Raw power vinyl12/9/2023 ![]() ![]() For years, I too thought the new version was a vast improvement, despite the fact I had grown up on my vinyl copy of the caterwauling original. Sony Legacy has released the original 1973 'Bowie' mix. Now we can judge for ourselves who was right, Iggy or the Stooges. ![]() Raw power, the album that almost single-handedly detonated the punk-rock movement in the next few years after its release - became the album against which all others were measured, where it remains to this day. Vinyl document of the reformed Stooges (Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Steve Mackay, Mike Watt) 'Raw Power' performance at All Tomorrows Parties in September 2010. He made Raw Power into a normal-sounding punk rock record. Like a lot of albums ahead of their time, upon initial release Raw Power was embraced by the forward thinking 'disenfranchised youth' world-wide - the punks in training, rather than the mass pop culture. Iggy And The Stooges Raw Power vinyl record 2LP reissue Item details Shipping and return policies Meet your sellers Other reviews from this shop (236). Produced by Iggy Pop and mixed by David Bowie, it was the confluence of the Stooges' ages, hormones, creativity, ability, experience, tastes, lack of supervision, contempt for authority, and ambition that has made Raw Power one of the most influential albums of all time. Perhaps due to conflicting European distribution rights. Not to be confused with the US repress with white Columbia logo on the labels. First released on Columbia records in 1973, the savagely bombastic Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges is perhaps the first record that could truly be called punk. The cover is visually identical to the US 1976 reissue The Stooges - Raw Power, but this release dates from the early 1980s, with G1 in the matrices, indicating pressed at Carrolton plant that opened in 1981. Nearly 45 year since the initial recording sessions began in the summer of 1972, the controversy surrounding Raw Power has never abated and has only added to the album's mythic status. This double LP version includes the originally released David Bowie mix of the album on the first LP and the latter remixed version by Iggy Pop himself on the second LP. ![]()
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