This album is notoriously badly recorded, personally I prefer slightly the Iggy mix over the Bowie one but I do wish sometimes this album would sound a bit better

But Iggy's performance is fine and I completely disagree with the first verse being shallow.

"I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm ,I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb" is an amazing line

Also the albums he did with Robert Fripp, like "No Pussyfooting". That stuff is amazing

and the instrumentals at the end of Bowie's "Low"

"The Gang Throws Frank In the Trash"

hell yeah!! one of his great albums. I fixated on this artist for a little while, I have a box set with something like 23 albums. His early albums are all excellent, then he shot his voice in a yelling contest with Lennon, then his voice wasn't quite the same but there's still excellent gems here and there on his later albums and he died waaaaay too early

"Pandemonium Shadow Show" and "Nilsson schmillson" are excellent

If Harry Nilsson was there, you were going to drink, do drugs and not sleep for days. It was almost inescapable

Do yourself a favor, forget the movie and watch "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse", a doc about the nightmarish making of this movie, narrated by his wife. It is, to many, far more engrossing than the actual movie

Even wrote a shitty song about it in 2021:

"I can't take this BS any longer

It's gone far enough

If you wanna claim my soul

You'll have to come and break down this door" ("this Has Gotta Stop")

Anti-vax wife stealer