The first disc is the remastered original 1973 David Bowie mix while the second slab is the remastered 1997.59. How’s that play in your head? While you’re pondering over this sequence and whether it rolls better this way than it does following Tony Defries’ edict that the songs needed to go fast one, slow one, fast one, as was eventually released, Dave Marsh wrote that their are ‘nine songs’ on the album, not the eight we have and love, perhaps he was shit at counting or adding up. Although planned as the American proto punk's first solo record under new management, Raw Power wound up being a third album for a reconfigured lineup of The Stooges with David Bowie roped in to try to channel the band's unique energy into a listenable mix. UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT Import 2 x LP pressing.

Side 1 then would look something like this: Working with the timings given on the white labels, and some some addition and subtraction on my part, Side 2 must be: He lists the title track as the second band on the top side, so my guess is it still kicks off with ‘Search & Destroy’, but which mix I wonder? Iggy’s? Or Bowie’s as found uniquely on the original UK release? Whatever, ‘Gimme Danger’ is the third track.

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