![]() ![]() NY Loose – Lust for Life (Iggy Pop cover) We end up making our own thing.” One of those own things was a cover of “Lust for Life” that takes it down to Texas and kicks it through any number of haystacks. “This isn’t bluegrass and it isn’t this or that,” said singer and banjo player Danny Barnes. The Bad Livers spent the ’90s playing what they insisted wasn’t bluegrass music. But these five do… Bad Livers – Lust for Life (Iggy Pop cover) (And the royalties sure didn’t hurt.)īowie did a live version, but as he’s a co-writer of the song, it doesn’t count as a cover. A little strange, you might think, to promote a family-friendly vacation option with a song that off-handedly admits, “Of course I’ve had it in the ear before.” But Pop had no qualms – he was just happy the song finally got its place in the sun. It opened the film with a bang, new generations discovered the song, and soon it was inescapable, appearing in everything from video games to a Rugrats movie to Royal Carribean cruise line commercials. But a decade or so later, it showed up in the opening scene of Trainspotting, as future Obi-Wan Ewan McGregor ran from the police and talked about choosing life. See, the movie was Desperately Seeking Susan, and people were more interested in Madonna. Then it appeared in a movie, and… nothing. Pop’s work was among those lost in the shuffling off the mortal coil, and it stayed half-forgotten for years on end. Unfortunately, Elvis Presley died a few weeks before Lust for Life‘s release, and RCA decided to dedicate everything to Elvis, from pulling all promotion for its other artists to having its record plants press nothing but Presley. What happened were exuberant lyrics about heroin addiction (partially inspired by William Burroughs), a driving rhythm played by drummer Hunt Sales, and the most positive, upbeat, happy song of Pop’s career. Like, ‘Here I am producing albums for this insane idiot - let’s see what happens!'” “In the two albums we made,”said Pop, referring to Lust for Life and The Idiot, “I think Bowie wanted to make the comment that I was an idiot à la Dostoyevsky and insane à la van Gogh. “Write something up.”ĭescribing their songwriting process, Bowie said, “I often gave him a few anchor images that I wanted him to play off, and he would take them away and start free-associating.” Pop later realized that Bowie’s title came from the Kirk Douglas film about Vincent van Gogh. Bowie picked up a ukulele (“it might have been his son’s,” Pop later remembered) and wrote out the chord progression. The show started with a call signal – beep beep beep, beep beep beep beep, beep beep beep. One night they were sitting on the floor waiting for Starsky and Hutch to start on the Armed Forces Network. There were no chairs – they had decided chairs were unnatural. When David Bowie moved to Berlin, he took an apartment over an auto parts store. ![]()
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