Re: Vodoo Lounge was great was is good
Date: May 18, 2005 17:03
You can dislike Voodoo Lounge for various reasons, and my reason is that I don't like the SOUND. I just don't like the production: the drums -especially the snare- sounds like a carton box instead of the high pitched atack and crack of say Some Girls. I don't like the sound of the guitars: not upfront, out of focus and lame. I don't like the bass sound: I guess it's all Fender Jazz Bass'es you hear, and to me these sound to straight and funcky for a Stones album (give me a fat Travis Bean or Ampeg 350 any day). The production is totally organic, and I hate that. I like the hard-edges sound of Some Girls, the drive of Undercover, the murkiness of Exile. ON top of this, Jagger sings completely over the top, bending his voice into false emotions with all these weird vibrato's.
Apperently the Stones feel like this too, as B2B sounds completely different. The hard edged snare is back, the guitars sound raw again and they used acoustic basses all over the album. Half of B2B (Flip, Low Down, Allready OM, Too Tight, How Can I Stop, Might As WGJ) ranks up right there with the classic albums of the Stones.
I say: let Chuck Leavell and Don Was team up for another 80's revival band, and bring back Chris Kimsey and Ian McLagan.
Mathijs