Emotional Rescue, a much maligned album and in general is considered to be "lightweight" as an album. Leftover tracks from Some Girls, some new, some old, just like most of the bands albums. I like the fesh sounding snappy guitars on the album, I think KR & RW meshed together very well on many tracks with great interplay, bouncing off one another with a lot of great licks, some of their best playing together, almost like a live show. With that said there can be good guitar playing on a song that is so-so as a whole.

My main problem with ER is that many of the uptempo tracks sound TOO similar. I love Let Me Go, She's So Cold. Summer Romance & Where The Boys Go are very similar and the lyrics are kinda silly......although I like the guitar sound.

After 25 (can you believe it) years of listening to ER I have finally made up my mind that "Dance" is THE best track on the album (although I am very fond of "All About You). Dance is not really disco, it's not really funk, it's not really rock.........it, IMO, is in a class of it's own that can only be described as "Stones Groove". I am not saying that it's in the same class as JJF,BS, etc., and other classic band songs, I am merely saying that I think it's the best song on the album, that it has aged well and does not sound dated because it can't really be classified as a certain genre. I don't know how to explain it, but it has a certain downtown Manhattan feel. It is a song that only the Stones could crank out and still sound like The Stones.

With that said, which track do you feel is THE best track on ER ? All I ask is that in the end you pick JUST ONE as the best track. I am curious and look forward to all of you dissect ER.

By the way, the title track is one of their worst, IMO. A little too Kooky.

Milo, NYC
Keith!... whatcha, whatcha doin'?





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-04-09 09:00 by Milo Yammbag.

Down In The Hole.

"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone

Can I pick one and comment about two?
Dance was always my favorite on ER, with Summer Romance
being a close second, depending on what mood I'm in.
The guitar interplay on Dance is out of this world.
YOu'll hear a Keith riff, then a Ronnie riff, the a Keith riff,
then a Ronnie riff. When you listen to if with headphones,
it almost a religious experience. Beast of Burden is the same way.
Makes you wonder if that was all rehearsed or just a lucky take.
Now Summer Romance I like for different reasons.
The attitude, the guitars, the feeling, etc...
It could have been on Some Girls, even Aftermath, or Buttons.
or their first album. Good song to have a beer to...
That's what I remeber doing a lot when ER came out.
But I'll have to go with Dance as my favorite because of the guitar work.
Two-guitar bands shoud take note of that track.

This album is the worst they ever made beside Dirty Work. Not everything turns into gold when you look at it 25 years later. I remember how disappointed I was when I brought this one back in 1979.

I LOVE ALL THE ALBUM. TO HEAR AT any moment. ONE OF THE BEST, DRIVIN'. Ilove the song title of the album. AND of course DANCE, DOWN IN THE HOLE (what voice !), SEND IT TO ME. AND KEITH IS A SINGER WHO LANDS IN OUR HEART ( AS HE USE TO BE.)
A VERY SENSUAL ALBUM.

Emotional Rescue is the best track - easily.
It's a poor album that's for sure but i still prefer it to almost everything post Tattoo You. Theres still creativity there even if it's not fully formed eg. the guitar interplay on She's So Cold, the rhythm of Emotional Rescue and the harmonica playing on Down In The Hole. It's an album that has many good ideas that never fully come to fruition. It also has a slightly different, more experimental feel than a lot of the Stones other albums.

Dance pt 1 or All About You. Can't decide.

Down in the hole

Let Me Go. All About You is another favourite, but It really is a poor album by Stones standards.

Another great 80s stones album.

Best track: she's so cold.

Let Me Go is much better live than this studio version.

Bowiestone is correct: She's So Cold.

Your foot is still tapping 10 minutes after the track's finished.

All About You. A great song.

Edward Twining wrote: It's an album that has many good ideas that never fully come to fruition. It also has a slightly different, more experimental feel than a lot of the Stones other albums.


Agree. Some tracks sound like they were worked on for a while (Dance, ER, All About You) and others almost seem like demo's, but then again maybe it's that "demo" feeling that made the guitars sound so fresh. Somebody mentioned a comparison to DIRTY WORK. I think ER and DW in common....really great guitar interplay & licks between KR & RW, although the overall albums and especially a few individual songs (Send it to Me, Back To Zero and some others) are really bad (how could they put out Back To Zero?).

Of course even with the criticism, I still listen to ER now and then and enjoy it....so which is THE best track in your opinion ?

Milo, NYC
Straight to meltdown

Dance and Let Me Go!!!

Great album!!!

C

I've always loved this album, my favourite tracks are Send It To Me and She's So Cold.

Milo,

It beats me how anyone can dislike BTZ. Just listen to Keith's choppy rhythm guitar throughout. Worth it for that alone. It's sharper and livelier than anything on Voodoo, on Aftermath and on ER. (I like ER album btw).

I used to think this album was crap but it has really grown on me recently, after I was trying to find a good stones song to dance to to convince my friends they rock in all aspects of music!! I was having a party once and after a few drinks I really wanted to hear somesome stones, but didnt want to interupt the dancey sort of groove. So on goes Dance Pt. 1 and EVERYONE got up and danced, i mean everybody! Had been playing typical dance tunes for the girls - the supremes, kylie, christina aguilera (under duress) and nothing got them like Dance. I followed it with Let me go and shes so cold, and it was Party Central!

Even though they're not classics, some of the songs are just better to dance to compared to JJF, Brown Sugar etc.


Get up, get out... Get into something new...
Love those horns and guitars!

I have a similar memory - it's just a v.good party record.

Having just listened to BTZ again - there's similar guitar stuff going on throughout - as on Dance - but less obvious. But similar talkative "call and response". ()And i realised Keith's choppy stuff only really kicks in at the end - though there have been hints building up through the song (BTZ I mean).

No---Emotional rescue is a weak Album. The best song?---my wife would say---"Indian girl"

She's so cold!

Down in the Hole stands out, for the voice.
All About You has nice lyrics, but it lacks melody so much that you can hardly overlook it.
I completely agree with Milo on Dance - "Keith, whatcha, whathca doing" really gets you going. Timeless melody, very untypical for the Stones, but still with a great Stones touch. Love it.

Indian Girl.

Dance pt.1 ! maybe the only latin inspired track they have ever made ?
But it`s hard to choose ,and I think ER is underrated with several very good tracks on it , made in good prolongation of Some Girls !

There are parts of All About You that are nice, but its like the song was unfinished. Terrible production. Best.....She's So Cold.

There must exist two totally different versions of All About You circulating; or parallel universa... Bad production; ok, its clean, dry, naked - and with the heaviest bass after circa 1973 or outside the reggae world; but as smilingsun is "nice lyrics, but it lacks melody so much that you can hardly overlook it" makes one wonder about ss:s demands on melody in rock music. I could agrre that the chorus in itself may suffer from lack of traditional catchy-ness; or - if you like - you could almost say it has no refrain or chorus. A unorthodox way of writing... But I like it, and I hope to hear more of this kind of writing on the new album. Makes you understand though why Keefster always went nuts when Mick brought funny little machines etc into the studio in the 80´s-90´s.

I'm all for the parallel universe theory....another Star Trek moment. The whispering backing vocals seem out of time....it's just awful. I am not against Keith's ballads.....I love Losing My Touch. I was dissappointed with the entire Emotional Rescue album....especially after Some Girls.

As untypical as it is, I have to say the title track. At least there they ventured into some new territory. The fast rockers are all ok to good songs, but the problem is they all border on parody and sound like they were half-tossed off. And they have been done much better in the past. In ER they put much more effort in and meant it. Plus it has some great features as well: Micks singing (I like the moment when he gets back to his natural voice), Ronnie's bass, the guitar and sax mimicking eachother in a subtle piece of chamber music at the end...

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cant see how anyone doesn't love this album,emotonal,send it to me,down in te hole,summer romaqnce,all about you,where the boys all go,kicks ass.charlies drumming,and micks english accent(and back up vocals,stones themselves)are great.gonna listen to the whole album tonight.

john scialfa

She's So Cold.

Let Me Go, honestly didn't take notice of this song until I heard the Still Life version

Down in the Hole, great song, and probably just under She's So Cold for Best track.

I agree that this album get's downed more than it should, Dirty Work is their only truely bad release in my opinion. Emotional Rescue does not sound as dated to me as Steel Wheels. I like this album, but I don't listen to it as much as others (Let It Bleed, Beggar's, Exile, Sticky Fingers, Some Girls, Goat's etc.)

Where The Boys Go is my favourite by a mile.

I grew to like Dance more and more during the last tour, but I think that having listened to the remastered Sucking In the 70's that Dance Part 2 is better than anything on ER with the exception of WTBG.

The title track is unquestionably the worst single of the band's career and, along with Indian Girl, one of the biggest clunkers they ever did.