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Raw Power (2 CD Legacy Edition)

Iggy & The StoogesAudio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (209 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (April 13, 2010)
  • Original Release Date: 2010
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Sony Legacy
  • ASIN: B00383ZTXO
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (209 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,406 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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If punk rock didn't start with the Stooges' first album or their second, it DEFINITELY started with their third, as Iggy and producer David Bowie put together one of the most crudely powerful (and crudely mixed) albums ever. Now, that same album is back with its original Bowie mix and an entire CD of unreleased material, including Doojiman from the Raw Power studio sessions and Head On from a 1973 CBS Studio rehearsal, and an unreleased concert from the Raw Power tour (new guitarist James Williamson shreds!) featuring such classics from the album as Gimme Danger; Search and Destroy , and I Need Somebody . New liner notes, unseen photos and personal notes from Iggy, Williamson and drummer Scott Asheton accompany...open up and bleed!

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99 of 103 people found the following review helpful
By Willy
Format:Audio CD
Raw Power! Whether Bowie's or Iggy's mix, this album deserves 5 stars and a place on any shelf that contains punk, rock, punk-rock, proto-punk, classic rock or any other kind of rock.

UNFORTUNATELY the "remastered" album in front of you is borderline unlistenable due to The Idiot and the incompetence of the mastering engineer. Judging by the liner notes, Iggy does not know the difference between analog distortion and digital clipping and treated the remaster as if on an analog medium, which is a huge %$&^ing shame given the greatness of the album.

Using analog distortion creatively is an art form, while clipping in the digital realm results in a total loss of acoustic information. If you record analog distortion onto a digital medium and master it correctly, it sounds pretty much identical to the original, but alas instead of pre-mastering 'in the red' on an analog console, some fool let Iggy into the digital mastering toolkit where 'in the red' means something a bit different. It means no dynamic range and heavily clipped peaks (in fact, almost no peaks at all, everything is uniformly loud), which defeats the purpose of using a compact disc entirely.

This album clips more than any album I have had the displeasure of hearing, which distorts several songs (Death Trip, Search& Destroy) into near inaudibility. It is Loud, but white noise or britney mastered to 99dB is also loud. Again, this is due entirely to the inept mastering.

While one cannot help but love Iggy's aggressive impulses, one imagines that he should have been left to master an analog record re-issue and the CD mastering should have been done by someone not under his influence.

There is a reason the volume knob exists, and that reason is so you can TURN IT UP.
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86 of 98 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Worst Remaster Ever March 24, 2006
By LHB
Format:Audio CD
I bought this when it first came out in 72, and I pity 14 year old kids today who don't have a record like this "to do all the things that kids aren't supposed to do" to (if that makes any sense). If my old vinyl copy could talk, I'd be in jail for the rest of my life. That is, if I could find the damn thing. And that's a BIG deal, because the remastering of this album completely ruins one of the wildest listening experiences ever created. On the original album, every tune sounded like it was recorded in different venue with a different producer. Every mix was completely different, and by objective standards, unbelievably horrible. By subjective standards, however, the uniquely ridiculous sound of each track made for one of the ten best rock and roll albums ever. "Search and Destroy" was all trebled-out, overdriven Stratocasters and virtually no bass, with an up-front metallic clanking throughout that really hurt the ears, even at low volumes (listen to any track on the Mary Chain's Psychocandy to hear roughly what it used to sound like). Raw Power growled away muddily, with lots more low-end sludge than on this version. Death Trip sounded just like the name implies, with the lead guitar sounding like it was recorded with the mike about an inch away from the amp, and turned up to 11 with an outrageous treble boost. Shake Appeal (which fares best on this CD) sounded like it was recorded in muddy mono, until the up-riff ended, and then the power chords exploded in a huge wall of stereo sound, and then shrank back to mono (the effect was mind-boggling at high volume). But the crown-jewel, the piece-de-resistance, was "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell.... Read more ›
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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars BUYER BEWARE June 18, 1999
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
As someone who clung to the original album of Raw Power like a life preserver at one point in my life, I was pleased to see that someone finally took it upon themselves to upgrade the album's sound. But: there are some changes on this album. Most of which I really like: the "1-2-3-4" count into "Shake Appeal"; the new "hey!"s on "Search and Destroy"; the extended ending of "Death Trip". However, the guitar solo on "Raw Power" is NOT the solo that appeared on the original album. Having spent more hours than I care to admit playing that spiraling-out-of-control James Williamson explosion over and over again, I was more than a little dismayed to hear a similar but still different solo on the song I loved so much. And the guitar solo at the end of "Search and Destroy" is mixed way down from the original release. Not like it matters - this is the way Raw Power will be forevermore, and that's alright. The sound is substantially better, especially in the lower frequencies, and the Iggy Pop interview in the liner notes is funny and informative. So: a slight letdown in some ways, but still snarling and alive and revelatory in ways that Limp Biskit won't ever be. Get it now.
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42 of 46 people found the following review helpful
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The first thing you notice is the guitar; a virtuoso take on the classic trebly Chuck Berry/Keith Richards axis, but with a difference. It abrades against your ear, it's a little too dissonant to be conventional, it feels like a succession of paper cuts, and it has fought for space and beaten out victorious everything else on the tape -- bass, drums, rhythm guitar are reduced to a dull clatter behind the six string eruption. The next thing you notice is the voice, screeching out the lines that provide the title of this review; mixed co-equal with the guitar, it too abrades against the ear, while on key it sounds like its about to shatter, the sound not of a braggart but a warrior too long out on point and about to bust in a million pieces. It's 1973, and welcome to the first few bars of that most aptly titled record Raw Power.

The Stooges story has been told far too many times to be recounted here; suffice to say that by the time of Raw Power they had already broken more barriers in three or four years than any of their contemporaries, fusing psychedelic garage rock, proto-metal,free jazz, and avant-garde performance art out of Artaud's theater of cruelty with an absolute lack of self consciousness, their artier conceits always rooted in the perspective of messed up suburban Detoit high school drop outs too young to buy the false promises of the '60's. To call them punk, which they invented, sells them way short.

By the time they recorded this album, the sheer psychic pressure of their epochal live performances coupled with the world's indifference had led the band to snap -- heroin and recrimination had broken them up.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars The World's Forgotten Boy
Loud, Rude and crude, "Raw Power" was Iggy and The Stooges at the aggressive best. If any album could be called the birth of punk rock, this is one of the finalists for that... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tim Brough
4.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Iggy was....
....far more articulate than the New York Dolls or KISS when it came to the hard-core Glitter Rock scene. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Eric Walton
5.0 out of 5 stars The Current Best Version of a Legendary Album
Note- this is about the Legacy version of Raw Power, the remastered David Bowie version.

I won't even try to review the actual album- there are people much better suited... Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. Hamm
5.0 out of 5 stars Great album!
The Stooges have always been top on my list. When I saw that Iggy had remixed the album I had to have it. Raw Power is a great album!
Published 6 months ago by Dan Richardson
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing. Great material, less than mediocre sound quality...
I have to agree with others that are NOT impressed with this release.

I decided to buy the "Legacy Edition" since my CD copy of Raw Power (the 1997--Iggy remaster) is in... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Deuteronomy Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Raw Power Refined
This review is of the Sony Legacy remastered vinyl double LP version of Raw Power. Firstly, the production values are top notch, the cover photo is beautfully presented on high... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Lee Wrecker
5.0 out of 5 stars great classic treasure
I mean really, this will never go out of style! This album has more of an old school blues rock feel.
Published 11 months ago by wtf?
5.0 out of 5 stars What is Raw Power?......Bowie mix, remastered
First of all, This is the mix....this is the sound that most closely resembles the original vinyl that hit the record stores in 1973. They've done a good job with the packaging. Read more
Published 13 months ago by D. Keene
5.0 out of 5 stars The Bowie Mix Still Sucks, But This Is A Great Set Worth Having
Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power (1973)

Disk 1:

...finds RAW POWER remastered and generally faithful to the David Bowie mix, the one which was (bafflingly)... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Rich Latta
4.0 out of 5 stars GET THE IGGY MIX!!!!
Great, awesome album! But this is the weak, tame, very thin and effeminate Bowie mix. Iggy remixed this album in 1997 and brought out all thats dirty and heavy in the mix. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Kevin Brock
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Raw Power Deluxe Edition
Well, sony needs to reevaluate the price of this edition...
Total price is $135.51, r u crazy sony guys???
Boxset price $59.99
VAT/Duties $22.36
Shipping to Greece $53.16
VAT/Duties/Shipping ~$75.50???? U must be out of your mind...

I guess I will have to limit my expectations to the legacy...
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