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56 years old is an age when a normal person usually begins to think about old age and settle down quietly in anticipation of serenely spending the rest of their years. But Iggy Pop is not a normal person, he had already proven that.
The CD released in 2003 is a genuine exercise of energy and pure adrenaline, where the only calm piece is "Til Wrong Feels Right", an acoustic track that Iggy plays suavely towards the end of the album, with just his acoustic guitar.
The rest is one electric jolt after another, not a moment of fatigue, not a moment to breathe.
Because Iggy is like that, take it or leave it.
Remarkably, the decision to reunite the Stooges for four (five? Try listening to the track strangely relegated to "ghost track" and see if you don't have the well-founded suspicion that they're there too) incredibly raw songs; the sound seems the same as "Raw Power" and even Iggy's voice hasn't lost an ounce of that intensity.
The other bands accompanying the Iguana in this new sonic earthquake are the Trolls in five tracks, the Green Day in two songs (notably "Private Hell"), Sum 41 in the most catchy and commercial track of the collection, "Little Know It All", which is indeed the single, Peaches in the least convincing track of all, "Rock Show", and Feedom in "Motor "nn".
I am very happy that Mr. James Jewell Osterberg has learned good manners in private life and no longer indulges in those excesses that made Iggy Pop famous, but I am equally happy that Iggy Pop hasn't learned good manners, both in records and on stage he is still and always THE IGUANA!
Tracklist and Lyrics
03 Skull Ring (03:51)
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Money
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Fancy things
The touch of a hand in the wasteland
you're walking asleep and dreaming cheap
A bird's wing don't beat for free
You're freezing cold and your family
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Money
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Fancy things
Fingers on fire to do what's bad
Ring on the finger is a skull man
Strong as a bar of steel
Weakness is that you can't feel
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Money
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Fancy things
My life is dirtied, my mind is loaded
I'm feeling and breathing and fighting
To see
People get ready now
Baby come on give your heart to me
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Money
Skull rings
Fast cars
Hot chicks
Fancy things
07 Little Know It All (03:33)
I'm the kid that no one knows,
I live a life I never chose.
But these thoughts in my mind,
Are my own, my own.
I'm face to face with the unknown,
My scary movie will be shown.
I've got one evil mind,
Of my own, of my own.
We take from one another,
We never stop to wonder,
How it feels from the other side.
But nothing lasts forever,
When stupid turns to clever,
Why are you surprised?
Little know it all (little know it all),
Ten bucks in my hand.
Little know it all (little know it all),
Don't cry, I understand.
So!
I'm a target of the smart,
They got ambition, I got heart.
I'm analyzed and tagged,
Before I start.
So tell me who can I respect?
I feel the leash around my neck.
As I find out there's shame,
In the game (in the game).
We take from one another,
And never stop to wonder,
How it feels from the other side.
But nothing lasts forever,
When stupid turns to clever,
Why are you surprised?
And I feel like I've crawled outside the box.
And I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm not.
We take from one another,
And never stop to wonder,
How it feels from the other side.
But nothing lasts forever,
When stupid turns to clever,
Why are you surprised?
Little know it all (little know it all),
Ten bucks in my hand.
Little know it all (little know it all),
Don't cry, I understand.
You little know it all (little know it all),
Ten bucks in my hand.
Little know it all (little know it all),
Don't cry I understand.
You'll never know it all.
13 Inferiority Complex (04:13)
Standing on the poop deck of a wreck -
Inferiority complex
Waiting for the tugboat of respect -
Inferiority complex
Trying to see the good side of a bad life
Showing real courage with a sad wife
Your soul is full of holes air could blow through
People that you meet don't want to know you
People are strange when they don't respect -
Inferiority complex
People are mean when they get the chance -
Won't anybody have this dance
People are weird when they don't respect -
Inferiority complex
Are you heel or just a toe?
It's hard to say cause you feel so low
The man is eyeing and you like a suspect -
Inferiority complex
Your every word is something to correct -
Inferiority complex
Everything about you repels sunshine
Every deep desire leaves you flat lined
Walking trough the world you leave no traces
You don't feel a part of any places
People are strange when there's no respect -
Inferiority complex
People are bad when they get the chance -
Won't anybody have this dance
People are strange when there's no respect -
Inferiority complex
It's hard to say when you're down so low
So low
Inferior but not a bore
Inferior but not a bore
Inferior but not a bore
Inferior but not a bore
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