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Without a shadow of a doubt the most appalling song the Stones have ever recorded.
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Really? The most appalling? There are a lot more appalling ones that came later, like that one of Keith's on ABB where he sings "sit right down and bare your breasts" quote]
lol...
What about "Any Way You Look At It"?
Now that is a bad song, and I don't who's to blame, Mick or Keith, because it sounds like Mick imitating Keith imitating himself.
Please explain to me why this is so bad:
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Without a shadow of a doubt the most appalling song the Stones have ever recorded.
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Really? The most appalling? There are a lot more appalling ones that came later, like that one of Keith's on ABB where he sings "sit right down and bare your breasts" (or something to that effect). Or at least 60% of the songs on Dirty Work. At least "Indian Girl" has that nice pedal steel and mariachi horns.
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Without a shadow of a doubt the most appalling song the Stones have ever recorded.
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Really? The most appalling? There are a lot more appalling ones that came later, like that one of Keith's on ABB where he sings "sit right down and bare your breasts" (or something to that effect). Or at least 60% of the songs on Dirty Work. At least "Indian Girl" has that nice pedal steel and mariachi horns.
Actually, I really like This Place is Empty. I think this really is a nice little song.
Anwya, about Indian Girl –I just really, really hate it. And I think the main reason is because there really isn’t any humour. It’s totally camp, but without any humour, without it being tongue in check. Much unlike Dead Flowers and Faraway Eyes. DF and FY are made more as a tribute to the style of music, with a great sense of humour. Wood knows he isn’t the best pedal steel player, but it’s o.k. and serves its purpose. Jagger knows his American hillbilly accent is fake, but it’s just right on these two tracks. The lyrics are over the top, and therefore great.
With Indian Girl, they mean every bit of it, and that is what makes it so sad. They didn’t use the mariachi horns as a joke, they are for real here. The lyrics aren’t meant as a cliché, they are a cliché. Jagger’s vocals are awful because he, tragically, means what he is singing, and he actually really wants to convey all his heartfelt sorrow. It really makes me puke.
The guitars are dreadful. When I sit on the couch and try to play flamenco, something I can’t at all, it sounds like the guitars on Indian Girl. But when I play it everybody knows it is a joke. Not on Indian Girl. They really mean it.
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The guitars are dreadful. When I sit on the couch and try to play flamenco, something I can’t at all, it sounds like the guitars on Indian Girl. But when I play it everybody knows it is a joke. Not on Indian Girl. They really mean it.
I'll see this song as a answer to Dylans 'One more cup of cofee'...don't take it too seriously...
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Anwya, about Indian Girl –I just really, really hate it. And I think the main reason is because there really isn’t any humour. It’s totally camp, but without any humour, without it being tongue in check....
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Without a shadow of a doubt the most appalling song the Stones have ever recorded.
Mathijs
Really? The most appalling? There are a lot more appalling ones that came later, like that one of Keith's on ABB where he sings "sit right down and bare your breasts" (or something to that effect). Or at least 60% of the songs on Dirty Work. At least "Indian Girl" has that nice pedal steel and mariachi horns.
Actually, I really like This Place is Empty. I think this really is a nice little song.
Anwya, about Indian Girl –I just really, really hate it. And I think the main reason is because there really isn’t any humour. It’s totally camp, but without any humour, without it being tongue in check. Much unlike Dead Flowers and Faraway Eyes. DF and FY are made more as a tribute to the style of music, with a great sense of humour. Wood knows he isn’t the best pedal steel player, but it’s o.k. and serves its purpose. Jagger knows his American hillbilly accent is fake, but it’s just right on these two tracks. The lyrics are over the top, and therefore great.
With Indian Girl, they mean every bit of it, and that is what makes it so sad. They didn’t use the mariachi horns as a joke, they are for real here. The lyrics aren’t meant as a cliché, they are a cliché. Jagger’s vocals are awful because he, tragically, means what he is singing, and he actually really wants to convey all his heartfelt sorrow. It really makes me puke.
The guitars are dreadful. When I sit on the couch and try to play flamenco, something I can’t at all, it sounds like the guitars on Indian Girl. But when I play it everybody knows it is a joke. Not on Indian Girl. They really mean it.
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Possibly their WORST song.
Winning Ugly and Too Much Blood are worse.
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Not very different from some of the stuff on Dylan's Desire, released a few years before, imo.
Maybe. In that case it would be their second Dylanesk song since 'Who's been sleeping here?"
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big4
It could be considered the last classic Stones country-styled ballad. There's an empathy in Jagger's voice on the song that takes it beyond camp IMHO.
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24FPS
Blinded By Love is pure genius.
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Rev. Robert W.
I get a kick out of the fact that this and some of the band's other brilliant departures--including Emotional Rescue's title track--upset people so much.
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"Indian Girl" is a superb. Ahem...IMHO.
Easy, seductive West Indian feel with dark lyrics, delivered in a sometimes-affecting, sometimes jaded fashion. It's musically sexy, with a melancholy soul. And the sophistication, ambiguity and irreverence of the track put it light years beyond latter-day mishaps like "Blinded By Rainbows," "Sweet NeoCon" and "Highwire."
Also: the Cold War politics tie it to "Down In The Hole." It's a cool little subplot to the album.
I get a kick out of the fact that this and some of the band's other brilliant departures--including Emotional Rescue's title track--upset people so much.
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Blinded By Love is pure genius.
LOL I'm one of the very few fans who defend Steel Wheels as a great album---except for that song
And unlike 71tele and loog droog, I think "Too Much Blood" is one of the greatest of lost Stones gems. But I concur with both on "Winning Ugly"--I don't know which is worse: that they released it, or that Mick saw fit to perform it with his solo band.
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It's from the 80's. Of course it sucks.