Iggy & The Stooges - Ready to Die (Audio CD - 04/30/2013)

2013 release, the first studio album to bear the name 'Iggy & The Stooges' since Raw Power was released in 1973! Ready To Die finds Iggy Pop, guitarist James Williamson and drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton reunited for a full album of all-new material 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'.

Condition:NEW.

TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1

1 Burn (3:37)
2 Sex & Money (3:18)
3 Job (3:05)
4 Gun (3:07)
5 Unfriendly World (3:46)
6 Ready to Die (3:06)
7 DD's (3:12)
8 Dirty Deal (3:42)
9 Beat That Guy (3:15)
10 The Departed (4:36)