Raw Power | 
 enlarge | Artist: Iggy & The Stooges
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music
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Rating:  162 reviews
Sales Rank: 14292
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.2
UPC: 090771526915
EAN: 0090771526915
ASIN: B001GU04MM
Release Date: November 25, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Search and Destroy | | • | Gimme Danger | | • | Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell | | • | Penetration | | • | Raw Power | | • | I Need Somebody | | • | Shake Appeal | | • | Death Trip |
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Album Description
Please disregard the Amazon editorial review, this LP uses the original 1973 Columbia Records mix, NOT the 1997 Iggy Pop remaster. If there's ever been an album that lives up to its title, this is it--Iggy and the Stooges' apocalyptic, high-octane bombshell, Raw Power! At times this searing, end-of-the-world death platter--home to such proto-punk frontal assaults as "Search and Destroy," "Shake Appeal," and "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell"--even threatens to surpass its beyond-appropriate moniker. Although this incarnation of the Stooges imploded not long after its release, Raw Power became the LP that launched a million punk rock bands all around the world, leaving its flaming skidmarks on scenes from London to L.A. to Sydney. Sundazed's high-definition vinyl edition of this primal rock 'n' roll beast features the legendary 1973 Columbia Records mix and includes its Mick Rock photo-adorned inner sleeve.
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 Pretty cooked December 31, 2008
OneLove (so fla)
One of those important releases that just isn't very important to me. Besides the abomination of a remastery, I was just never a fan of Iggy's antics, and in general the songwriting was garage-sheik at best, preferring the gnarling distortion of repetition above all else. There is just enough approach however, to make a good half of the tiny album intriguingly primal enough not to wave it past.
My CD received was not Raw Power December 12, 2008
Dennis Keever (Durham, NC)
I ordered this CD (2000 release, labelled Raw Power and with the four faces on the cover). I got that cover and indeed a CD inside labelled "Raw Power". But when I started to play it, I saw that the music on it was from "Studio Sessions". No Search and Destroy or Gimme Danger. Not at all the playlist for Raw Power. Despite even the labelling on the CD itself, it is not Raw Power. I cannot explain it.
 Iggy Bangs It Down and Tarts It Up October 30, 2008
Otto Luck (Detroit)
By the time The Stooges got around to...well, "recording" might not be appropriate...howzabout wrenching "Raw Power" out of the howling vortex of their scrap-heaped minds, hearts, and souls and foisting it on a woefully-unprepared and unsuspecting world, they'd stumbled through some of the dumbest, most abusive rock and roll ever waxed, high-strung poets of destruction hell bent on constructing their own insular us-against-the-world fraternity of the damned.
Paragons of drug-gobbling excess, they pretty much invented punk rock in an old farm house in Ann Arbor, Michigan with essential artifacts "The Stooges" and "Fun House," which simply defy any and every adjective, category, or genre thrown at them, both albums staring down certain ugly aspects of human nature that most people would rather not face, Ron Asheton wielding his guitar and wah pedal like a drunk with a straight razor, brother Scott taking the big beat and making it bigger, perpetually-sozzled bassist Dave Alexander deep in the quagmire somewhere, and Iggy Pop (deviant, gentleman, idiot, philosopher, devil, angel) snarling, shrieking, grunting, and freaking out like a perfect child of science whose circuits are frying.
Despite the demotion of Ron Asheton to bass in favor of future Brit-punk godhead James Williamson - who manages to hit notes and mash them at the same time - "Raw Power" still sounds appropriately extreme, from the cataclysmic title track, "Search and Destroy," "Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell," and "Death Trip" to "Gimme Danger" and "I Need Somebody," where Iggy croons like the ghost of Jim Morrison. It's the first great punk-guitar album, a roaring, glorious mess, an out-of-control classic that remains, for many, the greatest rock and roll record ever made, where melody, subtlety, and musicianship take a back seat to noise, power, and vitality in spite of - perhaps because of - the band reaching an advanced stage of chemically-induced schizophrenia.
Produced by Iggy and famously submerged in the mix after the event by David Bowie, this definitive remixed testament to the dumb geniuses of the Mid-West remains defiantly untamed and stands the test of time, the punks adopting Iggy as a kamikaze icon three or four years after its release, aping his kill-me-please stage stance and passing he and his fellow masters of unrestraint from elusive legends to myth.
Buy this album for your children today. It will prepare them for tomorrow.
Punk Classic September 14, 2008
pinkfloyd (annoymus countries)
One of the first hard rock punk albums ever realesed. Realesed in 1973 the stooges album Raw Power is just one of those albums you cant be with out. From the heavy anti war rocker, "Search And Destroy", to the final track," Death Trip", the album is non stop punk rock classic buy today
What the h@%%? September 8, 2008
Alison Benson (Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This page is supposed to be devoted solely to the sale of the now-deleted 1990 "Raw Power" CD. If you are looking for Iggy's mix (from 1997) and not Bowie's original mix (on the 1990 CD), tread carefully among the sellers' offerings on this page.
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