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The Joker
Tell me is a gentle pop song...
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The Joker
-You tell me "Tell Me" but you are 2000 Light Years from the topic
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tklawson
Probably Satisfaction, 19th Nervous Breakdown or The Last Time.
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DandelionPowderman
Tell Me was a 50s-ish Teddy Boy-ballad. The Last Time might have been their first contemporary-sounding or modern hit.
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DandelionPowderman
Tell Me was a 50s-ish Teddy Boy-ballad. The Last Time might have been their first contemporary-sounding or modern hit.
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drbryant
Modern? It all sounds like R&B to me.
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DandelionPowderman
Tell Me was a 50s-ish Teddy Boy-ballad. The Last Time might have been their first contemporary-sounding or modern hit.
I am not at all familiar with Teddy Boys-ballads. [Myself I have not listened to that much music from the '50s, outside for instance some blues and soul and a little Fats Domino. And I have got one compilation of Elvis Presley.] As you evidently are familiar with Teddy Boys-ballads, you might exemplify the genre and then a song or two that, according to you, could be the outspring for "Tell Me".
I can't guarantee that I will agree.
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DandelionPowderman
Treacle: The Last Time sounded contemporary in 1964, even though it was based on a 50s song. The sound and the rawness was something new.
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DandelionPowderman
Treacle: The Last Time sounded contemporary in 1964, even though it was based on a 50s song. The sound and the rawness was something new.
I love the song of course, and would have been too young in 1965 to have known whether it was contemporary or not, I'm sure it was.
I rather thought that what we were talking about was defining a point where the Stones distinctly first had their 'modern' sound, that is their signature today.
I agree with the assertion that HTW was undeniably that sound and would not sound dated if released today. The Last Time to my ears, is definitely more of a period piece.