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hbwriter
A song that has never really worked live fore you...
My vote goes to It's Only Rock and Roll - I love the basement/fuzztone intimacy of the studio. On stage, with that weird little "Star Star-esque" opening and overall pacing of it, I've never been crazy it. Maybe I liked the bubble video too much.
Yours?
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TeaAtThree
Every version I heard or saw of Anybody Seen My Baby were just painful. I don't love the studio version, but live euh!
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HTW. The studio version is the best three minutes of their entire career, but when they do it live, it seems like no other song falls so far short of its studio version as that one does.
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tatters
HTW. The studio version is the best three minutes of their entire career, but when they do it live, it seems like no other song falls so far short of its studio version as that one does.
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Palace Revolution 2000
and I have to say that IMO "Dance Pt 1" worked very well. Matter of fact it changed my whole perspective of the song. Made me like it again.
With "Mixed Emotions", a cut seemingly made for stage I think it is Jagger who finds fault. Keith would do it justice IMO; it is basically a rewrite of "Take it so Hard" anyway./ I read that what Jagger dislikes about the song is that there isn't enough of a clearcut change from verse into chorus; it is too subtle. The first chord of the chorus is actually a minor chord, but used in a major way. So it's good melodic shift, but it isn't a stadium rock kind of progression. (Terrible consideration)
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Palace Revolution 2000I agree, in that while I like the live versions of HTW, I don't think they stand up to the record, while Brown Sugar live does, which I find kind of odd. Even though they are really quite different, I've always kind of seen them as similar songs, so it doesn't make sense that one works so well live but the other doesn't. I think it's because Brown Sugar is a faster song to begin with, and they play it even faster live. HTW is much slower and more groove oriented, and that's harder to translate live, things can get lost in the open spaces. Wasn't it recorded with that cassette machine playback method they used in the late 60's/early 70's, which gave the guitars the distinct sound that is key to the song. To me that sound is simply lost live, and the grungy sound it's replaced with doesn't do the song justice. It's the curse of a great record with such a unique sound. Brown Sugar was maybe recorded the same way(?), apparently they used that trick a lot then from what I've read, but because it's faster and doesn't have those squealy little country-ish fills, which is one of the key sounds I'm talking about that makes HTW great, it seems to work better live. I feel the same about Live With Me and Sympathy for the Devil, they just don't seem to come across as well live, they are tricky songs that way. To me, they always play Live With Me too fast and it loses that wonderful grit the record had. It's a great song live in and of itself, but not compared to the studio version. Same with Sympathy, Keith's solos back in the day could be great, but the song as a whole pales to the studio. But the studio version was such a complex sounding piece, with so many layers, it's not easy to re-create that effectively live. Especially on the 69-70's tours, which is the period I'm really talking about. I'm just not crazy about the arrangement of the Ya's Ya's version. It's a good song in and of itself which I like, and Keith's solo is great, but the record sounded so good it doesn't stand up in comparison for me.Quote
IMO what makes this thread interesting are the surprises. I guess it is obvious that some cuts would not translate well to live stage, and some are clear choices. The Some Girls album, one can reasonable assume is going to work pretty well on stage (and did); Satanic is not especially stage friendly.
So like Neocon says it surprised me when "Memory Motel" works so well, and "Fool to Cry" for that matter. Another good surprise was "Shes a Rainbow"; and I have to say that IMO "Dance Pt 1" worked very well. Matter of fact it changed my whole perspective of the song. Made me like it again.
"Shattered" is a rambling mess; and not in a good way. For some reason Jagger must think it goes over very well because he always has it up there
"Anybody seen my baby" IMO has the same problem "Rocks Off" has: the key is low. So it becomes hard to project on stage. One can always hear Jagger trying to inch up in register; like he cant wait to get to the shouting higher register parts. Now "Baby" has some other problems as well...
With "Mixed Emotions", a cut seemingly made for stage I think it is Jagger who finds fault. Keith would do it justice IMO; it is basically a rewrite of "Take it so Hard" anyway./ I read that what Jagger dislikes about the song is that there isn't enough of a clearcut change from verse into chorus; it is too subtle. The first chord of the chorus is actually a minor chord, but used in a major way. So it's good melodic shift, but it isn't a stadium rock kind of progression. (Terrible consideration)