Which is reprehensible on so many levels, I don’t know where to begin but at the beginning. “Raw Power” is a completely deranged and outrageous album, and almost as outrageous is its current state of representation in digital format. The third time I played it, I knew there was something wrong with music: Namely, with 99% of my record collection and 99.9% of all the records I had ever heard: past, present AND future. The second time I played it, I knew there was something wrong with my immediate surroundings. The first time I ever played “Raw Power” I thought there was something wrong with my stereo.
See you next album, and keep as cool as you can.Charged up with the flight or fight hardwiring cutting through a sea of adrenaline in an jagged amphetamine torpedo, roiling in sweaty psychic ditches and dive-bombing relentlessly in infernal heat doused in cold sweat exhilarating, blind fearless terror unfolding into fevered desire, nighttime lust and fucking in summer cars parked and otherwise in an heaving over/Mother load of defiant primal thrust’n’parry pieced together from shattered Ann Arbor dreams, London ennui and Hollywood Hills hijinks in mansions festooned with broken glass in the pool, “Raw Power” walks, talks, smells, barks out and makes all the above moves as it prowls and gatecrashes the edge of oblivion, lands feet first and tears at the air, claws at your face then teeters for eight cruelly streamlined tracks of bared-fang physicality before promptly sweeping back into the eye of the hurricane from whence it came and vanishing forever in a coiled whiplash of release and an ever-cresting penetration. Editing is by Rich Bunnell, and special thanks to our own Mike DeFabio, the Other Leading Brand, for production and original music. Follow Discord & Rhyme on Twitter for news, updates, and other random stuff. You can buy or stream Raw Power and other albums by Iggy and the Stooges at, your local record store, or the usual suspects such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and Amazon. The Stooges - Penetration (this episode only) The Dukes of Stratosphear - What in the World?. “Discord & Rhyme (theme),” composed by the Other Leading Brand, contains elements of: THE Bruce Dickinson – executive production on 1997 reissue Ron Asheton – bass guitar, backing vocals Iggy Pop – lead vocals, celesta (4), piano (2, 5), production and mixing for 1997 reissue The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heatĭavid Bowie - The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell The Three Stooges - I Want a Hippopotamus for ChristmasĮwan McGregor - Gimme Danger (from Velvet Goldmine) Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (originally titled “Hard to Beat”)Ĭonsolation Prizes (with James Williamson) Iggy Pop’s “Butt Town” on Beavis and Butt-Head (YouTube)ĭiscord & Rhyme’s Raw Power playlist (Spotify) Jim Jarmusch’s Stooges documentary Gimme Danger (Amazon) Rock Band's "Search and Destroy" isolated guitar track (YouTube) Songs That Changed Music on "Search and Destroy" (YouTube) co-creator Christopher McCulloch, though, not Iggy Pop himself. Rich mentioned the Adult Swim show Venture Bros, and Iggy Pop actually plays a role on the show as henchman to David Bowie, Sovereign of the Guild of Calamitous Intent. The closing cover of Madonna’s “Ray of Light” is from the Stooges’ performance at the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Mike consulted the liner notes in the booklet of the Iggy mix, as promised, and the swords in “Search and Destroy” were sabres they found in an antique shop. In our discussion, we detail the drug-fueled, messy production of the record that yielded two radically different mixes of the album that continue to divide fans to this day. Mostly ignored upon release, its primal, menacing energy would become a blueprint for countless punk and hard rock bands in the decades to come.
This week, the street-walking cheetahs of Discord and Rhyme take a stroll down the dark, sketchy alley that is Iggy and the Stooges’ 1973 classic Raw Power.
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