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Raw Power [Original recording remastered]

~ Iggy & The Stooges
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  • Audio CD (28 April 1997)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Columbia / Legacy
  • ASIN: B000024FRW
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,539 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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After releasing The Stooges and Fun House--two LPs of brutally elemental rock--the Stooges split, reforming three years later with the encouragement of David Bowie to produce Raw Power. If, at the time, Iggy's music seemed primitive and crude, it also foreshadowed heavy metal at its best and the energy and nihilistic attitude of punk--an energy somewhat tamed by Bowie's original production on this record, which emphasised Iggy's voice and the tunes at the expense of the band's trademark powerhouse riffs. The celeste line on "Penetration" and the guitar and piano on "Gimme Danger" show how adept the band were at using melodic detail to sweeten the bitter thrill of the songs--but most of the other tracks launch straight into a sublime frenzy, with guitarist James Williamson soloing almost before the first few chords have sounded. The Stooges' first three albums, and the live LP Metallic KO (which captures the band at their most blisteringly confrontational) are excessive, supremely exciting, awe-inspiring rock records. --Burhan Tufail


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Though the Stooges were on the verge of breaking up at the time RAW POWER was recorded, it still comes across as (arguably) their most focused and powerful release. Former guitarist Ron Ashton was moved to bass and replaced by James Williamson, whose precise, razory playing makes RAW POWER the Stooges' most guitar-driven album. Scott Ashton drums up a storm, and Iggy yowls, yelps, drawls, and croons with a sense of menace that is both exhilarating and frightening. Though thealbum retains the reckless urgency and noise-happy chaos that defined FUN HOUSE, it strips away the swampy murk of thatalbum with its trebly, metallic production. [paragraph here]
The songs work sexy, primal grooves ("I Need Somebody"), hopped-up boogie ("Shake Appeal"), reworked, adrenaline-pumped early rock & roll (the title track), and creeping, whisper-fueled come-ons ("Penetration"). The album's two best tracks, the spastic, take-no-prisoners danger anthem "Search and Destroy, " and the minor key, Doors-influenced "Gimme Danger" bristle with energy and the kind of sleazy, libidinous glamour that keep the true heart of rock thudding furiously.Aptly named, RAW POWER was the Stooges' third and final album, putting the cap on their small but hugely influential discography. A rock essential.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Iggy Remix a mixed Success, 16 Mar 2009
By Mr. A. D. Bickerstaffe (Loughborough, UK) - See all my reviews
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The item invariably offered for sale on CD is the 1997 Iggy Pop Remix of this classic 1973 Stooges album. The original Bowie mix - often characterised as 'arty' - was strange, muted, and distant. It lacked punch in the rhythm and bass, and this Iggy tried to remedy. However, as James Williamson (guitar, riffs) has pointed out, the recording levels were overloaded in this area, making the remix task difficult. Some numbers do come across quite well e.g I Need Somebody, but others, such as Search and Destroy suffer from excessive treble and clipping.
Most of the tracks are better presented on the 2004 Demon Music release, Penetration - which also benefits from the inclusion of most of the Kill City album, and tracks from the pre Raw Power era such as Sick of You, Scene of the Crime etc.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Stooges were under there all along, 17 May 2001
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This is a quite extraordinary remix of an already powerful album. The Bowie mix has been rightly criticised for for being too muffled. Iggy takes it all the way the other side. This is almost completely distorted.

And that just makes it all the better.

About halfway through Pretty Face I realised what the production reminded me of: Black Flag. And not Black Flag when they learned to play - Black Flag in their earliest Venice Beach incarnation (think the original Gimme Gimme Gimme or Wasted). That crude - the fact that it took digital technology to perfect the amps-on-11 garage sound is a perfect irony.

The Stooges, of course, rock harder than Black Flag ever did.

It's just a shame they didn't restore the original sword-fighting effects to Search and Destroy.

My only problem with this album is that I can't get it loud enough: my ears are hurting and I still want more.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic album but ...., 2 Aug 2007
By Gordon W. Craig "mumbler" (Glasgow, UK) - See all my reviews
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Giving this four stars for the kick ass songs on it, but the mastering? Ouch! I got the re-mastered version in the hope of more depth compared to the tinny, bass light original. Frequency wise, these are definitely more balanced mixes, but they're blighted by being pushed into the digital extreme.

I totally agree with another reviewer here. A hot ANALOG mix pushing into the red would've been good and kicking and could've then been transferred to the digital medium and mastered at a reasonable loudness level preserving some nice 'grungey' harmonics. Sadly, though, these seem to be digital re-mixes mastered far beyond the digital threshold. The first track averages -4dB (CDs have a dynamic range of more than 90 db meaning that this track has only 4db). The result is BAD DISTORTION with clips everywhere and an overpowering mid range. Maybe this is some global irony? The raw power is always there in the songs themselves, but you have to dig it out from either bass weak or saturation drenched versions? A classic album nonetheless.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A ruined classic
This remix is a crime. When can we have a remastered version of the original on cd?
Published 4 months ago by Mikey C

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal new version of a classic album
If (like me) you're very familiar with the original version of this album, then this teeth-rattlingly loud remastering might just make you fall in love with it all over again... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Matt_K

5.0 out of 5 stars Jon Savage said in England's Dreaming "if you only hear two punk records make it Never Mind The Bollocks and this one.."
This record is brutal. This record comes smashing up through the floor boards. This record is essential.
Published 11 months ago by stark raven maven

5.0 out of 5 stars Catnip for the soul
If you could distill rock music all the way down to it's most basic essence then you'd probably end up with something similar to this. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Jay

5.0 out of 5 stars Raw Power Iggy Pop and the Stooges 1972
Raw Power, the Greatest Album of all time, followed closely by, Pere Ubu, '390 degrees of simulated stereo'.
Raw Power - every track is a great invention. Read more
Published 18 months ago by I. Mckechnie

5.0 out of 5 stars the best rock album ever. EVER.
all im going to say is this is £3. buy it, you really wont be disappointed. and if in the unlikely case that you are.... you've only spent the aforementioned £3. buy it now!
Published 20 months ago by daniel gutt

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ig and the Angst
Unlike most albums, the cover is a brilliant representation of what this album's about. It's edgy (in spades), dark, dangerous, in your face and loaded with sexuality and... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2007 by Moz

5.0 out of 5 stars Power... so much raw power
If you ever happen to stumble across the musical musings of Americn rock critic Lester Bangs and the way he romanticizes the music and pure genius that is Iggy Pop, then you will... Read more
Published on 2 Dec 2006 by RJ Wilkinson

5.0 out of 5 stars another imperfect mix but still awesome
Iggy Pop had good reason to remix this album as the original, brilliant as it was, was quite flawed, but the end product, while improving on some tracks, merely changes others and... Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2006 by freewheeling frankie

5.0 out of 5 stars Shake Appeal
This album is sublime. It is everything that rock music should be - loud and in your face. God bless the Stooges.
Published on 15 May 2006 by A Stooges fan

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