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Carnaby
It was a B side. I mean, why wasn't Who's Driving Your Plane? on an album? It was a B side.
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stones78
Drift Away could have been included in any of the two, brilliant cover.
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sjs12
It seems to me that Through The Lonely Nights is 100 times better than If You Really Want to be My Friend. So why wasn't it on the album instead?
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Mathijs
Because TTLN is mediocre at best, and the recording has flaws. The acoustic is distorted, drums sound all over the place. Nice B-side, but nothing more.
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sjs12
It seems to me that Through The Lonely Nights is 100 times better than If You Really Want to be My Friend. So why wasn't it on the album instead?
i would go w/ If You Really Want ... as the better track - mick sings w/ much more emotion, i love his screams in it
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It seems to me that Through The Lonely Nights is 100 times better than If You Really Want to be My Friend. So why wasn't it on the album instead?
i would go w/ If You Really Want ... as the better track - mick sings w/ much more emotion, i love his screams in it
Agree, I really like IYRWTBMF. Like someone else said, Through The Lonely Nights has a good couple of minutes and to me it kind of fizzles out after that. It almost feels like an unfinnished track to me.
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sjs12
It seems to me that Through The Lonely Nights is 100 times better than If You Really Want to be My Friend. So why wasn't it on the album instead?
i would go w/ If You Really Want ... as the better track - mick sings w/ much more emotion, i love his screams in it
Agree, I really like IYRWTBMF. Like someone else said, Through The Lonely Nights has a good couple of minutes and to me it kind of fizzles out after that. It almost feels like an unfinnished track to me.
It is what it is, and it's great. It's not an epic, but it certainly doesn't "fizzle". It's a heartfelt very simple song that has many charms. The mood of longing and melancholy fit GHS songs like 100 Years Ago, Winter and Coming Down Again. It was precisely because GHS was already so rich with those type of ballads that TTLN did not make it onto the album. One of my favorite all time Stones tracks. It's enigmatic nature made it a perfect B-side. I probably spun it more than the A-side at the time...
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Gazza
I dont think it was an outrageous choice to relegate it to b-side status. Its omission and subsequent status as a hard to find rarity for three decades has elevated it to a level that isn't really warranted.
Its nothing special, although that criticism could certainly be directed at a couple of songs that DID make both GHS and IORR. I just dont think theres that much between them, quality wise.
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Gazza
I dont think it was an outrageous choice to relegate it to b-side status. Its omission and subsequent status as a hard to find rarity for three decades has elevated it to a level that isn't really warranted.
Its nothing special, although that criticism could certainly be directed at a couple of songs that DID make both GHS and IORR. I just dont think theres that much between them, quality wise.
If you want to talk "nothing special" for those two records, I would humbly put forward "Short & Curlies" at the top of the list.
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Gazza
I dont think it was an outrageous choice to relegate it to b-side status. Its omission and subsequent status as a hard to find rarity for three decades has elevated it to a level that isn't really warranted.
Its nothing special, although that criticism could certainly be directed at a couple of songs that DID make both GHS and IORR. I just dont think theres that much between them, quality wise.
If you want to talk "nothing special" for those two records, I would humbly put forward "Short & Curlies" at the top of the list.
Yep. Thats one of the ones I was referring to.
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CousinC
Because it's more of a mediocre song!
Better than If you really want to be my friend? Well, I don't think so.
At the time of the original release nobody thought it to be such a great piece of music. Just a quite short little song with a short Page solo -
which is not that great as well.
But its always the same. Those tracks that somehow don't go on the records get a mystical touch by some fans over the years.
I think most of the time the Stones'decisions were right - although I admit that in this case there is something about Lonely Nights that touched me too.
But imo it is still not really better than the official songs.
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Gazza
I dont think it was an outrageous choice to relegate it to b-side status. Its omission and subsequent status as a hard to find rarity for three decades has elevated it to a level that isn't really warranted.
Its nothing special, although that criticism could certainly be directed at a couple of songs that DID make both GHS and IORR. I just dont think theres that much between them, quality wise.
If you want to talk "nothing special" for those two records, I would humbly put forward "Short & Curlies" at the top of the list.
Yep. Thats one of the ones I was referring to.
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Mathijs
Because TTLN is mediocre at best, and the recording has flaws. The acoustic is distorted, drums sound all over the place. Nice B-side, but nothing more.
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Alot more. Great feel compensates for a multitude of the kind of "recording flaws" you mentioned. Shall we go back to the first few LP's and analyze all the "recording flaws" in an effort to dismiss the quality and appeal of that material?