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Always felt that Some Girls continued the legacy, and Tatoo You explained it, if that makes sense.
Really nicely put! Some people can put the point in one sentence where I need 500 of them!
- Doxa
It is very nicely put...I think my opinion on it differs though. I saw it as "We need to reinvent ourselves vs. we are the stones, nothing else matters".
A good description as well, but with respect, I don't quite agree with the expression "need to" - that's sounds being forced, that the reinvention does not happen naturally (caused by own muse). By contrast, I hear the band actually being inspired and the change in sound happening naturally. Yeah, there is some artificiality in "Lies" - trying too hard to sound current - but that is an expection. By contrast, I see in albums like UNDERCOVER and DIRTY WORK the band trying to reinvent themselves but does not happen so naturally and convincingly as it does in SOME GIRLS.
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Start Me Up was available for inclusion on Some Girls. So imagine if you had an album consisting of:
Side 1
Start Me Up
When the Whip Comes Down
Imagination
Some Girls
Far Away Eyes
Side Two
Miss You
Respectable
Before They Make Me Run
Beast of Burden
Shattered
Drop Lies, put Start Me Up up front, move Far Away Eyes to the end of side 1, and move Miss You to the start of side 2. Yowsah! This would have given us a fifth to go along with The Big Four.
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whitem8
Some Girls by leaps and bounds. Far more dangerous a record. More attitude, and less polished production. The band made a cohesive statement with all NEW material. Ron's finest moment with The Stones.
Tattoo You is ok. Too slick for me, and too many throwaway songs. And it collapses from the weight of the 80's production. Start Me Up...never thought it was a great song. Ok, but not the hard edged Stones I loved on Some Girls. Some Girls is more apocalyptic with punk New York and Curtis Mayfield funk overtones. And guitars. Glorious guitars up front in the mix. Their last masterpiece.
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Not a fair comparison since Some Girls was an all-new album and
for Tattoo You they had the chance to revive outtakes as old as 72'.
Why does this matter at all when comparing albums? Oh yeah it doesn't.
Can we have a ban on anyone ever bringing this point up again, ever..
It annoys me everytime. It doesn't freaking make one bit of difference when the songs were written.
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Not a fair comparison since Some Girls was an all-new album and
for Tattoo You they had the chance to revive outtakes as old as 72'.
Why does this matter at all when comparing albums? Oh yeah it doesn't.
Can we have a ban on anyone ever bringing this point up again, ever..
It annoys me everytime. It doesn't freaking make one bit of difference when the songs were written.
I agree with Stones78. I does matter. Because of this, TY always felt pasted together....and that was a known fact upon its release. I love it, but it lacks that feel of this-is-what-the-deal-was-at-that-moment.
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Some Girls by leaps and bounds. Far more dangerous a record. More attitude, and less polished production. The band made a cohesive statement with all NEW material. Ron's finest moment with The Stones.
Tattoo You is ok. Too slick for me, and too many throwaway songs. And it collapses from the weight of the 80's production. Start Me Up...never thought it was a great song. Ok, but not the hard edged Stones I loved on Some Girls. Some Girls is more apocalyptic with punk New York and Curtis Mayfield funk overtones. And guitars. Glorious guitars up front in the mix. Their last masterpiece.
Ditto. Every word. SG was it in the summer of 1978. It touched a chord with a more massive audience, not just rock fans. It was more a popular cultural zeitgeist moment than TY.
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In a way TATTOO YOU - like the world tour 1981/82 - would have been a perfect way to end the story in a high note.
- Doxa
Except for the fact that the 81 tour was probably their worst tour. They sounded awful. Awful way to be remembered.
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In a way TATTOO YOU - like the world tour 1981/82 - would have been a perfect way to end the story in a high note.
- Doxa
Except for the fact that the 81 tour was probably their worst tour. They sounded awful. Awful way to be remembered.
OK, the 1978 tour would have been a perfect ending, live. TY would have been the crown jewel, the last goodbye.
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Edward Twining
I agree. The Stones did sound awful on the 81 tour. I think there was a rawness and spontaneity to the playing which has been lost since, yet as an overall listening experience the 81 tour leaves a lot to be desired. Jagger, especially, i think began to lose touch in the way he interpreted the songs, gruff voice and all, and it all just started to exist purely as a spectacle. The 78 tour was the last time the Stones really sounded on top form in my opinion. Obviously some of the shows were better than others, especially from the reviews i have read, yet i think it's undeniable when the Stones were at the best on this tour, they were simply awesome.
'Tattoo You' and the 81 tour do not walk hand in hand in my opinion, because quality wise there is a massive gulf between them. Maybe the 81 tour was a truer reflection of the state of the band in 81, as so much of 'Tattoo You' was derived from outtakes of when the Stones still had their muse intact. There is a wonderful richness and sophistication on 'Tattoo You' which just doesn't exist on the 81 tour, and all that followed. The difference between then and now, of course, in relation to recent overdubs to older tracks ('Exile On Main Street' and 'Some Girls') is that the passage of time between the original demos and overdubs are nowhere near comparable with regard to the length of time. Jagger at the start of the eighties still had a great voice when he exercised a little discipline, unlike today's irritatingly thin vocal overaccentuation. He could do those old rejected songs justice. However, the Stones were beginning to lose their inspiration on a significant scale, as was hinted on the previous album 'Emotional Rescue'. However, 'Emotonal Rescue' sounded like a Stones classic almost, when compared with the 'Tattoo You' follow up, 'Undercover'.
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treaclefingers
Hadn't we already declared Tattoo You the winner in the Album Death Match ring last month?
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Hadn't we already declared Tattoo You the winner in the Album Death Match ring last month?
I'm told the Album Death Match has become involved in the same scandal as the FIFA world's cup and the rulings are no longer considered valid.