Ready to Die is the fifth studio album by American rock band Iggy and the Stooges.[3] The album was released on April 30, 2013, by Fat Possum Records. The album debuted at number 96 on the Billboard 200 chart.[4]
BackgroundOn February 25, 2013, Iggy Pop announced that The Stooges fifth album Ready to Die would be released on April 30, 2013.[5] In July 2013, in an interview with Guitar World, Iggy Pop spoke about the song titled 'DD’s', saying: 'It’s funny that that song gets a lot of attention. If it was as bad as some people say it is, it wouldn’t be getting noticed. But it’s getting noticed as much as its subject gets noticed.'[6] Critical response
Ready to Die was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 66, based on 35 reviews.[7] On April 28, 2013, in the first major review of the album, authorized Stooges biographer Jeffrey Morgan wrote on his website: 'Strangely believe it, this new 40th Anniversary Edition ain’t all that bad. I could continue waxing euphonic about how fantoonie this sonic sizzler is, but your time would be far better spent spinning it instead.'[16]Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars, saying 'Ready to Die is, against all odds, a terrific Stooges album.'[8] Ryan Bray of Consequence of Sound gave the album three and a half stars out of four, saying 'Ready to Die is another torrid tour de force from a band built for speed, not comfort'[1] Tim Stegall of The Austin Chronicle gave the album four out of five stars, saying 'Ready to Die finds the quintet on Fat Possum, making them indie artists for the first time, and they give their new label the best produced, loudest, and slickest – without sacrificing any primal grit and drive – Stooges disc yet.'[17] Jason Heller of The A.V. Club gave the album a C, saying 'Luckily there are enough high points on the album to mark it as a clear improvement over The Weirdness.'[9] Julian Marszalek of The Quietus gave the album positive review, but added that ' It's not going to replace the band's first three peerless albums in your affections, and the chances of frequent revisits after its initial satisfying of curiosity are low.'[18] Jamie Fullerton of NME gave the album an eight out of ten, saying 'The most significant thing about the album is the return of guitarist James Williamson following the death of Ron Asheton in 2009.'[2] Kitty Empire of The Guardian gave the album three out of five stars saying, 'Obviously, RTD is no sequel to Raw Power. But there is an oomph to it. Despite being crass and ill-judged, RTD is actually fun in parts.'[11] Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine gave the album one and a half stars out of five, saying 'The odd duck here is the surprisingly gentle 'The Departed,' a slide guitar-laced burble which compares Iggy Pop to the yellowed pages of a photo album. It's honest and introspective, and has no place whatsoever on a Stooges album, a fact that only serves as a reminder that a new Stooges album has no real place in the year 2013.'[15] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune gave the album three out of four stars, saying 'Though it is nowhere near as indelible as the Stooges’ first three landmark albums, Ready to Die is much stronger than the band’s 2007 comeback, The Weirdness'[10] Jon Young of Spin gave the album an eight out of ten, saying 'Ready to Die is a weirdly exhilarating gem, thanks to Iggy's fiery eloquence and the Stooges' still-raw power. Apparently rock'n'roll can be an old man's game after all.'[19] Track listingAll songs written and composed by Iggy Pop and James Williamson.
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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. 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. Ready To Die Album DownloadOnly a couple of cumbersome yet oddly elegiac acoustic ballads push the Stooges outside of their comfort zone. Unfriendly World and The Departed both offer glimpses of the vulnerability old hell raisers might feel as the party draws to an end, with Iggy crooning “where is the life we started?”. Frankly, they all sound far more comfortable on DD’s (as in “Double D” bra size), a ridiculous blast of Motown infused punk featuring Iggy slobbering enthusiastically about the eternal appeal of large breasts, as if he was 65 going on 16. I suppose growing old gracefully was never really an option. Download this: Burn The album that reinvented East Coast rap for the gangsta age, Ready to Die made the Notorious B.I.G. a star, and vaulted Sean 'Puffy' Combs' Bad Boy label into the spotlight as well. Today it's recognized as one of the greatest hardcore rap albums ever recorded, and that's mostly due to Biggie's skill as a storyteller. His raps are easy to understand, but his skills are hardly lacking -- he has a loose, easy flow and a talent for piling multiple rhymes on top of one another in quick succession. He's blessed with a flair for the dramatic, and slips in and out of different contradictory characters with ease. Yet, no matter how much he heightens things for effect, it's always easy to see elements of Biggie in his narrators and of his own experience in the details; everything is firmly rooted in reality, but plays like scenes from a movie. A sense of doom pervades his most involved stories: fierce bandits ('Gimme the Loot'), a hustler's beloved girlfriend ('Me & My Bitch'), and robbers out for Biggie's newfound riches ('Warning') all die in hails of gunfire. The album is also sprinkled with reflections on the soul-draining bleakness of the streets -- 'Things Done Changed,' 'Ready to Die,' and 'Everyday Struggle' are powerfully affecting in their confusion and despair. Not everything is so dark, though; Combs' production collaborations result in some upbeat, commercial moments, and typically cop from recognizable hits: the Jackson 5's 'I Want You Back' on the graphic sex rap 'One More Chance,' Mtume's 'Juicy Fruit' on the rags-to-riches chronicle 'Juicy,' and the Isley Brothers' 'Between the Sheets' on the overweight-lover anthem 'Big Poppa.' Producer Easy Mo Bee's deliberate beats do get a little samey, but it hardly matters: this is Biggie's show, and by the time 'Suicidal Thoughts' closes the album on a heartbreaking note, it's clear why he was so revered even prior to his death.
A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Ready to Die is the debut album of American rapper The Notorious B.I.G., released September 13, 1994 on Bad Boy Records. Excel 2010 gratis. The first release on the label, it features production by record producer and Bad Boy founder Sean 'Puffy' Combs, Easy Mo Bee, Chucky Thompson, DJ Premier, and Lord Finesse, among others. Recording sessions for the album took place during 1993 to 1994 at The Hit Factory and D&D Studios in New York City. The partly autobiographical album… read more Tracklist
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