Best version is Love you Live

Funky bass, groovy drums, mid-70s big n meaty guitars, Jagger rock n rollin n swaggerin all over it......

Hot Stuff ?? Cant Get Enough y'all !!!!!!!!!

El Mocambo, by a mile. Blew me away when I first heard it.

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I personally love the 1994 version with all the different horn sections added. Way better than 2002 imo. Of course the 1976 versions are awesome too.

The playing is good, and the horns are cool, but I don't like that they omitted the verses.





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Never heard that before, thanks! I liked it. Sounded surprisingly fresh. They didn't try just to copy the original, but used the resources of the current band rather nicely. True that they were omitting (hot) stuff, but I liked the idea how they re-shaped the vocals. They sounded like having fun.

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I liked the groove and the playing as well.

However, Mick didn't sing any of the four verses here («Every day I need another dose...» / « want to tell all my friends in London...» / «All the people in New York City...» / «To everybody in Jamaica...»)

I wonder why?

I think he had a total blank when the track started.

And what an awful version it is....man those horns are horrible.

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I personally love the 1994 version with all the different horn sections added. Way better than 2002 imo. Of course the 1976 versions are awesome too.

The playing is good, and the horns are cool, but I don't like that they omitted the verses.





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Never heard that before, thanks! I liked it. Sounded surprisingly fresh. They didn't try just to copy the original, but used the resources of the current band rather nicely. True that they were omitting (hot) stuff, but I liked the idea how they re-shaped the vocals. They sounded like having fun.

- Doxa

I liked the groove and the playing as well.

However, Mick didn't sing any of the four verses here («Every day I need another dose...» / « want to tell all my friends in London...» / «All the people in New York City...» / «To everybody in Jamaica...»)

I wonder why?

I think he had a total blank when the track started.

And what an awful version it is....man those horns are horrible.

Mathijs

I was actually there, and, yes, it sounded really fresh and the groove came over really, really well. From what I remember from the rehearsals Mick did not have a blank, it was planned like this - just a different (new) version, and over the PA the horns really added something. Pity that they did not keep it in the set, most likely due to the only lukewarm reaction from the crowd...

But, of course, the El Mocambo version beats everything else hands down.

I like El Mocambo. Great Wood guitar

Why I prefer 1976's live version?

[*] The way Jagger moves on stage
[*] Mic sharing between Jagger and Richards
[*] Tight drum play by Charlie
[*] Groovy percussion by Ollie Brown
[*] The phaser guitar sounds of Richards
[*] The funk groove was much better in the seventies
[*] Ronnie plays a fantastic solo in 1976

frankfurt for my favorite version with video and of course el mocamabo is unbeatable as the obvious single best performance ever

The studio version blows away all live versions - it's just one of those tracks that doesn't translate to the stage very well - "Shattered" is another. Post 1969 "Satisfaction" doesn't either.

What!!!???

Those Paris Honky Tonk Women are brilliant!!!!

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Jumping Jack Flash/You Got Me Rocking/Sad Sad Sad/Hand Of Fate/No Expectations/Hot Stuff/Everybody Needs Somebody To Love/Heart Of Stone/Going To A Go Go/Love Train/Band introduction/Slipping Away/ Before They Make Me Run/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Rocks Off/Stray Cat Blues/Can‘t You Hear Me Knocking/Honky Tonk Women/Start Me Up/Brown Sugar/Tumbling Dice

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Jumping Jack Flash/You Got Me Rocking/Sad Sad Sad/Hand Of Fate/No Expectations/Hot Stuff/Everybody Needs Somebody To Love/Heart Of Stone/Going To A Go Go/Love Train/Band introduction/Slipping Away/ Before They Make Me Run/It’s Only Rock’n Roll/Rocks Off/Stray Cat Blues/Can‘t You Hear Me Knocking/Honky Tonk Women/Start Me Up/Brown Sugar/Tumbling Dice

This is probably my most favourite setlist ever!



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I personally love the 1994 version with all the different horn sections added. Way better than 2002 imo. Of course the 1976 versions are awesome too.

The playing is good, and the horns are cool, but I don't like that they omitted the verses.





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Tank you, completely missed this one. Love it. One of the very few occasions in which they tried to rework their own songs (Devil, satisfaction at leeds, the recent slow 19th nervous breakdown are the only other I can remember).

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The studio version blows away all live versions - it's just one of those tracks that doesn't translate to the stage very well - "Shattered" is another. Post 1969 "Satisfaction" doesn't either.

I understand. And I do love the video promo. 'Swagger Jagger' all the way.

It might not be the best but Frankfurt is so damn sleazy. Love it.

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It might not be the best but Frankfurt is so damn sleazy. Love it.

I agree. That's why I prefer the 70s versions of this song; sleazy, funky, raw, groovy.

The later versions (90s, 00s) are too slick, slow, different.

The bass just thuds along. No funk, no invention. Every line the same.

Yes, Hot Stuff is a special guitar driven type of Funk like you hear it on Parliament/Funkadelic records. It needs to be dirty and sleazy. Those later versions capture none of that and sound like something you'd put under a dubious commercial.

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I really wish I could agree with the above posts, but Hot Stuff leaves me stone cold. A flaccid beat, directionless melody, and forced vocals are all I can hear. The sound of a band that's lost its way.

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Yep for sure. Just another attempt to try and sound relevant.

Great Track from a great Album! I Prüfer the 76 and the EL MOCAMBO Versions!

Still love this studio version and the video promo. Funky Jagger all over the floor!

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The bass just thuds along. No funk, no invention. Every line the same.

LOL that's the very precision of bass! It IS funky. No invention? You want invention, listen to The Meters. It can only go so far. Hot Stuff is way up there.

For years I thought it was

Music lighting by the fire

that Harvey Mandel was incredible, my lord... that solo is like... if there's such a thing as Asian Jazz Fusion, that's it...

it's my personal belief that BB wasn't an "audition album" but that they needed two session players to finish off the songs meant for MT...

So much Stuff threads right now, I just had to bump this

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that Harvey Mandel was incredible, my lord... that solo is like... if there's such a thing as Asian Jazz Fusion, that's it...

it's my personal belief that BB wasn't an "audition album" but that they needed two session players to finish off the songs meant for MT...

Yes, Hand of Fate, Hot Stuff , Memory Motel, Worried About You.



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I think Keith and Ronnie have proven pretty well that they can do good rhythm parts, licks and leads on Memory Motel and those other songs live



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It's never been one of my favs. Honestly, I never really got into that number. The lyrics are extremely weak, the riff's sort of okay but not more.
I haven't figured out why it was used as opener for an album. Possibly the influence of Billy Preston ...

Another live version from 1976.