New Values

New Values was Pop's first record for Arista and the first collaboration between Pop and James Williamson since Kill City. It also brought back the multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston, who had played piano for the Stooges on Metallic K.O. Williamson concentrated on production, and Thurston played guitar on most of the tracks. Five of the songs were collaborations between Pop and Thurston.

The album reached number 60 in the United Kingdom and number 180 on the Billboard 200, and videos were made for I'm Bored and Five Foot One. NME's Paul Morley wrote that it endorses Osterberg as thinker and Iggy as performer. Bowie later covered Don't Look Down on Tonight in 1984 and used it for his short film Jazzin' for Blue Jean.