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I bet most of you haven't listened to it all the way through with open mind since the day it came out, maybe not ever? Instead you're just hangin' here discussing it to death how lame it is. This place is getting so corrupt.
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I bet most of you haven't listened to it all the way through with open mind since the day it came out, maybe not ever? Instead you're just hangin' here discussing it to death how lame it is. This place is getting so corrupt.
and what's the prob with corruption? it makes the world go 'round...
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Hillside Blues
I bet most of you haven't listened to it all the way through with open mind since the day it came out, maybe not ever? Instead you're just hangin' here discussing it to death how lame it is. This place is getting so corrupt.
and what's the prob with corruption? it makes the world go 'round...
It's true...Skippy's on the take. I saw a cash drop take place about 4 in the morning over by the Memory Motel by a gin-soaked bar room queen. Skippy was there too...there was people talkin', whisperin' too, you.
I yelled out 'SKIPPY, KEEP YER EYES PEELED'...we both heard a clip clop of the feet on the stairs. Skippy wanted me off his cloud, but I told him I couldn't get no....hold back (don't hold back) I offered. He shook his head and said get some sleep tonight.
That was the last I saw him...doing the dirty work, and winning ugly.
Stay tuff skip.
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Hillside Blues
I bet most of you haven't listened to it all the way through with open mind since the day it came out, maybe not ever? Instead you're just hangin' here discussing it to death how lame it is. This place is getting so corrupt.
and what's the prob with corruption? it makes the world go 'round...
It's true...Skippy's on the take. I saw a cash drop take place about 4 in the morning over by the Memory Motel by a gin-soaked bar room queen. Skippy was there too...there was people talkin', whisperin' too, you.
I yelled out 'SKIPPY, KEEP YER EYES PEELED'...we both heard a clip clop of the feet on the stairs. Skippy wanted me off his cloud, but I told him I couldn't get no....hold back (don't hold back) I offered. He shook his head and said get some sleep tonight.
That was the last I saw him...doing the dirty work, and winning ugly.
Stay tuff skip.
that was beautiful. very touching. what the hell is wrong with you?
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An A for effort is deserved by MrMonte. The rest is an epic reach. To call Dirty Work a "Masterpiece by Accident" album is to indulge in the most excessive, self-delusional revisionism possible. To write such balderdash just to present a "contrary view on something to make a case for it" is mere Sophistry as Amusement.
What next? "Satanic Majesties - The Greatest Rock Album of the 1960's"? "Don't Stop - Best Stones Single Since 'Brown Sugar'"? Get serious.
The glossy (over)production values alone immediately dated the Dirty Work album. Dirty Work has a vicious guitar sound which is horribly marred by the atrocious drum sound (and leaden playing by the substitute percussionists...Charlie MIA) and indifferent bass mixing...something that negates their secret weapon (their rhythm section) and would spell disaster on any Stones album -- even one with superior material -- and these effects ultimately sink Dirty Work, an album with decidedly inferior material. The band that defined the Roll in Rock and Roll delivers song after song of harsh, leaden pounding...the rhythm section with the most seductive swing in the genre is nowhere to be heard. Compelling melodies are also difficult to locate. Add to this mess Jagger's unfortunate return to his worst mid-70's vocal mannerisms (i.e. the guttural growl) and you have an album that ranks as one of the most vitiated and misdirected in the Stones canon.
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I bet most of you haven't listened to it all the way through with open mind since the day it came out, maybe not ever? Instead you're just hangin' here discussing it to death how lame it is. This place is getting so corrupt.
and what's the prob with corruption? it makes the world go 'round...
It's true...Skippy's on the take. I saw a cash drop take place about 4 in the morning over by the Memory Motel by a gin-soaked bar room queen. Skippy was there too...there was people talkin', whisperin' too, you.
I yelled out 'SKIPPY, KEEP YER EYES PEELED'...we both heard a clip clop of the feet on the stairs. Skippy wanted me off his cloud, but I told him I couldn't get no....hold back (don't hold back) I offered. He shook his head and said get some sleep tonight.
That was the last I saw him...doing the dirty work, and winning ugly.
Stay tuff skip.
that was beautiful. very touching. what the hell is wrong with you?
Hey, if we can't get behind skippy in his time of need, we're no better than Led Zeppelin fans.
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Palace Revolution 2000
But I don't dislike Winning Ugly much at all. It's a fine song.
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whitem8
But that is what you should have said, instead of claiming that we haven't listened to DW. When that disc came out, I was in College, and was so excited. I listened to it non stop for weeks. And I think partly to try to convince myself that indeed it was a great album. But time and again I left strangely unsatisfied. And then as the years rolled on, it become more clear just how bad the album is. And really, it all comes down to personal taste doesn't it? I will never really appreciate this album for many reasons, primarily their choice of production style, and the pour lyrics and melodies. But I also like several of the songs on it, and especially like One Hit to the Body, as a later day stones classic.
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Rockman
............how come only Canadians got it on a 12 and ultra rare 7"....????
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I bet most of you haven't listened to it all the way through with open mind since the day it came out, maybe not ever? Instead you're just hangin' here discussing it to death how lame it is. This place is getting so corrupt.
and what's the prob with corruption? it makes the world go 'round...
It's true...Skippy's on the take. I saw a cash drop take place about 4 in the morning over by the Memory Motel by a gin-soaked bar room queen. Skippy was there too...there was people talkin', whisperin' too, you.
I yelled out 'SKIPPY, KEEP YER EYES PEELED'...we both heard a clip clop of the feet on the stairs. Skippy wanted me off his cloud, but I told him I couldn't get no....hold back (don't hold back) I offered. He shook his head and said get some sleep tonight.
That was the last I saw him...doing the dirty work, and winning ugly.
Stay tuff skip.
that was beautiful. very touching. what the hell is wrong with you?
Hey, if we can't get behind skippy in his time of need, we're no better than Led Zeppelin fans.
I wasn't attacking anyone. I was just pointing out that certain tracks are put on a pedestal on this board while certain others gets trashed all the time even though they clearly don't deserve it.
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............how come only Canadians got it on a 12 and ultra rare 7"....????
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...Winning Ugly is not ugly, it's a good song... What have you guys so much against it really? It has a great groove and gorgeous Keith licks. And don't get me started on that bridge...
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I quite like DW, although it is probably one of my least favourite Stones albums. Like someone said, I think it is very "guitar driven". I don't know any Stones albums where the guitars sound quite as agressive as on DW. Another good thing about DW is that it does not contain many "Stones-by-the-numbers" songs. What I found shocking when I first heard it, is the lack of melody and the fact that Mick is shouting instead of singing. On the other hand, one can also think of this as yet another variation of style in their rather huge repertoire, spanning everything from psychedelia to country music.
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walkingthedog
I quite like DW, although it is probably one of my least favourite Stones albums. Like someone said, I think it is very "guitar driven". I don't know any Stones albums where the guitars sound quite as agressive as on DW. Another good thing about DW is that it does not contain many "Stones-by-the-numbers" songs. What I found shocking when I first heard it, is the lack of melody and the fact that Mick is shouting instead of singing. On the other hand, one can also think of this as yet another variation of style in their rather huge repertoire, spanning everything from psychedelia to country music.
This is a good point. Other way to say it is that the band was still then an artistically driven band: they wanted update their sound, to an extent follow the trends and try to find a new angle to their doings. That it didn't work too well this time around or anymore is a bad thing but still I find DIRTY WORK much more insteresting album to listen than the albums from VOODOO LOUNGE on that are 95 % "Stones-by-numbers" kind of stuff. Listening to DIRTY WORK is a bit like SATANIC MAJESTIES: even when the band seemingly fails, it is still fascinating to listen but wheras VOODOO LOUNGE, BRIDGES TO BABYLON or A BIGGER BANG offers 100% safe and sure Stones pastishe music stylistically that it leaves me mostly cold, and just makes to find the albums in where that kind of music is fresh and inspired and original. Whatever DIRTY WORK lacks it certainly doesn't lack originality. By contrast, STEEL WHEELS, even though being as 80's produced as it can be, is much more classical sounding album, and the band uses pretty famliar ideas there (some of them going pretty far back). But that was the whole thing in 1989 "come back": a fresh nostalgia.
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Rockman
............how come only Canadians got it on a 12 and ultra rare 7"....????
They obviously have good music taste.
Seriously, those two are among my most precious stones records. Hope you got them too Rockman
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I quite like DW, although it is probably one of my least favourite Stones albums. Like someone said, I think it is very "guitar driven". I don't know any Stones albums where the guitars sound quite as agressive as on DW. Another good thing about DW is that it does not contain many "Stones-by-the-numbers" songs. What I found shocking when I first heard it, is the lack of melody and the fact that Mick is shouting instead of singing. On the other hand, one can also think of this as yet another variation of style in their rather huge repertoire, spanning everything from psychedelia to country music.
This is a good point. Other way to say it is that the band was still then an artistically driven band: they wanted update their sound, to an extent follow the trends and try to find a new angle to their doings. That it didn't work too well this time around or anymore is a bad thing but still I find DIRTY WORK much more insteresting album to listen than the albums from VOODOO LOUNGE on that are 95 % "Stones-by-numbers" kind of stuff. Listening to DIRTY WORK is a bit like SATANIC MAJESTIES: even when the band seemingly fails, it is still fascinating to listen but wheras VOODOO LOUNGE, BRIDGES TO BABYLON or A BIGGER BANG offers 100% safe and sure Stones pastishe music stylistically that it leaves me mostly cold, and just makes to find the albums in where that kind of music is fresh and inspired and original. Whatever DIRTY WORK lacks it certainly doesn't lack originality. By contrast, STEEL WHEELS, even though being as 80's produced as it can be, is much more classical sounding album, and the band uses pretty famliar ideas there (some of them going pretty far back). But that was the whole thing in 1989 "come back": a fresh nostalgia.
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The only thing Dirty Work was missing, was good songs with good lyrics competently performed. I would prefer 'Stones by numbers' because presumably at least they can do that well. It's ok for the stones to have a worst album, and I believe this to be it.
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Palace Revolution 2000
I don't like "Voodoo Lounge" too much, and I have both of these albums together at the bottom of my Stones albums.
But both of them spawned many wellkown outtakes. Outtakes which could and should have made the album much better. (IMO)
"What am I gonna do with your Love"
"Deep Love"
"Crushed Pearl"
"Strictly Memphis"
"Invitation"
Crushed Pearl is one their very best.
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Somewhere in this thread it says the cover photo's colors are super imposed. Any shots of the original picture? In beige?
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Somewhere in this thread it says the cover photo's colors are super imposed. Any shots of the original picture? In beige?
It's not true.