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  • The Stooges - Ready To Die (New Album!)

    OK, I thought that The Weirdness sucked and sucked hard but a new Stooges album is still reason enough for me to get at least a little bit excited over this.

    From Diffuser:

    "Is Iggy Pop finally 'Ready to Die?' That's the name of the new album from proto-punk legends the Stooges, who are following up their dismally received 2007 studio effort 'The Weirdness.' Joining Pop in the Stooges for the first time since 1973′s 'Raw Power' album is guitarist/producer James Williamson, who reconnected with the band after guitarist Ron Asheton died in 2009. Bassist Mike Watt and drummer Scott Asheton (Ron's brother) round out the lineup.

    “It's raw. They're great songs, but not necessarily big choruses. They're the anti-christ of anthems,” longtime Stooges collaborator Ed Cherney, who mixed 'Ready to Die,' tells HitFix. “[Pop's lyrics are] very timely. He knows what he wants to say. He's watching the world around him.”

    A release date for the album has yet to be announced, but the band has finished recording, and the titles of two songs have been revealed: 'I Got a Job But It Don't Pay S—' and 'Gun.' Let's hope 'Ready to Die' gets a better reception than 'The Weirdness,' which, despite being the Stooges' first studio album in more than three decades, was flogged with near-universal bad reviews."
    Rock! Shock! Pop!

  • #2
    I hope they took a stab at some of those old late Williamson era tracks that never got properly recorded. That way there would be a least a couple of good tracks on the album.

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    • #3
      I'd like to get the drummer's perspective on this album.
      Now everyone can have a complete KRULL lifestyle.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Roderick View Post
        I hope they took a stab at some of those old late Williamson era tracks that never got properly recorded. That way there would be a least a couple of good tracks on the album.
        Yeah, I hope so too.

        Really, The Weirdness was soooo bad, I'm gonna hold off excitement until I get the chance to hear this. Williamson is great, but, well...so was Ron.

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        • #5
          The Stooges - Ready To Die (New Album!)

          And so as Iggy. Still is. I really like his crooner style serge gainsbourg solo stuff. But that isn't the Stooges. If you use that name, I think it changes thing...
          Rock! Shock! Pop!

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          • #6
            Rock! Shock! Pop!

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            • #7
              Release date is April 30th, 2013. It's coming out through Fat Possum. Pre-order here.

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              • #8
                Hrm... my already low anticipation factor has just been knocked down a notch or two.

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                • #9
                  Fat Possum's newsletter just popped into my inbox and here's what it says:

                  "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..."

                  And some tour dates:

                  03/23/13........West Coast, Australia............. Blues'n'Roots Festival
                  03/25/13........Adelaide, Australia.......................Thebarton Theatre
                  03/27/13........ Melbourne, Australia...............................Festival Hall
                  03/30/13........ Byron Bay, Australia................... Byron Bay Bluesfest
                  04/02/13........ Sydney, Australia..............................Hordern Pavilion
                  06/08/13........ Long Beach, CA..............................Ink-N-Iron Festival
                  06/24/13........ Zagreb, Croatia..................................INmusic Festival
                  06/26/13........Goteborg, Sweden............. Stora Scenen pa Liseberg
                  06/28/13........ Borlí¤nge, Sweden................ Peace And Love Festival
                  06/30/13........ Marmande, France.......................... Garorock Festival
                  07/04/13........ Rome, Italy............................................. ..Rock in Roma
                  07/09/13........Argelí¨s-Sur-Mer, France.......................Parc de Valmy
                  07/11/13......... Milan, Italy............................................. ...... City Sound

                  And an interview with Iggy.



                  My hopes are also becoming increasingly dashed.
                  Rock! Shock! Pop!

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                  • #10
                    The snippets that are played in the above video and in this one, make me think this is going to be another Iggy album to listen to once before throwing it away.


                    The guitar sound really thin compared to what Williamson is known for, and the music sounds generic as can be. At least Watt gets a steady paycheck out of this.

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                    • #11
                      You can stream a full track, Burn, at East Village Radio if you want.
                      Rock! Shock! Pop!

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                      • #12
                        Iggy would be better off not letting people hear this stuff before the album drops.

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                        • #13
                          Meh. It's not horrible. It's also not amazing.
                          Rock! Shock! Pop!

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                          • #14
                            Agreed. But if this is one of the stronger tracks on the album then yikes.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post
                              Meh. It's not horrible. It's also not amazing.
                              Sadly, this is often WORSE than a crash-and-burn failure as it hints at mediocrity......and, sadly, can be applied to far too many artists these days...

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