56 anni è un’età in cui di solito una persona normale comincia a pensare alla vecchiaia e a starsene tranquillo in attesa di passare serenamente il resto dei suoi anni. Ma Iggy Pop non è una persona normale, lo aveva già dimostrato.

Il CD uscito nel 2003 è un autentico esercizio di energia e di adrenalina pura, in cui l’unico pezzo tranquillo è "Til Wrong Feels Right", un brano acustico che Iggy suona soavemente verso il finire del disco, con la sua sola chitarra acustica.
Il resto è una scarica elettrica via l’altra, non un attimo di stanca, non un momento di respiro.
Perché Iggy è così, prendere o lasciare.
Clamorosa fra l’altro la decisione di riunire gli Stooges per quattro (cinque? Provate ad ascoltare il pezzo stranamente relegato a "ghost track" e vedrete se non vi viene il fondato sospetto che ci siano loro anche lì) canzoni incredibilmente ruvide, il sound sembra lo stesso di "Raw Power" e anche la voce di Iggy non ha perso una virgola di quella intensità.
Gli altri gruppi che accompagnano l’Iguana in questo suo nuovo terremoto sonoro sono i Trolls in cinque pezzi, i Green Day in due brani (su tutti "Private Hell"), i Sum 41 nel pezzo più orecchiabile e commerciale della raccolta, "Little Know It All", che infatti è anche il singolo, Peaches nel pezzo meno convincente di tutti, "Rock Show", e Feedom in "Motor "nn".

Sono molto felice che il signor James Jewell Osterberg abbia imparato, nella vita privata, le buone maniere e non si abbandoni più a quegli eccessi che avevano reso famoso Iggy Pop, sono però altrettanto felice che le buone maniere non le abbia imparate Iggy Pop, che sia nei dischi che sul palco è ancora e sempre L’IGUANA!

Elenco tracce e testi

01   Little Electric Chair (04:40)

02   Perverts in the Sun (03:18)

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

04   Superbabe (04:09)

05   Loser (02:41)

06   Private Hell (02:50)

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.

08   Whatever (03:16)

09   Dead Rock Star (04:39)

10   Rock Show (02:08)

11   Here Comes the Summer (04:53)

12   Motor Inn (04:11)

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

14   Supermarket (03:01)

15   Til Wrong Feels Right (03:13)

16   Blood on Your Cool (07:01)

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