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Amazing track!

Come on Phil. You can do better than that.

Moonlight Mile is a slice of universal wonder which feeds the soul and fires the imagination.

too spacey and ethereal...where's the backbeat? where's keith's chugging guitar and mick's wailing harp????

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too spacey and ethereal...where's the backbeat? where's keith's chugging guitar and mick's wailing harp????

Unfortunately they had already used that up on the previous album, on Midnight Rambler.

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too spacey and ethereal...where's the backbeat? where's keith's chugging guitar and mick's wailing harp????

It's all there, just listen between the lines sounds!

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too spacey and ethereal...where's the backbeat? where's keith's chugging guitar and mick's wailing harp????

Unfortunately they had already used that up on the previous album, on Midnight Rambler.

that's the problem when you let the tape keep running...if rambler were short and sweet at 3 minutes, moonlight mile coulda been saved....

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Amazing track!

Come on Phil. You can do better than that.

Moonlight Mile is a slice of universal wonder which feeds the soul and fires the imagination.

That'll do.

Check out this cover of Moonlight Mile by Lee Fields:

My favourite song, of all time. The Rolling Stones or not. A great song of yearning for your love. I travel quite a bit for my job and I play this every time I'm headed back nome to my wife "I am just living to be lying by your side" captures just the way I feel.

the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler!

"The variation on the lick that Richards referred to gets picked up by the lush Paul Buckmaster string ensemble"

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One of the Top Vocal Performances from Mick.

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One of the Top Vocal Performances from Mick.

Sure is and its the perfect ending to the album. Must of fell out many times just as it was ending after a long night of and ...

One of their best...

It seems likely Keith had some songwriting hand in "moonlight Mile." Whatever that was changes every few years.

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It's one of those cuts where you have to say it's as good as anything the Beatles did.

Wasn't this tune called "Japanese thing" in the first place?

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Might be my all-time favorite cover of a Stones tune. Neck and neck with the original--and that's really sayin' something:

Great cover version, thanks Rev!!

Drew

That's the old story. It was an accoustic ditty by Keith that Taylor worked up with Mick Jagger in the studio. The new story from Keith's autobiography is "the whole idea of it was Mick Jagger's and the the band just showed him how to play it."

I imagine it was probably a little accoustic number from keith that Taylor had a heavy hand along with Mick Jagger in working it up. With Keith relative lack of effort in defining the songs, Taylor became resentful at not getting credit. The same page in Keith's book take hard shots at Mick Jagger. I imagine giving Mick Jagger most credit helped to manage Jagger's emotions. Not taking any credit probably helped to manage Taylor's emotions.

I still think more will come out of the story. I imagine Marriane will take some credit and give some to Brian.

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Wasn't this tune called "Japanese thing" in the first place?

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013-02-12 02:54 by Slimharpo.

Great, great song. Mick's vocals are some of his best lyrics. A very reflective song he was showing a lot of maturityin his wrinting here. Not a lot of comments about this in the threads I read through it is absolutely one of Charlie's best works. His drumming here is sublime he takes the song to another level along with the Buckmaster strings.

The two Mick's were working well together. I got the sense in Crossfire Hurricane that Jagger thought that this was the best version of the Stones saying he thought itwas really stupid for MT to leave and that he really liked this band. Keith and MT pushed each other and MJ had another musician in Taylor that had ideas that he could bounce things around with. Maybe one of the reasons that Keith seems a little cold toward MT is that maybe he was jealous. Keith is great but he seems a little narrow minded and despite all of his bravado BS he knows that he needs MIJ more than MJ needs him. But anyways MM is in my top ten! Beautiful song!

This tune is a masterpiece. 42 years old and still sounds beautful in every way.

"....with a head full of snow...." that would be a drug, rather than seasonal, reference, I'm sure.

Musically, for The Stones, they are hitting a high point that is for them the equivalent of The Beatles' A Day In The Life. Both are sweeping album closers and are unlike anything either band created and recorded before or since, and both are soft, slow-moving epic songs whose emotional wallop belies their mellow orchestrated sonic structure, and both with their orchestration and subtle nuances are difficult, if not impossible, to recreate live in a manner that would do their original studio versions justice.

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Amazing track!

Come on Phil. You can do better than that.

Moonlight Mile is a slice of universal wonder which feeds the soul and fires the imagination.

That is a very nice way to put it.

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"....with a head full of snow...." that would be a drug, rather than seasonal, reference, I'm sure.

No everything with the Stones is drugs related.

Mathijs

Wow! I know its a good song but ????

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That's the old story. It was an accoustic ditty by Keith that Taylor worked up with Mick Jagger in the studio. The new story from Keith's autobiography is "the whole idea of it was Mick Jagger's and the the band just showed him how to play it."

I imagine it was probably a little accoustic number from keith that Taylor had a heavy hand along with Mick Jagger in working it up. With Keith relative lack of effort in defining the songs, Taylor became resentful at not getting credit. The same page in Keith's book take hard shots at Mick Jagger. I imagine giving Mick Jagger most credit helped to manage Jagger's emotions. Not taking any credit probably helped to manage Taylor's emotions.

I still think more will come out of the story. I imagine Marriane will take some credit and give some to Brian.

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Wasn't this tune called "Japanese thing" in the first place?

+1

Keiths input is probably nil, Taylors probably a lot more, adding a stringsection was his idea (thats just production) but it seems he, playing guitars, co wrote the music to Micks guitar lick in the beginning, which also is the melody. The "Japanese thing" is probably something not even close to MM but a detail needed for contractual reasons. Jagger/Richards wrote the song.

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That's the old story. It was an accoustic ditty by Keith that Taylor worked up with Mick Jagger in the studio. The new story from Keith's autobiography is "the whole idea of it was Mick Jagger's and the the band just showed him how to play it."

I imagine it was probably a little accoustic number from keith that Taylor had a heavy hand along with Mick Jagger in working it up. With Keith relative lack of effort in defining the songs, Taylor became resentful at not getting credit. The same page in Keith's book take hard shots at Mick Jagger. I imagine giving Mick Jagger most credit helped to manage Jagger's emotions. Not taking any credit probably helped to manage Taylor's emotions.

I still think more will come out of the story. I imagine Marriane will take some credit and give some to Brian.

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NICOS
Wasn't this tune called "Japanese thing" in the first place?

+1

Keiths input is probably nil, Taylors probably a lot more, adding a stringsection was his idea (thats just production) but it seems he, playing guitars, co wrote the music to Micks guitar lick in the beginning, which also is the melody. The "Japanese thing" is probably something not even close to MM but a detail needed for contractual reasons. Jagger/Richards wrote the song.

Who knows. It seems more probable to me that Jager had the melody riff, chord changes and lyrics, and Richards had the outro chord sequence. Jagger, Richards and Miller produced it, and Taylor played slide.

Mathijs

The main acoustic riff strikes me as being the work of pretty much a guitar novice. It's really easy to play and reminds me of the kind of guitar noodling absolute beginners come up with as they find their way around the fretboard. For that reason I think it's likely to be Mick J's riff and song with colouring brought in by Mick Taylor and Paul Buckmaster.



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The main acoustic riff strikes me as being the work of pretty much a guitar novice. It's really easy to play and reminds me of the kind guitar noodling absolute beginners come up with as they find their way around the fretboard.

Thats why I never bothered to listen before. Love the song but the intro is a typical beginner noodlings

Simplifying by playing a melody line is not necessarily "beginner noodling"

I wouldn't have changed this intro with anything, but that's just me...