So you think you have every stooges song as you smugly clutch that "i gotta right" vinyl 45 in your hand, well guess again.....
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 (out*take) *
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
This could possibly be the best deluxe edition since Slanted and Enchanted