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Redhotcarpet
In Shattered, Keith and Woody put a riff down, and all we had was the word shattered. So I just made the rest up and thought it would sound better if it were half-talked.
- Mick Jagger, 1978
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Redhotcarpet
In Shattered, Keith and Woody put a riff down, and all we had was the word shattered. So I just made the rest up and thought it would sound better if it were half-talked.
- Mick Jagger, 1978
A classical case that there might have been some third hands in creation, but not credited officially....
- Doxa
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DandelionPowderman
I think, in this case, it means that Keith and Ronnie had worked out the guitar arrangement, as well as cut the complete track before Mick wrote the lyrics. Keith brought in the song, as Mick have mentioned several times in interviews.
But Ronnie was creative in this era...
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Gazza
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Fantastic song. Like 'Miss You', a track which recorded to near perfection in it's studio incarnation, but which they havent quite captured as well in a live setting (although its always been a much more welcome addition to the show than 'Miss You')
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Fantastic song. Like 'Miss You', a track which recorded to near perfection in it's studio incarnation, but which they havent quite captured as well in a live setting (although its always been a much more welcome addition to the show than 'Miss You')
Agreed. I find this true for a lot of their songs actually. Not to say that they don't sound good live. There's just a certain magic to their best songs on the studio versions.
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Turner68
Great song. Love the break - Charlie's drumming, the guitars - and I think it's perfectly suited to Jagger's "singing" circa 1978.
Never liked it live.
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HMS
Yesterday poor little me listened to a nice sounding bootleg of a Detroit78-show. Never liked the Miss-You-album very much, but what they did live to these songs is awesome. Most of the studio-versions are rather pale in comparison.
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Stoneage
Stones goes punk. Not a great song, really. But it works well. A gritty groove. Nice guitars. Hasn't worked well live though since 81/82.
To me this song, in contrast to "Lies" (which I by the way do like) is not the Rolling Stones, the rock stars of the '60s, going punk, but instead a suiting song and music representation of the individual Stone once again driven out on the streets as an ordinary human being among other people there. And those streets are not a safe place for anybody. His existence in life is as exposed as that of everybody else, who in some way or the other is in trouble. He is not only cleverly performing a rock song, but here actually may speak for everyone out there.
I have never tried to describe this song musically, not even to myself, it has been beyond my ability. But I have always found it as one of the three really great songs on SOME GIRLS, and I agree that this was the most important one for the kind of band that the Stones both were and should be.