looking back it was a great change

If someone else doesn't I will - a thread on opening LP tracks - good or bad. Opinion, of course, will vary.

By era? Record label? HA HA....that's a good one there. Pre-Post this or that tour?

Those UK/US albums are a bit strange. How 'bout from 1967 to 2005? At least that's consistent.

quite a weak album opener considering the string of opening songs on albums before it, sypmathy, gimmie shelter, brown sugar and rocks off.

I love this song! It's a great opener and genuinely creepy. Mick has a great time. I still have to play it every Halloween.
It does sound a little satanic and does have a "fire and brimstone" lyric (love the way Mick delivers that line, too), but is mostly about death itself.
God knows Keith, for one, has danced with Mr. D. often enough.

As far as the album itself, some of the songs are a little lame, but most of them are very good. It suffers greatly from poor production. (Aftermath still takes the cake, though).

Probably one of the weakest songs on the weakest Stones album IMO. Honestly, even Satanic Majesty's has more tracks with punch.

GHS has its good bits, but overall they sound bored. When it came out it meant the end of an incredible run of astounding albums. I think that initial impression has stayed with me.

I THINK it sounds fab if yer on herium!

"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone

Lyric wise it's about as scarey as F..F..F..Freddy Krueger
But at times those guitars sound like ah bone-grinder at work on a lonely back water cove...



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Lyric wise it's about as scarey as F..F..F..Freddy Krueger
But at times those guitars sound like ah bone-grinder at work on a lonely back water cove...

I agree, I've never found anything creepy or scary-sounding about it...brooding and moody, sure, but that's it.