Iggy Pop – Lust For Life

My copy actually sound excellent. Obviously not an audiophile recording to start with but is actually very dynamic and is not missing any details. An excellent pressing as far as i’m concerned. Dropping the needle on the title track, i was actually pleasently surprised of the sudden full assault..:)

Could anyone who has heard it talk about the sound quality of this pressing?

Just got my record from local store, almost NM. Sounds great, love it!

Don’t sleep on this one… it’s better than the US OG IMO. Incredible low end that isn’t bloated sounding.

Thick, flat and super quiet vinyl. The red colour is kinda pointless but nice enough i guess.

Truly the best bit though, is the sound quality upgrade over the common 2017 Back To Black edition. This one is considerably more full of life which this recording HAS to have. Lust For Life by name after all! Its cut louder and the presence region comes forth. The B2B has a very dull, distant stage as if listening beyond the back row wehereas this is front row and FORTHRIGHT. While its not perfect, having quite a flat soundstage and being close to heat i will take that over dullness with ill defined bass and a very distant sounding band even if the B2B has a better stab at creating front to back and width elements.

First of all, theres been a repress of this.
A copy ive bought from Amazon UK in March 2025 has a "made in Poland" print on the back of the sleeve/shrink. I bought one to try after i realised my older copy had some non fill but i returned the Made In Poland jobby as it would almost certainly be worse than the Record Industry pressing from circa 2017 overall. My older RI press only has two audible moments of non fill so maybe i was too hasty and picky.

With that out the way im sorry further still as the sound is dull and distant and while its not going to hurt any ears this album is meant to sound lively, not dull. The pressing itself is super high quality (minus two rotations of non fill rip) but the sound is not. I also own the limited 2017 red HMV vinyl copy which sounds considerably more forward and more alive and plays in the speaker plane rather than in a room behind with the door almost closed.

To the many people observing the same dull listening trend below and saying to themselves "this recording just sounds like meh anyway", go and buy the 2017 HMV red vinyl and experience the opposite even if its not perfect itself.

If you simply have to get this one and just bare the dullness id try to get the og 2017 with the Back To Black hype sticker and card as that will be Record Industry quality while the newer repress will almost certainly be made badly in Poland (by Takt i assume whove mucked up all the other pressings by them ive tried).

Avoid, avoid, avoid. Opening track, the sound was cutting in and out. I had to put something else on to make sure my amps were working properly. Will find another pressing because the songs are good, this particular pressing is rubbish. (played on a highly modded LP12 btw)

My copy looks very clean, but does have some crackle. That aside, it's a dynamite pressing with great separation, clear as day. Hear all of the details in "Lust For Life" (the song). Thrill to the clarity of "Some Weird Sin". Gasp as you "The enger" for a ride. Seriously, though - very good pressing. Git you one.

Had to turn the volume up a little bit, but once I did, it sounded good. No complaints. Not the best sounding record in my collection, but very far from the worst. Love this album and I’m glad to have it in my collection.

This pressing is huge. The soundstage is crazy. I would say a caveat though is that it’s pressed hot as fuck. I had a 1977 French pressing and it had the same issue. A lot of sibilance. I have a Japanese The Idiot and it’s like a different artist, sounds much cleaner and thicker bass. However I still like this and listen often. The quality of sound outweighs the hot press downside.