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Let me start by saying, if this is your introduction to the Stooges buy there three studio albums first (The Stooges, Funhouse, and Raw Power). If you've done that than this is the next logical step. I have spent a lot of time and money buying lost Stooges material, including demos and live shows. The sound quality is never great. That's just the way it is. There is no clean recordings of these songs. That being said, sound quality wise this is one of the better compilations. Not only is the sound quality better but it' pretty all inclusive. This is two discs and has most of what you'll be looking for from these recordings. In addition, the material itself is awsome. These recordings show why Iggy is one of the best front men ever (I saw The Stooges in concert a few months ago and Iggy is in my opinion the best front man ever).

This is yet another of the countless semi-legal compilations of "lost" Stooges material. At this point, there is very little that is still lost... most of it has been found and issued (and reissued and reissued and reissued). This particular set is just another one of those. On the plus side, some of the originally best sounding tracks were selected and remastered well so the final product sounds pretty good. On the negative, like most of these compilations, the tracks are bizarrely ordered in a way so that nothing is cohesive. For example, 1975 Kill City material (which is not The Stooges) is lamely separated and mixed in with 1972 CBS rehearsal tracks.

FYI... everything on this disc comes from previous releases on BOMP Records. It would appear the licsensing rights were sold. Perhaps they sound slightly better here, but at least BOMP attempted to keep the material together in a more sensible fashion (i.e.: Kill City was released as one sensible CD; rehearsal tracks had their own disc entitled Rough Power; etc.). Again, this set is a jumbled mess with no regard for cohesiveness.

If you are new to The Stooges, have all of the official releases and want more, perhaps this is an okay place to start. If you are long-time collector, there is absolutely nothing here you do not have already.

It gaves an almost comprehensive account about who were the late Stooges with James Williamson playing guitar and Ron Asheton playing bass, starting from 'I got a right' and 'Gimme some skin', songs that were rejected by CBS for the 'Raw Power' record, going on to the original Stooges mix of some of the songs that would be actually released in 'Raw Power', and finally including later stuff that would have been published by Iggy and James Williamson in the 'Kill City' record in '75.

Actually all this material is apparently and randomically shuffled in the 2 cds comprised in the release. And this, from a phylological perspective, may appear non completely correct.

Also, if you already have for 'Rough Power' and 'Kill City', released by Bomp Record, you may prefer to turn to other releases more focused and more specific.