FIRST TIME HEARING IGGY POP 🎵 "Lust For Life" Reaction

[@jeffc6114]

this cracked me up because you both looked like a couple of anthropologists who have stumbled across some mysterious primitive culture in the forest of some island lost in time. And in a way, you have..

[@TheDude-pr6ug]

😀😃😄😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃😉😊

[@supertrexandroidx]

LoL, well said. I don't think I've ever seen them both look so perplexed throughout an entire video

[@grandwazoodebris1015]

Well put. "primitive". Iggy said he thought Bowie produced Raw Power as an anthropologist project, working with the "primitives"

[@DanSolo871]

If you want bizarre, I can suggest some Robyn Hitchcock tunes that will give you a confused look 😁

[@jimcarlson6157]

maybe the culture is not primitive, but instead intimately attuned to earth in a sustainable way. the dominant culture is rapacious in every way.

[@michaelwhite1119]

Iggy Pop was the singer for the Stooges. He's the grandfather of punk. One of THE most influential artists EVER. My aunt gave me Iggy around 8 yrs old. When she showed me a poster of Iggy standing on the crowd I knew what I wanted to do. Sing in a band....and that is what I did for 15 years. 😆

[@robr135]

Yet if you told him he was a punk he would not be so happy. He vehemently despises punk lol. funny.

[@zeroblacksun]

@@robr135 He never despised punk, he despises the label.

[@andrewbradley8895]

Iggy and Patti Smith. I was fortunate (and old enough), to see the Ramones, DOA and Danzig - post misfits.

[@hoopsfreak5]

Brad: "He must be very eccentric" Me: Busts out laughing, that's exactly right

[@sarahzentexas]

I laughed too, and it’s funny because it’s TRUE. 😆

[@KC-bv9kf]

If the word didn’t exist, then Webster would have to come up with it for iggy.

[@artothewanderer9517]

You guys should watch “Trainspotting”. One of the best movies ever made.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

♥ Trainspotting - what did ya think of the sequel?

[@MrScreaney]

@@Bekka_Noyb The club scene with Radio Gaga was awesome!!!

[@ragethesystem91]

Absolutely! That's one of those crazy flicks I could watch any time.

[@scottfrench4139]

@@Bekka_Noyb It was so much better than I thought it was going to be. Quite good, actually. But nothing beats the original.

[@KapmansBasementWorkshop]

Trainspotting was great!

[@JamoonXerxesSauber]

He's not really being silly or serious, he's just being Iggy lol and you interpret him how you interpret him. He's inherently eccentric/shocking, quite often with lyrics based around rock and roll lifestyle. He is a punk rock n rolla and he lived it. I tend to just appreciate the vibe of his music more than anything and have always seen him as a proto-Manson.

[@da_blade5040]

Agreed, He's Super Unique and great to listen too! 😁😁

[@sarahjane8146]

On Letterman with a broccoli crown hanging from a rope around his neck. Classic.

[@NikkieTwix]

I love this song so much, makes you dance and feel free. Also I’m Scottish and this song is heavily connected to Trainspotting which is a hugely popular Scottish movie. Choose life

[@omgitsjesus4505]

..choose a fucking' big television...

[@johnsouthwell1869]

but why choose life when you can choose heroin? (from the USA btw)

[@upalgangopadhyay7117]

I stumbled on to Iggy Pop when my older cousin showed me trainspotting, let's just say I've never discovered two better things in a single day since 😆

[@NikkieTwix]

@@upalgangopadhyay7117 haha ! I love that and I agree

[@glenminnick3724]

Iggy has been around since the 60s. You would have to delve in a little more to appreciate his music. There is a lot to this well respected artist!

[@Damiana_Dimock]

I would not have started y’all off with “Lust For Life,” (great album nonetheless,) but the added problem here is that it was the biggest song off the Trainspotting soundtrack, and if you don’t know that and have not seen that film this video is probably super confusing-good case for a lyric video, or just have lyrics pulled up, (I would have thought by now Brad would just have lyrics pulled up for every song.) Iggy Pop & The Stooges are the “godfathers” of punk, their debut was released in 1969. This song was released during Pop’s solo career in 1977, BUT this video is from the ‘90s to coincide with the film trainspotting (1996.) Iggy Pop is still producing music today. 2019’s “Free” was his most recent solo album. Listening to this song may also benefit with the context of Pop’s personal history, which was full of heroin, speed, various other drugs, and homelessness brought on by the addiction to drugs. I believe when The Stooges reunited briefly they discussed in interviews how the kind of gear they played wasn’t important because one of the other band members was probably going to steal it to sell for drugs. Also, around the time that album was released Iggy Pop & David Bowie had been good friends and frequent collaborators. Check out Iggy Pop & Grace Jones performing “Nightclubbin’” (also on the Trainspotting soundtrack,) or “China Girl” (a song which he and Bowie co-wrote and both released their own versions of,) songs off the album, The Idiot. If I were to start someone off on an Iggy Pop path, “I Wanna Be Your Dog” of The Stooges’ self-titled debut would be the song, (the version off The Crow: City Of Angels’ soundtrack is my favorite, but I’d still start ya off with the original,) and probably “Search And Destroy” or “Gimme Danger” off Raw Power (1973.)

[@jonnyyen7169]

RAW POWER!!!

[@angelo9725]

👍

[@davidtingley9978]

Loose from Funhouse is killer too.

[@katelynneshouse2834]

YES!!!

[@keithandlinus]

"Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens" has been my favorite line since I was a little kid. My aunt played this for me around 1980. Iggy and David Bowie wrote this song together while getting off cocaine in Berlin in the 70s. They were broke and had an apartment. This was the Pop/Bowie collaborative years.

[@LLentium]

This is a song from 1977, this video was made to promote a movie called Trainspotting in the 90s. It makes more sense in proper context. Iggy is one of the godfathers of punk, he made this after his band The Stooges broke up. This was the start of his solo career, he released two albums in 1977 produced by David Bowie. Both are great.

[@thoban1724]

He's got it right. The song is funny, confusing and a victory song. All punk is tongue in cheek (funny), hectic and Iggy Pop wrote this song after he came out of a drug addiction so it is a of a victory song.

[@annaoswald5943]

The close up of a confused and speechless Brad & Lex at the end was priceless.

[@raymo6795]

..Not sure how I would explain Iggy to young people Anna. Not a lot of comparable artists.But he did make a cultural mark.

[@MainlyRock]

Totally 😄! But I was the same way back in (what was it!?) 77, when he appeared on TV in the Netherlands in a legendary performace on TopPop! Playback though I believe, but still... confused and intriged at the same time.

[@zappa1952]

He always looks confused!

[@Mixed_Up_Music]

You need to watch trainspotting one of the best films of the 90's Iggy's the man!

[@jacobmontoya7172]

Iggy Pop, invented the stage dive...he also drops trouser at every show.

[@skinheadjon901]

Your confusion makes Iggy all the more relevant 🎶🤔🤩👍

[@waynehackney5812]

Oh so right ✅

[@Donnybrook10]

LOL...Iggy is 77 years old and one of the original Glam rockers. Hes in his 60s in this vid...it was in the movie train spotting which is the confusing scenes in the background.

[@adamfindlay7091]

Iggy started as a drummer so if he dances wild or weird it's also he a crazy freak. It is punk/rock. His lyrics are pretty epic. You got it...he made it by the skin if his dogpaws.

[@DarthTurducken]

This song is from 1977, but the video was made with clips from the movie "Trainspotting" that came out in 1996 because they put this song on the soundtrack.

[@Imogjudub]

Iggy was the Singer from the STOOGES. And the Video is from the Movie Trainspoting.

[@badimagerybyjohnromine]

The movie scenes used in this video are from the movie Trainspotting 1997, it is one of the best movies i have ever seen and the only movie that has ever handled drug addiction in a mature way.

[@maxwellportlock2119]

Iggy was performance artist.Used to do crazy things on stage. Had a hit with this and then .....The film clips are from Train Spotting , an English film about drugs and they used his song in it .

[@maxwellportlock2119]

@gerard dearie I know lol.

[@Zundfolge]

"Its like hypnotizing chickens" ... the single greatest phrase in music history.

[@toddstevens13]

I love Brad, at least he is totally honest when he is way out of his comfort zone, and any Iggy will put Brad out of his zone.

[@benabel7326]

Well he's that way on pretty much every video.

[@neillenet291]

one of the things that are endearing about Brad is he's always "confused." LOL, But he's also honest about it

[@toddstevens13]

@@benabel7326 He has gotten a few more lately, but yes, definitely new territory for him and Lex, but Lex seems to be more of a nature child who can go with any new flow.

[@toddstevens13]

@@neillenet291 Indeed, they seem full on ying and yang.

[@iwannotowidigdo9474]

Love it. You got me with "I think he must be very eccentric"...understatement of the year. Do see the movies Trainspotting for the grittiest heroin withdrawal scene ever and Velvet Goldmine for Mr. Pop's performance vibe in all its glory. Other tunes from you might want to review just for the "now, there's something you don't see/hear every day" factor are Pumping for Jill and I'm Bored.

[@jlovebirch]

The song is from 1977, the video is scenes from Trainspotting (great movie), which in this case created extra confusion.

[@goofybastrd6856]

I've been going to concerts since 1979. Seen thousands of bands over the years. Iggy is without a doubt, the best live performer I've ever seen.

[@rustyshackleford735]

This was a song he wrote after getting clean for awhile.

[@laurettelaliberte8864]

It is one of the building blocks of punk. The movie scenes in the background are from Trainspotting.

[@magicsufi]

YOU GUYS REACTION IS PRICELESS!!...DAVID BOWIE WROTE THE BASS LINE(song....music)...,,,...HE GOT IT FROM THE COMPUTER NOISES OFF THE AMERICAN ARMED SERVICE RADIO...OR RADIO FREE EUROPE...(something like that)...BOWIE WAS PRODUCING 2 ALBUMS A YEAR AT THAT TIME....1 FOR IGGY AND 1 FOR HIMSELF......THIS WAS DURING THE "BERLIN TRILOGY" YEARS.......THEY BOTH LIVED TOGETHER IN BERLIN....THE DRUMMER AND BASS PLAYER LATER WENT ON TO PLAY WITH BOWIE IN..."TIN MACHINE"....I DARE YOU TO REACT TO ..."UNDER THE GOD"...BY BOWIE AND TIN MACHINE.......I DARE YOU!!...I DOUBLE DARE YOU.....YOU HAVE NOT HEARD TIN MACHINE YET........LUST FOR LIFE IS A SARCASTIC SONG...THE BEST LINE IS..."OF COURSE IVE HAD IT IN THE EAR B4...ABOUT SOMETHING CALLED LOVE!..LOVE LOVE LOVE...THATS LIKE HYPNOTIZING CHICKENS"...............i like your channel

[@scapito]

The song is about trying to control addictions. I know the references he makes are based on a book, so those who aren't familiar with the book struggle to understand what it's about. I'm pretty sure he wrote this with David Bowie too. I'd probably classify it as a punk sub-genre, but can definitely hear Bowie's influence (and he's difficult to put into a genre). The movie Trainspotting, about addiction, made this song more popular than it was nearly 20 years earlier when it was initially released. Saw Iggy Pop open for Pearl Jam in 1997 or 1998... he was not happy with the uninterested crowd and cut his set short. Very few people seemed to notice.

[@cameronmccaskell5024]

Which book?

[@scapito]

@@cameronmccaskell5024 I had to hunt down the name of the book ... The Ticket That Exploded by William S Boroughs

[@cameronmccaskell5024]

@@scapito Thank you

[@feelflowz]

Brad, don’t be confused. Try closing your eyes and just listening to, feeling the music.

[@roverfavela]

Exactly this!!!

[@jamesanthony8438]

Yeah, 'cause you really don't wanna' look at Iggy. =)

[@timmacsweet1]

I love how Brad thinks that if he was told what “genre” a piece of music is that he’d somehow understand it or be less confused. You get it or you don’t.

[@petermizon4344]

ITS FROM 80S AND FEATURED IN THE FILM TRAINSPOTTING SET IN SCOTLAND AND DRUGS THE FILM WAS IN 90S

[@briankaufman7293]

One of the best music videos ever!

[@MP-kv3fo]

Punk rock for the win!

[@camillegeraghty3687]

I listened to the Stooges and Iggy in the 80’s… he is epic guys! Play this loud and jump around your lounge room!!! That is the only way you will have the full experience!

[@pennydaytreasures8173]

Damn I miss how diverse music used to be. Haven’t heard this song in YEARS. Iggy was a legend 😉

[@swinglow33]

Iggy opened for The Pretenders when I saw him. When Chrissy Hinde came out, she kissed the stage Iggy was on because he was performing shortly after rehab.

[@chrisleneil]

Saw them perform together in the ‘80s!

[@markoconnor995]

The Godfather of Punk was lamenting his teenage son's behavior and his own promise to him. Iggy was pretty wild in his day, but his kid mellowed him out. Iggy incentivised his son's highschool graduation with a promise to take his son on the road with him. Iggy soon found his son to be twice the Wildman he had been and he tells the story in the song. Unfortunately, the song was also used for the drug movie, Trainspotting, so the video has a convoluted message.

[@brianconnor1810]

Trainspotting, a Scottish movie about drug life in Edinburgh, Iggy Pop, punk legend

[@laurettelaliberte8864]

lol he's been clean for a while, and he's actually pretty normal in real life.

[@papacarl2002]

The most PUZZLED looks I’ve ever seen on LEX’s face. 🤔

[@jchow5966]

Punk rock pioneer. Iggy is just terrific & iconic. 💟

[@MrUlfdub]

Iggy was languishing in a mental facility around 1975 when David Bowie began visiting him. He took him along on the 1976 Station to Station tour and after that, they decided to kick drugs and record together in Europe. The first lp "the Idiot" is named after a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The second "Lust for Life" is named after an Irving Stone novel about Vincent van Gogh. The Idiot's cover is based on "The Scream", a painting by ‎Edvard Munch. Iggy and David recorded in chateau d'herouville, imagining themselves to be Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, 2 artists with a connection to the chateau who often painted the same subject separately and did self portraits of each other. What David really was after was pioneering a new sound, including groundbreaking "treated" and electronic drums (Nightclubbing's beats were sampled by Nine Inch Nails's Trent Reznor on "Closer", without risking his own reputation. What he learned flowed over into the "LOW" sessions. He also discovered that iggy went into the studio with nothing and composed on the spot, a skill that Bowie used quite often going forward.

[@paulfedor9828]

trainspotting might be one of the greatest soudtrack ever

[@dosam_6146]

Oh wow…. Are you guys for real? This guy is a legend!

[@No_Hate_2024]

This was 1977, I think, and I heard it on college radio and quit listening to top 40 radio. Oh, and David Bowie collaborated on the album.

[@adgato75]

Search and Destroy is another great Iggy Pop song , with the Stooges.

[@MP-kv3fo]

Oooh love this song

[@mdegginger4761]

Iggy Pop is Godfather of American Punk with the Stooges. He is also very famous for being the beginning of gender bender rock coming out of the 70's. He and Alice Cooper made it kool to put on make up and dress in drag to perform. Connected romantically with Lou Reed from Velvet underground and David Bowie as a decades long three way relationship. Iggy has put out great music for years, but it isnt anything you would consider mainstream, thats why its so tasty. Also check out a recent release (Last decade) Post Pop Depression he made with Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age and Matt the drummer from Arctic Monkeys. Rock and punk fusion that will blow your mind. But a must is rewind back to "I want to be your Dog" to hear the birth of American punk.

[@peterfromgermany2431]

The Film Trainspotting was so great! And the Music too! A must see!

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

Iggy is one of you're best exports, Trainspotting is the best film (movie to you) of the '90s! 🇬🇧

[@CURTISHETTRO]

Fucking priceless reaction. I'm so glad I'm not normal

[@shanepn]

I think it's about a lust for life. Lol

[@idemandabetterfuture]

Lustful Life / Lust for Life

[@tomantush4867]

Lust for Life is living to the extreme, a celebration of going to the limits of poverty, fame, sexual, and chemical excess, and still going full-speed at life and enjoying it. In spite of, or because of, everything I have done, I STILL have a lust for life. This is poetry...a painting in sound and dance.

[@spiritscar]

Brad, you’re too much of a nerd. No matter what the genre or style of music, all you ever do is hyper focus on the lyrics, and complete ignore the musicality of anything you listen to. You ignore whatever emotions the instrumentals may be conveying so that you may solely focus on lyrics. There are times lyrics are very important, and times they’re not. Lex seems like she’s willing to groove with whatever she may be listening to. You quickly snap her out of whatever groove may be feeling, so you can make her put her nerd cap on along with you and attempt to analyze the lyrics. Some songs are about a groove, a feeling, a vibe my man. Learn to appreciate musicianship dude. Or the quality of a singers voice rather than just the words being said.

[@jjw1072]

True .

[@markallen2984]

Unfair. Brad thinks that what people intentionally say has an intended meaning and he's trying to understand it.... he is taking the artist seriously

[@AD270479]

@@markallen2984 Yes m8, I don't think that's really any different from what the original post is saying he does. The point being made but is that he shouldn't because not all songs have meaning, especially more towards the pop genre. It's more about catchy sounds & modern cliches.

[@SevenHunnid]

I smoke weed & do reaction videos on my KZbin channel as my job😅better than working at subway that’s forsure

[@Bob_Sacamano1975]

Word! To much focusing on pausing at the right time with nothing to say.

[@justinwilton4603]

Check out ...the stooges "i wanna be your dog" its the band iggy used to be in :)....and you can't analyse every artist you react to because you come across someone like iggy and he's just on another planet 😂😂

[@MikeHanson]

For sure. Also add "Give me danger" and "Search and destroy".

[@idemandabetterfuture]

@@MikeHanson I second "Search and Destroy"

[@CanadianPunker62]

It was the main song for the movie Trainspotting which came out in 1996. The video is splicing in clips from the movie and shows the title of the movie a few times. It's about some heroin addicts, but it's a good one if you ever get a chance to see it

[@Viraxii]

I love how you both just look out into the air at the end then look at each other utterly confused ... its just Iggy man :D

[@markclark4795]

Iggy and The Stooges are uber CA punk. the fav music of chef Anthony Bourdain. you never know if Iggy is putting you on or trying out new creative expression. he was a contemporary of Jim Morrison. 2022 and Iggy is clean and sober and eating right and celebrating. Iggy ! still able to wear leather pants and may be the hippest grandpa on the planet.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

Iggy blew me away when I saw him on DS9. He is so talented.

[@Forscythe80]

Lust for Life has one of the most... Can't think of the exact words, but its one of those songs I'll realise I'm physically "chair dancing" while listing to it, almost as if it was an involuntary thing to do when this song plays. The riff is so damn catchy and energetic. Better than any one of those dance songs made to be a dance song. As an aside, I always thought this song was about heroin use.

[@jeffreekoch9298]

No, this aint pop rock! It's punk (maybe pop punk for this song). Fast rock music with a little jumpy beat, danceable. I love how punk rock trips Brad and Lex out sometimes 😆 But, this is an old reaction from months ago, see that yall since then have gotten the hang of punk music now. Punks can be silly, wild, pissed off/ f you attitude, sarcastic, hilarious at times. For sure Iggy Pop, he's one of the Godtathers of punk, going back decades. The Stooges, his band was one of the proto-punk bands back in the late '60s. They came out of Detroit, Michigan. MC5, another proto-punk band, came out of Detroit, too. Check them out! They have good songs. If you ever watch the Jim Rome show or listen to his show on sports talk radio. This song is played on there beginning and at the end of the show. 🎸

[@gregnewman2512]

Bowie had just helped Iggy thru a nasty bottoming out. He produced this record for Iggy to help him get back on his feet. Later used in movie "Trainspotting" which was about heroin culture, from which much of the footage is from.

[@JMitch67]

Lmao loved the cringy awkward ending. I’m cracking up overhear trying not to wake up the house. Iggy Pop is like a Salvador Dali painting. It’s abstract and completely interpretative. Thank for the laugh. That was great.

[@robertevans2450]

Iggy is in the realm between Pop and Punk. In the early 80's when punk, new wave, electronic/house & metal was finding bands move in and out of these genres because most weren't stable genres and fluid in what was considered what. Ramones were another like this where they started in punk and slowly moved into Rock, but unlike Iggy, they never ventured into Pop. You had other bands moving in and out of new wave and pop, or punk and new wave, or punk and metal as well. The nonsensical was a common theme in the early 80's in part because that often got bands air time on MTV or VH1. There was songs about fish heads, songs from Frankie telling us all to relax, and don't do it..songs about dead people partying (Oingo Boingo: Dead man's Party), song about Mexican radio and iguanas(Wall of Voodoo)...it was a very antiserious era, even the song about being blinded by Science, was a nonsensical track. But these tracks shouldn't be misconstrued to be in line with comedic stuff like what Weird Al was creating or anything that would be played in the late nights with Dr. Demento or Tony Jams shows were playing. These were just eccentric expressions much like the odd art that was being born in that same time period.

[@ArildTorum]

You should also try "The Passenger" off the same album as this. One of my favorite songs of that period.

[@michaeldaugette802]

Iggy Pop and the Stooges! Punk rock before there was punk rock ! I’ve heard he had set himself on fire on stage before ! He’s a wild dude that’s for sure ! His song Candy I think it was , was a duet with one of the singers from the B52s is really a good song it’s more normal sounding than his usual stuff !

[@donwest5387]

I've had it IN the ear before

[@garywilliams1948]

Iggy is a forerunner of the punk movement that hit in the mid 70s …..with Iggy and the Stooges who started in the late 60s , along with The MC5

[@SDVN74]

He's Iggy pop that's really all you need to know about the song 😂

[@JohnCane147]

Imagine having your life destroyed by drugs. This is an ironic happy song about that

[@Souldoubtrocks]

The first time I’ve seen lex with a wtf look. Lol

[@CLJ7696]

You two were left shell shocked🤣

[@michaelkulis6008]

You should try Talking Heads, Once in a lifetime if you want to see something really odd. But you have to react to their official video to get the full weirdness.

[@MrScreaney]

....and Road to Nowhere!

[@s.henrlllpoklookout5069]

I've heard this song described as "Half a big middle finger to the drugged out hedonistic rock life, half a passionate embrace of it"

[@chaoticneutral3487]

Iggy Pop, Grandfather of Punk Rock. Check out his albums with the Stooges, 'Raw Power', and 'Funhouse'

[@drummonkey9291]

Brad looks so confused when any man acts remotely camp hahaa

[@mvellis3863]

Iggy Pop is a punk music icon, he's been around for a long time. Brad's reaction is like what mine is to hip hop. I just don't get it.

[@kJ922-h3j]

If you are confused about the video, it’s showing scenes from the British cult classic movie Trainspotting, which this song was the soundtrack of. You should definitely watch it, you will need subtitles lol

[@Souldoubtrocks]

Then watch snatch with subtitles. The greatest!!!!!

[@kJ922-h3j]

@@Souldoubtrocks snatch is probably my favourite film of all time

[@Souldoubtrocks]

@@kJ922-h3j I have a guy Ritchie movie fetish.

[@kJ922-h3j]

@@Souldoubtrocks haha, watched the Gentlemen again recently, that one gets better each time you watch it too

[@matbritton6816]

If you got a lust for life then you understand ❤🍻⚡🦎

[@markr1574]

song is about withdrawl and addiction. his lust for life comes from the liquor and drugs.

[@KC-bv9kf]

Iggy’s drugs did drugs. Iggy is brilliant. His interviews were very insightful and introspective. He has moved across many genres. His segment in Bourdain’s was so poignant.

[@GeddyLeeBell]

You can't even begin to understand just how frickin insane this man was back in the day he would straight up stab himself and roll around on broken glass on stage during concerts. GG Allen was another one. I don't know who was crazier GG is dead now Iggy's still around. Yeah he did a lot of drugs I believe heroin mostly then got addicted to methadone during one of his many visits to rehab. My brother just got off of methadone after years of taking it for heroin addiction' and went through horribly withdrawals

[@13terapyn]

IP is the man! One of the most influential person in music most people have never heard of

[@bestbuy208]

"I wanna be your dog" is my favorite Iggy Pop, when he was with The Stooges.

[@jkbezo1]

Its not pop music. Its punk rock! jaja Iggy Pop!

[@willynilly2545]

Iggy used to be a junkie. He's talking about his newfound lust for life as a sober man. It's not rocket science

[@milosperic3117]

trainspotting is a good movie,

[@lewismaddox4132]

You know those envelopes you get that say prizes worth millions and you may have already won? He figures he won cause the envelope said so.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

Iggy Pop is "the" Underground music legend - and started as singer of the late 60ties band "The Stooges" and they made already "Punk music" almost a decade before Punk music as own genre even existed...Check out their song "I wanna be your dog" or "1969"...totally Punk but released in 1969

[@JMarston1984]

Funny? What's funny? To quote the late great Prodigy from Mobb Deep, " I might crack a smile but ain't a damn thing funny."

[@stevetedder7083]

He's just being Iggy.

[@marclaroche5083]

this is the trainspotting video

[@Slevencolevra]

This was fantastic reaction. Keeping it real. "I believe him when he said he's done a lot of drugs"

[@jazzminb]

Iggy is the father of punk music - he helped originate the genre

[@labcurmudgeon7935]

Forget the video. It's just a video made for a movie. Listen to the song.

[@jarisalonen7788]

Just dance to the speeded up Motown beat by a great drummer. And tight band. Great sound, and that Pop - Man in the middle, fine vocals. Lyrics are about " kickin the bad habits", and Iggy managed to do so about 5 years after this recording. That's why he's alive and well. Maybe " Cry For Love" - song& video would be more hypnotizing cup of tea for you?

[@ianwebb3496]

As others have pointed out, Iggy is the godfather of punk. He blazed trails that had hitherto been unimagined and unimaginable. I REALLY, REALLY recommend looking at this clip of him in concert back in the day to give you a sense of what he offered WAY back in the 70s: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iovXmWd5g8Z4eKM for a bit of fun, have a go at counting how many times he blinks!

[@strings53notlob50]

Now that was funny!

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

What kind of music is this? The great one!