Beat Em Up Music Cd

Iggy Pop - Beat Em Up

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Beat Em Up      Artist : Iggy Pop      List Price : $12.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2001-07-17      Studio : Virgin      Label : Virgin      Avg. Customer Rating : (34 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Beat Em Up      Beat Em Up      Rating:      Iggy Pop-Beat Em Up **** Beat Em Up is really an Iggy Pop album unlike any other he has released. More metal than anything that previously bared the name Iggy Pop. The sound really sounds like a mix of post Black Flag era Rollins Band mixed with Amen. Sharp fiery guitar licks and the occasional solo give it that classic Iggy punch. Pop's lyrics are more aware than usual and more socially conscious than usual so in that since it is that classic punk feel, but over all the album has a real metal feel and sound. Not a bad thing though. 'Mask' which is very Henry Rollins, 'L.O.S.T.' and the "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda" chanting 'Howl open the album and are regretfully the strongest tracks on the album so it sort of is down hill from there. None of the songs on the album are bad per say it's just the rest of the album doesn't really stand out, with the exception of 'The Jerk' which was one of the best songs he had made in years. Beat Em Up has gone on to become one of my personal favorite solo Iggy Pop records. Especially of his later work. It is a album unto itself in the Pop canon and one that any Iggy fan would be proud to add to their collection.     Customer Reviews for Beat Em Up Cd      Iggy Poop?      Rating:      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.