Soldier
by Iggy Pop
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Iggy Pop bestography
Soldier is ranked 13th best out of 37 albums by Iggy Pop on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Iggy Pop is Lust For Life which is ranked number 528 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,279.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Soldier track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Soldier rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 8 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  hoyquarlow | Top 50 Music Albums of the 1980s | 44/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  MadhattanJack | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 13/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | TroutMaskGreg | Top 25 Music Albums of 1980 | 24/25 | 0 |
| 2025 | mostlymor | 1980 Part 1 | 27/100 | - |
| 2025 |  meccalecca | Top 100 Music Albums of 1980 | 81/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | MadhattanJack | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2025 | vruslov | Top 97 Music Albums of 1980 | 83/97 | 1 |
| 2024 |  Repo | 1980: Punk | 10/35 | - |
| 2023 | cronadigallina | Top 98 Music Albums of 1980 | 71/98 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 23 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 35 | |||
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Soldier ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2025 05:59 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
| ! | 01/12/2025 21:43 | MadhattanJack | 6,029 | 66/100 |
| ! | 08/31/2024 03:46 | dhbarrett | 8,824 | 65/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.5/100, a mean average of 68.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.6.
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Soldier forum mentions
pedro1976 04/08/2025 18:39 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 02/07/2024 10:18 in What album are you listening to right now? Repo 01/31/2023 02:12 in 2023 End Of Year Lists PARTY!!! <Building 2023 Charts>Soldier comments
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The only Iggy Pop album I really like. The Idiot hasn't aged well for me, and the rest of his non-Stooge albums always seemed like weak sauce. This one is fun and smart--it's got a feminist anthem in it, for crying out loud, and it's sprinkled with lots of obscure oldies rock 'n roll references. You can be listening to a 50s song somewhere and suddenly, hey it's that line from Iggy's Soldier.
The famous story about this album is: the reason it sounds a little open and spacy is the lead guitar track was (mostly) stripped from the recording after Bowie, who produced it, hit on the guitarist's lady, got punched by the guitarist, and took the guitar off the record. Apparently true. So you get these tracks where the keyboard and the rhythm section are prominent, and it sounds cool.
hoyquarlow 11/18/2015 04:36 | #153078
It's a good new wave / rock album, though it won't go down as one of Iggy's finest for sure. Highlights includes great goofy songs like Dog Food and I need more.
Brandon8 TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/05/2016 02:54 | #165230
A solid album with some very interesting and fun songs. Highlights for me are Mr. Dynamite, Play it Safe, Low Life, I Need More, Dog Food but all are pretty good.
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