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stonehearted
Whoever's idea it was to add that "hanging reverb" effect on the chorus to make it echo as "home-home-home" had a stroke of genius, because it elevates a lesser track to almost hit-like status in the way that part of the song sticks in your mind. It makes for a clever hook where there otherwise not have been one. When I think of the song, that part runs through my head on infinite replay. Was it ALO, since he is listed as the producer?
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Rockman
.... The Sound of Bo Diddley On Acid
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Silver Dagger
Never knew Shirley Watts ever contributed to a Stones song.
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.... The Sound of Bo Diddley On Acid
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.... The Sound of Bo Diddley On Acid
- Doxa
And we have to remember that The Who took another trip with that "Magic Bus"...
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Silver Dagger
I like the song a lot as it has a lot of period charm but compared to what The Beatles were achieving on Revolver around about the same time it is not on the same planet.
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stonehearted
<<are there anyone who'll disagree with PGH being inferior to the stuff on Revolver?>>
For me, that's never a problem. Because I've never once thought of Revolver when listening to Please Go Home....
....and I hope I don't start next time I hear it....
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DandelionPowderman
<This is a good observation>
Of course it is - but are there anyone who'll disagree with PGH being inferior to the stuff on Revolver?
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I like the song a lot as it has a lot of period charm but compared to what The Beatles were achieving on Revolver around about the same time it is not on the same planet.
This is a good observation (like your whole post). Even though a song like "Please Go Home" is interesting in reflecting the Stones in a certain process (and evaluated in the context of their own works), the things were changing so rapidly and interestingly in the pop world then, that the song - like the whole BETWEEN THE BUTTONS - was a bit shaky case if it really was the most exciting or current thing at the moment (like AFTERMATH material and many stuff prior that had been), and arises the question if the Stones really are able to reflect or adapt to the change of the climate convincingly (or to be some kind of leaders in trends). Just by some months later, when SGT. PEPPER was released - and there was ARE YOU EXPERIENCED and things like that around - BETWEEN THE BUTTONS sounded rather dated old-fashionable pop album... Some 18 months after its release Jagger seemed to have 'forgotten' even had made the album...
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I like the song a lot as it has a lot of period charm but compared to what The Beatles were achieving on Revolver around about the same time it is not on the same planet.
This is a good observation (like your whole post). Even though a song like "Please Go Home" is interesting in reflecting the Stones in a certain process (and evaluated in the context of their own works), the things were changing so rapidly and interestingly in the pop world then, that the song - like the whole BETWEEN THE BUTTONS - was a bit shaky case if it really was the most exciting or current thing at the moment (like AFTERMATH material and many stuff prior that had been), and arises the question if the Stones really are able to reflect or adapt to the change of the climate convincingly (or to be some kind of leaders in trends). Just by some months later, when SGT. PEPPER was released - and there was ARE YOU EXPERIENCED and things like that around - BETWEEN THE BUTTONS sounded rather dated old-fashionable pop album... Some 18 months after its release Jagger seemed to have 'forgotten' even had made the album...
- Doxa
I think its fair to say that The Beatles were the true innovators in forging the new pop sounds of the 60s.
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with sssoul
The bit about Shirley Watts being on it was a joke - in an interview at the time
Mick said that you could hear her shrieking on it. I imagine he was talking about the theremin
(is that what Rene means by "oscillator"?)
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Rockman
...Don't forget Joe Meek ...
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...Don't forget Joe Meek ...
Joe Meek shall inherit the earth.
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DandelionPowderman
The good thing with the Stones was that they very rarely blueprinted what the Beatles already had done. One might say they did that with Satanic, but a closer listen reveals that the music (as so often was the case) was rawer and more extreme within the format than that of the Beatles. Satanic was way more psychelia-sounding as a whole album.
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The good thing with the Stones was that they very rarely blueprinted what the Beatles already had done. One might say they did that with Satanic, but a closer listen reveals that the music (as so often was the case) was rawer and more extreme within the format than that of the Beatles. Satanic was way more psychelia-sounding as a whole album.
Well put. I think one can almost describe the doctrine of the Stones those days: "okay, if The Beatles can do that, we will do it as well, and go damn much further". But then again, what else there is to do than go more extreme to make an own stance in the format invented by someone else? SATANIC MAJESTIES is a really good example of that. Listened by real freaky ears, SGT. PEPPER is an easy-listening pop album compared to the deep-going psychedelia of SATANIC MAJESTIES (well, what Lennon & McCartney could help being so damn melody-rich and naturally musical, no matter how much they enlarged their consciousness..)
It is funny that for years and decades SGT. PEPPER was heralded as the best Beatles album (and with that, the best album ever made by anyone), wheras SATANIC MAJESTIES have seen as a total failure and artistic flop in Stones catalogue (probably one of the most mocked albums by anyone ever...) Well, that's at least what the 'critical' music press have told us. But what is healthy in recent years that the one-dimensional, cliche-like picture has been changed; the status of SGT.PEPPER is not any longer so obvious and the biggest hype over it - thank god - have gone. There have been also more sympathy or at least understanding for SATANIC MAJESTIES as well (both in Stones circles and in music press/history writing).
I would even claim that SGT.PEPPER is one of the most over-rated and SATANIC MAJESTIES under-rated albums ever made by such major names. At least in the context of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
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