5. Iggy PopLust For Life
It’s one of my favourite things. Not even just albums. One of my favourite things in the world. I’m gonna have to confess that I came to Iggy kind of late. Growing up, all my punk rock friends deified him. I didn’t really get it. I must have been 20, 21 in Boston. It was just playing in the background at a friend of mine’s house. I’m so lyrically focused – if someone’s saying something interesting, then I’m completely hooked – that I ended up just standing near the speaker listening to that album, quite rudely. I think it was ‘Success’… "here comes the zoo… here comes my Chinese rug". I loved everything he was saying, I thought it was hilarious. And it’s very rare that you can listen to music that is deeply moving and has weight, and also makes you laugh. I feel like there were so many songs on Lust For Life where one minute you’re like, "That is a fact, that is truth." And then the next, making you giggle. From there … I just listened to it over and over. I was deep into it when we did the first Throwing Muses/Pixies tour, and so I was playing it a ton in the van. We ended up one night driving around Berlin after our show, and just listening to ‘The Passenger.’ Charles just kept saying: "again". So we listened to it like, 15 times in a row, driving around Berlin. It’s a happy memory.
