Friday, 12 February 2010

Iggy and the Stooges to Release Massive Raw Power Reissue Box Set

Previously unreleased Iggy and the Stooges tracks: They still exist! The punk rock forefathers' catalog has been mined incessantly in the past 40 years or so, but a new reissue of watershed 1973 album Raw Power will unearth a few more tracks that still haven't seen commercial release, if you can believe it.
On April 13, Columbia/Legacy will release Raw Power: Legacy Edition. Two weeks later, on April 27, they'll follow it up with the even more deluxe Deluxe Edition.
The Legacy Edition will include a remastered version of the original album, featuring David Bowie's original mix, on its first disc. The second disc, titled Georgia Peaches, includes a complete recording of a heavily bootlegged Atlanta live show from 1973-- with two previously unreleased bonus tracks to boot: the studio outtake "Doojiman" and a studio rehearsal performance of "Head On". It'll also include a 24-page booklet with essays about the band and introductions from surviving members.
All that stuff will also show up in the Deluxe Edition. Both discs will share space with a third disc, Rarities, Outtakes, & Alternates From the Raw Power Era, which will include eight tracks from different sources (five of them previously unreleased). The fourth disc is a 30-minute documentary DVD called The Making of Raw Power.
And yeah, there's more. You'll also get a reproduction of a rare Japanese picture sleeve 7" single of "Raw Power" and "Search and Destroy", five 5x7 photo prints, and a 7" softcover booklet with an essay by Henry Rollins and testimonials from prominent folks like Lou Reed, Joan Jett, Tom Morello, and others. Before the April 27 release date, the box will be available exclusively through the Stooges' website. Stooges nerds, start saving your money.
We've got the tracklists for all three CDs included in the Deluxe Edition below. (The Stooges will play Raw Power in its entirety at ATP New York this fall, by the way.)
Raw Power (Deluxe Edition):
CD1 (Raw Power):
01 Search and Destroy
02 Gimme Danger
03 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell
04 Penetration
05 Raw Power
06 I Need Somebody
07 Shake Appeal
08 Death Trip
CD2 (Georgia Peaches):
01 Introduction *
02 Raw Power *
03 Head On *
04 Gimme Danger *
05 Search and Destroy *
06 I Need Somebody *
07 Heavy Liquid *
08 Cock in My Pocket *
09 Open Up and Bleed *
10 Doojiman (outtake) *
11 Head On (CBS Studio rehearsal performance) *
CD3 (Rarities, Outtakes, & Alternates From the Raw Power Era):
01 I'm Hungry (outtake) *
02 I Got a Right (outtake) *
03 I'm Sick of You (outtake)
04 Hey, Peter (out­take) *
05 Shake Appeal (alternate mix version) *
06 Death Trip (alternate mix version) *
07 Gimme Danger (alternate mix from the 1996 Iggy "violent" remixes)
08 Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (alternate mix from the 1996 Iggy "violent" remixes)
* previously unreleased

3 comments:

  1. Great news about the previously unreleased tracks, but ugh "a remastered version of the original album, featuring David Bowie's original mix" sounds a disappointment in the making to me.
    Why do they have to frigging remaster everything for CD now?
    I'm sorry, but I've yet to hear a 'remaster' that sounds a patch on the original mix of absolutely anything released in the 60s and 70s.
    I'll probably stick to my vinyl-rip home-made CD of Raw Power, the Bowie mix, as far as that item's concerned, I think, although the rest of the package does indeed sound fab!

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  2. 2Mogs/
    Couldn't agree more...remember the violent mix by the popster, an aural abortion of the highest calibre. Cynical to think that it is just the dying record companies trying to get more cash..?
    Regards/

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  3. Exactly, that inept Iggy mix could be described as "a remastered version of David Bowie's original mix" and what the fuck was THAT?

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