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Turd On The Run
The Beatles took care to only release top-shelf stuff.
The Magical Mystery Tour movie, top shelf stuff indeed!
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NICOS
Maybe you should see the clip in his time
'bad-home-movie status'?: Watch the horrible video of Child of the Moon!!
But I think that this We Love You video is not that bad, we're talking 1967.
Yes...VERY bad home-movie status. Look at the Beatles promo film/"video" for Stawberry Fields Forever. Also filmed in 1967. A masterpiece and a compelling piece of early Psychedelia. The Beatles took care to only release top-shelf stuff.
The Stones film of We Love You suffers terribly in comparison. There is no cogent theme...just a silly mash-up and amateur-status 'acting' by Keith and Mick and Marianne. The piece looks as if it was directed and edited by an Albanian on acid (no disrespect meant to any groovy Albanians). As much as I love the trippy vibe of the song, I find the promo film a shoddy, off-hand piece of garbage...especially in contrast to what the Stones' Liverpudian mates were producing in that same time frame. Embarrassing.
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mitchflorida
It reminds me of All You Need is Love, no??
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NICOS
Maybe you should see the clip in his time
'bad-home-movie status'?: Watch the horrible video of Child of the Moon!!
But I think that this We Love You video is not that bad, we're talking 1967.
Yes...VERY bad home-movie status. Look at the Beatles promo film/"video" for Stawberry Fields Forever. Also filmed in 1967. A masterpiece and a compelling piece of early Psychedelia. The Beatles took care to only release top-shelf stuff.
The Stones film of We Love You suffers terribly in comparison. There is no cogent theme...just a silly mash-up and amateur-status 'acting' by Keith and Mick and Marianne. The piece looks as if it was directed and edited by an Albanian on acid (no disrespect meant to any groovy Albanians). As much as I love the trippy vibe of the song, I find the promo film a shoddy, off-hand piece of garbage...especially in contrast to what the Stones' Liverpudian mates were producing in that same time frame. Embarrassing.
You call this video an "A masterpiece and a compelling piece of early Psychedelia" jumping around a tree?
By the way the song it self is a master number two in my top 10
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mitchflorida
Everyone remarked that Satanic Majesties was just the Rolling Stones trying to copy the Beatles' success with Sgt. Pepper.
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mitchfullofshit
Some of the songs are quite good, but way too over-produced, and inferior to the stuff they did before and after that album.
"Have you seen your Mother, baby, standing in the shadow" was a rather forgettable single . . too formulaic. I would have loved to hear them go more into the "What To Do" direction.
Very true. The guy had an amazing talent for the instrument and made sound very special anytime he used it. The strings on 2000 Lightyears are outstanding and the flutes on Jigsaw Puzzle...man I wish we could have had more of this from him.Quote
Sacke
Weeew, that's for sure! Not that many bands were using the mellotron at that moment. And when bands (like the Moody Blues and Beatles) used it, they really didn't use it in this nasty, groovy and distorted way Brian played it.
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tonterapi
But that cool footage of him playing the tanpura made me wonder. The only song that I know of by the Stones where Brian played the tanpura is Street Fighting Man and that is a year later than this! Could there be some nice unreleased material where he play the tanpura? Because the sure isn't any tanpura on We Love You...
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mitchflorida
Have You Seen Your Mother was a copy of Mother's Little Helper, neither of which have really stood up the test of time. mother's little helper was a hypocritical song , considering how the Stones were all druggies during that period.
Yes, maybe there is one hidden deep in the mix somewhere. It's a sound that stands out normally so I think one would hear it.Quote
rootsman
Maybe there´s some on "Satanic"? (Isn´t it called tamboura in English?)