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I thought it was standard issue news that it was Annie Liebovitz?
It was very tasty and took a few seconds for the audience the realize what was coming.
They audience loved it!
Mike
That's Annie thinks, and who knows. I do remember HBwriter being very coy about knowing the identity of the girl in question...
It does sound like a very specific person thought, and I love those kinds of songs.
Not boring at all. Sounds like magic. Thanks for posting
Agree, love that line by Keith. I think this song would have been better and more authentic sounding if Keith sang the whole thing! His voice was really working well that day, melodic, soulful...makes you want more of it.
peace
i also love that keith part. i wish they had done more songs where they traded lines. the mick lines in "coming down again" are great too.
This one deserves a mention, imo.
My favorite time hearing this song was as we hung around on a sunny day
outside of Fenway Park before the opening show of the Bigger Bang tour,
looking for tickets, walking around the stadium and at about 3:00 we
heard a "CHECK CHECK" and then the piano started playing... and then
Mick started singing this song... and sang the whole song with just
the piano backing him. It was very cool and sounded so good.
I used my remote viewing ability to see inside the stadium.
I hoped they would play it again that night, but nope nope nope.
I dont know, but I can see what you are saying.
Talk about your favorite band.
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Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
LuxuryStones
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Date: March 24, 2015 12:14
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VT22
Great song, reminds me of my first girlfriend.
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It's called Multiple Personality Disorder
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Doxa
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Date: March 24, 2015 12:19
But who is that girl? I recall we have had some discussions about that in teh past; if memory serves at least Carly Simon was suggested...
Anyway, Jagger is always as crystal clear as he is:
But actually I don't think that there's any particular... Mick jagger, 1976
(T)he girl in Memory Motel is actually a real, independent American girl... Mick Jagger, 1978
(Quotes from timeisonourside.com)
- Doxa
Anyway, Jagger is always as crystal clear as he is:
But actually I don't think that there's any particular... Mick jagger, 1976
(T)he girl in Memory Motel is actually a real, independent American girl... Mick Jagger, 1978
(Quotes from timeisonourside.com)
- Doxa
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
bitusa2012
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Date: March 24, 2015 16:25
Easily one of their greatest TUNES. Just a fantastic melody, and exquisite playing. It SOUNDS like the story they are telling somehow. I "hear" the coast, the drive, the DRIVEWAY OF THE MOTEL... JUST LOVELY
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
MidnightDevilRambler
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Date: March 24, 2015 17:20
They did MM only one time on the 2013 US tour and we were lucky enough to hear it on the June 14 2013 Boston show. Really enjoyed their take on it that tour.
Let's hear it again!
Mike
Let's hear it again!
Mike
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
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Date: March 25, 2015 00:21
The Boston version seemed excellent, judging by the YT clips 
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
treaclefingers
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Date: March 25, 2015 01:22
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Doxa
But who is that girl? I recall we have had some discussions about that in teh past; if memory serves at least Carly Simon was suggested...
Anyway, Jagger is always as crystal clear as he is:
But actually I don't think that there's any particular... Mick jagger, 1976
(T)he girl in Memory Motel is actually a real, independent American girl... Mick Jagger, 1978
(Quotes from timeisonourside.com)
- Doxa
I thought it was standard issue news that it was Annie Liebovitz?
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
MidnightDevilRambler
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Date: March 25, 2015 16:39
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DandelionPowderman
The Boston version seemed excellent, judging by the YT clips
It was very tasty and took a few seconds for the audience the realize what was coming.
They audience loved it!
Mike
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
buttons67
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Date: March 26, 2015 00:09
memory motel is a nice song and one of the best from black and blue, which really could have been a good album with a couple of rockers added and one or two songs dropped, add in a couple of covers to beef it up a bit. 8 songs is too little.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
stupidguy2
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Date: March 26, 2015 00:32
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Doxa
But who is that girl? I recall we have had some discussions about that in teh past; if memory serves at least Carly Simon was suggested...
Anyway, Jagger is always as crystal clear as he is:
But actually I don't think that there's any particular... Mick jagger, 1976
(T)he girl in Memory Motel is actually a real, independent American girl... Mick Jagger, 1978
(Quotes from timeisonourside.com)
- Doxa
I thought it was standard issue news that it was Annie Liebovitz?
That's Annie thinks, and who knows. I do remember HBwriter being very coy about knowing the identity of the girl in question...
It does sound like a very specific person thought, and I love those kinds of songs.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
buffalo7478
()
Date: March 26, 2015 02:20
The version in Toronto in 1994 (2nd night) with the rain starting to come down. Fantastic.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
buffalo7478
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Date: March 26, 2015 02:22
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Doxa
I think this track talk deserves Jagger's description of its creation, since it nicely gives us ideas how the Twins co-work and 'click', and Mick is not usually so specific (from timeisonourside.com):
Keith or I might have had the initial idea (for a song), but after a while you can't separate who wrote it. We just sit down and do them, sometimes in the studio, sometimes at home. Like here, this song, Memory Motel, I wrote the first part, the piano part, which I played. Course I had to take time off from the Stones... that takes a lot of my time, let me TELL you... but I don't mind, it's my own time - to do my own solo stuff on the LP, but more of that later. So anyway... I play the bloody piano, right? Okay, so I'm going, mmmmm-mmmmm, a-mmmmmm, and Keith goes, hmmmmmgghh... uhhh... that sounds all right..., and I say, Well, I only just started it, I ain't finished yet, 'cause I like to get everything finished, done, written on paper, typed up, all written out. But he doesn't like that so he says, I've got a middle bit here, and he sits down at the other piano, the electric piano, and he plays the middle bit. Then I learn that and he learns my part, and THEN we make the track, and I sing what I've got. And then I go and finish the words. They're all done in a day. And in fact, when Keith wrote the middle bit, he did those words... he goes... mmmm... she's got a mind... of her own... Anyway, that's how, for instance, we wrote that song. Boring, isn't it?
- Mick Jagger, 1976
No, Mick, not boring at all!
- Doxa
Not boring at all. Sounds like magic. Thanks for posting
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
strat72
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Date: March 26, 2015 13:23
One of my favourite Stones ballads!
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Witness
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Date: March 26, 2015 18:45
Now only this: "Memory Motel" works magic! That great, it is!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-03-26 18:46 by Witness.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-03-26 18:46 by Witness.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
runaway
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Date: March 26, 2015 19:03
I still feel the same over the years: I love it
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Naturalust
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Date: March 26, 2015 19:18
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Keith's heartfelt vocal part saves what would have been a mediocre and rather maudlin ballad.
I love the Stones' road songs, so MM will never sound near-mediocre to me, but yeah:
Keith's part is refreshingly abstract and spacious - like a Calder mobile hanging in a warm dense Romantic landscape,
and somehow fitting perfectly.
I never thought this was the great song some people think it is. Mick's vocal delivery was already descending into parody by this point, and the sythnthesizer bit dates it. But you're right about Keith's part. I used to listen to MM just hear "whe's got a mind of her own, and she uses it well...".
Agree, love that line by Keith. I think this song would have been better and more authentic sounding if Keith sang the whole thing! His voice was really working well that day, melodic, soulful...makes you want more of it.
peace
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Bsebastian
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Date: May 4, 2015 12:23
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Keith's heartfelt vocal part saves what would have been a mediocre and rather maudlin ballad.
I love the Stones' road songs, so MM will never sound near-mediocre to me, but yeah:
Keith's part is refreshingly abstract and spacious - like a Calder mobile hanging in a warm dense Romantic landscape,
and somehow fitting perfectly.
I never thought this was the great song some people think it is. Mick's vocal delivery was already descending into parody by this point, and the sythnthesizer bit dates it. But you're right about Keith's part. I used to listen to MM just hear "whe's got a mind of her own, and she uses it well...".
Agree, love that line by Keith. I think this song would have been better and more authentic sounding if Keith sang the whole thing! His voice was really working well that day, melodic, soulful...makes you want more of it.
peace
i also love that keith part. i wish they had done more songs where they traded lines. the mick lines in "coming down again" are great too.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
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Date: May 4, 2015 12:52
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BsebastianQuote
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Keith's heartfelt vocal part saves what would have been a mediocre and rather maudlin ballad.
I love the Stones' road songs, so MM will never sound near-mediocre to me, but yeah:
Keith's part is refreshingly abstract and spacious - like a Calder mobile hanging in a warm dense Romantic landscape,
and somehow fitting perfectly.
I never thought this was the great song some people think it is. Mick's vocal delivery was already descending into parody by this point, and the sythnthesizer bit dates it. But you're right about Keith's part. I used to listen to MM just hear "whe's got a mind of her own, and she uses it well...".
Agree, love that line by Keith. I think this song would have been better and more authentic sounding if Keith sang the whole thing! His voice was really working well that day, melodic, soulful...makes you want more of it.
peace
i also love that keith part. i wish they had done more songs where they traded lines. the mick lines in "coming down again" are great too.
This one deserves a mention, imo.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Pete66
()
Date: May 4, 2015 20:26
Love this song. Easily one of their all time best.
Pete.
Pete.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
MisterDDDD
()
Date: May 4, 2015 20:32
Love this track!
Second favorite on the album behind Fool to Cry.
Second favorite on the album behind Fool to Cry.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
1969Fan
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Date: May 4, 2015 22:55
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Doxa
But who is that girl? I recall we have had some discussions about that in teh past; if memory serves at least Carly Simon was suggested...
Anyway, Jagger is always as crystal clear as he is:
But actually I don't think that there's any particular... Mick jagger, 1976
(T)he girl in Memory Motel is actually a real, independent American girl... Mick Jagger, 1978
Hannah is Annie Leibovitz. End of conversation. She was with them during their rehearsals at Andy Warhol and Paul Morrisey's estate outside Montauk, and MM was about her. Not Carly Simon or a Mick Jagger amalgam of American females.
(Quotes from timeisonourside.com)
- Doxa
I thought it was standard issue news that it was Annie Liebovitz?
That's Annie thinks, and who knows. I do remember HBwriter being very coy about knowing the identity of the girl in question...
It does sound like a very specific person thought, and I love those kinds of songs.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
ryanpow
()
Date: May 6, 2015 04:16
I thought it was about Carly Simon. The line "Back Up to Boston, I'm singing in a bar" doesn't make sense with Anne.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-05-06 04:17 by ryanpow.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-05-06 04:17 by ryanpow.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
whitem8
()
Date: May 6, 2015 04:26
Yeah this is a beautiful song. However, much better live with Mick's singing. The studio version, he drawls with that sardonic parody of what he thinks a country twang is. Pretty dreadful. From what I read it is most likely about Carly Simon. Just remember those teeth.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Leonioid
()
Date: May 6, 2015 05:29
Were her teeth slightly curled? ;)Quote
VT22
Great song, reminds me of my first girlfriend.
My favorite time hearing this song was as we hung around on a sunny day
outside of Fenway Park before the opening show of the Bigger Bang tour,
looking for tickets, walking around the stadium and at about 3:00 we
heard a "CHECK CHECK" and then the piano started playing... and then
Mick started singing this song... and sang the whole song with just
the piano backing him. It was very cool and sounded so good.
I used my remote viewing ability to see inside the stadium.
I hoped they would play it again that night, but nope nope nope.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
hypnohighball
()
Date: May 7, 2015 03:23
"I hit the bottle, then I hit the sack and cried"
One of my favorite ballads from the Stones. And by the way, I detest "Fool To Cry" in every way!
One of my favorite ballads from the Stones. And by the way, I detest "Fool To Cry" in every way!
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
peoplewitheyes
()
Date: May 7, 2015 03:40
leonioid: I used my remote viewing ability to see inside the stadium.
Are you saying what I think you're saying?
Are you saying what I think you're saying?
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Leonioid
()
Date: May 7, 2015 05:47
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peoplewitheyes
leonioid: I used my remote viewing ability to see inside the stadium.
Are you saying what I think you're saying?
I dont know, but I can see what you are saying.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
peoplewitheyes
()
Date: May 7, 2015 15:26
forgive my ignorance, but what is a remote viewing ability? a smartphone drone? you have xray vision? whatever it is, i want it!
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Thommie
()
Date: May 8, 2015 22:12
I visited Memory Motel in Montauk last Sunday (standing in the doorway).
Closed down but you could see signs of some renovating going on.
The song? Lovely! Even if I prefer Jagger's solo recording over the original...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-05-08 22:15 by Thommie.
Closed down but you could see signs of some renovating going on.
The song? Lovely! Even if I prefer Jagger's solo recording over the original...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-05-08 22:15 by Thommie.
Re: Track Talk: Memory Motel
Posted by:
Turner68
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Date: August 23, 2015 06:43
This track has always sounded dated to me, but has a great deal of charm as well. For once Mick's "mocking" voice kind of works for the song, and Keith's vocal part is excellent. It's really great when they sing together.
As far as ballads go, I find it to be quite a bit more original than say "Angie" or "Time Waits for No One" or "Til the Next Goodbye".
One of the highlights of the album for me.
As far as ballads go, I find it to be quite a bit more original than say "Angie" or "Time Waits for No One" or "Til the Next Goodbye".
One of the highlights of the album for me.
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