Ready to Die

Iggy & The Stooges - Ready to Die
Critic Score
Based on 32 reviews
2013 Ratings: #926 / 1115
User Score
Based on 84 ratings
2013 Rank: #532
Liked by 1 person
April 30, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Fat Possum / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
NME

It's a fat, satisfying slab of Iggy punk-rock steak. Exactly what we ordered.

70
Drowned in Sound

Ready to Die isn't the missing sequel to Raw Power, but it is a masterclass in writing a big, dumb punk album with occasional touches of emotional depth.

70
musicOMH

On the evidence of Ready To Die, the rest of The Stooges are not only surviving but thriving, still making music that sounds urgent and demands attention.

70
Consequence of Sound

The Stooges still sound thrillingly vital, no small feat for a bunch of hardened rock vets jockeying for position against scores of up and comers roughly a third their age.

70
PopMatters

Ready to Die is the reunion album (Iggy and) the Stooges deserve, washing away the bad taste of The Weirdness

56
Pitchfork

Forty years removed from the kamikaze death-trip fantasies of Raw Power, Ready to Die is the sound of Iggy admitting, “I’m too old for this shit.” And he’s come armed with not one, but three acoustic ballads to prove it

50
A.V. Club

With Ready To Die, Iggy And The Stooges have begun to spring back to life. Or at least shown signs of becoming convincingly zombified.

JayCrackers
56

Easily an improvement from The Weirdness, but yet still comes across as The Stooges being a shell of their former self, with an overall safe sound, but each member does their part well enough for some songs to be entertaining but by 2013 there was more interesting sounds going on.

Track Review

Burn 6.5/10
Sex and Money 7.5/10.
Job 6/10
Gun 7/10
Unfriendly World 4.5/10
Ready to Die 6/10
Dd's 5.5/10
Dirty Deal 5/10
Beat That Guy 4.5/10
The Departed 4/10
Dying Breed 5/10

Average: 5.6/10

TheCarioca
40

Burn - 3/5
Sex and Money - 2/5
Job - 2/5
Gun - 2/5
Unfriendly World - 3/5
Ready to Die - 0/5 ☢
DD's - 1/5
Dirty Deal - 1/5
Beat That Guy - 3/5
The Departed - 3/5
Dying Breed - 2/5

thebrisklad
65

Very weird decision by The Stooges to release a 5th album after not releasing a 4th album (which, I emphasize, does not exist, even if it does)!

Oh well. This is what I consider to be their comeback record. It doesn't reach the sheer influential heights the band reached with their incredible trio of albums, but the energy here is still good enough. Some neat variety, and the lyricism is at best decent, sometimes (very) cheesy. It's fine and fun.

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Track List

1Burn
3:37
60
2Sex and Money
3:18
40
3Job
3:05
40
4Gun
3:07
44
5Unfriendly World
3:46
50
6Ready to Die
3:06
22
7DD's
3:12
29
8Dirty Deal
3:42
33
9Beat That Guy
3:15
56
10The Departed
4:36
56
Total Length: 34 minutes
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Added on: February 25, 2013