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My Top 1000 Songs #954: Lust For Life

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the  All My Favorite Songs  tag.] This one's admittedly hard to enjoy as just a simple song these days, inevitably conjuring up its associations with everything from Trainspotting (where the song's disjointed drug and degradation references make sense) to cruise ship commercials (where they make--maybe--less sense?). Still, it's tough not to still get a little rush out of the title track from Iggy Pop's second post- Stooges  solo album, like the first (both arriving in 1977) a close collaboration with David Bowie . (And it's yet another reminder that Bowie was so on fire throughout the 70s that he could write the music for something like "Lust For Life" and simply say, hey, why don't you take this one...) A lot of that thrill emanates from the unforgettable beat, of course--courtesy of drummer Hunt Sales (who'd later rejoin Bowie as p...

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