TV Eye Live 1977

TV Eye Live 1977
Live album by
Iggy Pop
ReleasedMay 1978
RecordedMarch 21, 22 & 28, 1977
October 26, 1977
Genres
Length36:01
LabelRCA
ProducersIggy Pop, David Bowie
Iggy Pop chronology
Kill City
(1977)		 TV Eye Live 1977
(1978)		 New Values
(1979)
Singles from TV Eye Live 1977
  1. "I Got a Right"
    Released: 1978
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarHalf star
Christgau's Record GuideC+
Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStar
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStar
Tom Hull – on the WebB−

TV Eye Live 1977 (or simply TV Eye) is a live album by the American musician Iggy Pop originally released in 1978. Iggy took a $90,000 advance from RCA Records to finish his contract with a live album. According to AllMusic, the album was assembled from soundboard tapes. Iggy Pop doctored them in a German studio, quickly and cheaply for around $5,000. The album features recordings from concerts on March 21 and 22, 1977, at the Agora in Cleveland, Ohio; on March 28, 1977, at the Aragon in Chicago, Illinois; and on October 26, 1977, at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.

The album is notable for the presence of David Bowie on keyboards and background vocals for selected tracks and the rather crushing bass and drum sound; also, with the Sales brothers, the lineup prefigures in part Bowie's Tin Machine lineup.

Track listing

  1. "T.V. Eye" [sic] (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton) – 4:24
  2. "Funtime" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie) – 3:20
  3. "Sixteen" (Iggy Pop) – 3:56
  4. "I Got a Right" (Iggy Pop) – 4:29
  5. "Lust for Life" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie) – 4:01
  6. "Dirt" (Iggy Pop) – 5:19
  7. "Nightclubbing" (Iggy Pop, David Bowie) – 6:16
  8. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton) – 4:16

Personnel

Technical

Charts

Chart (1978) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) 89