Here’s the missing line from yesterday’s Carnival of souls:
* I really appreciated Stuart Berman’s review of the newly remastered rereleases of Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power, insofar as it saved me some ducats by explaining why it doesn’t really stack up against the infamous 1997 “this goes to 11” in-the-red remastering.
There you have it!
I’ve been wanting to get Raw Power, but every time I considered it, the whole 1997 vs Bowie mix debate made me stop and just buy an Iggy Pop solo album instead.
Which version do you recommend as the best way to experience this album for the first time?
I’m not Sean, but I’m a big fan of the 1997 mix. I think that BOMP put out ROUGH POWER from rehearsal tapes in, aw geez, 1994 or so? That one didn’t stick with me so much, but the 1997 version is the one that I locked onto.
Having never even heard the original mix I don’t know that you wanna take my word for anything, but that ’97 mix is a killer in and of itself, and I trust that review regarding their relative merits.
One time I stuck “Search and Destroy” from the ’97 version on the jukebox at that horrendous bar at Wizard World Chicago and when it finally came on the whole room screamed and held their ears, it was so much louder than every other song that had played that night. It was like something from a movie, I swear.
RAW POWER and LOOK WHAT I MADE OUT OF MY HEAD (by the Solarflares) are the loudest CDs in my collection, bar none. They rampage out of the speakers with a muscular sound that few can match.
RAW POWER is the Conan of rock. Discuss.