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Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
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Musically, “Lust For Life” is deceptively catchy and upbeat for a song about a life ravaged by drug addiction. This has led to the song being used as the laughably incongruous
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Iggy Pop – Frenzy
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[Intro] / (Oh-oh) / [Verse 1] / Got a dick and two balls, that's more than you all / My mind will be sick if I suffer the pricks / So shut up and love me, 'cause fun is my buddy
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Iggy Pop (Ft. Kate Pierson) – Candy
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[Spoken: Iggy Pop] / It's a rainy afternoon in 1990 / The big city / Geez, it's been twenty years / Candy, you were so fine / [Verse 1: Iggy Pop] / Beautiful, beautiful girl from
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Iggy Pop – Strung Out Johnny
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[Intro] / Hey, man, I see you / Open up, okay / Get out of here, Iggy / Come on now, fix me up / [Verse 1] / Love becomes compulsive / It's wiser to say no / God made me a junkie
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Iggy Pop – Look Away
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I slept with Sable when she was 13 / Her parents were too rich to do anything / She rocked her way around LA / 'Til a New York Doll carried her away / Look away / Look away / Now
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Iggy Pop – Beside You
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I been hungry way down in my heart waiting for a reason / I been hungry like a lot of guys, I want to be beside you / Lonely people pass me in the street waiting for a reason
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Iggy Pop – New Atlantis
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[Intro] / Somewhere south of Alabama and north of Cuba / There lies a beautiful whore of a city / She accepts all donations and attracts / An endless stream of lovers / Colombian
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Iggy Pop – Gardenia
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The song was debuted with a performance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on January 21, 2016.
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Iggy Pop – Turn Blue
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Dark and visceral, “Turn Blue” stands out on Lust For Life as its most experimental track. It was a remnant from Pop and Bowie’s tour for The Idiot, during which the song would be
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Iggy Pop – Home
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[Verse 1] / I work so hard, man, so don't trip me up / Shaking a leg like the tail of the pup / I'm paying dues till I register heat / Sure hope I don't end up on the street / [
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Iggy Pop – Dum Dum Boys
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The song’s title refers to Iggy’s bandmates in the Stooges, brothers Scott and Ron Asheton.
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Iggy Pop – Dirt
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Ooh, I been dirt / And I don't care / Ooh, I been dirt / And I don't care / 'cause I'm burning inside / I'm just a yearning inside / And I'm the fire o' life / Ooh, I've been hurt
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Iggy Pop – China Girl
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China Girl was co-written with David Bowie, who helped Iggy find financial stability for the first time in his life by later recording his own version for his smash hit record Let’
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Iggy Pop – Gold
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[Verse 1] / It's okay, it's alright / The promise of the tongue / Leaving them behind tonight / But I guess this time, I'm doubled up / I'm doubled down again / I got no time to
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Iggy Pop – Nightclubbing
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Although lyrically very simple, “Nightclubbing” is an art-rock staple. Written jointly by Iggy and producer David Bowie, it features Iggy on lead vocals and Bowie on piano, with
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Iggy Pop – Shades
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[Verse 1] / You gave me a present / The paper was blue and green / I unwrapped it with pleasure / These are the best shades I've ever seen / You can be my girlfriend / Forever and
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Iggy Pop – Mass Production
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Iggy Pop has said that the automotive factories and industrialism of Detroit had a huge influence on his music. The song opens with a tape loop created by Magma bassist Laurent
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Iggy Pop – Baby
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[Verse] / Baby, don't you cry / Baby, I'll sing you a lullaby / [Pre Chorus] / We're walking down the street of chance / Where the chances are always slim or none / And the
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Dallon Weekes – Iggy Pop
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[Verse 1] / Too cool for school and more jaded than me / Tell us again how you don't watch MTV / Black at night / A rockstar in tight pants / Tight... pants? / [Chorus] / What else
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Iggy Pop (Ft. The Trolls) – Whatever
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(Whatever) / I'm sittin' like a stone on a solitary evening / Without my girl, life has no meaning / She didn't say why and she didn't say what for / She just said, "I've been
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Iggy Pop – L.O.S.T.
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I got my work / I got my work / The profit of doom is walking the beach / With a psychotic breakdown cardboard sign / Everything's faked and there's nothing to teach / And there's
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Iggy Pop – Comments
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[Verse 1] / Hold my hand and we can take a leap / Earth is dirty, space is full of creeps / Sell your stock in Zuckerberg and run / Buy your passport to the end of fun / [Chorus
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Iggy Pop – Angel
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[Verse] / Still when I was crying, you were on my side / Angel, you can come and see me here tonight / Angel, of course you're always more than welcome here / Still I'm needing
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Iggy Pop – Morning Show
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[Verse 1] / The hurt that's in my face / Didn't come from outer space / I'm crispy on the outside / And juicy where I cry / We cannot be happy / 'Cause I will not be happy / [
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Iggy Pop – My Animus (Interlude)
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[Spoken] / I am not some flimsy, stray-town straw boy / I am a terror / My animus can stand up all on its own / To smell out and find the saucer of milk and drink it all
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Iggy Pop – Neo Punk
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[Intro] / Punk, punk, punk / [Verse 1] / I'm a mini thug, I'm all jacked up on drugs, I'm a neo punk / Emotionally, I'm a celebrity, I'm a neo punk / I don't have to sing, I got
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Iggy Pop – All The Way Down
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[Intro] / Listen, little man / (Oh, oh) / [Verse 1] / I don't wanna hear no phony shit / I've gotta win and that's the end of it / I'm taking aim at a big asshole / And I might
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Iggy Pop – The Endless Sea
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[Verse 1] / Oh baby, what a place to be / In the service of the bourgeoisie / Where can my believers be / I want to jump into the endless sea / [Chorus] / Oh, oh the endless sea
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Iggy Pop & James Williamson – Consolation Prizes
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You're a suede daddy on the boulevard / That boy's no nelly, he'll break your nose and take your car / And it's consolation prizes, consolation prizes / That's all that's keeping
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Iggy Pop – Sister Midnight
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[Verse 1] / Calling sister midnight / You've got me reaching for the moon / Calling sister midnight / You've got me playing the fool / Calling sister midnight / [Chorus] / Calling
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Iggy Pop – Isolation
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Needed you, you were only using / Needing you just tore me down / And here I stand in isolation / Feeling emptiness and doubt / Walking down the broken highway / Sucking sugar
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Iggy Pop – African Man
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All I want to do, monkey see, monkey do / I eat a monkey for breakfast / I eat a skunk for lunch / I live in the bush / I eat with my fingers / I don’t use no knife and fork / '
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Iggy Pop – Tonight
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Tonight is the fifth song in “Lust for Life”, co-written by David Bowie and Iggy. It’s about heroin overdose.
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Iggy Pop – Funtime
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Iggy delivers this song in a dry, monotonous tone, which indicates a sense of irony. It can also be seen as Iggy suggesting he has a rather perverse idea of having fun.
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Iggy Pop – Low Life
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I'm wandering in Time Square, I'm low life / I ain't wearing no underwear 'cause I'm low life / Nobody sees my face / I go without a trace / Although I'm planning great things
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Iggy Pop – Louie Louie
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Cover of the rhythm and blues song written by Richard Berry in 1955 and best known for the 1963 [hit version by The Kingsmen.]
After performing it on French television, Iggy
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Iggy Pop – Paraguay
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A great bon-voyage from Iggy, telling you of his plans to live in paradise now that he’s ready to relax. It’s almost two songs in one with a large explosive rant by Iggy at the end
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