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with sssoul
>> Surprises me that most don't like "Like a Rolling Stone" <<
shakes my tailfeather just fine ... and i think it was a tip of the band's collective hat to Bill's departure
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skipstone
Yeah. That's it. One disc of the studio recordings and then a second disc of all the live tracks. And some really good live tracks too! This really could have been a very very - possibly the most interesting - live album had they gone that route and stuck to what they were doing instead of putting the usual tired boring shit songs on like Jumpin' Jack and all that.
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skipstone
Yeah. That's it. One disc of the studio recordings and then a second disc of all the live tracks. And some really good live tracks too! This really could have been a very very - possibly the most interesting - live album had they gone that route and stuck to what they were doing instead of putting the usual tired boring shit songs on like Jumpin' Jack and all that.
Yep. Just like Love You Live would have been far better if they had just taken everything from the El Mocambo gigs and released it that way instead of three sides of the usual.
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Edward Twining
Doxa, the thing about 'Stripped' mainly is its novelty value. It is hearing rarely played songs, and some songs which have never been played live, in the context of an intimate, stripped down setting, without all the spectacle which normally goes along with a Stones performance. I was very excited initially on hearing rarely performed tracks like 'The Spider And The Fly', 'I'm Free', and especially 'Shine A Light', which up to then had had a very limited profile. However, after hearing them a few times, the novelty value wears off very fast, and i'm tempted to just go back to listening to the original versions, or on occasions some of the earlier live versions to a few of these songs, where that's applicable.
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alimente
If Clapton can get away with a whole album of blues covers, why cant the Stones do something similar?
Then again, No Security was a try to get away from the usual "hits live album" -and it failed miserably in commercial terms.
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skipstone
Yeah. That's it. One disc of the studio recordings and then a second disc of all the live tracks. And some really good live tracks too! This really could have been a very very - possibly the most interesting - live album had they gone that route and stuck to what they were doing instead of putting the usual tired boring shit songs on like Jumpin' Jack and all that.
Yep. Just like Love You Live would have been far better if they had just taken everything from the El Mocambo gigs and released it that way instead of three sides of the usual.
Agree 100%. The Stones obviously always feel obliged to include a handful of hits on live albums for commercial reasons. Stripped, as good as it is, could have been so much better as a double album with more acoustic stuff from the studio and more live stuff from the Paradiso like Two Trains Running, Down In The Bottom and the like.
If Clapton can get away with a whole album of blues covers, why cant the Stones do something similar?
Then again, No Security was a try to get away from the usual "hits live album" -and it failed miserably in commercial terms.
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Doxa
This is exactly the way I feel, too. None of those tracks have an 'eternal' appeal, or they are not constructed to be considered any big things. It is for this reason that I don't think the recordings should be taken too seriously. Their function is that of 'yeah, it is intersting to hear these old things stripped - now, what's the next real effort?" (For example, I was thrilled to hear STRIPPED COMPANION bootleg, but honestly, none of those tracks stand deeper listening.)
- Doxa