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GHS is undoubtedly an unusual album...some great songs but I always thought that the mix was poor, really flat and narrow...but without doubt better than IORR.[/quote
Oh, when IORR was released in Oct. '74 it was hailed as so much more superior to GHS! Truly! Y'all had to be there & I sometimes think most of you were nappies at the time.
"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone
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hot stuff
GHS is like a good scotch while iorr is like a good cold beer.....
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Mathijs
It really is a love / hate affair with this album. I genuinely think it is their worst album, with only Winter being above average. But then again, when driving alone somewhere far away in the middle of a winter night and you pop in this album it suddenly is the most nostalgic and melancholy album they've made.
But still, it never really convinces. Richards is absent from most of the album, and then the album shows Taylor is too light-weight to carry an entire album. Charlie’s drums sound lackluster through-out, and only Jagger and Billy Preston sound they had fun making this album.
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(with IORR being about 50% top quality songs)
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(with IORR being about 50% top quality songs)
that's charitable.
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(with IORR being about 50% top quality songs)
that's charitable.
OK, title track, and in the "maybe" category: If You Can't Rock Me, Fingerprint File, Time Waits For No One, Dance Little Sister. Outright Stinkers: Short & Curlies, If You Really Want To Be My Friend, so yeah 50% is being quite charitable.
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baxlap
the almost complete lack of riffs or melody, combined with songs based on keyboard intros, leads me to believe that Keef was barely participating in its making. It's the sound of a crippled band making limp music. 2/5.
After hearing the remasters last year, though, I'd have to say that Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge and Bigger Bang are worse. The remasters only served to remind me that, overall, the post-Exile albums are lacking in quality and that the Stones have been living off the laurels of their first ten years for nearly 40.
You can add Dirty Work, IORR, Black & Blue and Undercover as being worse too. GHS with all its weaknesses is still miles better than any of those records. I guess if you think music is riffs, GHS isn't for you. GHS might have had songs without riffs, DW had riffs without songs.
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Richards is absent from most of the album, and then the album shows Taylor is too light-weight to carry an entire album. Charlie’s drums sound lackluster through-out, and only Jagger and Billy Preston sound they had fun making this album.
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tomk
Regarding the muddy mix: THere's a few albums from that year (or that era) I've noticed that have that. GHS is one (although I love it; the first Stones album I ever bouught). George Harrison's Living In The Material World has a really muddy and punchless mix. McCartney's Red Rose Speedway is another. Even Quadrophenia has a somewhat muddy mix compared to Who's Next. A lot of the Top 40 singles had that tone, too. Maybe bands were trying to get away from a full-on stereo mix and going for a mono-ish mix (whicj the IORR album has, too).
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loog droog
Face it people: it's just not a great album. The classic Stones records that came out before and during the '68 - '72 Golden Era made you jump up and dance as soon as they started, and yet Dancing With Mr. D is the first Stones opener where you look for a chair.
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Regarding the muddy mix: THere's a few albums from that year (or that era) I've noticed that have that. GHS is one (although I love it; the first Stones album I ever bouught). George Harrison's Living In The Material World has a really muddy and punchless mix. McCartney's Red Rose Speedway is another. Even Quadrophenia has a somewhat muddy mix compared to Who's Next. A lot of the Top 40 singles had that tone, too. Maybe bands were trying to get away from a full-on stereo mix and going for a mono-ish mix (whicj the IORR album has, too).
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nanker phelge
If you catch it in the right mood it is their best album imho - fantastic vibe