Iggy pop lust for life7/26/2023 Looking back on the rock music archive with 20:20 hindsight, The Stooges, The MC5 and The Velvet Underground are three of the most influential bands of the time, not achieving the recognition they deserved when they were at the peak of their powers, but since becoming iconic in the rock’n’roll world. A connection to revolutionary, legendary rockers the MC5, formed a few years earlier, was forged through Kathy Asheton, sister to Ron and Scott, and that became a key to the future. Let’s call ourselves the Psychedelic Stooges!” The ‘psychedelic’ was later dropped to give the band the name we now all know so well. Allegedly named after Ron’s favourite TV show ‘The Three Stooges’, the Asheton brother claims he declared at the time “We’re like the Stooges, but we’re psychedelic. Having gone to high school in Ann Arbor, Jim developed his rock’n’roll chops in several bands, including the Iguanas and The Prime Movers before forming the Psychedelic Stooges with the Asheton brothers, Ron and Scott, and Dave Alexander in 1967. James Newell Osterberg, the child to subsequently become known as the artist Iggy Pop, came into the world in 1947 and was raised in a trailer park in Coachville, Michigan, USA. One root factor in Iggy’s apparent indestructible persona, as very much to the fore in ‘Lust For Life’, is a car crash he survived as a teenager back in 1965, when driving up Highway 31 to Silver Lake in Michigan state with a girlfriend. Ever the sharp mimic, David picked up the nearest available instrument and started strumming.” If this doesn’t start you moving, what will? ‘No more beating my brains, with the liquor and drugs’, sings Iggy, so forcefully you might almost believe him! The Sales brothers power the tune as the forceful rhythm section leaving space for the guitars and vocals to weave over the top.Īccording to Iggy Pop, the track ‘Lust For Life’ was written by David Bowie “in Berlin, in front of the TV, on a ukelele…He cribbed the rhythm of this army forces network theme, which was a guy tapping out the beat on a Morse code key. “Here comes Johnny Yen again with the liquor and drugs, and a flesh machine…” ĭebauchery personified, subject matter drugs, alcohol, stripping and general ‘lowlife’, the song is such a winner. Since becoming synonymous with the opening sequence of ‘Trainspotting’, Danny Boyle’s screen adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s gritty novel centred around drug addiction in Edinburgh, the song ‘Lust For Life’ was already well known and fitted in well with the ‘zeitgeist’ at the time of its release. From the now-iconic opening drum beat of the title track, it’s upbeat rock-‘n’-roll, albeit the lyrics revealing a seedy underworld inhabited by the actors in this audio filmscape. ‘Lust For Life’ lives up to its name, for the first side at least.
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