Hi,

Given that the Stones' 1997 Dust Brothers-co-produced tune "Might As Well Get Juiced" sounds like a throwback to '70s/'80s prog-rock, and one that could certainly have done well musically (if not lyrically) back in the '70s/early '80s, were there any other Stones classics and live favorites that you think they could've cut earlier and still be successful?

A case in point: most of the Stones' 1981 album Tattoo You took scrapped songs from sessions correlating to their other albums; like "Start Me Up" which originally was tried as a reggae song - tentatively titled "Never Stop" - when recording on it started in 1974-75 (during the sessions for the 1976 album Black and Blue), and then was re-recorded again from 1977-79, during the sessions for both Some Girls and Emotional Rescue. "Hang Fire" was another song originally recorded during the Some Girls sessions. "Waiting on a Friend," on the other hand, was originally recorded in Jamaica in 1972-73 (during sessions for Goat's Head Soup) and had Mick Taylor on guitar (who was left uncredited on the 1981 LP). After that song was successful, Taylor asked for his share of royalties from its parent LP. Only "Neighbors" was among the newest of the songs represented here, as it was recorded shortly after the album Emotional Rescue and its two singles were released.

All this aside, what other post-1971 songs do you think the Stones could've released earlier?

~Ben Edge



Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 2009-09-29 16:42 by BrianJones1969.

The stuff in the vaults.

juiced is a throwback to exile-era blues songs, not prog rock....

They could have possibly put Slave, Hang Fire and Worried About You on Black And Blue and Start Me Up - if they would have finished them. Would have certainly beefed up the album.

Tops and Waiting On A Friend had they been finished at the time, to go along with Through The Lonely Nights and Save Me/Criss Cross Man from the Soup sessions - that would have really screwed that album up, probably in a good way.

Then there are the tracks that are on Exile that were done for Fingers; ER tracks that were done for SG.

Mick informs the crowd at Hyde park '69 that "Gimme Little Drink" (Loving Cup) is "from our new album".


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

"New Faces" certainly reminds one of the "Lady Jane" era.

Sister Morphine could have been on Let It Bleed, as well as Loving Cup.