Editing Raw Power (section)

== Critical reception ==
{{Album ratings
| MC = 92/100<br />{{small|(2010 reissue)}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/raw-power-reissue/iggy-the-stooges |title=Raw Power [Reissue] by Iggy & the Stooges Reviews and Tracks |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=21 September 2021}}</ref>
| title = Original mix ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Deming|first=Mark|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/raw-power-mw0000202295|title=Raw Power – Iggy & the Stooges / The Stooges|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="CBT">{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|date=July 22, 1990|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-07-22-9003010792-story.html|title=Pop On Pop: Iggy Rates His Own Music (And So Do We)|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=November 4, 2020}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3score = B+{{sfn|Christgau|1981}}
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4score = A−<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Ross|first=Dalton|date=February 23, 2007|title=Then and Now|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|page=66}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|issue=199|date=June 2010|page=112}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|issue=287|date=June 2010|page=140}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{sfn|Seward|2004|p=786}}
| rev8 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Rabid|first=Jack|date=March 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sye-0uaVa2cC&pg=PA72|title=Discography: The Stooges|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|volume=23|issue=3|access-date=October 8, 2020|page=72}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
| rev9score = 9/10{{sfn|Rubin|1995|p=378}}
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lester |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Lester |date=June 1997 |title=Louder than bombs |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |page=110 |issue=1}}</ref>
}}
''Raw Power'' received much praise from contemporary critics. [[Dave Marsh]] proclaimed that it was already "the best album of the '70s", as Pop had "summed everything up and it took him only nine songs to do it."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Frith|first=Simon|author-link=Simon Frith|date=August 1973|url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/mike-oldfield-itubular-bellsi-iggy-and-the-stooges-iraw-poweri|title=Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells; Iggy And The Stooges: Raw Power|magazine=[[Let It Rock (magazine)|Let It Rock]]|access-date=August 26, 2018|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Ben Edmunds from ''[[Phonograph Record (magazine)|Phonograph Record]]'' called it "an experience so overpowering that it forces new definitions for even the most familiar things", arguing in March that it will undoubtedly be the album of the year.{{sfn|Callwood|2011}} According to [[Lester Bangs]], the "by-now banal words '[[heavy metal music|heavy metal]]' were invested for this group", while "the ferocious assertiveness of the lyrics is at once slightly absurd and indicative of a confused, violently defensive stance that's been a rock tradition from the beginning". In ''[[Stereo Review]]'', he called the album a "comeback of major proportions" and "monomaniacal fury so genuine" that it may be too overwhelming for listeners, concluding that, "whether you laugh at them or accept their chaotic rumble on its own terms, they're fascinating and authentic, the apotheosis of every parental nightmare."{{sfn|Callwood|2011}} Reviewing ''Raw Power'' for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', [[Lenny Kaye]] praised its uncompromising music and said, "for the first time, the Stooges have used the recording studio as more than a recapturing of their live show, and with David Bowie helping out in the mix, there is an ongoing swirl of sound that virtually drags you into the speakers".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Kaye|first=Lenny|author-link=Lenny Kaye|date=May 10, 1973|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/raw-power-19730510|title=Raw Power|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=February 9, 2012}}</ref> Longtime Stooges fans were less receptive to Bowie's mix for the original album;<ref name="LAT"/> [[Robert Christgau]] later wrote of the original fan response, "first-generation Iggyphiles charged just as indignantly that David Bowie had mixed the real thing way too thin, before it was anointed the [[Platonic form|Platonic idea]] of rock and roll by desperate young men who didn't have much else to choose from".<ref name="VV"/>

Along with the Stooges' first two albums, ''Raw Power'' came to be regarded as an important [[proto-punk]] record in the years following its release.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Agarwal|first=Manish|date=April 2007|title=The Stooges: The Weirdness|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|issue=161|quote=Ignored at the time, the first three Stooges records are now seen as proto-punk landmarks: 1969's deadpan nihilistic debut; 1970's molten masterpiece ''Funhouse'' and 1973's sleazy, volatile ''Raw Power''.}}</ref> Writing of the album in retrospect, [[Will Hodgkinson]] believed that while the band's debut was "charged and brutal [[garage rock|garage-rock]]" and ''Fun House'' was "lurid chaos", ''Raw Power'' was more musically sophisticated "in its debauchery".{{sfn|Hodgkinson|2006|p=[https://archive.org/details/guitarman0000hodg/page/203 203]}} In ''[[Trouser Press|The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records]]'', Scott Isler credited Williamson's writing contributions with providing more musicality and structure to the band's songs, whose lyrics conflated sex and death. He regarded the album as "heavy metal in every sense" and "another masterpiece" from the group.{{sfn|Isler|1983|p=[https://archive.org/details/trouserpressguid00robbi/page/236 236]}} [[Greg Kot]] also believed ''Raw Power'' was "another masterpiece-more heavy metal than punk", with songs more "structured but no less forceful".<ref name="CBT"/> [[Nick Kent]] said in 2010 that ''Raw Power'' remains "the greatest, meanest-eyed, coldest-blooded [[hard rock]] tour de force ever summoned up in a recording studio".{{sfn|Kent|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0GOetsZES-YC&pg=PA381 381]}} Christgau was somewhat less impressed. In his 1981 book ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'', he praised Williamson's guitar playing while writing that the side-opening tracks "Search and Destroy" and the title song "voice the Iggy Pop ethos more insanely (and aggressively) than '[[I Wanna Be Your Dog]]'", but felt that "the rest disperses in their wake" and that Bowie had mixed the record too thinly.{{sfn|Christgau|1981}}

''Raw Power'' has appeared on professional listings of the greatest albums. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' named it the 83rd best album of the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5932-top-100-albums-of-the-1970s/2/|title=The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=June 23, 2004|access-date=January 2, 2013|page=2}}</ref> In 2003, it was ranked number 125 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]" list,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/raw|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Raw Power – The Stooges|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=December 11, 2003|access-date=October 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220143731/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/raw-power-the-stooges-19691231|archive-date=December 20, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> and 128 in a 2012 revised list.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/iggy-and-the-stooges-raw-power-2-169854/|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=May 31, 2012|access-date=September 18, 2019}}</ref>

=== 1997 remix ===
{{Album ratings
| title = 1997 remix ratings
| rev1 = ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]''
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AC">{{cite news|last=Stegall|first=Tim|date=June 27, 1997|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1997-06-27/529167/|title=Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power (Columbia/Legacy)|newspaper=[[The Austin Chronicle]]|access-date=August 22, 2018}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev2score = A<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine|last=Browne|first=David|author-link=David Browne (journalist)|date=April 4, 1997|url=https://ew.com/article/1997/04/04/album-reviews-loaded-fully-loaded-edition-sweetheart-rodeo-rawpower-who-are-you/|title=Album Reviews: 'Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition'; 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'; 'Rawpower'; 'Who Are You'; 'Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde'; 'The Who by Numbers'|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=August 22, 2018}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="LAT">{{cite news|last=Hilburn|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Hilburn|date=May 9, 1997|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-09-ca-56921-story.html|title=Iggy Pop Reaches Back to 'Raw Power'|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=August 22, 2018}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev4score = 10/10<ref name="Josephes">{{cite web|last=Josephes|first=Jason|date=May 1997|url=http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/pop_iggy/raw-power.shtml|title=Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=March 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205035231/http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/p/pop_iggy/raw-power.shtml|archive-date=December 5, 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev5score = A−<ref name="VV">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=January 6, 1998|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv12b97-97.php|title=Consumer Guide|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=November 27, 2016}}</ref>
| rev6 = [[Wall of Sound (website)|Wall of Sound]]
| rev6score = 91/100<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graff |first=Gary |author-link=Gary Graff |date= |title=Wall of Sound Review: Raw Power |url=http://wallofsound.go.com/archive/reviews/stories/2585_35Index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991002001154/http://wallofsound.go.com/archive/reviews/stories/2585_35Index.html |archive-date=1999-10-02 |access-date=2023-03-11 |website=[[Wall of Sound (website)|Wall of Sound]]}}</ref>
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''Raw Power''{{'}}s 1997 remix also received positive reviews. Writing that year in ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] believed it rectified "one of rock's most exciting, but worst-recorded, audio assaults", and found it "as collar grabbing as the Stooges' skin-scratching rage itself", improving upon past releases of the album, in which "the guitars were too loud, [and] the drums buried."<ref name="EW"/> Hilburn gave the remix a rave review in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', writing that it "simply presents greater instrumental clarity and definition" than previous mixes and concluded, "It may have taken all these years to get the album right, but it has finally arrived."<ref name="LAT"/> Tim Stegall from ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]'' said while the original mix "was so muted that it sounded like Vietnam being fought inside a [[Kleenex]] box", the remix is comparable to an atomic bombing and, "with its sonic gonads now fully restored, it can be further stated ''Raw Power'' is the single most dangerous rock & roll album ever made. Before or since."<ref name="AC"/> Christgau remained qualified in his praise. Reviewing the reissue in the ''[[The Village Voice|Village Voice]]'', he said "the pumped bass and vocals Iggy has uncovered on the original tapes" to be a "quantum improvement" over the original mix, but still found fault with the slower songs, "which like all of Iggy's slow ones are not as good as his fast ones, stand between a statement of principle and a priceless work of art."<ref name="VV"/> Nonetheless, he ranked it as the ninth best reissue of the year in his list for the 1997 [[Pazz & Jop]] critics' poll.<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=February 24, 1998|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans97.php|title=Pazz & Jop 1997: Dean's List|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|access-date=August 26, 2018}}</ref>

According to ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' journalist Stuart Berman, Pop's remix of ''Raw Power'' "horrified [[audiophile]]s with a distaste for digital distortion".<ref name="Berman">{{cite web|last=Berman|first=Stuart|date=April 14, 2010|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14125-raw-power-legacy-edition-raw-power-deluxe-edition/|title=Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power [Legacy Edition] / Raw Power [Deluxe Edition]|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=August 22, 2018}}</ref> Christgau observed, "strict constructionists and [[lo-fi music|lo-fi]] snobs charge indignantly that by remixing his own album Iggy has made a mockery of history and done irreparable damage to a priceless work of art."<ref name="VV"/> In Berman's opinion, "after spending the past 13 years having my ears ravaged by the '97 Iggy mix, I find it difficult readjusting to the leaner, original version—even with the remastering, the '97 version far outstrips it in fidelity and sheer brute force, and remains a better entry point for younger listeners seeking to understand the album's impact."<ref name="Berman"/>