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ManuelStones
It has the flavour, it has the lyrics, it has the flow.
But certainly as 71 Tele and others has said Mick's voice is too loud in the mix. Imagine a bit lower Mick's and a bit louder and longer Keith-Ronnie chorus, it would sound much better.
A great tune nonetheless.
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DragonSky
Yeah OK it isn't like Plundered My Soul because, gee, it's not Plundered My Soul. So it goes from 'Cool, we're getting the vaults' to 'It's not as good as PMS so it's shit, why did they bother'?
I love it. It works. It works better than anything they've done new for a while simply because of the simplicity and the movement. And it's got the nice lyric hook "Lonely hearts they're not made to break/got no spare parts/got no oil to change". It's just as good as the lyrics in PMS - and a lot better than most of what's been released the last three studio LPs...three albums within nine years... and people complain about the leftovers being finished? It's one thing to complain about Mick's this and that, it's another to wish they'd never bothered. Because they bothered some people like PMS and can't stand Following The River. Others like the Keith vocal of Soul Survivor. So... no history has been changed as far as the actual albums go.
How come Mick can come up with decent lyrics for these tracks but not for much of the new recordings?
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paulywaul
I think ... that's what I think !!
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frankotero
Remaster again? That's pretty ballsy after the recent batch of oversampled garbage they put out. What are the bonus tracks, B-side singles?
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frankotero
Remaster again? That's pretty ballsy after the recent batch of oversampled garbage they put out. What are the bonus tracks, B-side singles?
No, they're supposed to be bonus tracks of outtakes and alternate takes of songs from that particular album. No B-sides from what i was told. Just like what they did with Exile and now Some Girls.
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Loudei
jesus... mick can't sing like himself.
What the hell does that mean? There is nothing wrong with the way Mick Jagger sounds. Is he supposed to imitate himself? To me he is the ultimate vocal craftsman, who has matured into his voice. Is he supposed to sound like he's 20? Maybe he doesn't want to repeat himself, either, instead of being boxed in. He's 68 years old. He brings years of depth and experience to his singing now, like a real bluesman. He's the Stone with the most punch left in the group. Next, you'll be saying he's 'nasal'.
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71Tele
Sounds like a new vocal with maybe some original backing vocals. One thing I notice about these "new" tracks (Exile extras too) is that Jagger's voice is way up in the mix compared to the way the Stones always mixed his voice. I think the way Jagger's voice on the best Stones material was a little low in the mix made it work with the band much more, and was a great feature of the Stones sound. You had to strain a little to hear him sometimes ("Brown Sugar" is a perfect example). This track and "Following The River" have his voice up high, and it gives it a little bit of an artificial feeling, imo. Maybe it's a Don Was thing.
The track itself is ok, but I see why they didn't use it when they had so many better songs with the same I/IV chord progression on that record, including "Whip", "Imagination", and the title track.
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frankotero
Remaster again? That's pretty ballsy after the recent batch of oversampled garbage they put out. What are the bonus tracks, B-side singles?
No, they're supposed to be bonus tracks of outtakes and alternate takes of songs from that particular album. No B-sides from what i was told. Just like what they did with Exile and now Some Girls.
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Havo
well, for the first time ever--i say,this could be a no.1 hit single