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Spin Doctors stole off Sleepwalker, and the Stones stole off Two Princes
Stealing is alright when it is done with an inspiration, like with "Two Princes", or like what The Pretenders once did to "Empty Heart" or The Verve to "The Last Time" (countless other examples), but "Stealing My Heart" is something else... Usually the thing is to update an old idea to fit to current sounds, but the Stones just try to sound fresh and current by updating their old sound to fit to 'new' ideas, and (this time) they fail.
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Absolutely. Trying to sound "contemporary" with an obsolete-sounding song is nothing but off the mark from Mick, imo
In fairness, there are some ok passages in SMH, but the overall impression of trying to be something you're not is obscuring thoses moments, unfortunately...
Come on now, aren't you guys too harsh now? DP, tu quoque!
On my book it is much better than the occasional Highwires or Don't Stops. I particularly like the melody of the chorus, and how Jagger sings it.
I know I am alone here, but for me the Licks EP wasn't that bad at all!
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Like with Look What The Cat Dragged In and Too Tight, I'm having trouble listening to obvious musical theft without thinking of it... That might be the main reason I don't care too much for it
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I can't hear any problems with this song, a nice punk-pastische if you listens to the chords...4/5 Being on 'Dirty Work' it would have been the second best tune...
More like a pop-ified garage-thing, lifted from the songs I mentioned above
Yeah, it would be nice to have a good look at Mick and Keiths collection of Kinks and Spin Doctor records...
You'd be surprised.
Let's start with the base for Connection
As far as I can remember Party Line is played on the off beat while Connection is very much on the on beat. Both are jaunty and up tempo but the only connection I can hear is the word 'connection' itself in the second verse of Party Line.
Wish I had a more direct connection.
This party line was here when I arrived.
And I'm not voting in the next election,
If they don't do something about finding out
The person who is on my party line.
Then I suggest you'll hum the line "Everything is going in the wrong direction". After that you do the Kinks-line: "I wish I had a more direct connection".
If the melody isn't (almost) the same, I'm now officially a Belieber
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I can't hear any problems with this song, a nice punk-pastische if you listens to the chords...4/5 Being on 'Dirty Work' it would have been the second best tune...
More like a pop-ified garage-thing, lifted from the songs I mentioned above
Yeah, it would be nice to have a good look at Mick and Keiths collection of Kinks and Spin Doctor records...
You'd be surprised.
Let's start with the base for Connection
As far as I can remember Party Line is played on the off beat while Connection is very much on the on beat. Both are jaunty and up tempo but the only connection I can hear is the word 'connection' itself in the second verse of Party Line.
Wish I had a more direct connection.
This party line was here when I arrived.
And I'm not voting in the next election,
If they don't do something about finding out
The person who is on my party line.
Then I suggest you'll hum the line "Everything is going in the wrong direction". After that you do the Kinks-line: "I wish I had a more direct connection".
If the melody isn't (almost) the same, I'm now officially a Belieber
Yep - I have seen the light Dandy. I'll be over later with a case of wine and some Puertan Rican gals to celebrate. ><
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SMH? A useless filler
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I really like Keys To Your Love. Should have been the single, imo. It's up there with No Use In Crying.
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"I thought you were dinner, but you were the shark"
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"I thought you were dinner, but you were the shark"
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Naturalust
The tune starts out strong, nice guitar sounds and then as soon as Mick starts singing the tune begins to suck. Something about the way he sings this one makes me think he should have saved it for a solo record. It doesn't belong on a Stones release. peace
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mtaylor
They have a tendency to publish boring songs instead of the good ones that were left out - fx missing out Under the Radar from ABB instead of Sweet Neo Con.....
Strictly Memphis instead of Back to Zero
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They have a tendency to publish boring songs instead of the good ones that were left out - fx missing out Under the Radar from ABB instead of Sweet Neo Con.....
Strictly Memphis instead of Back to Zero
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I really like all four of the Licks tracks, you're all just bigoted against anyhing that doesn't sound like it was recorded in the 60's
Thanks for reminding me ... if there's any song worse than Stealing My Heart, it's Keys To Your Love. Losing My Touch is slightly better than both of those.Quote
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I really like Keys To Your Love. Should have been the single, imo. It's up there with No Use In Crying.
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LeonidPThanks for reminding me ... if there's any song worse than Stealing My Heart, it's Keys To Your Love. Losing My Touch is slightly better than both of those.Quote
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I really like Keys To Your Love. Should have been the single, imo. It's up there with No Use In Crying.
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LeonidPThanks for reminding me ... if there's any song worse than Stealing My Heart, it's Keys To Your Love. Losing My Touch is slightly better than both of those.Quote
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I really like Keys To Your Love. Should have been the single, imo. It's up there with No Use In Crying.
You like fake-garage, I like soul. Fair enough...
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LeonidPThanks for reminding me ... if there's any song worse than Stealing My Heart, it's Keys To Your Love. Losing My Touch is slightly better than both of those.Quote
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I really like Keys To Your Love. Should have been the single, imo. It's up there with No Use In Crying.
You like fake-garage, I like soul. Fair enough...
Okay, but we were discussingthesethat terrible songs...