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“Search and Destroy” by Iggy & The Stooges (Iggy Pop Remix)

There are actually three versions of Raw Power.  There’s the Rough Power bootleg, documenting Iggy’s earliest mixes.  Then there’s the version most of us are familiar with, the one mixed by David Bowie and released in 1973.  That record is a fucking masterpiece in spite of the limitations Iggy and Bowie faced.  “It’s not a bad job that he did,” Iggy later said.  “I’m very proud of the eccentric, odd little record that came out.”  But in 1996, Columbia Records called Iggy and said they were going to remix Raw Power, with or without him, so Iggy revisited his early work and, in my opinion, he did a fine job; the Bowie mixes had no bottom to them, and while that made for a wonderfully volatile sound, it’s also great to finally hear Iggy’s remix bring out the powerful rhythm section of Ron and Scott Asheton.