Miss you:
- cheap disco on the album that is supposed to be the answer to punk
- includes an idiotic singalong sitting on a moronic four to the floor beat
- all the non-Stones fans liked it so it even became a #1 hit without sounding like the Rolling Stones
- I'm sure Keith LOVES to play it
- it started the "disco mix syndrome" within the Rolling Stones discography - who does REALLY need ANY of the "dance mixes" of Stones songs released since 1978?
- instead of using it as opener for SOME GIRLS it should have been edited down to 1:23 and put on SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES
- conclusion: no warhorse but horsehit

agreed....i think they stuck miss you on some girls as a selling point...wasnt it their biggest selling single? (ah, the ever gullible masses)....never was a disco fan..... p.s. imagine how much higher the status of some girls would be with a great song in place of miss you



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not a hudge fan of MISS YOU as well......but i will say this they did a sick version of it at the garden!!!...or it could have been the KGB................

Miss You

#1 single, however how many other bands have had their most popular song liked by the general public but this same song grew weary very quickly in the eyes of their true fans? Plenty.

I wouldn't consider it disco. Danceable blues, I would say. Funky, with the Stones edge. It has at times been a good "jam" tune live, although it seems like the last 2-tours it's become a little lifeless.

Back in the day I was glad to hear it played in discos. I was only in the places to meet girls, and the rest of the music was god-awful, so hearing a little Stones was welcome relief. Never had much luck with the girls though. I think my Ramones ROAD TO RUIN t-shirt didn't fit in too well with the polyester and puka beads.

Anyway, not overrated IMHO.

Karl

KSIE Wrote:
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> I wouldn't consider it disco. Danceable blues, I
> would say. Funky, with the Stones edge. It has
> at times been a good "jam" tune live, although it
> seems like the last 2-tours it's become a little
> lifeless.
>
> Back in the day I was glad to hear it played in
> discos. I was only in the places to meet girls,
> and the rest of the music was god-awful, so
> hearing a little Stones was welcome relief. Never
> had much luck with the girls though. I think my
> Ramones ROAD TO RUIN t-shirt didn't fit in too
> well with the polyester and puka beads.
>
> Anyway, not overrated IMHO.
>
> Karl

wearing a road to ruin shirt in a disco back in the day...great!!!...i used to drop in to watch the girls dancing back in those days (well into the bottle so i could tolerate the music) used to wear holy jeans and flannels....i guess i had the "grunge" look by accident before it became trendy

Way ahead of your time Leonard!

The disco girls always looked at me funny when I asked them to get high and then pulled-out a tube of Carbona. :-)

Karl

KSIE Wrote:
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> Way ahead of your time Leonard!
>
> The disco girls always looked at me funny when I
> asked them to get high and then pulled-out a tube
> of Carbona. :-)
>
> Karl

great!! oooooooh, carbona not glue...ah yes... the immortally brilliant leave home....p.s. johnny ramone could chop off heads with his buzz saw genius...best wishes



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Miss you!

It's only R&R.
And poor Charlie almost gets drowned into bubbles in the song's clip.

disco is just a label. it's cool, funky (okay, funky is a label too) and it grooves.

Agree with the comments re Miss You.

Honorable mention for me would have to be Emotional Rescue, which is overrated simply by virtue of being referred to as a 'song' at all. 25 years later a lot of us Stones fans are still wondering what the hell they were thinking with this thing. One theory is that Mick originally intended to cover 'Rescue Me' by Fontella Bass (the sound, including Mick's falsetto, is not dissimilar to that record), but decided he could write a 'new' song. He wrote a new something, for sure.

Miss you is just a song that aged horribly...I just loved it when it came out, what a great song and lo listen to it in the Discos after all that disco sh*t was a gas.

Can't imagine the '78 tour without it.

On this board, Shattered is the most over rated song. It Sucks.

stop it.......................


miss you ,by a country mile

I read Mick lifted the Bass line to Miss You from Billy Preston...didn't give him credit and that's why they stopped talking...any truth to this from the experts?

Pecman

She's so cold

"Miss you" and "Shattered" are great songs. Really good grooves.

"She's so cold" - great song! Love the guitar work and sound/s on it.

Most overrated for me is "Hand of fate".
I just don't see it or get it.

Number 2 is TWFNO.
I like but is way overrated on this board.

kyle m

Have you ever lent somebody $20 and never seen them again? It was probably worth it.

Miss you is a splendid track.
But maybe we heard it a bit too often.
But you can't deny it, great song.

Listen to the version of Miss You (Original 12'' Mix) available on the bootleg In the Mix: [www.dream.com.cn]
This version is incredible: great bass line, great guitars.

After 5 listens, Start Me Up has bored me to tears. If it pops up on the radio I immediately change the channel.

There's a stones fan for ya!

I like Miss You.

Sympathy

It's all a matter of personal taste, of course. I consider myself a "true Stones fan" and yet I love both the tracks "Miss You" and "Emotional Rescue". For me anyway, disco and funk are still pleasant musical expressions, certainly miles ahead of all the rap crap we hear nowadays.

If I had to pick an overrated Stones song, it would be "You Got Me Rocking". It's an OK tune, but the Stones treat this song in concert on the same level as classics Start Me Up, Brown Sugar, Honky Tonk Women, Jumpin' Jack Flash et al, but to my ears it doesn't deserve the inflated status.

Ride like the wind at double speed.....

I agree, sf37, YGMR is mediocre at best. "Love Is Strong" would be a much better choice.

You Got Me Rocking. Bad lyrics, the riffs comes straight from a Keith solo tune, can't remember which one. However I think the song is only overrated by the band because at the shows I have been to I hear it get dead quiet when the song starts until Mick puts in a little extra to get everyone into it. You can tell when he has to work harder on a song that the crowd is probably not as into as he wants.

It's a toss-up between "Satisfaction" and "Start Me Up". Both are great songs, but I think they are the most overrated for the following reasons: "Satisfaction" is the tune the Stones are the most famous for -- but it's HARDLY their best song ("Jumpin' Jack Flash" is), while "Start Me Up" is overplayed on classic rock radio, overplayed at sporting events, and overplayed on TV commercials. And while we're at it, it's overplayed as the opening number at Stones concerts !!

SMU

Shattered, Miss You and Satisfaction, and boy do they still like to play them.