April 19, 2013 Playlist

"Raw Power" by Iggy & The Stooges (1973)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Iggy & The Stooges  "Raw Power"  1973 (USA)
Happy birthday James Newell Osterberg! The artist known as "Iggy Pop" turns 66 years old on April 21, so this week's classic album is the third by the notorious Stooges, pioneers of punk. Since their previous album, original guitarist Ron Asheton was demoted to bass, replacing the fired Dave Alexander. The new guitarist was James Williamson, who continued to be Iggy's main collabotator til the end of the 1970's after the original Stooges dissolved. As fate would have it, the surviving members of the band that recorded this album have put out a brand new album Ready To Die this year (with Mike Watt replacing the deceased Ron Asheton on bass, as he had already replaced their other deceased bassist Alexander for the previous 21st century reincarnation of The Stooges). In between his 1970's and 2010's stints with Iggy, James Williamson was a vice president for Sony (I have a hunch he may have had a more lucrative career than Jimmy Osterberg!) Raw Power was produced by David Bowie, at the time a rising new star -- and coincidentally, Bowie also has a new album out this year (his first in about a decade). The brutality of Bowie's incredibly strange recording and mix of Raw Power (one song even includes clanking swords for additional percussion) is one of this album's greatest charms. 
(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener request
   
Artist Song Album Year (Label) Country
The Drain Haven't See U Lately
At The Door (N)2013 (self release)USA
Chosen Instinct
Resolution (N)2013 (self release)Ireland
Pentagram
Sign Of The Wolf (Pentagram)
 		Pentagram
1985
USA
Charles Bradley Hurricane
Victim Of Love (N)2013 (Dunham/Daptone)USA
Charles Bradley Through The Storm
Victim Of Love (N)2013 (Dunham/Daptone)USA
Meat Puppets
I Got A Right (Iggy & The Stooges)
 		Meat Puppets (CD bonus track)
rec. 1981, rel. 1999
USA
 
 
Iggy & The StoogesSearch And Destroy
 		Raw Power
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1973
USA
Iggy PopI'm Bored
 		New Values
1979
USA
Iggy & The StoogesYour Pretty Face Is Going To Hell
 		Raw Power
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1973
USA
Rocket From The TombsRaw Power (live - Iggy & The Stooges)
 		The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs
rec. 1975, rel. 2002
USA
Iggy & The StoogesDeath Trip
 		Raw Power
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1973
USA
Sex PistolsNo Fun (The Stooges)
 		B-side 7" single (Flogging A Dead Horse compilation LP)
1978
UK
   
 
Bloodrock (R)Fancy Space Odyssey
 		Bloodrock 2
1970
USA
Grand Funk RailroadInside Looking Out (The Animals)
 		Grand Funk
1970
USA
Jeff BeckFreeway Jam (live) (R)
 		Jeff Beck With The Jam Hammer Group Live
1977
UK
 
 
The Stark Reality Clouds (Hoagy Carmichael)
Acting, Thinking, Feeling (N - reissue box set)1970 (2013 Now Again)USA
Santana
Every Step Of The Way (live)
   -> Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen (Fleetwood Mac/Gabor Szabo)
   -> Oye Como Va (Tito Puente)
 		Lotus 1975
Mexico/USA
Vangelis
3 + 3
 		Spiral
1969
Greece
Country Moog (Gil Trythall)
Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Earle Scruggs)
 		Switched On Nashville
1970
USA
 
  
Don Ellis
House In The Country (Blood Sweat & Tears)
 		The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground
1969
USA
Donald Byrd
Essence
 		Electric Byrd
1970
USA
Charles Lloyd
Heavy Karma
 		Moonman
1970
USA
Iggy Pop
Watching The News
 		Zombie Birdhouse
1982
USA
 
 
Tomita
Bolero (Maurice Ravel)
 		Bolero
1979
Japan
      
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