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Instinct

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This ablum is as close Iggy has ever come to "heavy metal".
For the price it is well worth the money. It simply rocks harder than anything Iggy has done since the 70's. Several tracks are co-written with former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and actually sound like Jone's most current band, Neurotic Outsiders, with Iggy on vocals.
A welcome addition to any Iggy collection.

Iggy Pop and Steve Jones on the same album? Laying down some tasty tracks with Iggy's booming voice and Steve's Pistolesque riffs chunking away? Have we died and gone to heaven? No, it's just a real find if you don't own it yet. One of Iggy's best and a terrific effort by Jones. Gets better every time I hear it.

In 88 when this rocker came out I was led to believe that Iggy had gone metal. I was lied too. I was also led to believe Iggy had sold out and gone mersh. I was lied too again. I was led to believe that Iggy didn't have "it" any more. Would you believe I was lied to again? Thw one thing I do believe is that those fools never really listened to Instinct. I have been an Iggy Pop fan for 15 years and Instinct is some of his greatest later solo work. Joining Iggy is ex-Sex Pistol Steve Jones on guitar and a back up band of unheard of's. Strong tracks: Cold Metal, Title Track, High on you.

I have taken this CD to parties and people who are in the AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and Metallica are the only bands that rule and everyone else sux camp actually love this CD.

I even had one AC/DC freak offer me $50 bucks for it. If he would have had the $50 I would have sold and hunted up another copy. No offense to AC/DC fans as I think everyone should own three AC/DC recordings.

Instinct was less punk than I expected. A bit popish but certainly not wimp rockish. Some of the lyrical content is laughable like "Save a tree--Save a tree--Save a tree." This is part of the recording's charm.

I do not understand why recordings of this quality do not go mega platinum. Perhaps Marilyn Manson is correct in his bellowing that rock is dead.

This is a very underrated album by the Iguana who recovered himself after the great deal of stupidities committed in his previous album (the all-time infamous "Blah, blah, blah") I don't consider this music to be heavy metal at all. From my point of view is just great rock 'n' roll performed with soul and conviction, that's all. Iggy was just trying to survive, making his way in a music world ruled by blockbuster nerds such as Phil Collins or Michael Jackson. Above all, it was a reaction against the commercial concessions made in the aforementioned album. Maybe "Instinct" is not a masterpiece but it's a must for the fans of Iggy's solo career, as a matter of fact, it was his most aggressive and boisterous album since "Raw Power", enough said.

Play it loud and enjoy...

The Bill Laswell-produced "Instinct" finds Iggy Pop with a new sound once again, after he'd already experimented with darned near everything that was popular in rock music at whatever given moment he'd released his records and with whomever he happened to have in his backing band. The ever-changing sound made for some forgettable records, but as with the always impressive, always interesting Senor Pop, the "forgettable" albums in his catalog were always more memorable than 90% of whatever else was out at the moment. With "Instinct," Iggy has created a great batch of songs, a few of which were cowritten with Steve Jones (yeah, the guy from the Sex Pistols). As Iggy said once on David Letterman when he was touring behind this album, he wanted to get a good "degenerate" sound that was paralleled at the time by the music of Guns 'N' Roses and other Sunset Strip bands. The band, led by Jones is a top-notch rocking unit and there's plenty of '80's-style guitar wankery, but the melodies and the lyrics are very memorable. "Tuff Baby," for one, will get stuck in your head, as will the album's hits "Cold Metal" and "Easy Rider." There's lots else here to check out, and since this record can be obtained from the cutout bins at damn near every single Wal-Mart or major chain record store in America, you should pick up a copy...it's cheap and damn good!

This is a nice record of "Monster" Iggy, the songs are all in a similar hard line, but ... is it Hard Rock? Is it Punk Music? I think neither of them, it's Iggy, simply, strong and nice ... Iggy.

I'll confess I'm not the world's biggest Iggy Pop fan by a long way, but I absolutely love this album. Having found the tape in a bargain bin over twenty years ago, I finally up-graded it to CD thanks to an Amazon US supplier, it being long unavailable here in the UK.
This album has a solid and uniformly tough sound (courtesy of The Sex Pistols' Steve Jones) in a similar way to N.M.T.B.; certainly something I have never found in any other Iggy Pop album I've heard. All of the songs here are great, and both the guitar playing and the singing are incredibly cool; not forgetting a great drum sound from Paul Garisto, ex of The Psychedelic Furs. Openers Cold Metal and High On You are particularly fantastic but the standard hardly drops at all.
I remember buying the subsequent Brick by Brick CD off the back of this, but unfortunately apart from the immortal Butt Town it didn't come close. So maybe this was a one-off kind of "Iggy plays the Pistols" project, but it was a hell of a success in my opinion. I can't believe it's not better known and better appreciated.

Steve Jones plays guitar on this record, which is worth checking out, for that reason alone. Not to mention that the record rocks, in a hard rock sort of way. With good lyrics and vocals as well.

there is not much too add to what earlier reviewers wrote who, with the exception of 1 on 8, delighted in this album. With the aid of former Sex Pistols Steve Jones on leadguitar and songwriting Pop succeeded in performing more hard rocking songs but stays within the confines of his Popsound, meaning easy recognisable and not too complicated lyrics, mostly dealing with big city life. So far the better. Outstandng tracks are "Cold Metal", "Tuff Baby", "High On You", "Easy Rider" (could have been incorporated on the sixties film of fame with that name) "Tom Tom" and so on. Only for this quintet I can recommend this album strongly.