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20.12.01
Losse eindjes (3) In deze post vroeg ik uit welke song deze tekst kwam: "(I'm) a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. I'm the renegade son of the nuclear A-bomb" Het antwoord was natuurlijk: Search and Destroy van Iggy and the Stooges. Wat een monster! Hier is ie in Real Audio te beluisteren. Prijswinnaar mevrouw Schattenkeinder mailde mij dat zij haar kopietje van Raw Power intussen in haar cd speler heeft vastgelijmd. ![Silver-haired and out of control, Iggy went into the studio with David Bowie and quickly laid down the eight songs that make up Raw Power. The mighty opening track Search and Destroy, written on heroin one afternoon in Kensington Gardens, used military metaphors to declare war on the universe, and Penetration fused sex and drugs in an unholy cocktail. Marginally gentler on the ears were the wasted, desperate Gimme Danger and I Need Somebody. The sound is crude and vicious, with Iggy howling over the slash and burn shapes of guitarist James Williamson and the murky bass-and-drums thump of brothers Ron and Scott Asheton, but it's undeniably raw and powerful -- garage rock allied to performance-art confrontation. Death Trip and Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell make clear Iggy's almost apocalyptic mindset, though Shake Appeal tempers the album's abandon by sounding a slightly more playful note. For many years, hardcore Iggy fans bemoaned what they heard as Bowie's feeble Raw Power mixdown at Hollywood's Western Sound studio. Consequently, Iggy himself finally decided to remix the album in 1997, bringing out many hidden resonances and accents in the process. If Bowie's stripped-down version was arguably more punk, Iggy's mix certainly rocks a lot harder. The reason to put this new record out, Iggy said in 1997, is that what you had there at the time [was] a rip-snortin', super-heavy, nitro-burnin', fuel-injected rock band that nobody in this world could touch … Nobody did, and nobody has.]( http://gs.cdnow.com/graphics/COVERART/local/L/47/68/00024768.jpg) | <$BlogCommentDeleteIcon$> |
