am I the only one that finds Raw Power to be prettycompared to the first two Stooges albums?
You are not.
This is interesting. Much as I love the first two albums (esp. "Fun House"), "Raw Power" is still probably my favourite Stooges record. I remember hearing it a couple of times as a kid, but I never actually owned it until 1977, when it was reissued in the UK in the wake of the whole punk thing. Although I liked it at the time, I used to hate the way it was recorded. The rhythm section sounded as if they were playing at the end of an alley across the street from the studio, and it seemed as if the whole record had been mixed by someone wearing handcuffs. When it was reissued on CD in 1997 though, it was marketed as an authorised (by Iggy) remix. A few years ago, someone told me that what it was in reality, was a re-EQ'ed version taken from the ????? two-track master - apparently, the original multi-track had been irreparably damaged, and the two-track was all they had left to work with, so we'll never hear a true remixed/remastered version. Nevertheless, the 1997 CD version is fucking blazing - the whole thing leaps out and smacks you in the grill in a way the original never did. Most people I know prefer the lo-fi feel of the o.g., but for me, the '97 version is much closer to how I always wanted to hear it.
Yeah, the "Bowie free" version is like a completely different record.
