Iggy Pop - Beat 'Em Up
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Artist: Iggy PopEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2011-12-27
Music Label: VIRGIN
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- IGGY POP BEAT EM UP
- Mask
- L.O.S.T.
- Howl
- Football
- Savior
- Beat 'Em Up
- Talking Snake
- The Jerk
- Death Is Certain
- Go For The Throat
- Weasels
- Drink New Blood
- It's All Shit
- Ugliness
- V.I.P. (Contains Hidden Track 'Sterility') ()
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Free Music Review: BEATS ME!!
Hit: 5 Stars
While just living my life one day, accepting everything as it was, a package arrived containing the new Iggy Pop CD. The cover is vulgar and tasteless, the song titles detestable, and I knew this was going to be a real treat! After hours of non-stop listening (and a slight headache), it has become indisputable that the world is a very sick place, and although Iggy is one sick puppy, he underscores the shortcomings of the universe quite blatantly and eloquently - and he still rocks!
This one is fierce, hard and bottom-heavy. The lyrics are head-on and it's a shame that some are buried in the glorious noise, as each word of wisdom from the Ig is a jewel of profundity no matter how crude, cruel or sarcastic.
It's the antithesis of his last album, Avenue B on which we found a fifty-plus Iggy bitching, crooning and moaning about mid-life loneliness with an acoustic guitar. He claims it was an brutally honest album. Maybe so, but this is the real ageless Iggy - primal, manic and yelping a tirade of insults at everyone and everything that deserves to die. We all thought Instinct was his heavy metal album, but this is the real deal. There is no lack of belly-laughs either!
From the thrashing opening track `Mask' ("You're wearing a mask, you look better that way") to the closing rant `V.I.P.' Iggy virtually regurgitates upon everything that's wrong with people, the music industry, and life in general. He hurls in every direction and no one is innocent.
On `Howl' Iggy is top dog, exercising his canine cacophony. It sounds like the Stooges jamming with Metallica. `The Jerk' echoes the sentiments of Blondie's "Rip Her To Shreds" ("Aw man, you're killin'me!").
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`Go For The Throat', a squalid (perhaps autobiographical) profile of an outlaw is a bit scary in the same way Eminem's `Kim' freaked me out before I knew that it's supposed to be ironic and funny. I still don't get that other guy, but when Iggy repeats "Go for the throat, I'm f*ked up - I'm so f*cked up" you'll wonder where your children are.
`Ugliness' is absolutely beautiful, starting with a wild manic outcry and a speedy riff out of the Stooges' `I Got A Right', declaring that porno sucks, music sucks, and delivering astute corporate commentary, "They've got bald heads and toupees and they're in total f*ing control! There's also a choice assessment of America's Top 40; "Everybody has a gun to express feelings that should be expressed by a REAL musician".
In `Drink New Blood' Iggy has a self admitted "Infantile violent outburst!!!" `V.I.P' is a hilarious diatribe on beautiful people delivered in his trademark snide narrative, and an improvised "hidden" bonus track really rocks.
At last I have something new to listen to over and over for months, perhaps years until the next great album is made.
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Iggy Pop is back in all his sneering glory. Having gotten the solemn reflections on aging, morality, and lost love of 1999's Avenue B out of his system, this first postmillennial offering returns the Ig to the style of primordial days when he spat out such deconstructed tunes as "No Fun," and "I Wanna Be Your Dog." Here he proudly works his fine-edged sarcasm and formidable (if often overlooked) songwriting skills. In "Mask," he snarls "You're wearing a mask / You look better that way" before collapsing in a comic rage in which he condemns everybody in Los Angeles for "licking ass or having it licked." Never is Iggy so artistically charged as when he has a nemesis, whether it be the "Weasels"--those villains of the music business who are "rewriting rock history," and possess "an office and a chair, nice butts, and silky hair"--or the "Jerk" who has the temerity to hit on his girlfriend. It's gratifying to see that Iggy has finally decided to wrest back his thorny crown from Stooges descendants such as Queens of the Stone Age and the Melvins and pulverize them with his wit, abandon, and sheer fearlessness. --Jaan Uhelszki
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