"On Lust for Life, Iggy Pop managed to channel the aggressive power of his work with the Stooges with the intelligence and perception of The Idiot, and the result was the best of both worlds; smart, funny, edgy, and hard-rocking, Lust for Life is the best album of Iggy Pop's solo career".
"Also released in 1977, The Idiot's follow-up Lust for Life breathes some punk grit back into Pop's performance ... He sounds alert, embodied, no longer a Bowie-animated cadaver but an enlivening force in his own right".