Ready To Die Album Review
Read Time Out's review of the Iggy And The Stooges album, 'Ready to Die', released on April 30 2013. Plus, listen to 'Ready to Die' and buy the album here.
Following the death of guitarist Ron Asheton in 2009, Iggy’s old sidekick James Williamson has returned to the fold. Ready to Die was made with almost the same line up that created 1973’s Raw Power, but never approaches that album’s epochal mess. Forty years on, the band sound slick, tough and wilfully dumb. The Iggy myth was forged when he was young and out of control, playing with a band whose fierce, chaotic intensity was an expression of a kind of nihilistic indifference to the norm.
Ready To Die Vinyl Album
The Stooges were great almost by accident, their garage rock production values and sheer oppositional attitude making them touchstones for future waves of punk, metal, indie and grunge. But their sound is so familiar now that the Stooges themselves have effectively become just another band in an apparently endless line of hard rock outfits offering a polished version of their former ragged glory.
His second album, Beauty Behind the Madness, which became his first number one album on the Billboard 200, included the top-five single 'Earned It' and produced the number-one singles 'The Hills' and 'Can't Feel My Face'. The weekend free download.