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8.0
53862
8.0 |
Clash
A time-bridging release that stands as an essential and timely reminder of just how rock ‘n’ roll ought to be played
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8.0
53885
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
The result wears the weight of its history lightly
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8.0
53951
8.0 |
Q
An album of satirical wit, edgy intelligence and what fans crave most of all, raw power. Print edition only
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8.0
53971
8.0 |
NME
It's impressive that singing about the careless abandon of life seems as natural as ever for him, even as he hurtles towards 70
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8.0
53995
8.0 |
All Music
Liberated from the weight of their history, they're just ready to rock while they still can
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8.0
54051
8.0 |
Blurt
Iggy & the Stooges sound hungry, ready not to expire but to prove something: that rock & roll is not dead and no one does it better
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7.0
53921
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Ready to Die is another torrid tour de force from a band built for speed, not comfort
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7.0
53947
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A masterclass in writing a big, dumb punk album with occasional touches of emotional depth
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7.0
53955
7.0 |
PopMatters
Ready to Die is the reunion album (Iggy and) the Stooges deserve, washing away the bad taste of The Weirdness
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7.0
53958
7.0 |
The Quietus
This is, in places, a pretty damn good rock & roll record
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7.0
53909
7.0 |
musicOMH
It is much stronger than their previous disappointing album The Weirdness (2007), and at times even recalls their creative heyday in the late ’60s and early ’70s
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7.0
53864
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Iggy is ... in blunt fuck-you and just-try-to-kill-me form
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6.0
53865
6.0 |
Uncut
There are worthwhile moments, mostly when Williamson leaves space for Pop to express his vulnerability
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6.0
53866
6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
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
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6.0
53867
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Ready to Die does have treasurable moments of wearied rock-warrior pathos and a host of other kicks
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6.0
53863
6.0 |
The Guardian
Ready to Die becomes really good when he stops trying. It feels an odd thing to say about a Stooges album, but the best moments are the ballads, which have a power and sincerity lacking elsewhere
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6.0
53879
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The best course of action is to get a copy of Raw Power and forget this
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6.0
53882
6.0 |
The Independent
Throughout, he's supported by Stooges guitar riffing of brutal directness and simplicity
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6.0
53888
6.0 |
The Observer
Despite being crass and ill-judged, RTD is actually fun in parts, retaining vestiges of the band's visceral youth, but leavened with the perspective more behoving of men of a certain life-stage
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6.0
53917
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Make no mistake, there is still a place for Iggy and his Stooges in popular music but there are just as many rote moments on this latest comeback incarnation as there are causes for celebration
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5.6
53913
5.6 |
Pitchfork
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
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5.0
53967
5.0 |
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
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4.0
54050
4.0 |
Mojo
Nobody expected him, at 65, to be the street-walking cheetah of '73, rather just to raise his game. In short: he hasn't. Print edition only
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4.0
53868
4.0 |
The Irish Times
These songs are painfully average, even clichéd at times; Ready to Retire might have been a more accurate title
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3.0
53963
3.0 |
Slant Magazine
A new Stooges album has no real place in the year 2013
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