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Send It To me
No, it isn't. It's a good song, though.
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whitem8
Since 1980 Erik?
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Doxa
It is the thrill of the moment... listening some individual song and sensing that "this is it", it can't be any better... Same like comparing their recent bootlegs downloads to each other - is LA FRIDAY actually better than BRUSSELS AFFAIR or HAMPTON '81? Absurd. When listening through any of them, that's as great as rock music ever can be.
Besides, I think the real greatness of The Rolling Stones derives from their not so well-known, non upfront or "non-warhorses" material. That's where their unique charm and sound is best. Things like "Winter", "Slave", etc. Funny, some time I ago I was walking in some shopping centre, and from the speakers I could hear some very familar-sounding noise. I just heard somehow the sound but couldn't recognize the song. Then I needed to find a place I could hear it better, which I did. Of all songs, it was "One More Try" and it sounded simply awesome. So much pure joy and feel in that song. At that moment it felt like being the greatest Rolling Stones song ever...
- Doxa
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crumbling_mice
On reflection Tattoo You is a bloody good album. Hence the reason I went out and had it tattooed on my forearm all those years ago!
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treaclefingers
I was listening to it full blast on headphones on my walk to work this morning.
I may have fallen to the ground and did 'the worm' for awhile...it is SOOOOOOOOOO...good.
When I got up the crowd dispersed.
I think there is a longer version of the song on boots, no?
That song is just so good...that song alone makes Tattoo You better than Some Girls.
ok, I feel better now.
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crumbling_mice
On reflection Tattoo You is a bloody good album. Hence the reason I went out and had it tattooed on my forearm all those years ago!
Yes it is. It is funny album because it doesn't fit very well to anything. I mean, it is very difficult to write it as some kind of big or relevant or important album. It doesn't have any good 'story' over it. We know its "copy and paste" nature - which made it kind of retro album already in 1981, and not adding anything new and exciting to Stones vocabulary. It doesn't generally mean anything in the 80's music scene. Just an album of old farts who had done their really relevant music years earlier (and, as we have recently seen, not even SOME GIRLS is that big album as we have tend to think)
But it is just incredibly great album by its own terms. I have always have mixed emotions about its true value since it was my first Stones album and the very reason why I was once hooked. For years I thought that I am way too subjective about it, but now when the years go by, it starts to look like that the album is like a good wine; the older it is, the better it is (and the fact that the Stones make its value easier to seen by releasing mediocre albums one after other ever since). It is a shining star in Stones productivity during the 80's by a mile, and I think it seriously challenges SOME GIRLS and GOATS HEAD SOUP from the title of best post-EXILE album.
TATTOO YOU, if any album, is a masterpiece by accident.
- Doxa
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dcba
"Is SLAVE the best stones song since 1980?"
Could be... It could also be one of the last song they really worked on : compare the bootleg versions with the finished product and you'll see there was a considerable amount of time spent on making the 1st (1975?) draft better.
My problem with the "recent" (1989-now) discs is you feel there's little difference between home-made demos and album versions. Lack of chemistry between Mick and Keith? A general laziness? I don't know...
Compare the lame Start Me Up I with the great T-You album and you'll get another example of what I'm trying to express.
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crumbling_mice
On reflection Tattoo You is a bloody good album. Hence the reason I went out and had it tattooed on my forearm all those years ago!
Yes it is. It is funny album because it doesn't fit very well to anything. I mean, it is very difficult to write it as some kind of big or relevant or important album. It doesn't have any good 'story' over it. We know its "copy and paste" nature - which made it kind of retro album already in 1981, and not adding anything new and exciting to Stones vocabulary. It doesn't generally mean anything in the 80's music scene. Just an album of old farts who had done their really relevant music years earlier (and, as we have recently seen, not even SOME GIRLS is that big album as we have tend to think)