Well, I still haven't had the chance to listen to the last remastered edition but I keep returning to this record as intriguing. Sometimes I think it sounds like crap, the next I think it is the work of a genius. The dynamics are very strange. I bet I haven't ever heard a record engineered like this and I wonder what is your opinion on this recording.

The remixed version sounds really loud and good. The liner notes have an interview with Iggy that gives some insight into the recording and the original mix. The old version sounds weird and tinny by comparison, but the music is so good it was a great record anyway.

i love _raw power_, but i love _funhouse_ more

on one occasion, mixing at electrical, i told steve i wanted a guitar solo to jump out like the one on 'search and destroy'

he said he would like to have five dollars for every time someone referenced _raw power_ during a recording session

but he was pretty sure no one would be happy to have a record actually sound like it

as fucked up as it is, i prefer the original to the remastered guy. i mean, i like hearing the bass and everything, but the remastered one is squished all to hell, and i'm so used to the freakishness of the original.

the stooges are gods in vinkovci, croatia, if not elsewhere

tmidgett wrote:i love _raw power_, but i love _funhouse_ more

For years, I wondered, based solely on Raw Power, why everyone was so in love with the Stooges. Then I heard Funhouse. Not that there's nothing good about Raw Power, but, for me, Funhouse makes their rep. -E

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on one occasion, mixing at electrical, i told steve i wanted a guitar solo to jump out like the one on 'search and destroy'

he said he would like to have five dollars for every time someone referenced _raw power_ during a recording session

but he was pretty sure no one would be happy to have a record actually sound like it

Oh yeah, I do prefer Funhouse, but to me it is almost a different band in that record. It is funny that you tell that about the references to raw power because it is something I have thought to myself sometimes and I wondered what would be thought on the engineer side about the musicians' "the raw power fever" . I guess what you have to do to the rest of the recording to make the solo jump out like that is something worth thinking. Besides I do not know if David Bowie had a lot of experience on mixing though The Idiot and Lust for Life are among my favourite records and Iggy Pop boasted that he had experimented a lot on that piece of recording.

>>I guess what you have to do to the rest of the recording to make the solo jump out like that is something worth thinking. Besides I do not know if David Bowie had a lot of experience on mixing though The Idiot and Lust for Life are among my favourite records and Iggy Pop boasted that he had experimented a lot on that piece of recording.

mc5's _back in the usa_ is another record that tries to be super-over-the-top in that way, only it's more of a failure than _raw power_

people who really fight the recording medium to try to create some kind of supra-magnetic or supra-digital audio achievement rarely succeed completely...they usually don't know what they are giving up, and most often the results end up just showcasing the limitations of the recording medium

sometimes the results are interesting, usually when the music is great, as on _raw power_ and:

husker du, _metal circus_ thru _new day rising_
jesus and mary chain, _psychocandy_
the double-live fushitsusha album with the black cover

just to name a few nominally 'rock' records

shit like that, there's stuff spitting out of the speakers that you don't hear very often, and that can be pretty cool

tmidgett wrote:_
the double-live fushitsusha album with the black cover



shit like that, there's stuff spitting out of the speakers that you don't hear very often, and that can be pretty cool

I think that is one of the great charms of this record, that it sounds like hainos guitar is destroying everything in its path.

As for Raw Power vs Raw Power it has been a long time since I did a side by side comparison, but I think I prefer the Iggy mix, it sounds more unhinged.

And again it is no Funhouse, speaking of which anyone prefer the Declaration of War version (best of the alternate takes from the complete sessions box) to the original? I dont think its better, but I do listen to it a far amount.