We think you'll enjoy these related videos below and for more great content featuring your favorite artists, sign up for Fuse+ to access all our videos. Metacritic Music Reviews, Ready to Die by Iggy & the Stooges, The first studio release since 1973's Raw Power to be credited under Iggy & The Stooges, reunites Iggy Pop with James Williamson, Scott. Although I can tell you right now, the answer is no. And if it's the latter, will he soon change his name to Iggy Smalls as well? Only time will tell. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of f-cking money." F-cking A! You still can't bring Iggy home to mom, even though he is old enough to put in a home.Īs for the album's title, Ready to Die, it's uncertain if Iggy meant this as a comment about his age or as a tribute to the late rap great the Notorious B.I.G. It's just a pig-headed f-cking thing I have that a real f-cking group when they're an older group they also make f-cking records. Iggy Pop-who is more quotable than comprehensible-had this to say about the new album: "My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no longer personal. Original Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton has passed awayand is serenaded here on. 'I was kinda writing a tribute to the three Stooges left living,' he said, 'as well as these three old guys in.
Frontman Iggy Pop explained to Mojo magazine the thinking behind the song. Yet on 2013s Ready to Die, he still dukes it out at a higher level than most of the competition. Songfacts®: This is the title track of the fifth studio album by American rock band The Stooges.
And while it's their first album in 40 years to feature the contributions of ear-scorching axeman James Williamson, it's also sadly the band's first album since the death of original guitarist Ron Asheton in 2009. Theres no way for anyonenot even the men who created themto match or surpass the three albums Iggy made with the various Stooges lineups in the 60s and 70s. Ready to Die will be the fifth overall album from the incalculably influential proto-punk outfit and their second since reuniting in 2003. Such contemplative numbers are an area Iggy could fruitfully explore but, for this summer at least, let's watch that rubber body of his being defiantly flung about the world’s stages one more time.Streetwalking cheetahs, mark April 30 on your calendars, as Iggy & the Stooges are set to release their new album Ready to Die. “Unfriendly World” casts a cynical eye around and sounds apiece with Lou Reed’s best late material, while “The Departed” more consciously looks elegiacally backward, even incorporating a gentle take on the cataclysmic central riff from “I Wanna Be Your Dog”. Écoutez des chansons en diffusion continue, y compris Burn, Sex and Money et bien d’autres.
Instead of reliving their glory days, the four-decade-old group is enjoying the peak of their success now. Ready to Die arrives with none of the heady expectations of The Weirdness, the 2007 comeback that found Iggy Pop and the Asheton Brothers, aided by the sturdy Mike Watt, attempting to re-create some of the madness of Funhouse. More interesting are two warped thug-funk messes, both featuring saxophone, the lumpen “Sex and Money” and the punk-Motown of “DD’s”, a goofy garage paean to big breasts.īest of all, albeit incongruously, given this is pretty much the band that fired out the scorched earth classic “Search and Destroy”, are two slide guitar-tinted acoustic slowies. Écoutez Ready to Die de Iggy & The Stooges sur Apple Music. Iggy And The Stooges could be playing oldies shows in Vegas or at the Mountain Winery like their contemporaries. “Burn” is chewy, riffy and trashy with doomed lyrics, a likeable opener, and there's plenty of tasty cretin-hop rebelliousness such as the bullish likes of “Gun” ("If I had a fucking gun/ I could shoot at everyone/ freakin’ out in the USA”) and “Job” ("I got a job but it don’t pay shit”). This isn’t an unarguable pay-off by a grizzled old dog, such as 63-year-old Iggy’s peer Lemmy mustered on Motörhead’s last album, but Ready to Die does have treasurable moments of wearied rock-warrior pathos and a host of other kicks. Since then original guitarist Ron Asheton has died and, in a strange mirror to history, James Williamson, guitarist on 1973's classic Raw Power, has returned to the fold (following a 30 year career in engineering management!)įor fans who dared to hope, it’s good rather than great news.
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