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Silver Dagger
Two off Goat's Head Soup which for me remains their most under-appreciated album - at least of their classic run of late 60s and 70s albums to Tattoo You.
They are Hide Your Love which I'm really hoping they play live if they ever tour again. I just think the Oh Yeah bit lends itself to a great call and reponse with both Keith and the backing singers and probably also the audience. It has a great upbeat bluesy feel and has such a great groove.
The other is Can You Hear The Music, one of several tributes to Brian - the others being Shine A Light and Continental Drift - which features some brilliant chord changes and very ethereal lyrics.
The beauty of Goat's Head Soup for me is that the album has a great mysticism about it - it swings both in musical styles from the down and dirty and direct on songs like Heartbreaker, Star Star, Hide Your Love, to the mystical in songs like Dancing With Mr D, Coming Down Again, and Winter. Even Angie has a real dreamy quality about it.
And for me Hide Your Love and Can You Hear The Music - two songs hardly talked about on this site - represent the two extremes - the earthiness and the other worldiness of this magnificent album.
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skipstone
Certainly Through The Lonely Nights is one. Killer tune. Amazing they left it off Soup. Same with Think I'm Going Mad - great song. Everything Is Turning To Gold. They sure can be idiots with their releases. Why do they leave such good songs off?
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DandelionPowderman
Feel On Baby. A true gem, imo. Love the extended dub version, too.
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OpenGspot
I'm probably the only one who will fess up to liking "Winter", but have always loved it - the mood, the lyrics, even Mick's vocals which he allegedly walked out on after 4 takes. One of the few "ballad-y" type songs where he sounds sincere. It's also interesting for me in that Keith doesn't play any guitar on it, it's just Mick and Mick which gives it a very non-Stones feel. Before anyone bashes that - Keith is my favorite guitarist, always has been always will be. But his absence on this song gives the band a totally different feel and Mick Taylor just runs with the chance to create some amazing leads throughout the song.
I don't think I'd want a steady diet of Stones songs like this - but it's a great change of pace.
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leteyer
Indian Girl...Beautiful country song, great pedal steel (nowhere to be seen in "latin" music) and awesome political lyrics.
yeah, one of the few "indian-girl-lovers"...i'm with you. great track!
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microvibe
i'm going down
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kleermaker
They can't perform Hide Your Love live, just like they can't do Sway. Unless they have MT on stage, because MT's guitar makes this song a blues one.
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DandelionPowderman
Feel On Baby. A true gem, imo. Love the extended dub version, too.
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