(2-LP set) Culled from an Olympic studios demo session and rehearsals in Detroit for the band's 1973 tour, Move Ass Baby runs the gamut from full-fledged, ready-to record tunes to the types of swampy jams that the band has claimed indicative of their studio songwriting process. This album explores the creative process that gave birth to nearly all the Stooges albums. Starting with a jam session, an oldie or two, or maybe a blues riff, the songs gradually took shape and were refined from there. Here we find the Stooges in rehearsal, messing around with songs by Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Cream, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. We hear the beginnings of songs that never went any further, such as 'Old King Live Forever', 'I Come From Nowhere' or 'Wild Love', which had as much potential as any of their best material. And we have some very impromptu jams such as 'Move Ass Baby' and a fascinating James Williamson solo performance. Much of this material has never been heard before and this is the first time this collection has been released on vinyl!
A**Y
Buy This Material in Other Collections (If you don't already own them)
Here's the truth. The first five tracks (I've Got a Right, Sick of You, Gimmie Some Skin, Tight Pants, and Scene of the Crime) can be found on almost any other collection of Raw Power era Stooges material. If you want these five tracks buy More Power, Original Punks, or Penetration. You'll get all five of these tracks and many more on those collections. All the rest of the songs, including the one's that are advertised as unrealeased, are all avalible on the collection Wild Love. If you buy Wild Love, you'll get all those tracks plus a bunch more. Bottom line, spend a little more money and get More Power and Wild Love. You'll be much happier with those two collections than you will with this one single collection. I've spent a lot of money on the different lost Stooges music and found that many of the same songs get repackaged. This is just another one of those repackaged collections. I also want to note, that any Stooges music is awsome(and any of these "lost tracks" are rough when it comes to sound quality).
M**X
Some amazing music, but easily available elsewhere
**Review originally appeared at [...]When is an album by one of the greatest rock’n’roll bands in their prime a waste of time? When it’s Move Ass Baby – a compilation of rare Stooges recordings circa-Raw Power. The problem is that all the material on Move Ass Baby is easy to find on other albums. The first five songs are demos from Olympic Studios, and they’re classics. You’ll never hear anybody in the pre-punk world sound as unhinged and wild as Iggy and company do on “Gimme Some Skin” and “I Got A Right”, and “I’m Sick Of You” is one of the greatest garage rock putdowns of all time. Amazing stuff, but all easily found on other semi-legit Stooges discs, mostly from Bomp Records. The other nine songs come from lo-fi rehearsal tapes of Pop and guitarist James Williamson mucking about on sketches and a trio of blues covers (“I’m So Glad”, “I’m A Man” and “Mellow Down Easy”). I’m sure that these tapes have some historical value, but they’re so murky that they’re hard to listen to. The final nail in the coffin is that even these barrel-scraping songs are available on other Stooges albums.
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