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VT22
Great song, reminds me of my first girlfriend.
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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
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The Boston version seemed excellent, judging by the YT clips
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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?
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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!
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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...".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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.
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VT22
Great song, reminds me of my first girlfriend.
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