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The re-recorded No Spare Parts with new vocals, guitars, drums (and slightly altered lyrics) is a gas to hear...and I am grateful for the effort as almost everything from that era brings a smile to my face...nevertheless, there is no avoiding the fact that Mick Jagger has fallen into the perturbing habit of too often overacting and gnawing his way through lyrics (an example of this habit marring an otherwise excellent effort is his overwrought delivery in Following The River from the Exile deluxe set). It is not only that his voice is high in the mix - something that on most of the classic records was studiously avoided - or that his delivery is at times harshly nasal...these factors are apparent, but nothing spoils a good song like the singer overplaying the moment...and Jagger has gotten into the pattern of overacting and overwhelming the song. Has the greatest ever rock and roll singer forgotten how to just let it flow? Listen to the slacked, drawling delivery in the original (bootlegged) version and listen to today's version...compare the throwaway insouciance of the 1978 version (which fit the song's dynamic perfectly) with the purposeful, earnest reading in the 2011 version...I have always loved this song, and the new version is fine...but I just wish Jagger could regain the confidence to loosen up and let his singing breathe...

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The re-recorded No Spare Parts with new vocals, guitars, drums (and slightly altered lyrics) is a gas to hear...and I am grateful for the effort as almost everything from that era brings a smile to my face...nevertheless, there is no avoiding the fact that Mick Jagger has fallen into the perturbing habit of too often overacting and gnawing his way through lyrics (an example of this habit marring an otherwise excellent effort is his overwrought delivery in Following The River from the Exile deluxe set). It is not only that his voice is high in the mix - something that on most of the classic records was studiously avoided - or that his delivery is at times harshly nasal...these factors are apparent, but nothing spoils a good song like the singer overplaying the moment...and Jagger has gotten into the pattern of overacting and overwhelming the song. Has the greatest ever rock and roll singer forgotten how to just let it flow? Listen to the slacked, drawling delivery in the original (bootlegged) version and listen to today's version...compare the throwaway insouciance of the 1978 version (which fit the song's dynamic perfectly) with the purposeful, earnest reading in the 2011 version...I have always loved this song, and the new version is fine...but I just wish Jagger could regain the confidence to loosen up and let his singing breathe...

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Weather you like Micks vocal or not, his voice sounds different from how he sings today (listen to Super Heavy). In other words: he really tries to sound like he was sounding during Some Girls. the same with the outtakes of Exile, where he tries to sing like he did in 1971. Only Stones fans can hear the difference i think. Same with the electric guitar that they added to No Spare Parts: it has the sound of the guitars during Some Girls. Apart from the electric guitar they added an acoustic guitar. If you listen carefully to the bass, it's not exactly the same as the part on the bootleg, so maybe they also put a new bass. I also hear that they took a piano-part out of it. The drums i'm not sure if it's new, the sound is really different but this they can do in the mix ofcourse . What they kept for sure is Ronnies slide and the electric piano. So, almost a new song i guess...

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well, for the first time ever--i say,this could be a no.1 hit single

Only on Mars.

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BobK
What i think is funny or strange about these re-issue projects is that they try all the new musical parts (guitars, vocals, as well the production) to sound like the old parts. You can almost say that they are imitating themselves. this means that if they want, they can make another exile of some girls (soundwise), which i would like very much, because i think these albums sound much better than the ones they do now.

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What i think is funny or strange about these re-issue projects is that they try all the new musical parts (guitars, vocals, as well the production) to sound like the old parts. You can almost say that they are imitating themselves. this means that if they want, they can make another exile of some girls (soundwise), which i would like very much, because i think these albums sound much better than the ones they do now.

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What i think is funny or strange about these re-issue projects is that they try all the new musical parts (guitars, vocals, as well the production) to sound like the old parts. You can almost say that they are imitating themselves. this means that if they want, they can make another exile of some girls (soundwise), which i would like very much, because i think these albums sound much better than the ones they do now.

But did they try all the new musical parts? New vocals and an acoustic guitar (with a contemporary sound), yes, but we don't know for sure if Ronnie's guitar is new.

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What i think is funny or strange about these re-issue projects is that they try all the new musical parts (guitars, vocals, as well the production) to sound like the old parts. You can almost say that they are imitating themselves. this means that if they want, they can make another exile of some girls (soundwise), which i would like very much, because i think these albums sound much better than the ones they do now.

But did they try all the new musical parts? New vocals and an acoustic guitar (with a contemporary sound), yes, but we don't know for sure if Ronnie's guitar is new.

They didn't do all new musical parts from what has been said. It's an outtake that was finished. How is a acoustic guitar considered to have 'a contemporary sound' when...it's a acoustic guitar? What is known is new vocal. No new Ronnie, no new Charlie, no new Keith and no new Bill.

Unless stated otherwise in the future, the only thing stated that was done to any of these tracks were new vocals.

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All of the elements of the older version worked so well because Mick came at the song for what is was worth...a lazy vocal for a rather lazily written and performed song. On the surface it sounded like a song they put together 2 minutes before the tape started rolling...hell, it even sounds like they're writing it as they're performing it. That's how loose it is. I personally let this song slide considering how "unfinished" it sounds.

Now, with all the new vocal and guitar overdubs...Mick is forcing this song to be something it's not..or ever was. By polishing up the song and filling in its cracks...the song passes that area where it was once a cute little ditty that could float on its own; now he's patched it up to a full song...full lyrics...full instrumentation...bringing the song past the finish line after 30whatever years of it stalled and forgotten on the side of the road. Now, the song's limitations are in plain view for all to see. The song's true place was how we found it on the bootleg recording.

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What i think is funny or strange about these re-issue projects is that they try all the new musical parts (guitars, vocals, as well the production) to sound like the old parts. You can almost say that they are imitating themselves. this means that if they want, they can make another exile of some girls (soundwise), which i would like very much, because i think these albums sound much better than the ones they do now.

But did they try all the new musical parts? New vocals and an acoustic guitar (with a contemporary sound), yes, but we don't know for sure if Ronnie's guitar is new.

They didn't do all new musical parts from what has been said. It's an outtake that was finished. How is a acoustic guitar considered to have 'a contemporary sound' when...it's a acoustic guitar? What is known is new vocal. No new Ronnie, no new Charlie, no new Keith and no new Bill.

Unless stated otherwise in the future, the only thing stated that was done to any of these tracks were new vocals.

Listen, for instance, to the acoustic guitars on the title track Some Girls. Then you listen to Mick's guitar on No Spare Parts.

You'll find that the new acoustic recording is much brighter, less organic and, well... digitally recorded. I'm 100% sure that the acoustic guitar was played by Mick, just like he did on Following The River and Plundered My Soul (where he also stated that he just recorded vocals).

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More Hot Rocks
Terrible. Just heard for the first time on Toronto radio. The song is a joke.

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Terrible. Just heard for the first time on Toronto radio. The song is a joke.

Hey, I'm in your fair city tonight! Glad it stopped raining.

But you are wrong my friend...this song rocks! I mean, countries!