by
Iggy Pop
- Record Label: Shout! Factory
- Release Date: May 17, 2011
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May 27, 2011Given the sometimes-dodgy, bootleg-quality sound, this set is probably not for the casual Iggy fan, but for anyone who has the albums and wants to recreate the falling-off-the-edge experience of a live concert, Roadkill Rising is a consistently strong set of performances in one handy package.
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May 20, 2011Despite that odd finale, Roadkill Rising is Pop's best career retrospective to date, and quite possibly the best we can hope for.
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Under The RadarMay 27, 2011The collection is a worthy document, covering all the necessary bases, and being comprehensive without exhausting. [May 2011, p.90]
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UncutMay 23, 2011Roadkill Rising, merging generally strong performances with reasonable-quality recordings, manages the thorny task of excerpting some 20-plus concert tapes into a cogent history. [Jun 2011, p.94]
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May 20, 2011This four-CD live box is so raw that you can almost see the twisting, sinewy torso and smell the sweat and peanut butter, as the sonic levels constantly push into the red.
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May 20, 2011His charmingly loony and unpredictable qualities are plenty evident over the course of these five hours of music and often unhinged patter. Sound quality varies of course, with the dodgiest not surprisingly on the late 70s tracks, but when you're dealing with this type of raw power, pristine audio is almost a detriment.
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Entertainment WeeklyMay 24, 2011These four apocalyptic discs show in-concert Iggy excels at unfettered rewrites if standards "Gloria" and "Hang On Sloppy." [27 May 2011, p.79]
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May 20, 2011The set devotes each of its four discs to performances from a specific decade, but even if you don't think Iggy has produced a front-to-back great album since 1979's New Values, Roadkill Rising is still worth your time.
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May 20, 2011Few artists have more dodgy-sounding live bootlegs on the market than Iggy Pop. Thankfully, Iggy himself sorted through three decades of tapes to assemble this killer four-disc package.
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Jul 28, 2011Over the four decades sequenced chronologically, Iggy morphs through myriad phases, and Roadkill Rising missteps in granting each equal footing.
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May 20, 2011The material is arranged chronologically, but beyond that, one set of tunes stumbles into another without making sense of their different sonic and musical characteristics as Iggy's backing bands (none of whom are credited) and musical approaches shift from concert to concert throughout this set, leaving Roadkill Rising in dire need of some sense of focus.