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Iggy Pop & The Stooges

From the mid 1960's, as the drummer for his high-school group, The Iguanas - to leader of the bastard-child band of the late-60's, The Stooges - to the unpredictable solo artist who has spanned the last 20 years - Iggy Pop has consistently challenged the rock'n roll establishment. The Stooges, with their anarchistic blend of the Blues and uncontrollable energy, were considered banal, three-chord noise to most critics but ahead of their time to their fans. In fact, Raw Power (1973) was in the delete bins at most record stores less than a year after its release. Ironically, in 1987, that infamous album was chosen as one of Rolling Stone's Top 100 albums - calling it "...an out of control classic." Siamese Records was the first label to release outtakes of the Raw Power sessions. Pre David Bowie mix.

 


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For me, "Raw Power" was and is the greatest rock album of all time, crappy David Bowie mix notwithstanding (Scotty Asheton sounds like he's playing drums through mud). The band line-up benefits enormously from the inclusion of James Williamson's blistering guitar playing, and Iggy was never before and has never been since as manic and feral as he is here. What they put out as hard-to-find singles was even more incendiary- "I'm Sick Of You", "I Got A Right" (one reviewer whose name unfortunately escapes me once said Iggy's favorite themes for his lyric writing were: A. hatred of women B. hatred of himself and C. hatred of everybody else)...Look, I loved punk rock...still do...The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, etc....but even the best of their stuff was nothing but a pale, imitative approximation of what Iggy and the Stooges were able to accomplish when they were in their furious drug-addled glory, way back when.
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• Review posted on 01/31/2006
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