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Raw Power | 
| Artist: The Stooges
Label: Columbia / Legacy
Category: Music
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 5093
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099748517623
ASIN: B000024FRW
Release Date: April 28, 1997
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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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Amazon.co.uk Review
After releasing The Stooges and Fun House--two LPs of brutally elemental rock--the Stooges split, reforming three years later with the encouragement of David Bowie to produce Raw Power. If, at the time, Iggy's music seemed primitive and crude, it also foreshadowed heavy metal at its best and the energy and nihilistic attitude of punk--an energy somewhat tamed by Bowie's original production on this record, which emphasised Iggy's voice and the tunes at the expense of the band's trademark powerhouse riffs. The celeste line on "Penetration" and the guitar and piano on "Gimme Danger" show how adept the band were at using melodic detail to sweeten the bitter thrill of the songs--but most of the other tracks launch straight into a sublime frenzy, with guitarist James Williamson soloing almost before the first few chords have sounded. The Stooges' first three albums, and the live LP Metallic KO (which captures the band at their most blisteringly confrontational) are excessive, supremely exciting, awe-inspiring rock records. --Burhan Tufail
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
Jon Savage said in England's Dreaming "if you only hear two punk records make it Never Mind The Bollocks and this one.." November 17, 2008
This record is brutal. This record comes smashing up through the floor boards. This record is essential.
Catnip for the soul May 16, 2008
If you could distill rock music all the way down to it's most basic essence then you'd probably end up with something similar to this. From it's sheet metal production to Iggy's yelps and trills this album is rock in it's most purest form.
This record, though, is about more than sound. A feeling is generated by this record, a feeling that starts somewhere in your abdomen and shoots up to your chest and back down again. If these songs don't make you want to rip off your top, grab your crotch and scream then you are dead inside. Catnip for the soul.
Raw Power Iggy Pop and the Stooges 1972 April 18, 2008
Raw Power, the Greatest Album of all time, followed closely by, Pere Ubu, '390 degrees of simulated stereo'.
Raw Power - every track is a great invention.
Live in a detached property and play loud.
It's fantastic. 'Raw power has got no place to go... Raw power is laughin' at you and me'
the best rock album ever. EVER. February 21, 2008
all im going to say is this is 3. buy it, you really wont be disappointed. and if in the unlikely case that you are.... you've only spent the aforementioned 3. buy it now!
 Classic album but .... August 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Giving this four stars for the kick ass songs on it, but the mastering? Ouch! I got the re-mastered version in the hope of more depth compared to the tinny, bass light original. Frequency wise, these are definitely more balanced mixes, but they're blighted by being pushed into the digital extreme.
I totally agree with another reviewer here. A hot ANALOG mix pushing into the red would've been good and kicking and could've then been transferred to the digital medium and mastered at a reasonable loudness level preserving some nice 'grungey' harmonics. Sadly, though, these seem to be digital re-mixes mastered far beyond the digital threshold. The first track averages -4dB (CDs have a dynamic range of more than 90 db meaning that this track has only 4db). The result is BAD DISTORTION with clips everywhere and an overpowering mid range. Maybe this is some global irony? The raw power is always there in the songs themselves, but you have to dig it out from either bass weak or saturation drenched versions? A classic album nonetheless.
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