He immediately noticed the Embassy LP and cassette mixes of "Raw Power" and "Search And Destroy" were different than the U.S. Matheu began importing copies to the Peaches record store he managed in Detroit. catalog within a year or so after its release, but had reappeared on the CBS UK budget-line Embassy Records line, "by popular demand" of Brits at the dawn of the punk rock era. It's a real mix up, but somehow, the definitive Bowie mix should have been compiled from the Embassy tape this time around, and so the issue can be given a rest.īackground on two more tracks: Raw Power was cut from the Columbia U.S. The audio cassette embassy sounds better, if that it's possible. But the Legacy issue is not the revelation it's hyped up to be. Maybe the tapes used some dolby system that somehow everyone forgot about ? I dunno. Some LPs have S&D with bass, but the rest of the album flattened. So you have some issues with the right S&D, some oddities with the rejected bowie mix like the embassy cassette, some with all the plain wrong flattened mixes (like the old CDs or the new Legacy). Here's what I think : over the years, at least three different S&D mixes, and two different rest of the album mixes got, well mixed depending on releases. The right mix of Raw Power is still featured thought, with two tracks added as bonus on disc 3 of this reissue. Hear everybass line loud and clear, without touching the mids or highs. I'm not saying hear some bottom that is pushed up in the mastering. The rest of the LP right Bowie mixes are the versions on the first press, Embassy LP or cassette (save S&D, it seems some Embassy LPs have a different mix which might be the rejected Bowie mix, tagged with the other tracks by mistake), the one where YOU CAN HEAR THE BASS. The real Iggy mix of S&D is the one with bass, that is on the first pressing, or the Embassy vinyl. I don't get it, how hard is it to grasp ?
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You pick up the first press, or any Embassy release, the bass is there, full on. All the other songs on the Legacy issue are improved to my ears in terms of the rhythm section and dynamics save Search, which sounds just like it always did.Been listening to the Legacy mastering on itunes. Where I do agree is on the idea that the Embassy reels use the actual unused Bowie mix for Search and Destroy. So I don't think the issue witrh the accepted Bowie mix has to do with Dolby. Additionally, if the masters were not meant to use Dolby and were mastered using Dolby, the result would squash the treble. Incidentially, if the Bowie masters were Dolby and played back without Dolby, there wouldn't be all that high end. Nothing to do with what may be preferable to us. I think the opposite is the case, that the Embassy reels are alternate masterings and that the sound on the original US vinyl and the current Legacy disc 1 is what was intended. No offense Seventeen as I know you are knowledgable and we share taste, but don't you think James would have piped up and suggested they use the alternate reels? After all they are also the Bowie mixes. Hearing the record in this incarnation, while useful for nostalgia's sake, reveals that there's very little physically there, and certainly not enough to warrant two more releases on top of the Legacy edition. While everyone maligns Iggy's mix, he at least attempted to trick some people into hearing a better record by cranking the f-k out of everything. It's still flat as a board with no dynamics (the drums still sound like plastic bags) - and I guess that's part of the charm, but why bother dropping money on this thing? I've always thought The Stooges were colossally overrated and that Raw Power was far and away their weakest effort. That being said, I really can't hear anything in this release to justify the cost - apart from people who somehow can't locate a copy of the Bowie. Honestly, I've never really listened much to any version of the album other than the vinyl of the Bowie mix and always dismissed it as little more than a novelty record.
I gave this a pretty good listen in the car this afternoon.
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