He does sail close to the wind, lyrically, at times, but was/is Iggy an unreconstructed misogynist? Hmm, probably not, since many of the 'questionable' lyrics are either so OTT they actually become lol bonkers, OR are turned on their head - particularly in a live context - as Mr Osterberg pokes fun at himself. 'Cock In My Pocket' leaves little to the imagination, as a title, although Iggy's vocals are so blurred you can hardly hear a clear word! There's a frisson of audience baiting along the way some outstanding bass playing from the great, late, Ron wonderfully stretched, caustic, renditions of most of 'RP', plus a couple of lol 'steals' along the way, particularly 'Heavy Liquid' (Led Zep). Scott Thurston's Jerry Lee-like piano riffs lend this a quasi '50s feel, James Williamson's guitar gets sucked into the Ashetons' low end, whilst Iggy howls, pleads, snarls and roars his way through it all, like a man possessed. Of superior bootleg quality, it grabs by the throat from the outset, and shakes you about like a rabid dog until the final seconds. Where the Legacy edition triumphs, is the extra CD:- 'Georgia Peaches', a well-preserved 1973 Atlantic club performance, from an aborted radio broadcast. (Both versions also come with interesting booklets.) And so it goes never letting up, never letting you down. 'Penetration' sees everyone whip up a rawk and roll storm, whilst the title track features some great howling and growling set against rough, raw, blistering instrumentation. 'Gimme Danger' slows things down a tad, with Iggy's sinister overtones complementing the lusher (well, lush for them anyway!) band arrangements. Iggy And The Stooges Raw Power is hands down one of the most influential albums of all time Sony/Legacy now proudly presents the 1973 cornerstone of punk. If only they'd melded the two versions! Still, once you make the aural adjustments you feel comfortable with, there's little to choose from Iggy's has more distorted oomph, but Bowie's has that great piercing, trebly, guitar sound.Įvery single song here is fantastic, yet nothng can surpass the sheer up-youness of the opening 'Search And Destroy' surely The Stooges calling card. Iggy's, 'loudness wars', mix, is almost painful to listen to unless you turn the volume down, plus any bass boost off, whilst the Bowie remaster - even though it definitely improves on the original - requires a volume, and bass, boost. 'Raw Power', despite having, probably, the most mucked-up mixes in the history of mixdom, radiates such, well, raw power, that nothing can spoil the underlying brilliance of the album. Are either any good? Well, yes in their own imperfect way. Produced by Iggy Pop and mixed by David Bowie, it was the confluence of the Stooges' ages, hormones, creativity, ability, experience, tastes, lack of supervision, contempt for authority, and ambition that has made Raw Power one of the most influential albums of all time.As Amazon, almost always, fail to separate reviews for different versions, then it's a good job I've got both the '97 Iggy remix plus the 2010 remastered, original, Bowie mix. First released on Columbia records in 1973, the savagely bombastic Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges is perhaps the first record that could truly be called punk. Nearly 45 year since the initial recording sessions began in the summer of 1972, the controversy surrounding Raw Power has never abated and has only added to the album's mythic status. Double LP version, 16-page full color booklet with new pics & essays, includes the originally released David Bowie mix of the album on the first LP and the latter remixed version by Iggy Pop himself on the second LP.
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