Iggy in Exile: Love in the Fire Zone

IGGY & THE STOOGES Raw Power (Columbia)

Raw Power is the best high-energy album since Kick Out The Jams, and it sometimes makes me think that Iggy and the Stooges, could kick their ex-Big Brothers" butts in the right kind of alley.

I can't believe this is the same Stooges. No longer the group you love because they put out so much despite their limitations, this band is tremendously powerful and, with the aid of skillful production, the noise-raunch power tremble of complete ecstasy that Kick Out the Jams hitherto represented all by itself, is finally fully realized IN THE STUDIO. Consider that, boob-a-la — it's like staging an air raid on Hanoi in Grauman's Chinese Theatre.