...................digging it deeply right about now...is it the wah wah??.....funk mixed/turned to country?.....whatever it is...it sounds better than ever right about now.....

1908?

Sir Craven of Cottage, rather 1873

.funny.............

It's the keyboard sounds - what makes Goat's Head Soup the Their Satanic Majesties of the 70s are the keyboard sounds never used that intensively before and after, those clavinets, e-pianos. Have a look at IORR - one year later there are synthesizers dominating instead of electric keyboards.

What was it I read somewhere that Mick wrote that for Sticky but held onto it?

GREAT song.

I do think that it is sometimes wise not to grow up.

Four seasons in one song.

As with Heartbreaker, it's the combination of wah-wah and clavinet that really does the trick- quite menacing infact - and the glowing vocals. Aural nectar,

One of my favorites! It ends waaaaay to early, it should go on and ond and on.

Cheers,
Wuudy

A beautiful meandering song, full of twists and turns, and stunning surprises.

...needless to say, I love this track.

I just listened to GHS the other day. The whole thing rocks. But yeah 100 Years Ago is a great tune.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

"call me lazy bones" . . .
man, does this take me back . . . great post, beautiful song.

The song also reminds me, however, that its just about this time in stones evolutionary history that jagger starts to take on the backing vocals, almost exclusively.

p.s. were you guys sitting in a circle and watching guys wrestle in the middle? umm, i guess all of types of people come out to see the stones

great song, great album

people ask my what my favorite stones song is and though i don't have just one, i'll say 100 years ago. most people look at me with a blank stare.

yes that would be the casual fan which almost every set list is dedicated to

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people ask my what my favorite stones song is and though i don't have just one, i'll say 100 years ago. most people look at me with a blank stare.

Unfortunately,I think if you asked Mick or Keith about this song. You'd probably get the same look.

it would be nice to hear but it would probably turn out like sway on the bang tour with mick holding back his vocal and ronnie not quite nailing the solo

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it would be nice to hear but it would probably turn out like sway on the bang tour with mick holding back his vocal and ronnie not quite nailing the solo

And on top of that Chuck would not get the keyboards to sound like the combination of
Nicky and Billy.

Luckily we have the two blistering live performances of this song from 1973 to get our rocks off.
And yes, I never understood why they chose for a fade out during the solo on the album.

Sadly I don't know the two blistering live performances from 1973.
On which bootlegs can I find them?

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Sadly I don't know the two blistering live performances from 1973.
On which bootlegs can I find them?

Start here: Brussels affair

Then go here: Vienna 1973

GHS is my favourite Stones album and 100 Years ago is my favourite songs off it.
Can't understand people calling GHS weak ... greatest heroin record ever.
And full of hope too.

GHS is a great album. I think people think it's weak because 1. it's not like Beggars, Bleed, Fingers or Exile - thankfully. 2. it's different than the Big Four.

Chuck could never replicate any of the piano playing from that entire era of the Stones - he's too busy making it sound like he's playing in a mall. It would be better done without him if they were to bother.

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melillo
it would be nice to hear but it would probably turn out like sway on the bang tour with mick holding back his vocal and ronnie not quite nailing the solo

And on top of that Chuck would not get the keyboards to sound like the combination of
Nicky and Billy.

Luckily we have the two blistering live performances of this song from 1973 to get our rocks off.
And yes, I never understood why they chose for a fade out during the solo on the album.

....poor Chuck.

...my ass.

100 YEARS AGO is one of those great Stones songs that the general Rock fan just doesn't know...along with MOONLIGHT MILE and SHINE A LIGHT.

PECMAN

There are several Stones songs that fit that kind of unknown but very cool.

I guess you can add "WINTER" and "FINGERPRINT FILE" to that list.

PECMAN

I was thinking more along the lines of Sway, If You Can't Rock Me, Crazy Mama, Hand Of Fate, When The Whip Comes Down, Fingerprint File, Casino Boogie, Silver Train, the more rockish tunes.

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What was it I read somewhere that Mick wrote that for Sticky but held onto it?

GREAT song.

it would've fit in nicely on that album too.

has always been in my top 10 fave stone songs.


IORR............but I like it!

..........from wikipedia:

Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, guitarist Mick Taylor said at the time of its release, "Some of the songs we used (for the album) were pretty old. '100 Years Ago' was one that Mick [Jagger] had written two years ago and which we hadn't really got around to using before."[1] The song is described by Tom Maginnis in his review as having a, "wistful air with a country lilt... before making several tempo shifts into a funky, sped-up groove..."[2] The song's lyrics see Jagger reflect on aging

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Pecman
100 YEARS AGO is one of those great Stones songs that the general Rock fan just doesn't know...along with MOONLIGHT MILE and SHINE A LIGHT.

PECMAN

which is what makes The Rolling Stones great IMHO...and another reason why contemporary artists, who fill their releases with drivel/filler crap are themselves plastic crap.

Besides The Stones have so many excellent deep cuts that escape casual fans...many of semi-causual Crowes fans didn't know that Loving Cup until the Crowes covered it during their reunion shows, and it was a one-off cover to boot!

Great thread potential for classic deep cuts from The Stones!

the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler!