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"a real fucking group... they also make fucking records. They don't just
go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch of fucking money"--Iggy
Pop

Better 40 years later than never: The follow-up to the first record ever
to bear the Iggy and the Stooges logo--the immortal proto-punk
masterpiece Raw Power--will finally be out  April 30, when Fat Possum
Records releases the all-new Iggy and the Stooges studio album, Ready To
Die.

Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer
Scott "Rock Action" Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new
material for the first time since the legendary Raw Power sessions, with
Mike Watt filling in for the late Ron Asheton on bass. The results are
the closest thing to a time capsule to 1973--or at least to Iggy's
subsequent efforts with Williamson, including 1977's Kill City and
1979's New Values--that rock 'n' roll is likely to proffer in this
millennium. The new album's opening one-two of "Burn" and "Sex &
Money" pair sublimely blunt and self-explanatory subject matter with
back alley razor-blade guitars and a troglodytic rhythmic stomp as
intensely single-minded as Iggy's lyrical statements of intent.
Elsewhere on the album, anthems abound in the form of the most dead-on
rallying cry for the lower-working-class dispossessed to date--the
succinctly and aptly titled "Job"--as well as a title track that mixes a
signature Iggy Pop mission statement of angry desperation with guitar
pyrotechnics that recall those halcyon opening salvos of "Search &
Destroy."Just as Iggy exhumed the original Stooges name when he reunited
in 2003 with the Asheton brothers, the revival of the Iggy and the
Stooges moniker that first appeared on the cover of Raw Power heralded
the return of guitarist James Williamson to the fold in 2009, or as Iggy
put it then "although 'the Stooges' died with Ron Asheton, there is
still 'Iggy and the Stooges'." As far as the decision to record and
release a new Iggy and the Stooges album for the first time since 1973,
Iggy recently commented:


        "My motivation in making any record with the group at this point is no
longer personal. It's just a pig-headed fucking thing I have that a
real fucking group when they're an older group they also make fucking
records. They don't just go and twiddle around on stage to make a bunch
of fucking money..."

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That clip sounds as uninspiring as the weirdness. At least I still have Fun House and Raw Power

 

 

This. Also if that clip is supposed to get you excited than the rest of the album has to be really bad.

 

Plus Iggy singing I got a job but it dont pay shit. Where has he worked in the last 30 years?

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