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
Product features:
- 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') ()
Music reviews of Beat 'Em Up
Music Review: Iggy Poop?
Rating: 2 Stars
It has to be said that this is pretty sad from the Ig. I am a huge old school fan of the Stooges along with his best moments in the 70's but it seems to me that right about the time he did the great Repo Man track with Steve Jones he should have hung it up.
The more I hear and the more I see of Mr Osterberg what I read about him makes absolute sense. I have been reading about the behind the scenes stuff for years regarding the Stooges, the Ashtons and James Williamson et al and seeing what he is up to in the last 15 years becomes pretty embarrassing once you have grasped Iggy's raison d'etre. Namely much of what he is doing musically is literally grasping at straws in a modern age where he is trying to still prove some type of relevance.
It must be tough with the legacy of the Stooges that he has and all the legendary stuff that went down in the 70's and early 80's but sadly much of what passes for his albums in the 90's onwards screams of insecurity and a total lack of direction. Iggy has become the captain of his very own rudderless ship ... a ship where the crew members are seen but not heard ( he keeps his musicians invisible! ) in an all out attempt to make sure that he gets all the credit, all the due and then some.
You only have to read books like Let It Bleed and the various interviews with former band mates to understand that Iggy is a pretty megalomaniacal character who wants all focus on him alone; he has burned many people in this pursuit and unfairly defamed others along the way. What do you end up with when you're an insecure legend with a legacy for wild rock and roll but your narcissism renders you incapable of collaborating with anyone who might out shine you?
Ans - Everything since 1985!
I have to say all this as a massive fan of the old Stooges and Iggy in the 70's but everything I hear from him in the last 15 years just comes across as hollow, cynical, disingenuous and lacking in any real depth - I'm just not convinced anymore and Iggy is trying way too hard to make it real. It seems to me he has been totally sucked into the L.A metal shopping mall sound and no longer understands the difference between that and Detroit's razor guitar hard rock.
Sadly I fear Iggy will never find his way back to the Fun House which has metaphorically been pulled down and had a Yuppy apartment complex built on top of it instead! Too many years in the L.A sun ... too many years rubbing shoulders with the plastic people; he needs to move back to Ann Arbour and live in a real dump again if he plans on writing any lyrics that even sound remotely convincing. It's pretty sad a man of his age writing some of the stuff he does ... you'd think he'd find ways to bring his thing off with all that scope for maturity like other elder statesmen ( Lou Reed, Neil Young, Bowie etc ). Sadly Iggy has been commodified by himself and only he can stop the damage now.
To the album ... yeah, it's ok but none of it even feels real for 5 minutes. If you listen closely you can almost hear them at the mixing desk snorting the high grade cocaine and sipping champaign as they gush about how "right on" and "Stooges" it is ... all I hear is "Cash in".
Pretty sad ... but sorry Iggy, you Poop'd.
Description of Beat 'Em Up
Beat 'Em Up by Iggy PopThis product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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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