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PLAY QUEUE 1 Search And Destroy		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Gimme Danger		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Penetration		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Raw Power		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 I Need Somebody		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Shake Appeal		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Death Trip		save

MOG Editorial Review

Raw Power, The Stooges’ third album, wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for David Bowie’s willingness to take a chance on a band that was floundering in substance abuse and break ups. Under the mixing efforts of Bowie, The Stooges’ immediacy teeters on the brink of explosion. “Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell” is all a forceful mess of metallic squalor, and “Search and Destroy” is one of their best-known songs, one that’s only grown in importance as their legacy has over the decades. The ferocity and chaos with which they operated would go on to become a reference point as proto-punk emerged. The Stooges’ Raw Power remains the sturdy, sweat-drenched neck where punk rock would soon rear its ugly head.
AMG Review of Raw Power

Mark Deming
All Music Guide

In 1972, the Stooges were near the point of collapse when David Bowie's management team, MainMan, took a chance on the band at Bowie's behest. By this point, guitarist Ron Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander had been edged out of the picture, and James Williamson had signed on as Iggy's new guitar mangler; Asheton rejoined the band shortly before recording commenced on Raw Power, but was forced to play second fiddle to Williamson as bassist. By most accounts, tensions were high during the recording of Raw Power, and the album sounds like the work of a band on its last legs -- though rather than grinding to a halt, Iggy & the Stooges appeared ready to explode like an ammunition dump. From a technical standpoint, Williamson was a more gifted guitar player than Asheton (not that that was ever the point), but his sheets of metallic fuzz were still more basic (and punishing) than what anyone was used to in 1973, while Ron Asheton played his bass like a weapon of revenge, and his brother Scott Asheton remained a powerhouse behind the drums. But the most remarkable change came from the singer; Raw Power revealed Iggy as a howling, smirking, lunatic genius. Whether quietly brooding ("Gimme Danger") or inviting the apocalypse ("Search and Destroy"), Iggy had never sounded quite so focused as he did here, and his lyrics displayed an intensity that was more than a bit disquieting. In many ways, almost all Raw Power has in common with the two Stooges albums that preceded it is its primal sound, but while the Stooges once sounded like the wildest (and weirdest) gang in town, Raw Power found them heavily armed and ready to destroy the world -- that is, if they didn't destroy themselves first.