STOOGES RAW POWER LEGACY PLUS
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In 1972, the Stooges were near the point of collapse when David Bowie's management team, MainMan, took a chance on the band at Bowie's behest.

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One of the best albums of all-time.Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. 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. '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!

STOOGES RAW POWER LEGACY PLUS

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. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īs 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

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