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"Raw Power" is mostly just a droning single-chord with a two-note melody, creating an aggressive hard rock trance setting for Pop to let himself go. His performances - recorded and live - seem to be approach rapture. Bowie is said to have written the song "Jean Genie" about Pop, containing the line "Jean Genie let yourself go," which is exactly what Pop does on "Raw Power" and most of his other songs. Williamson had just joined the newly re-formed band and later went on to collaborate with Pop on post-Stooges projects. There is other instrumentation that joins: the trademark Stooges one-note piano that is used for percussion-like effect the sleigh bells that hammer home the throbbing beat and spastic guitar soloing by James Williamson. The record was properly remixed and remastered in 1996, supervised by Pop and Bruce Dickinson.
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Pop blames budgetary concerns for the low quality of the original mix. The unrelenting and driving guitar is most prominent on the David Bowie-produced Stooges song, and the record of the same name, which is so poorly mixed that it is now considered charming in its lo-fi demo tape-like quality imagine if you let the guitar player/vocalist in your band mix an entire record by himself, and you get an idea of what "Raw Power" sounds like. Iggy Pop barks and croons out lyrics like "if you're alone baby and you got the shakes/So am I baby and I got what it takes" like an amphetamine-fed bastard son of Howlin' Wolf. A chunky riff that bridges Keith Richards and Johnny Thunders - and thus the Sex Pistols and beyond - propels this pummeling Stooges blues-rock anthem.