I GOT A RIGHT (12” Single)
A 12” single called I Got a Right was also released by Bomp! Records in 1991; Side 1 had the songs from the original Siamese Records 45, “I Got a Right” and “Gimme Some Skin”, both identified as “Final Mix”. Side 2 had the same two songs from the James Williamson box that appeared on The Best of Bomp, Volume One, both called outtakes, plus a second outtake of “I Got a Right” that was previously unreleased.
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Based upon the Discogs listings, the earliest album in The Iguana Chronicles series is Rough Power; Discogs shows a 1994 date for the earliest copies, while Allmusic has a release date of January 30, 1995. The back page of the CD booklet has a list of 5 other releases in The Iguana Chronicles; though they are not all marked that way (at least in early copies), in order they are the 7” EP I’m Sick of You, the reissue as a 10” EP of Jesus Loves the Stooges, the 7” single of I Got a Right and the 12” single of I Got a Right, the Kill City CD, and the 10” vinyl edition of Rough Power.
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The liner notes on the back tray card have this description: “Raw Power. The brutal third album that closed the Stooges’ career and fueled the beginnings of punk rock. A true milestone. But . . . it was not the album the Stooges wanted you to hear.
“Although toned down from still more murderous demos (see I Got a Right, BMP 12139 [the 12” single version]), the album delivered by the Stooges put fear in the hearts of record execs, who in turn put David Bowie in the studio to redo the whole thing. The results, while great, were a far cry from what Raw Power started out to be.”
(December 2017)
