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Carster
You should all hear the genuine mono mix, extended outro.
Rocks Off: Three collectible versions (full-time collectors only, I should know)

What genuine mono mix are you referring to?

I´m very interested too ! Please come up with some details ! -
especially if this mono-mix has had an official release !

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winos
Rocks off should never be out of the live set list - I'd replace Tumbling Dice with RO........!

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winos
Rocks off should never be out of the live set list - I'd replace Tumbling Dice with RO........!

Both should be in setlist.

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drewmaster
and when Jagger comes in he sounds beaten down and depressed. To be sure, that dispirited Jagger voice works brilliantly in the context of their finest ballads (for example, the vastly superior Moonlight Mile, which has similar lyrical themes to Rocks Off), but his torpor here deflates the experience of Rocks Off, as opposed to elevating it.

For me, Jagger's "torpor" is perhaps the best part of the song. I agree that he sounds a bit like he did on slower songs at the time, but it sounds great here. Dazed and subdued for sure.

On live versions he's more loud and high-pitched which takes away some of the atmosphere.

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I do think it is an effective opener, but honestly, some people here are saying it is their best recording ever. I think not (there are so many other Stones songs that qualify for that).

I don't think people are saying that. They just recognize that "Rocks Off" hits something that is actually perfect in its own terms. As a song it is not any "Satisfaction" or "Jumping Jack Flash" or "Gimme Shelter", not having any of those hit-caliber, universally capturing elements in it, but it succeeds to 'say' something that really is The Stones at their best - so relaxed, so self-conscious, so strong. It simply emerges such strong vibes by the very strong terms of its own that it very much defines the Stones as as the greatest rock and roll band in the world. The simple idiom of rock and roll just can't sound any better than this.

- Doxa

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Carster
You should all hear the genuine mono mix, extended outro.
Rocks Off: Three collectible versions (full-time collectors only, I should know)

What genuine mono mix are you referring to?

I´m very interested too ! Please come up with some details ! -
especially if this mono-mix has had an official release !

Don´t let Carster´s quotes get in the way of a good night sleep. He just throws quotes like that out all the time. Never delivers.

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I know I’m gonna be Exiled from the IORR for writing this, but I gotta be honest, I don’t especially dig Rocks Off. I mean, it’s okay and all, and there are some nice country-blues licks in there, but I certainly don’t get what all the fuss is about. So sue me.

The opening riff sounds tentative and mushy, and when Jagger comes in he sounds beaten down and depressed. To be sure, that dispirited Jagger voice works brilliantly in the context of their finest ballads (for example, the vastly superior Moonlight Mile, which has similar lyrical themes to Rocks Off), but his torpor here deflates the experience of Rocks Off, as opposed to elevating it. None of the other members of the band, with the exception of Charlie, sound particularly awake or thrilled to be here. And to make matters worse, when those rather shrill horns come in (as they do far too often on the rest of Exile as well) they seem to imply that the Stones themselves are too zonked out to carry the song without some outside assistance.

Is this song meant to get the adrenaline pumping? If so, it fails, at least for me. Or is it meant to be a downer? If so, it succeeds.

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noughties
After all, Jagger ain`t no Jim Morrison.

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After all, Jagger ain`t no Jim Morrison.

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Mick Jagger's voice has an awesome sound, a sound none of his contemporaries have. For me, that's way more important than range or technical skills.

Don Covay's voice has a similar sound, btw.

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His falsetto is so much better than Lennon's

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jambay
This freekin song ROCKS!!!!! both studio and LIVE!!

Esp The part when Mick sings... Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene.
Feel so mesmerized all that inside me.

Followed by one of the best band comes crashing in rocking and rolling, of all time!!! every time

The sunshine bores the daylights out of me!!!

e.g. @ 2:28 [youtu.be]
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matxil
Perfect song for a perfect album.
And with perfect I mean perfect: everything is exactly as it should be, despite (or thanks to) the overall ad-lib, loose feel of it.

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matxil
Perfect song for a perfect album.
And with perfect I mean perfect: everything is exactly as it should be, despite (or thanks to) the overall ad-lib, loose feel of it.

Not quite perfect IMO. The machine-like vocals in the bridge I find somewhat grating. But it's a brilliant song of course. And like many of the their brilliant songs, not worth a dime live.

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RockingLonestar
This song has all what rock´n´roll is all about.

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matxil
Perfect song for a perfect album.
And with perfect I mean perfect: everything is exactly as it should be, despite (or thanks to) the overall ad-lib, loose feel of it.

Not quite perfect IMO. The machine-like vocals in the bridge I find somewhat grating. But it's a brilliant song of course. And like many of the their brilliant songs, not worth a dime live.

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