New Values [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered]

Iggy Pop | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Buddha
• ASIN: B00004TY93
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,193 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Purest Iggy?, September 21, 2002

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Reto Zoppi Deiss (Mexico City, D.F. Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Values (Audio CD)

After "Lust For Life" and "The Idiot", both of them produced by someone named Bowie, this is the best record by Iggy. He is free, somewhat matured, and enjoys himself.
This is a rock'n'roll album. It sounds very low budget and it's exciting. It's direct and it hurts. "New values" is about the important things in life: boredom, the sea and girls.
And if anyone has a "political" problem about African Man, she/he might just want to think back to times where we were actually allowed to say the things as we thought them.
This is one refreshing record by a guy who went straight against the normal-type rules. Iggy, in "New Values" establishes himself as the Henry Miller of rock: Wild, but tasteful; horny, but self-conscious; eager, but earnest.
Everyone with some degree of honesty regarding the disillusions of life should play this album at least once a month.
Highly recommended.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Central Park To Shanty Town, September 29, 2000

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Scott Briggs "firebrand punk raconteur" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Values (Audio CD)

I just bought this CD yesterday after being overjoyed to discover that Buddha Records had released a remastered, pumped-up edition of Iggy's New Values, and boy am I glad I did. If you buy this CD, and also track down Soldier, The Idiot, Lust for Life and Kill City (recorded in 1975 but unreleased till 1977), you've got the best of Iggy's post-Stooges albums, and New Values is easily the greatest of that bunch. Besides the fact that this is one of Iggy's greatest and funniest albums, we also now get two strong unreleased bonus tracks, "Chains" and "Pretty Flamingo," both of which are strong enough that they could have made the original album. New Values has been one of my favorite records for the past ten years--now I can retire my faded tape copy and play this lovely shimmering CD version. The sound is even better than before, hardly any hiss that I can detect at the high end, amazing for a recording released in 1979 and recorded on analog equipment--Iggy jumps out of the speakers at you, as well he should! Do something a 5'1" man can do and go buy this CD...

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My First Iggy Record, July 9, 2002

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This review is from: New Values (Audio CD)

I bought this on LP as a new release when I was something like 14 years old. What the heck did I know? My older sister's girlfriend's weird boyfriend was into Bowie, Lou Reed and Eno. So these were my primordial rock and roll experiences.

And "New Values" has to be Iggy's all-around best recording. You could see it as the third salvo in a trilogy with "Lust For Life" (1977) and "The Idiot" (1978) -- at the time RCA released the live album "TV Eye" to finish off Iggy's contract ... or you can look at it as the opening statement of Iggy's punk oeurve along with "Soldier" (1980) and the terribly disappointing "Party" (1981).

In this context, "New Values" sits at the pivot of Iggy's earlier Bowie-rock releases and the later Pop-Punk direction (or mis-direction) he took in the 80s. Of course, his good friend Bowie's career took a bizarre turn toward commercial dissolution during the 80s as well.

If I could keep only one Iggy Pop record it would be this one. I'd rather keep three or four. But if somebody held a gun to my head ... I'd keep this one.