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Silver Dagger
The mistake many people make with this album is to view it as something that should feature a definite Stones sound. Wrong.
This was a time of great sonic adventure both in terms of new and unusual instruments being brought to the studio but also a widening of possibilities in the recording process.
It is a one off experiment in sound: tuneful, melodic, daring, beautiful, scary, harsh, poetic, child-like and revealing a more feminine side of the Stones where they put their usual strong, dominant, chauvinism to rest, albeit briefly.
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Silver Dagger
The mistake many people make with this album is to view it as something that should feature a definite Stones sound. Wrong.
This was a time of great sonic adventure both in terms of new and unusual instruments being brought to the studio but also a widening of possibilities in the recording process.
It is a one off experiment in sound: tuneful, melodic, daring, beautiful, scary, harsh, poetic, child-like and revealing a more feminine side of the Stones where they put their usual strong, dominant, chauvinism to rest, albeit briefly.
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Silver Dagger
...This was a time of great sonic adventure both in terms of new and unusual instruments being brought to the studio but also a widening of possibilities in the recording process.
It is a one off experiment in sound: tuneful, melodic, daring, beautiful, scary, harsh, poetic, child-like and revealing a more feminine side of the Stones where they put their usual strong, dominant, chauvinism to rest, albeit briefly.
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Silver Dagger
It is a one off experiment in sound: tuneful, melodic, daring, beautiful, scary, harsh, poetic, child-like and revealing a more feminine side of the Stones where they put their usual strong, dominant, chauvinism to rest, albeit briefly.
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Spud
[Or have I just been using rubbish Hi Fi for the whole last forty odd years ]
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GasLightStreet
This song is a D-side at the very best.
I've never spent more time on listening to an LP to make it "work" than TSMR and this is one of the songs that makes me never bother listening to it. It's just rambling garbage 'we're being stoned' songs with a bunch of noise for the purpose of of just that.
Which is why it makes a great EP without the bunk tracks of crap like Gomper and The Lantern and the two Sing This All Together songs.
It's simply their second worst LP of their discography behind DIRTY WORK and it's songs like Gomper that make it that much more evident that TSMR is a horrible album.
The band doesn't like it. Critics didn't like it. Most Stones fans don't like it.
It makes BETWEEN THE BUTTONS an exceptional album. Because it is... especially when compared to this pile of garbage of an album.
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His Majesty
Someone never spending more time listening to an album they never listen to is very psychedelic.
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GasLightStreet
I gave it quite a few years, more than their 1986 disaster got. It's now reduced to an EP on a playlist.
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GasLightStreet
This song is a D-side at the very best.
I've never spent more time on listening to an LP to make it "work" than TSMR and this is one of the songs that makes me never bother listening to it. It's just rambling garbage 'we're being stoned' songs with a bunch of noise for the purpose of of just that.
Which is why it makes a great EP without the bunk tracks of crap like Gomper and The Lantern and the two Sing This All Together songs.
It's simply their second worst LP of their discography behind DIRTY WORK and it's songs like Gomper that make it that much more evident that TSMR is a horrible album.
The band doesn't like it. Critics didn't like it. Most Stones fans don't like it.
It makes BETWEEN THE BUTTONS an exceptional album. Because it is... especially when compared to this pile of garbage of an album.
Hi Max,
If there is one thing this great site has proven over and over, is that there are great varieties in taste among Stones fans. Taste will always be a tough issue to discuss. I respect your taste. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't. But I need to respond to your line
"The band doesn't like it. Critics didn't like it. Most Stones fans don't like it"
Some of the Stones (as far as I think, impressed by the negative critics in the media) already had serious problems dealing with Brian Jones' (self inficted) downfall, partly also due to their own childish behavior (as Mick Jagger admitted decades later), so that TSMR became an easy target for them. A lot of the "freaky stuff" on that album came from Brian, so "the others were not to blame so much" for the "poor result". Objective? No.
Then the critics in the media. Don't forget that "Seargent Pepper" had been welcomed way beyond normal levels. It was almost "a God given album", which off course it isn't. Because of all the court problems the release of TSMR was much delayed and certainly not an attempt to copy the Beatles. The Stones had started to work on TSMR material already in November 1966! (Ian Stewart notes!). The "critics" were already very much biased, an no longer objective. What did they really know? So, as far as I'm concerned many media comments were perfect for the dust bin.
Then the Stones fans. TSRM for sure is very different from "the other" Stones albums, but my experience over the past 50+ years (and I happen to know very many Stones fans) has been that TSMR is not necessarily an often listed to album, but many nevertheless find it a good album to occasionally listen to. So do I, but I always skip STST, part 2, because it doesn't meet my taste
It's clear that you don't like TSMR at all, but if you happen to have the original vinyl version, don't throw it away! You may regret it
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Elmo Lewis
Where did this title come from?
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MononoM
wow, allready 5 pages about this song
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MononoM
wow, allready 5 pages about this song
Already? It was started nine years ago!