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Max'sKansasCity
Does B&B own the "record" for fewest songs on an album.... of all time ...
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Does B&B own the "record" for fewest songs on an album.... of all time ...
While, at eight songs, it's the Stones studio album with the fewest songs, I own lots of records with fewer than eight songs. There are plenty of jazz records and Pink Floyd albums with five or six songs.
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71Tele
I am in the minority, I know, but I think it's the last of what I call the "Descending Three", meaning the quality went down each release starting with GHS, then IORR and culminating in Black & Blue. Thank God for Some Girls, or the boys would have been toast had the trend continued.
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Tele, sometimes I don't understand you at all. I know you love Exile and I understand that very well, also because it's a typically 'American' album. Mentioning GHS as the first of the "Descending Three" is strange to me, but I can understand you do, because it has such an 'European' mood. But your last sentence, concerning Some Girls, I can't understand at all. As Edward Twining has said it's (all very contrary to Exile) immediate, one dimensional and "the blues influences which give the Stones sound much of its strength is missing". I've added to that it's freshness and I also say it's musically and as for its mood as flat as a pancake. Those are all qualifications that are the very opposite of those of Exile. I can understand that you appreciated it when it was released (like I did) and even during some time after its release, but again I have to say that I don't understand that you still appreciate it that much after 32 years, when its freshness has gone. I really can't comprehend how it's possible that you still consider it as the lifebuoy of the Stones. Well, I think you can't make me understand it. I just had to say it.
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Tele, sometimes I don't understand you at all. I know you love Exile and I understand that very well, also because it's a typically 'American' album. Mentioning GHS as the first of the "Descending Three" is strange to me, but I can understand you do, because it has such an 'European' mood. But your last sentence, concerning Some Girls, I can't understand at all. As Edward Twining has said it's (all very contrary to Exile) immediate, one dimensional and "the blues influences which give the Stones sound much of its strength is missing". I've added to that it's freshness and I also say it's musically and as for its mood as flat as a pancake. Those are all qualifications that are the very opposite of those of Exile. I can understand that you appreciated it when it was released (like I did) and even during some time after its release, but again I have to say that I don't understand that you still appreciate it that much after 32 years, when its freshness has gone. I really can't comprehend how it's possible that you still consider it as the lifebuoy of the Stones. Well, I think you can't make me understand it. I just had to say it.
it's just the conventional narrative of the Stones in the 70s.
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Tele, sometimes I don't understand you at all. I know you love Exile and I understand that very well, also because it's a typically 'American' album. Mentioning GHS as the first of the "Descending Three" is strange to me, but I can understand you do, because it has such an 'European' mood. But your last sentence, concerning Some Girls, I can't understand at all. As Edward Twining has said it's (all very contrary to Exile) immediate, one dimensional and "the blues influences which give the Stones sound much of its strength is missing". I've added to that it's freshness and I also say it's musically and as for its mood as flat as a pancake. Those are all qualifications that are the very opposite of those of Exile. I can understand that you appreciated it when it was released (like I did) and even during some time after its release, but again I have to say that I don't understand that you still appreciate it that much after 32 years, when its freshness has gone. I really can't comprehend how it's possible that you still consider it as the lifebuoy of the Stones. Well, I think you can't make me understand it. I just had to say it.
it's just the conventional narrative of the Stones in the 70s.
I know cc, but Tele is not conventional in my book. So I wouldn't expect the conventional narrative of him. That explains my astonishment I guess.
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71Tele
why not accept that I can like very different kinds of Rolling Stones albums, including both Exile and Some Girls.
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Amsterdamned
I'am not in the minority here.I'am the only one.
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71Tele
why not accept that I can like very different kinds of Rolling Stones albums, including both Exile and Some Girls.
It's not a matter of accepting or not, but of understanding or not. To quote from my second last post: "Well, I think you can't make me understand it. I just had to say it." Easy to accept.
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slew
I've said this before and I'll say it again the four albums that preceded GHS, IORR and B&B were so good that that those three are not quite as good. However all three of them have some great songs and are great in their own way.
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71Tele
Take off "Melody" and perhaps "Cherry", add "Worried About You" and "Slave" and you would have had close to a classic Stones album - or at least a stronger one.
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71Tele
Memory Motel is contrived lyrically and overwrought sentimental mush (similar to Following The River in that respect).
Memory Motel is a million motherfucking miles better ahead than that Wallowing The River song!!!!! And as a bonus it's got Keith singing on it.