#Iggy and the stooges raw power vinyl full
UK cassettes arrived in 1977, with full title lettering on the cover.Īn 8-track cassette version of Raw Power was released in Canada and the US in 1973 – both in red cartridges. The first Raw Power cassettes also came in 1973, in the US, with 'Iggy: Raw Power' lettering on the cover and the tracklisting printed directly onto the cream shells. The first time the cover bore the legend 'Iggy and The Stooges: Raw Power', was when Raw Power was reissued in 1977 in the UK and Europe on Embassy, a budget reissue label that had been acquired and reactivated by CBS.
There was also a sticker with the words 'Iggy: Raw Power' on the shrinkwrap. The first US pressings came in this format on Columbia, although some copies have regular CBS inner bags advertising the then-current LP releases on that label.
Initial pressings were shipped with an inner bag bearing a black and white detail of the picture of Iggy that appeared on the front cover. The UK LP came on CBS in a single sleeve with Mick Rock's photos from the King's Cross Cinema show on the front and back. In 2010, the saga came full-circle when Columbia released a two-disc "Legacy Edition" of the album that featured Bowie's original mix in remastered form.Raw Power was released on vinyl in February 1973. Then the world heard Pop's painfully harsh and distorted version of Raw Power, and suddenly Bowie's tamer but more dynamic mix didn't sound so bad, after all. In time it became conventional wisdom that Bowie's mix spoiled a potential masterpiece, so much so that in 1997, when Columbia made plans to issue a new edition of Raw Power, they brought in Pop to remix the original tapes and (at least in theory) give us the "real" version we'd been denied all these years. [After its release, Iggy was known to complain that David Bowie's mix neutered the ferocity of the original recordings. In many ways, almost all Raw Power has in common with the two Stooges albums that preceded it is its primal sound, but while the Stooges once sounded like the wildest (and weirdest) gang in town, Raw Power found them heavily armed and ready to destroy the world - that is, if they didn't destroy themselves first. Whether quietly brooding ("Gimme Danger") or inviting the apocalypse ("Search and Destroy"), Iggy had never sounded quite so focused as he did here, and his lyrics displayed an intensity that was more than a bit disquieting. But the most remarkable change came from the singer Raw Power revealed Iggy as a howling, smirking, lunatic genius. From a technical standpoint, Williamson was a more gifted guitar player than Asheton (not that that was ever the point), but his sheets of metallic fuzz were still more basic (and punishing) than what anyone was used to in 1973, while Ron Asheton played his bass like a weapon of revenge, and his brother Scott Asheton remained a powerhouse behind the drums. By most accounts, tensions were high during the recording of Raw Power, and the album sounds like the work of a band on its last legs - though rather than grinding to a halt, Iggy & the Stooges appeared ready to explode like an ammunition dump. By this point, guitarist Ron Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander had been edged out of the picture, and James Williamson had signed on as Iggy's new guitar mangler Asheton rejoined the band shortly before recording commenced on Raw Power, but was forced to play second fiddle to Williamson as bassist. Raw Power revealed Iggy as a howling, smirking, lunatic genius and found The Stooges heavily armed and ready to destroy the world! 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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