Raw Power (2) – The Albums 1982-1989



Label: F.O.A.D. Records – F.O.A.D. 044/051/064/081
Format:
4 x Box Set, Compilation, Deluxe Edition, Numbered
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered

Country: Italy
Released: 7 set 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Hardcore, Punk

CD 1 "You Are The Victim" (1983) + "God's Course" Demo (1982)

1-1 Politicians
1-2 Police Police
1-3 Corrosive Water
1-4 Raw Power
1-5 Burning Factory
1-6 Hate
1-7 State Oppression
1-8 Don't Let Me See It
1-9 You Are The Victim
1-10 Repression
1-11 No Card
1-12 Death Seller
1-13 Power
1-14 Nihilist
1-15 Power
1-16 For Me
1-17 I Hate The System
1-18 Chicken Song
1-19 X
1-20 No Future
1-21 Raw Power
1-22 Fuck Authority
1-23 Police Police
1-24 Destroy
1-25 Bastard
1-26 You Shock Me
1-27 Fabbrica
1-28 Destroy Of Society

CD 2 "Screams From The Gutter" (1984)

2-1 State Oppression
Written By – Mauro*
2-2 Joe's The Best
Written By – Mauro*
2-3 Bastard
Written By – Giuseppe*
2-4 A Certain Kind Of Killer
Written-By – Mauro*
2-5 Army
Written By – Mauro*, Silvio*
2-6 My Boss
Written By – Mauro*
2-7 No Card
Written-By – Mauro*
2-8 Power
Written By – Mauro*
2-9 Start A Fight
Written By – Mauro*
2-10 Don't Let Me See It
Written By – Mauro*
2-11 Hate
Written By – Mauro*
2-12 Raw Power
Written By – Mauro*
2-13 Our Oppression
Written By – Mauro*
2-14 We're All Gonna Die
Written By – Mauro*
2-15 Police, Police
Written By – Mauro*
2-16 Nihilist
Written By – Mauro*
2-17 Politicians
Written By – Silvio*

CD 3 "After Your Brain - Redux Edition" (1986)

3-1 You Are Fired
3-2 Dreamer
3-3 We Shall Overcome
3-4 Is There Anything You Like
3-5 Just Another Cry
3-6 What Have We Done
3-7 After Your Brain
3-8 Nothing Better To Do
3-9 Keep Out
3-10 No Place To Hide
3-11 What For
3-12 Shut Up
3-13 Buy And Pay

CD 4 "Mine To Kill" (1989) + Unreleased Recordings (1989)

4-1 Intro / You Want More
4-2 Wasteland
4-3 Make Or Break
4-4 What Was
4-5 Buried Alive
4-6 You Are The Victim
4-7 Mine To Kill
4-8 Revenge
4-9 Animals Wearing Uniforms
4-10 The White Man's Invasion
4-11 Power Not Violence
4-12 Raw Power 12
4-13 Inside Me
4-14 Zaff
4-16 The White Men's Invasion
4-17 No One's Gonna Miss You
4-18 Inside Me
4-19 Power Not Violence
4-20 Buried Alive
4-21 Zaff
4-22 On The Road The Fight Begins
4-23 Wasteland
4-24 Strike Out
4-25 What Was
4-26 Why Didn't You Run Away
4-27 You Want More

Recorded At – Hit City Recording
Recorded At – UMBI Studios
Recorded At – Southern Studios
Remastered At – Toxic Basement Studio

Bass – Alessandro Paolucci (tracks: 3-3), Alessandro Paolucci (tracks: 4-1 to 4-27), Maurizio* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17), Maurizio* (tracks: 3-1, 3-2, 3-4 to 3-13)
Bass, Vocals – Silvio* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-28)
Composed By, Arranged By – Raw Power (2) (tracks: 3-1 to 3-13), Raw Power (2) (tracks: 4-1 to 4-27)
Drums – Fabiano Bianco (tracks: 4-1 to 4-14), Helder* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-28), Helder* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17), Helder* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-13), Helder Stefanini (tracks: 4-15 to 4-27)
Guitar – Davide Devoti (tracks: 4-1 to 4-27), Giuseppe Codeluppi (tracks: 4-1 to 4-27), Maurizio* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-28)
Guitar [2nd] – Giuseppe* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17)
Guitar, Vocals – Giuseppe* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-28), Giuseppe* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-13), Silvio* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-13)
Lead Guitar – Davide* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17)
Lyrics By – Mauro Codeluppi (tracks: 3-1 to 3-13), Mauro Codeluppi (tracks: 4-1 to 4-27)
Remastered By – The Hand Of Doom
Vocals – Mauro* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-28), Mauro* (tracks: 2-1 to 2-17), Mauro* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-13), Mauro Codeluppi (tracks: 4-1 to 4-27)
CD1 : “Your are the victim” (1983) + “God’s course” Demo (1982)
CD2 : “Screams from the gutter” (1984)
CD3 : “After your brain – redux” (1986)
CD4 : “Mine to kill” (1989) + Unreleased recordings (1989)

Limited edition of 300 copies

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Track 4-15 “Intro/Mine To Kill” not shown on the CD

Raw Power was formed in 1981 in Poviglio, in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia, by brothers Mauro (vocals) and Giuseppe Codeluppi (guitar). Through the years the band has lived through several line-up changes and the two brothers were the only stable members until Giuseppe's death in 2002. The band's name came from The Stooges’s third album. Previously, the Codeluppi brothers had played in another band called Off Limits. Other members in Raw Power's first line-up were Silvio (guitar and vocals), bassist Maurizio Dodi (who came from punk band Chelsea Hotel) and teenager drummer Helder Stefanini.[3]

In 1983 they recorded a 19-track demo (sometimes referred as Brown Studio Tape) and two songs appeared in the Italian punk compilation, Raptus. The tape also included the song "Fuck Authority", which appeared in Maximumrocknroll's international punk and hardcore compilation, Welcome to 1984. Their debut album, You Are The Victim, was released in 1983 (or 1984, depending on sources) through the same small independent Italian label that released the Raptus compilation (Meccano Records). Raw Power had another two tracks in the second Raptus compilation, Raptus: Negazione e superamento (1984).

A small tape label from San Diego in the U.S. called BCT Tapes released in 1984 their demo (untitled, aka Brown Studio Tape) and some of their live material on the Last White Christmas compilations (recorded in December 1983).[4] Through the BCT contact, in the same year the band flew over to the States for their first US tour, which happened in August–September 1984[5] (the band have since then returned to tour the U.S. a total of six times). Second guitarist Silvio was replaced by Davide (ex-Chelsea Hotel) before the tour.

While touring in the U.S. in 1984, the band played in Los Angeles with punk legends Dead Kennedys. It was at that show that they were spotted by Bill Sassenberger, owner of Toxic Shock Records. The band signed a record deal with Bill, which resulted in the album Screams From the Gutter, which sold more than 40,000 copies strictly through independent distribution and shops.[6] Almost simultaneously, BCT released a Live in the USA tape (BCT 17, 3/85), compiling some of their best shows.

In 1986, Toxic Shock Records released the EP Wop Hour and the LP After Your Brain.

In 1987, Raw Power appeared on the compilation album "Rat Music For Rat People", recorded in San Francisco by producer Sylvia Massy at CD Presents.

In the years to come, other records including Mine To Kill (Southern Records, 1989), Live Danger (TVOR Records, 1991) and Too Tough to Burn (Contempo Records, 1992) were released, but none of them sold as respectively as the first two recordings on Toxic Shock.

During their tours in the U.S. Raw Power have shared the stage with the Circle Jerks, Adolescents, D.O.A., Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, among many others. In 1986 in a small club in Seattle, Washington, Washington, Guns N' Roses opened for Raw Power.[6]