It was an especially odd choice, considering that the song had been used pretty appropriately in the drug-filled crime film Trainspotting (1996), which is where I (and countless others of my generation) first heard it.
The track from the 1977 album of the same name features the same group of musicians, led by David Bowie, that had crafted Pop's art-rock reinvention/comeback album, The Idiot, earlier the same year—most notably, rhythm weapons Hunt Sales (drums) and his brother Tony Sales (bass). (Bar trivia fact: they're the sons of comedian Soupy Sales.)
Anyway, the Sales brothers are the culprits behind the thunderous rhythm section, which sounds kind of like the rhythm section of The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" (had The Funk Brothers done an 8-ball before the recording session, that is).
Even if the subject matter of "Lust for Life" doesn't exactly resonate, there's still something rousing about that shouted refrain Lust for life / I got a lust for life! that makes you want to go out and grab life by the lapels.
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