Feel On Baby is, to me, one of the most intriguing songs the Stones ever recorded.
they somehow make reggae style and recording techniques their own. I think the lyrics could have been silly but with the constant shifting of tone and attitude in the song it works, baby!

It's kind of a quaint Stones song, isn't it? I like it, though.

very underrated song - I really like the lyrics too

The dub version on the B-side of the Undercover single is really good too

Gazza is this the version that people refer to as better than the album one? Can someone post this?

I feel this song is ok, can be much better with a little more work (maybe on the lyrics???) and also that drum machine sound sucks. With the album Undercover in general I like many of the outtakes because they are the backbone of the songs before all the 80s production is thrown in there. I love the early version of Too Much Blood without the horns and drum machines..

I think withsssoul posted it a few weeks ago - maybe someone still has the link

just found it

[www.iorr.org]

hope its still there as I cant access the yousendit link from work

great track - good lyric too
in the ditch, on the dirty floor ...


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

dud

>> dud <<

... care to be more specific, StonesTod? :E
(i mean: are you referring to the yousendit link, or to the number?)


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

to the song. I have no feelings for feel on. in general the Stones forays into reggae have left me non-plussed. I'm not a huge reggae fan in the first place, but I don't think it's one of their fortes, either, frankly.

I love the lyrics on this one. And while it has some basic chakka grooves going, I wouldn't consider it an attempt at doing Reggae. It' the Stones doing their own thing. That harmonica wailing, and Keith's guitar just dripping with the Flange. Keith throws in some of his inimitable BU jabs.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

wanderlust and love diseeeease
takin over and straaangle me

the 'strangle' sounds exactly like that.
seems to be cinematic, like a lot of 'Undercover'

The title is intriguingly ambiguous, grammatically... Is it (purposely?) missing a comma: "Feel On, Baby"? like "Rave On", as in, an imperative that "Baby" continue feeling... or is the singer--or the audience--just thinking about feeling "on" his baby? The "on" there is extraneous, except for poetic license. The phrase happens to fit nicely with contemporary slang--mick and keith want "to get their feel on"!

Not the most reggaeish of their reggae-attemps
(that would be You Dont Have To Mean It), but
I agree with most of the positive judgements posted here.

Ride On Baby is much better . . .

i think it is a good one, one of their best reggae songs. but i wouldn´t include into the category of their best songs of all categories!

love this song...a different slant on the reggae/dub feel...nice skeletal quality is what really makes the song...plus it goes right into too much blood that when played side by side seem to blend nicely...

I like it, its a nice song. One way or the other, it has an uncomfortable atmosphere, is sounds tormented to me. It sounds like the lyric should have been: please don't hurt me, in stead of feel on baby.
But then, on Too Much Blood, the lyrics are much darker, but the first lines on TMB are sung in a very laid back manner, like I would have expected on Feel on Baby...

Well, should we start a I LOVE UNDERCOVER thread? ;-)

Jelle