This new deluxe edition adds an equally unhinged 1973 Atlanta performance with confrontational banter and previously unreleased spasms like "Cock in My Pocket". New band member Williamson, along with bassist Ron Asheton and drummer brother Scott Asheton, flail in a synchronized wallop that almost single-handedly invented punk. "I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb," he rants in "Search and Destroy," embodying glam rock's theatricality while dumping its affectations. Iggy Pop delivers these desperate anthems as if he's lived every self-mythologizing line. Finally, the third and most brutal album from these Detroit legends gets both the rawness and the power it deserves.
A 1997 reissue of the album experimented with a thicker, less dynamic mix this new version reinstates Bowie's trebly, off-kilter production while adding clarity and heft the original LP lacked. One of the best albums of all-time.To even hear the rhythm section on co-producer David Bowie's 1973 mix of Raw Power, you need to crank the volume until it feels like James Williamson's reckless guitar leads are piercing your skull.
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. 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. '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! This double LP version 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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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. 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. And in accordance with those changes, Bowie's infamously treble-heavy Raw Power mix thrust Iggy's vocals and Williamson's searing solos miles out in front of the rhythm section, to the point of.
'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. 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.
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