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80Even at his least inspired he's got these funk-rap-metal boys beat.
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70His most consistently slamming release since 1990's Brick by Brick.
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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]
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70It proves to be a violent, uncompromising record throughout...
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60This return to blitzkrieg riffing is closer to nu-metal than old Stooges. [Aug 2001, p.136]
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His loudest, most adolescent and downright unwholesome album since the Stooges imploded nearly thirty years ago.
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60'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.
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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]
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58His 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.
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50Iggy'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.
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30Finding Iggy as confused as ever, Beat 'Em up ranks alongside New Values and Blah, Blah, Blah as yet another missed opportunity. (#209, p.60)
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25It's all third-rate bar band stuff.
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wayneh10Iggy's Best recording since Wild America! Very Heavy & Strong and To the Point! That's Iggy at his Best!
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Tijger8Power and energy! After Avenue B Iggy let's us hear he still rocks.
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JesusM.9Iggy kicks asses to all those **** kids that just repeat themselves playing new metal. Top gear album