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During this time The Stooges, perpetually wasted, performed a single concert in London's Kings Cross. With David Bowie as executive producter, Raw Power proved to be an instant classic. 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. In 1972 Iggy Pop and The Stooges flew into London to record a new LP Raw Power. '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!

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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. '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. The Stooges certainly didn't need that, and I think that even the damaged-sounding original mix ends up sounding more powerful.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. The compression, digital distortion, and overall sheen reminds me too much of the really crap sound that prevailed among some '90's bands who tried to sound heavier than they really were by pushing everything to 11 in the studio. I tried to listen to the new mix with open ears and to get past differences from how I'd heard the music for the ensuing decade before the remix, but, ultimately, I just don't like it.

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It's obvious that Bowie was going for some sort of deliberate approach in mixing it like that he knows how to produce a good-sounding record, and he's displayed a lot of fraternalism over the years towards Iggy, so I don't think he did a half-assed job out of lack of concern. One day a friend made the observation that Raw Power is really the soundtrack of a band strung together with tape and glue and strung out on who-knows-what-else (possibly glue as well), and the mix is almost the aural equivalent of bad speed and hangovers.

When I first heard Raw Power, about ten years after it was released, I thought the mix was crappy - I expected a really meaty sound a la Funhouse. I searched back in the archives and pulled up my comments in the thread on this topic from a few years ago, which still reflects my thinking: