop festival, I dropped of a friend with my car, didn't have a ticket, wasn't thinking of going myself but they were playing Lust for life in the campingfestival tent, it worked like a magnet to me, I climbed the fence, went dancing and had a three day free festival in the end!
Thanks Raymond! I really appreciate it!
Just iconic!!when I hear lust for life I can't resist to start to dance like a fool.
Fantastic! Thanks ever so much for sharing!
The Passenger is the greatest song ever. Iggy Pop manages to capture the feel of a random night out to a tee in that song. It's kind of spooky the mood that song sets. The mystery of the sum of the parts being greater than any part.
So much of the LFL beat is that kick sound. It sounds almost like the kick is the snare.
This song was THE MAJOR song tagline of an American Cruise Ship corporation for many years. Selling out or not, that is no small payday, or it sure shouldn't be.
Love Iggy Pop and David Bowie, this song definitely makes me dance ‼️💃‼️💃
Masterpiece
And yes, you can dance to it!
15:47 that’s 100 % Bowie’s voice singing those harmonies!
Yes, blended with the Sales Brothers
Bowie’s voice is all over the place on ‘The Idiot’ and ‘Lust for Life’ and tbh it makes it so magical. Just like Iggy’s on ‘What In The World’.
I’m living in Berlin and chill at Iggy’s and David’s favorite spots, including a bar right next to Hauptstraße 155. You meet people who’d met that duo and learn a lot.
This is exactly why I’d moved here years ago. Berlin’s changed but not fully, you still absorb the atmosphere. I don’t know why my brain took me here but here we are😅🖤
Cheers!
I always wondered why Iggy Pop danced and moved like he did onstage, now I know it was because he was standing in front of Hunt Sales and that heavy right foot on the bass drum pedal, What a sound he makes!
Hahah thanks for the marvellous comment
When people talk about Iggy growing up in a trailer - well, his father was a high school teacher. At the time, Detroit and the surrounding cities like Ann Arbour and Ypsilanti attracted more and more people due to the growing automobile industry. Since construction of houses couldn't keep up, several trailer parks were built for ordinary people like the Osterbergs. The place Iggy grew up in was not what we today think of when we hear "trailer park".
Awesome video, BTW. I wish I could hear this song again for the first time. One of my all-time faves.
Quite simply, Lust for Life never gets old and always makes me feel exhilarated
Love this breakdown of this classic, thanks for all your insights! One small error: the Toppop performance with the creative rearrangement by Iggy of the decor pieces was NOT pre-arranged. It was Iggy being not happy at having to do a playback performance, sulking in his dressingroom, and storming out when they started the music anyway. PS: I am a Dutchie and was 14 when I saw it on TV. Parents in shock, and me dancing around the room!
Finally! An in depth look into what I consider the greatest rock-n-roll song of all time. Dripping menace, and basically about in Iggy's words- A song about how things you enjoy doing can fuck you up. If I could go back in time, hanging out at Hansa Studios the evening of June 8th 1977 would be one of them. A song so well produced and perfect, it defies explanation. Ricky Gardiner's guitar alone sums it up perfectly. (A 1971 Stratocaster w/a built in sustainer. He told me himself.)
That. has. to. be.. THEE rawest, most bombastic drum sound! ..at that time.. The Sales Bros, A Teutonic Terror! Thank You! thank you! for featuring this song & making several attitude point..
Great song and great album, my favorite song on this album is still “Neighborhood Threat”. I’m originally from the Detroit area and we have deep music roots which I’m very proud of. Thanks Warren. R.I.P. Ricky Gardiner.
Yes! 'Neighborhood Threat' ..the staple tune all my bands plays, and still do!
I thought I was the only one!! ‘Neighborhood Threat’ speaks to me on so many levels. I grew up in post communist Warsaw and that was the vibe more than 20 years ago
@@SlavicRusa that’s an interesting connection to that song.
Great moment in “Desperately Seeking Susan” with Richard Hell in a van blasting Lust for Life. So late 70s NYC. With a soon to be discovered Madonna. Amazing song!
Yes! Thanks for sharing
Such a fantastic song and both the Bowie produced Iggy albums are amazing.
Funny thing I saw Iggy and David Bowie on the Dinah Shore television show in January 77. I was fascinated by the energy. I bought the album a short time later long before it had made any kind of splash. I still have that piece of vinyl. Thanks for your insight Warren!
😎👍 HUNT ROCKS!!!
I love his playing with Tim Machine!
It was very sad that they couldn't reunite before David passed!
More from Hunt tomorrow!
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Great! I looking forward to the remainder of the interview.
@@matthewpaluch777 Manny and Hunt recorded a song together! ua-cam.com/video/DS6fC9WK8BY/v-deo.html
Maybe the most energetic recording ever!
Bowie did a wonderful version of this song himself in a very different, but yet typical Bowie fashion. I've always loved this song. I remember when it was aired on TopPop. The next day everybody was talking about it. A lot of people were literally shocked. But know that the Netherlands only had two tv stations at the time, so half the nation saw it. It was huge! And I loved it soooo much! ❤️
Thanks for sharing!
Bowie did a wonderful version of this song himself in a very different, but yet typical Bowie fashion. Oh, really ? When did he? And you are right about Toppop, I saw it too when I was 9 in 1977 and was totally blown away , everybody talked about it the next day, but I was the only one who like it, the rest of the kids in my class thought it was stupid that he trashed the place.
I saw Iggy at Roseland in 1996. Great show, great artist.....
Amazing!! Thanks ever so much
Thanks for talking about Hunt Sales' drums re: how it sounds and not just the beat. It's the ambience and how he tuned it that's a huge key of the song. The bass drum sounds loosely tuned. Clearly the room mic was brought up high on the board and used in the mix.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Nailed it. The groove is infectious and the song iconic. Been practicing to this drum lick for a very long time and get it. But Hunt is never duplicated nor imitated. You can just kinda sound like him in your way. And that is the magic of music. Awesome channel btw! Cheers!
Thanks so much! That means a lot
I think I hear a bit of “I Feel Fine” in the guitar part(s), with the “Last Train To Clarksville” answering/cohabitating with it. And Warren is SO correct, the brothers’ rhythm and groove is an absolute swagger. Those two guys were BREATHING together. Bowie added some Jerry Lee Lewis as well. I am positive that both Bowie and Iggy were massive fans of rockabilly, and much of the glam stuff from Roxy Music and the like came directly from Little Richard, Jerry Lee, and Bowie’s man, Elvis. Put Iggy on top of all that? Genius.
Put that song on anywhere; a rock club, punk dive, r’n’b room, whatever…and EVERYONE moves to that song. That song is simply undeniable. It just IS.
That groove that Hunt and Tony get going. More pocket than a pair of cargo shorts!
Great to hear you mention John McGeoch and Magazine. How about doing "Shot By Both Sides" from 1978 ? It was hugely influential in defining what post-punk could be. As was the whole Real Life album.
Frusciante cites McGeough as a major influence. Sad that he is largely unknown in Scotland.
I loves seeing Hunt knock out that drum beat again, it's really the driving force for the song.
About 20-25 years ago Carnival Cruises used the beat and 2-chord riff on their commercials.
A song about heroin withdrawal selling cruises. Yep. That was the '90s.
Haha indeed
Listening to the isolated sections, it has the same logic as krautrock, say, Neu! The song is all about the drum and bass (90% is there) and the job of the guitar is to float around, seasoning the music, but not taking centre stage like in American rock. Which makes total sense in Berlin. I love this song since I first heard it tearing apart the opening of Trainspotting.
Great great comment! ..and to me it makes sense, not just in Berlin, but everywhere..!
I've always loved how all the grunt and dirt come from the drums and bass. Totally motown
Yes!
I only discovered this song about 5 years ago it's phenomenal.
I simply love you, thank you for doing this tune
Thanks ever so much
When I first got back into vinyl, and had my TT set up, "Lust for Life" was the first album I played. It's such an energetic, bright, live sounding recording. Sounds fierce through a pair of B&W DM601 S2. speakers. Great album.
I did that train ride in 1984. Watching you explain it reminds me of my father trying to explain a slide-rule. Great piece.
Great song, great album.
Thanks ever so much
I love the guitar parts, yet I don't think I ever would have come up with those parts for this song. Very simple and clean and very light. Stylistically the guitars seem to be on another planet from the very primal rhythm section's groove, at least to my ear. Yet when you play it all together it's magic. Thanks Warren!
These are easily the best videos on UA-cam
Wow! Thanks Eliot!
@@Producelikeapro it's brilliant being able to learn more about songs I've loved for ages! Need more of these late 70s early 80s tracks asap
Neighbourhood Threat, gorgeous song which David covered to help Iggy out with some money troubles, that's what proper mates do
Fabulous video, some fascinating insights, many thanks.
Thanks ever so much Mark!!
And some of Bowie's little keyboard licks within the song are so good I was like is that really Bowie or some wrecking crew type pro session musician behind that element.
I lovef Berlin at that time - the spirit, energy, dirt and desperation was totally unique in this universe! It was *the* place to be. The world was easy to understand in Cold War times. Berlin is not that place anymore. But, as always, things go and never come back again. And this is alright. Life was not only glorious (which it was), it was also way more dangerous and unhealthy at the same time. I was lucky to be there and I'm glad it's over, because I survived (and some didn't).
Nice to see Iggy Pop AND the other musicians getting credit for this song and for the music of this period! Thank you! Yes, WE go way back on this! HAHA! Thank you!😀😀😀
Thanks, Dan!
@@Producelikeapro You've come a long way from David Bowie "Heroes"! HAHA!😁😁😁
Your right all the way about opening doors, I was often in Berlin on tour at the time and the atmosphere in Berlin was unique, so happy that I was able to experience it…-
Thanks for sharing!
Always great to see you doing videos about musical shakers and movers, funny how at the time you never realise how iconic things will become, eg being on the Nirvana tour in the UK when the album exploded, at the time it was like just another tour..always the same kind of statements, „that must have been amazing!“ , and you’re like, yeah it was a good tour and great people , but at the same time still remembering at the time thinking it’s just another job…funny how legends become exactly that afterwards…..
I love solo Drum intro songs . Few 'n' far between but usually great. Honky Tonk Woman , Nice and Sleazy for instance
This Song is forever guiding my life, especially on the road! This is absolutely the best series! Thanks Warren and Team!
Thanks ever so much Ady!
One of the best channels I have a subscription to!
Thanks ever so much Chuck! I really appreciate it
Agree hard that Lust for Life was a game changing sound. I love your break downs on how this groundbreaking sounds were made.
I know Hunt, he is a trip. Good guy.
Marvellous
Is it Xmas already ?! OMG this is amazing!
Haha thanks ever so much
I'd absolutely LOVE to be part of Iggy Pop's band. He'll never tell ME to turn down my volume, and I'm LOUD, like Nigel Tufnel.
Haha I hear you!
@@Producelikeapro my favorite song by him is still "You're Pretty Face Is Going To Hell." Also, check out his "Coffee And Cigarettes" skit with Tom Waits. Really funny.
@@alanmatthew5713 thanks ever so much for sharing
As always excellent, cheers Warren.
Thanks ever so much
nice vid, Ricky Gardiner's work on Bowie's Low album is epic
My favourite album of all time!
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Yes probably my fav too. Please ee my comments above and copied below...
"Assume Alomar does the more chuggy rhythm stuff with Gardiner doing the more riffy elements. Bowie had just used this guitar combination on the excellent first side of Low with a rhythm section of Dennis Davis/George Murray adding a touch of funk to the grooves. The harder feel of Lust does come down to the Sales Brothers."
Thank you for watching!
Epic Indeed. Like on "Be my wife" for example!
But i've always thought that on "Lust for life" both track and album it's not just him but Carlos Alomar as well! Right???
I think this is IGGYS best song for me. Your right it did sound dangerous and maybe perverse. Wonderfully raw production .
Thanks for sharing
What an effect these songs and all the other bands you mentioned in the post punk period had on me! Thamkyou Warren!
Glad you enjoyed!
I love the way you are enthusiastic about music that mattered to me in my formative years but was pretty obscure at the time as far as the average person was concerned. My teenage self is dragged into the present and the joy this song evoked back then comes to the fore as you explain exactly the things I felt when listening to this. I've been a musician ever since and often when coming up with ideas for songs this beat surfaces when I'm not expecting it. It's deeply ingrained in anyone that's heard and appreciated it I reckon. Thanks for a really enjoyable look at one of my favourite songs.
! Good video! Iggy is so underrated." The Passenger" is a classic!
Agreed 100%!
Super ! Comme d'habitude ! 😉😎
Really great episode. Shows as well how much one can take a song for granted while never realising what is underneath making it so great.
I just finished reading (absorbing?) Burroughs’ The Ticket that Exploded and was reminded of its role in this song’s creation.
Burroughs is far more influential in music history than people estimate.
Man, your breakdowns are the best, so passionate and so educational at the same time
Such a perfect walkthrough, looking forward to listening to the song yet again, but now with better ears.
Thanks ever so much Johan!
I was born near the end of the "Generation X" birth years. I think most of my peers first became aware of this song through the movie, "Trainspotting". After that movie it was on 107.7 "The End" in Seattle all day long. It sounded really fresh in 1996. It fit right in with the times.
How much of this song's popularity/longevity do you think is attributed to that movie?
Great choice of song!!!
Thanks ever so much
"Sniling attitude". Thanks Warren. Btw, (off topic) yesterday my mixes are really improved with Waves R-bass, RTG Abbey road and L2 maximiser. Thanks again!😀🤩
That's great to hear Rob!
Great video, thanks Warren! Absolute classic song and production. That beat is trickier to pull off than it sounds . . .
Glad you enjoyed it
You mentioned John McGeoch, I would love you to dig deeper into his work. Magazine, Banshees, Armory show etc.
Definitely! Stay tuned!
/Great song. Always reminds me of the film Trainspotting. Thanks very much for the video, great stuff
Thank you
I Want to be Your Dog hit like a bomb in NY when I was a teenager. Love it hate it couldn’t ignore it.
Yes! Masterpiece
Vielen Dank für die interessante Aufarbeitung des Song!
The drums and the bass really are 5 dimensional because it’s brothers doing it together ….
Good explanation from you !!
And as I said before: your pronunciation is very easy to understand for a non native speaker!
Hervorragend 😊
This was a great and insightful video. Thank you my good sir!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy House by Siouxsie and The Banshees. It was a game changing back when it was released.
Masterpiece
As a kid, I did not know how sound was engineered. But I knew that this big drum sound and the rest, were BIG! Wild kid dancing stuff back then, lol. and thx!! I was 14. I m dutch btw and saw the " plants" video on Toppop while my parents were in shock hahaha
not many people in the uk had heard of lou or iggy .until bowie introduced them us his fan's
Great Album
"Some Weird Sin" and "Neighbourhood Threat" both ended up names of small punk bands from Canada..
Sure is!
Great mention of John McGeoch. Genius player. I’ve heard so many mention his playing in Magazine and Siouxsie as an influence.
The Edge, Ed O’Brien, Jonny Greenwood, Johnny Marr, Dave Navarro, John Frusciante…
One of the finest
Coming soon! I’m a huge fan!!
He was also in the little known 'Armoury Show' with Richard Jobson (The Skids) on vocals, his guitar work with them is stunning
Always fantastic and inspiring content - thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love your comment about facing up to our influences. Who we borrow from and how is the foundation of our "sound" or "voice." I recorded a song where I blatantly attempted to sound like the Everly Brothers. The musicians who heard it thought I was playing some John Hiatt for them.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much for this enthusiastic analysis and breakdown of a great song!
Those of us in the university radio scene here on Canada's west coast in the latter 70s were closely following what was happening in the UK (copies of NME and Melody Maker strewn around the office), and even in Europe, as well as our local scene and the rest of North America.
And you're so right! Iggy Pop in the mid to late 1970s worked with Bowie and co to craft some irresistible grooves that are riddled with attitude. Along with "Lust for Life", "I'm Bored" was a personal favourite, leading me to Buzzcocks' "Boredom", and the hilarious - and well played - later Magazine cover of the song.
Thank you for mentioning John McGeoch and Magazine, still one of my favourite bands (was lucky to see and hear them live back then, but sadly after McGeogh had gone). Please consider "The Light Pours Out of Me" as a song to investigate. That said, I really enjoy the tracks on Secondhand Daylight and The Correct Use of Soap, too, but not sure if any were quite as influential. Please feel free to correct me if you think otherwise.
I also enjoyed John McGeoch's sonic contributions to Siouxsie and the Banshees, after he had departed Magazine.
Thank you once more for this series of videos!
Thank you so much for sharing. The Light Pours Out On Me is something we could do. We have a very special collaboration with a guitarist in the future that would warrant us to do a piece on that track. Magazine are brilliant.
@@Producelikeapro Thank you, that would be fabulous! I agree about Magazine and their music, including the reunion album, No Thyself.
Shaped my teenage years!!
And many others too! Thanks for sharing!
I would gladly put up with a lifetime of Soupy's antics on TV/UA-cam to have Hunt&Tony's baselines !!!
Yet another maahh-vellous video Warren. I'd set this one aside to watch later and I'm glad I did because just tonight I caught a documentary on William S. Burroughs, and Iggy Pop appeared in it talking about his influence on this very song. Also, the film mentioned just how much of later rock music was informed by Burroughs: Steely Dan was the name of a certain apparatus in the 1959 novel 'Naked Lunch', his 1961 book The Soft Machine (yet another later band name) had a character in it called the Heavy Metal Kid, which is kind of wild. Patti Smith was greatly influenced in the song 'Horses' ("The boy looked at Johnny..."), again, the Johnny Yen character from 'The Wild Boys'. And, of course Lou Reed was deeply influenced by William Burroughs as well. Not bad for a guy who was born in 1914. He hung out with everyone from Sonic Youth, Blondie, U2, R.E.M, Bowie (of course), the Clash, Throbbing Gristle, David Johansen, Ministry... And he was one of the pioneers of the "cut up" method of writing which was adopted by many, including David Bowie.
I miss the clubs and pubs in Berlin...Linientreu, Eierschalle, Ku'dorf, Tolstefanz, even the Klo... (I left Berlin in '90)
It was an incredible time.
@@Producelikeapro The night the Wall "came down", we were cruising* up and down the Ku'damm, passing bottles of sekt from car to car.
*for values of cruising. SO many cars, just barely moving. LOL
Great! Now I'll be singing George of the Jungle everytime I listen to this song u.u
You did not mention that Carlos Alomar also plays guitar on “Lust for Life” with Ricky Gardiner.
Yes thought the same.
Assume Alomar does the more chuggy rhythm stuff with Gardiner doing the more riffy elements. Bowie had just used this guitar combination on the excellent first side of Low with a rhythm section of Dennis Davis/George Murray adding a touch of funk to the grooves. The harder feel of Lust does come down to the Sales Brothers.
Yes! Bad edit! That's a mistake that will be rectified!
@@Producelikeapro Thanks Warren. Love your openness
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YES. THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for watching, Bill!
Great analysis Warren. When you we're speaking about the feel of the song and how it's been copied by bands like Jet etc... it reminded me of another with the same sort of beat. "International Dateline " by Ladytron has that rhythm to it.
I’ll add that to the list! Thanks ever so much
Awesome Warren, very cool. I'd love for you to do something on The Jam, my fave of all the English bands of that time.
LOVE this album! Thanks for posting!
You mentioned James Honeyman-Scott twice. Still can’t help but wonder what he could have done
Wow. Never heard the guitar part like that.
Thanks ever so much
This is so inspiring. Thank you.
Thanks ever so much
Well Done Sir!!!
Thanks ever so much
Another brilliant and informative video. I love to hear the history of these songs, and taking the recording apart to hear each instrument is just incomparable for intense music fans.
I also love the reference to the Onion. Leave it to the Onion to come up with the most hilarious and insightful satirical comment on any topic.
Classic. I’ve always wanted to hear a more slamming mix of this song. Would there be a cover version coming???? :) Love the Jet reference.. Nic Cester has a killer voice!
Agree with you about John Mc Geoch.. Mc Geoch was an innovator. At his level he could have been in a prog band his arrangements were really off the beaten track.. BTW I love you channel, your analysis are often very thorough without being overly technical or nerdy..
Another album from 1977 only released in Europe is Hard Attack by the Bloomington IN band MX-80 released on Island Records...sounds like Sonic Youth on acid......the midwest had some progressive music coming from many of the weird college towns like Ann Arbor, Bloomington, and Madison, Wisconsin. Europe always seemed to be tapped into it more than the coastal US like techno and house later on.
What a master class