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GRNRBITW
i listened to it once and that's three minutes i wish i had back.
It gets even worse if you consider the inordinate amount of time one has to spend complaining about it.
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Come On
Hmmmm
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Silver Dagger
Loved Doom & Gloom but thought this was just average, filler material. The song worked better live but it's hardly a song I'd reach out to play if I had all the Stones' album in front of me.
Agreed, Silver Dagger. This is substandard, and it's kind of sad that (besides Doom and Gloom) this is all they could come up with after a 7-year hiatus. The main problem is that it seems so haphazard and unfinished. There is the germ of a great song here, but it was not realized. Instead, we get an awkward, half-baked melody with "na na na" and "I love I love I love" inserted in lieu of real lyrics. Still, those X-Pensive Wino backing vox are cool.
Drew
You can picture the scenario - the band have been on hold for 5 years. But Jagger quickly does his accounting and realises the boys need some new product to play live and raise interest in yet another hits album.
Jagger uses one of the songs he's saved for his next solo album but catches Keith on the hop who has to come up with something pretty quick. And One More Shot is the result. Maybe.....
I guess that it is a nice summary of how the actual events took place.
Since the new tracks were put under such a scrutiny last year, and now put on the rest, I do not go there. I just say something positive I find in them. Namely, contra to A BIGGER BANG material I like the "joyful" atmosphere the new tracks have (both of them). There is something fresh in their delivery that A BIGGER BANG lacks. I guess they had fun in the studio, and they spent so little time, and had so little to do, that they din't get bored, or didn't need to work their asses off.
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jp.M
...I like it...
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Slimharpo
the "One More Shot" chorus riff can be found in the historical cannon of stones Riffs that spring from the Beatles "Twist and Shout." It starts with "Get Off My Cloud," the chorus riff in "Brown Sugar" the chorus on "Rough Justice and last emerges on "One More Shot."
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billwebster
Had they released an album's worth of songs (or maybe even just 4 of them) things would certainly be different, but buying a double disc set for just 2 songs was out of the question.
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24FPS
The problem is that it lacks any originality or effort. It's a bigger throwaway than Sad, Sad, Sad, or some of the dreck on Dirty Work. One song, one decent song is all Keith had to come up with. I think it's time to admit that Keith's songwriting career ended sometimes in the 90s.
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Slimharpo
So if he had a drum machine, and short rap by Jay Z, that would be called "orignial," but in reality it would really be trend following.Quote
24FPS
The problem is that it lacks any originality or effort. It's a bigger throwaway than Sad, Sad, Sad, or some of the dreck on Dirty Work. One song, one decent song is all Keith had to come up with. I think it's time to admit that Keith's songwriting career ended sometimes in the 90s.
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24FPS
Is it too much to ask that Keith come up with something novel? Something that doesn't sound like he's just barely not playing Jumping Jack Flash? Why does his sound have to be limited? This is an artist who came up with many, many, different sounding riffs and melodies. Does he listen to nothing that inspires him? It doesn't have to be the same old, same old 5 string tuning. He's a great acoustic player. He used to funnel the influences he was hearing and weave something new.
The point is that every song he does now doesn't have to sound like a vaguely Stonesish song from 30-40 years ago. The experiences this guy has had. He can't draw from that? Okay, I understand if he's washed up. God knows he gave us enough in the past. But if you're going to bother to sell something as a new song by the Rolling Stones, either aim high or let Mick write them all now.
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slew
One More Shot is certainly uour Stones by the numbers typical rocker and is similiar to other songs in thei catalog I quite like it and don't get all of the bashing.
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Hairball
I've always wanted to hear the original Keith/Steve Jordan version which no doubt is probably superior to the official Stones version.
With the Stones, it's a bit too bombastic and Micks' over-exaggerated lame vocals sort of ruin it all. Sounded just as bad when played live imo.