One for completists only, this 2008 release rounds up 13 tracks from
the Stooges
' 1972-1974 swan song, concentrating on studio rehearsals and outtakes, but offering up nothing that has not appeared on innumerable occasions in the past; indeed, it is essentially a "best of" the studio portion of the
Easy Action
label's six-disc
Heavy Liquid
box, which itself is more or less the last word in this era of
' career. So, once more around the block for
"I Got a Right,"
"Gimme Some Skin,"
"Tight Pants,"
"Louie Louie,"
and
"I'm Sick of You"
from the July 1972
Olympic Studio
sessions, and eight further cuts from the Ypsilanti and Detroit rehearsals the following spring. It's a well-compiled collection, but given the amount of other releases that have mined this same material, perhaps a little redundant. ~ Dave Thompson