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Beat 'Em Up
by Iggy Pop


8.8

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MUSIC:

The Stooges: The Weirdness

This is Iggy Pop's first album since 1999's poorly-received 'Avenue B.'

LABEL:	Virgin
RELEASE DATE:	17 July 2001
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Rock

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Launch.com

Even at his least inspired he's got these funk-rap-metal boys beat.

Mojo

It proves to be a violent, uncompromising record throughout...

Alternative Press

Other old rockers sound old. Iggy sounds brutal, harsher than last time, louder than ever, a pummeling self-production pocked with magnificent metal dumbness... [Sep 2001, p.88]

Sonicnet

His most consistently slamming release since 1990's Brick by Brick.

Q Magazine

This return to blitzkrieg riffing is closer to nu-metal than old Stooges. [Aug 2001, p.136]

Rolling Stone

His loudest, most adolescent and downright unwholesome album since the Stooges imploded nearly thirty years ago.

Dot Music

'Beat 'Em Up' is not shit but ain't exactly loveable either. However, it does confirm that Iggy Pop can still kick up a fuss with the best of them even if the end result isn't as legendary as the man who produced it.

Entertainment Weekly

A major improvement over Avenue B's acoustic midlife crisis, this self-produced disc finds the Ig yelping off the top of his id again. [27 Jul 2001, p.72]

E! Online

His backing band's heavy-metal veering leans toward the generic. Only the Igster's sometimes fierce (but fading) yowl adds enough soul--and insanity--to make them at least momentarily credible.

Playlouder

Iggy's own production fails to lift it out of the nu-metal quagmire - sometimes the perfectly executed power chords and unimaginative guitar licks feel every bit as raw and dangerous as Bowie's Tin Machine farrago.

The Wire

Finding Iggy as confused as ever, Beat 'Em up ranks alongside New Values and Blah, Blah, Blah as yet another missed opportunity. (#209, p.60)

Pitchfork

It's all third-rate bar band stuff.

The average user rating for this album is 8.8 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

wayne h gave it a 10:
Iggy's Best recording since Wild America! Very Heavy & Strong and To the Point! That's Iggy at his Best!

Tijger gave it a 8:
Power and energy! After Avenue B Iggy let's us hear he still rocks.

Ändi SM gave it a 10:
This recording kills, after mutilating and abusing you in every possible way

Jesus M. gave it a 9:
Iggy kicks asses to all those fucking kids that just repeat themselves playing new metal. Top gear album

Robert K. gave it an 8:
As good as Iggy gets!!!

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Beat 'Em Up
by Iggy Pop