Track Listing / Description
A1 Tell Me a Story
A2 New Values
A3 Girls
A4 I'm Bored
A5 Don't Look Down
A6 The Endless Sea
A7 Five Foot One
B1 How Do Ya Fix a Broken Part
B2 Angel
B3 Curiosity
B4 African Man
B5 Billy Is a Runaway
B6 Chains
B7 Pretty Flamingo
Released by Arista in April 1979, New Values is Iggy's third solo album and the first that he made without David Bowie although, as reviewers acknowledged, his growth as a songwriter under Bowie's tutelage is much in evidence.
Iggy's principal collaborators this time were both former members of The Stooges, guitarist, James Williamson and multi-instrumentalist, Scott Thurston, and the album landed at a time when he was being widely feted as the father of punk rock.
The singles 'I'm Bored' and 'Five Foot One' were well chosen, classic Iggy material and ably supported by tunes like 'Don't Look Down', which was covered by Bowie five years later, the synth-assisted title track and minimalist musings like 'How Do Ya Fix a Broken Part' and 'Tell Me A Story'.
As Paul Morley noted in the NME: "What we have here is James Osterberg in control…. New Values conclusively endorses Osterberg as thinker and Iggy as performer, and the relationship is positive and proud."