Latest CD purchase: Iggy Pop's Raw Power. It sez "Remixed by Iggy Pop!" on it. Is this the original mix that he did that was rejected in favor of someone else's mix? If not, are they similar?

eta: My other purchase - best of Material Issue. I saw in this article [link] that today is the tenth anniversary of the suicide of Jim Ellison (I wasn't familiar enough with the band to know he killed himself). Reading the article made me buy the album.

Valerie Loves Me!

Power pop guys are always a high suicide risk. (see; Badfinger, guy in Gin Blossoms who wrote all their hits, et al)

Iggy never loved Bowie's mix of Raw Power, which was the original mix. Iggy was given the opportunity to remix the original from the master tapes a few years ago. It's much harder now and more of a Stooges album, though I kind of miss the delicacy on things like "Gimme Danger."

Iggy never loved Bowie's mix of Raw Power, which was the original mix.

Huh. For some reason I thought that Iggy mixed it first, but the record company decided that he'd messed it up so they called Bowie in to mix it (and Bowie's was the version that was first released). Or am I thinking of some other Iggy album?

I think you're right, Tommy, but the reissue is a new mix by Iggy which is different from both of the earlier ones.

I think the original Iggy mixes are on a bootleg called something like Rough Power (on CD at least). I had a variation of that on vinyl at some point with a cartoon reptilian Iggy on the cover, but I can't, for the life of me, remember the title.

Anyway, it sounded horrible. The new Iggy mix sounds pretty damn great, though, except where noted by David.

Speaking of Pop, the BBC has cancelled Top of the Pops.

My last ten songs in iTunes:

Get Drunk With Dignity
Donna the Prima Donna
Hello Stranger
Evil Will Prevail
Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
Alternative Ulster
The Lottery Song
Wake Up Little Susie
Stranded in the Jungle
Precious

Donna the Prima Donna

Dion! Yay!

Listening to Mojos July cover disc "Revolver Reloaded". Possibly even better than their Chess Records-disc -- a CD that had only one small flaw: no Thea Gilmore. Which this one got.

I think I've got my Best of Aught Six So Far mix all figured out. All had to be released (well, OK in one case re-released, and, alright, in two cases never released in the first place but found rather) between January and now.

01 Field Jacket Blues - Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye
02 White Collar Boy - Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
03 Letter to Bowie Knife - Calexico - Garden Ruin
04 The Battle* - Caitlin Cary and Ryan Adams - No Depression: What It Sounds Like Vol 2
05 Steady As She Goes (acoustic version) - the Raconteurs - iTunes exclusive
06 Rise Up With Fists!!! - Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
07 Goin' Against Your Mind - Built to Spill - You in Reverse
08 The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) - the Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
09 Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise - the Mountain Goats - Babylon Springs EP
10 John Saw That Number - Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
11 Emergency - the Widerness - Vessel States
12 Denied - Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye
13 Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am Not
14 Painter in Your Pocket - Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
15 Leftover Life - The Minus 5 - (The Gun Album)
16 In the Sun - Michael Stipe featuring Joseph Arthur - In the Sun EP
17 The Biggest Lie - Dolorean - To: Elliott From: Portland
18 When I Am Gone - Sparrow House - unreleased
19 Pay Me My Money Down - Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
20 The Mighty Tide - the Red River - unreleased (to the best of my knowledge)

At least that's the order right now. I will try to get this up w/brief liner notes in the usual confines soon.

* = This song was orignally recorded at some point while Whiskeytown was still together. It was first released on a bonus disc with Caitlin Cary's first solo album in 2002 and then was re-released on a No Depression comp this year - which is the first time I heard it. And it motherfucking kills, so I included it. Emusic subscribers can get it there.