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| Iggy Pop - Raw Power Band: Iggy Pop Tracks: - Search And Destroy - Gimmie Danger - Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell - Penetration - Raw Power - I Need Somebody - Shake Appeal - Death Trip Iggy, we hardly knew ye... I finally got around to picking up this, the remastered version of Raw Power, after so many years of procrastination; most of my favourite bands swore by it, and I bought everything else EXCEPT for this album. I figured that it would always be around. Listening to it now, it's amazing that it got released in the first place, given it's inaccessibility (but somehow timelessly buried pop sensibilities) at that point in time. I'd read "Please Kill Me" by Legs MacNeil, and it piqued my curiosity enough to finally pick it up. I wasn't disappointed in the slightest, even though I usually am when it comes to critical favourites. "Search and Destroy", "Your Face is Going to Hell", and the title cut are searing punk before punk became front-page news. Harder and less dynamic than other alumni of the Detroit school of music (MC5), but no less affecting. "Gimme Danger" is the best song Jim Morrison never wrote, and "Penetration" ... well, I can't complain about any tune on the album, really. The best punk albums of the seventies were basically riff-dominated rock 'n' roll, and this one is no exception--it ranks up there with "Never Mind the Bollocks", the Dolls' first album, Wayne/Jayne County's "Rock 'n' Roll Cleopatra", and nobody's record collection is complete without it. "I'm The World's Forgotten Boy..." "I'm a street-walkin' cheetah with a hide full of napalm"...with that, the greatest opening line in musical history, Iggy Pop sets the mesmerizing circus of "Raw Power" in motion. "Search and Destroy," "Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell," "Penetration," and of course, the title track...these songs in particular leave No Doubt that by mixing the blues with sounds inspired by the Motor City's industrial cacophony, Iggy and his fellow Stooges blazed a trail which would inspire both punk rock and the recent popularity of "industrial" music. Yes, the next time you hear some Fifteen year old kid talking about how Marilyn Manson is God...tell him that if it weren't for Iggy, Marilyn would still be just a dead movie actress. If not for Pop, Manson would still be just another psycho Cult leader serving a life sentence. Yes, Iggy handed us industrial music thirty years ago. On behalf of all those who don't know any better, Iggy...I'll just say "thank you" for them. Raw Power Can Destroy a Man But not your speakers, as some reviewer made that ridiculous<BR>claim recently here. This new remix (by Iggy himself, presumably, or supervised by him) is certainly loud and in the <BR>red most of the way through, but I don't think it's damaged<BR>either my speakers or minisystem stereo yet. Maybe I'm just<BR>careful and don't play it quite that loud, but I do like to<BR>play it reasonably loud. The only Side Effect might have been<BR>to drive my neighbors insane, but otherwise it's good Poison Medicine Raw Power is....<BR> I can't add much except to say this record is an unbelievable<BR>classic Blast of rock and roll with few slow moments: even<BR>the slower numbers, "Penetration" and "Death Trip" cook along<BR>with blistering guitar "solos" (not really that long but solos nonetheless, and perhaps the better for it) that add some zing.<BR>My Favorite songs are all of them, but especially the title tune,<BR>and "Your Pretty Face (Is Going to Hell)", just absolutely destroy me and make me wanna be up dancing to the tunes wrecked out of my mind. <BR> Most 21st Century rock albums should consign themselves to the bargain bin in shame, most will never come up to this level of excellence and energy and sheer aggression. The thing is, Raw Power is sheer agression but it's tempered by great songs,<BR>great Iggy and lyrics, and the band, despite the muddy sound mix, still manage to demonstrate how great they were before<BR>things sorta fell apart for The Stooges. This even puts the 1st Stooges album to shame, and I Love that one too!<BR> Buy this now..... Buy Iggy Pop Raw Power at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
