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Maybe the question should be....What is the Stones equivalent to Mr. Moonlight, often considered by many to be the Beatles worst song (though I'm sure many will disagree)?
Mr. Moonlight has a great organ solo by John Lennon.
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Maybe the question should be....What is the Stones equivalent to Mr. Moonlight, often considered by many to be the Beatles worst song (though I'm sure many will disagree)?
Mr. Moonlight has a great organ solo by John Lennon.
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Maybe the question should be....What is the Stones equivalent to Mr. Moonlight, often considered by many to be the Beatles worst song (though I'm sure many will disagree)?
Mr. Moonlight has a great organ solo by John Lennon.
From Geoff Emerick's book Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles, p. 93: "The work continued at the same efficient clip. Things were moving along briskly, though we never felt hurried or under pressure. John took the vocal spotlight for their next number, a cover of an obscure song called 'Mr. Moonlight.' His searing vocal introduction sent shivers down my spine, even though it took him several tries to nail it.
"The stumbling block again was Harrison's guitar solo--not the notes he was playing, but the odd, sped-up tremolo sound he was using, in faithful imitation of the Dr. Feelgood version that had been a minor hit a couple of years previously. Lennon thought the unconventional sound was terrific--and, personally, so did I--but George Martin insisted that it was simply to weird. After some discussion, it was decided to overdub a cheesy organ solo instead. Even though I loathed the sound, I was most impressed to see Paul playing it--up until that point, I'd had no idea that he could even play keyboards."
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Maybe the question should be....What is the Stones equivalent to Mr. Moonlight, often considered by many to be the Beatles worst song (though I'm sure many will disagree)?
Mr. Moonlight has a great organ solo by John Lennon.
From Geoff Emerick's book Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles, p. 93: "The work continued at the same efficient clip. Things were moving along briskly, though we never felt hurried or under pressure. John took the vocal spotlight for their next number, a cover of an obscure song called 'Mr. Moonlight.' His searing vocal introduction sent shivers down my spine, even though it took him several tries to nail it.
"The stumbling block again was Harrison's guitar solo--not the notes he was playing, but the odd, sped-up tremolo sound he was using, in faithful imitation of the Dr. Feelgood version that had been a minor hit a couple of years previously. Lennon thought the unconventional sound was terrific--and, personally, so did I--but George Martin insisted that it was simply to weird. After some discussion, it was decided to overdub a cheesy organ solo instead. Even though I loathed the sound, I was most impressed to see Paul playing it--up until that point, I'd had no idea that he could even play keyboards."
Sorry, you're right: Paul!
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Maybe the question should be....What is the Stones equivalent to Mr. Moonlight, often considered by many to be the Beatles worst song (though I'm sure many will disagree)?
Mr. Moonlight has a great organ solo by John Lennon.
There absolutely positively is a joke buried in there somewhere...I just can't find it.
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Tate
Yes, Back to Zero is dreadful also. This thread is a downer. How 'bout another tour rumor, or a nice old Wood vs Taylor debate for nostalgia's sake? Something about Mick Jagger's hair? I am getting rather desperate.
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flacnvinyl
Stealing My Heart and Keys To Your Love are both worse than Anyway You Look At It. So is Don't Be A Stranger!
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Stealing My Heart and Keys To Your Love are both worse than Anyway You Look At It. So is Don't Be A Stranger!
hafta disagree wicha on dat one.
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flacnvinyl
Stealing My Heart and Keys To Your Love are both worse than Anyway You Look At It. So is Don't Be A Stranger!
hafta disagree wicha on dat one.
and dis one too....still, one out of three ain't a bad average....
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Dude! Thats great! How about Dave soiling Wild Horses?
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flacnvinyl
Stealing My Heart and Keys To Your Love are both worse than Anyway You Look At It. So is Don't Be A Stranger!
hafta disagree wicha on dat one.
and dis one too....still, one out of three ain't a bad average....
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Stealing My Heart and Keys To Your Love are both worse than Anyway You Look At It. So is Don't Be A Stranger!
hafta disagree wicha on dat one.
and dis one too....still, one out of three ain't a bad average....
I went ahead and highlighted Anyway You Look At It because it was looking lonely.
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I am tired of the abuse Gomper gets around here.
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
Streets Of Love. There are a quite a few worst ones but that one truly is king.
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Streets Of Love. There are a quite a few worst ones but that one truly is king.
did you ever hear the early, boogie-woogie version, though? with that great chuck berry guitar break and everything? one of those occasions when they should have stopped fooling around with it....
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Streets Of Love. There are a quite a few worst ones but that one truly is king.
did you ever hear the early, boogie-woogie version, though? with that great chuck berry guitar break and everything? one of those occasions when they should have stopped fooling around with it....
How could that matter? It's horrendous regardless of what style it's played! I mean, after the Chuck Berry guitar break there's a goddamn Chuck Leavell piano break. Too much tinky plink. They could have at least edited out the piano break for the bootleg.
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Streets Of Love. There are a quite a few worst ones but that one truly is king.
did you ever hear the early, boogie-woogie version, though? with that great chuck berry guitar break and everything? one of those occasions when they should have stopped fooling around with it....
How could that matter? It's horrendous regardless of what style it's played! I mean, after the Chuck Berry guitar break there's a goddamn Chuck Leavell piano break. Too much tinky plink. They could have at least edited out the piano break for the bootleg.
you must have an even earlier version. mine has a fine ronnie sax solo instead.
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whatever happened to it, it sure dissolved into a sappy ballad. i-i-i-i just don't understand how it happened.
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whatever happened to it, it sure dissolved into a sappy ballad. i-i-i-i just don't understand how it happened.
Oh man, that was an awful bad pun.