Beat Em Up专辑介绍
在这首歌的高潮部分是这样一句歌词：“生命就是掠夺，说话的蛇如是说道：每一个人都应快乐，”而随后他继续唱道：“说出一条该死的事实，那便是每个人都在渴望着被去使用。”
每一个人应该快乐，这是一条再简单不过的真理了，但世人中又有几人是在过着快乐的生活呢？也许他们的快乐便是波普说出的那条该死的事实，他们千方百计想要成为一个对社会有用的人：他们就像朴树所唱的那些上下班的植物人流，终日往返于工厂与厨房，而这些男男女女的最后一点精力乃至想象力，都已被机器、报刊或电视机榨乾……
或许正是如此，可这个世界总会需要这样的人群，就像这个世界同样需要那些不停冷笑着的异教徒们一样——只有这样这个世界才能运转正常。对此，尼采在他的著作《权力意志》中的第369条中这样说道：“……‘人们一直靠牺牲别人来达到促进自我发展的目的’；‘生命总是靠消耗别的生命过活的’——不了解这一点的人，也就还没有向诚实迈向第一步。”
同样是这本著作中的第602条中，尼采更是写下这样一条阴冷而骇人的结论：“……‘一切都是虚假的！乾什么都行！’只有当目光呆滞，希望变得简单时，美的和有价值的东西才会出现：也许本来就是如此。”
Love it or hate it, Beat Em Up is inarguably one of the most appropriate titles Iggy Pop attached to an album in years; after an ill-advised detour into something resembling jazz on 1999's Avenue B, Iggy shifted gears again and served up his most physically punishing album since American Caesar in 1993. Beat Em Up starts out promisingly enough with "Mask," a hyperinsistent three-chord blast that, with its energetic riffing and manic vocals, sounds more like a prime Stooges number than anything he's cooked up in ages. But about halfway through the song, Iggy launches into a hysterical tirade against a number of cultural abuses common to modern-day America, and for every moment that he hits a nail on the head ("Irony in place of balls/Balls in place of brains/Brains in place of soul") there's at least one or two bits you can only hope he's joking ("Junkie frat boys in their shorts!"). And that pretty much sets the tone for the album; when Whitey Kirst's guitar isn't trying to split the difference between Ron Asheton-esque groove and speed metal shred, Iggy is ranting about one thing or another that annoys him until he sounds like a cross between Dennis Miller and the wino on the corner who yells at you when you won't give him a dollar. There are a few numbers where this all falls into place, and "Weasels" and "Ugliness" rock hard enough that you can forgive them when they start to go silly. But it's both ironic and appropriate that the most effective track on the album is the one that rocks the least -- "V.I.P.," six and a half minutes of slow vamp in which Iggy offers a hilarious stream-of-consciousness monologue about the joys of abusing your fame, which is funny and makes its points well at the same time. Beat Em Up takes an approach not dissimilar to what Iggy was reaching for on Brick by Brick and American Caesar, but where he sounded intelligent and thoughtful on those albums, on Beat Em Up, he sounds a like a crank who doesn't always realize he's being funny, and "V.I.P." suggests if he's going to go this route, he's best off directly aiming for laughs.