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NICOS
Indeed a great darky tune..... I was very surprised hearing this song the first time way back....
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DandelionPowderman
I listened to this one the other day, and just love that creepy feeling when Mick comes in. Good stuff. The Stones's Green Onions
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I listened to this one the other day, and just love that creepy feeling when Mick comes in. Good stuff. The Stones's Green Onions
agree, completely!
it has been mine and liddas'group opening song ...
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Indeed a great darky tune..... I was very surprised hearing this song the first time way back....
I think you meant 'dark' there NICOS. Darky is not a nice word and is a derogatory term for black people.
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<It has aged better than the poppish A-side "I Wanna be Your Man" (despite its screaming performance to hide its stupidness).>
Wow!
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<It has aged better than the poppish A-side "I Wanna be Your Man" (despite its screaming performance to hide its stupidness).>
Wow!
Well, I think the lyrics of "I Wanna Be Your man" are simply childish (Dylan made fun of them some day...) and the melody, with those mersey beat chord changes in the chorus, actually annoys me. A mediocre, if even bad pop song by nature (no wonder 'they' give it to Ringo to sing...). I think neither the Stones appreciated the song at all (of course, they know its commercial potentiality, Lennon-McCartney and everything...) and they sound like playing against it, and that 'punk' attitude - like that Pistlos dude once did to "My Way" - is what is so great in their version of the song. That tension between the form and the content. The Stones are 'raping' a pop song by their raw rhythm & blues.
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It is very primitive and formal yet, but seeds for upcoming greats are to be heard there.
An interesting song indeed!
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It is very primitive and formal yet, but seeds for upcoming greats are to be heard there.
An interesting song indeed!
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You made me listen to it again Doxa and I've heard the seeds of Midnight Rambler, especially the part when they go into their amazing instrumental overdrive when Jagger starts playing the harp.
There's also that darkness, that Come On mentioned, and which again is the essential ingredient in colouring the sound of Midnight Rambler.
Both these songs aren't looking at the pop horizon or at the glittery bright lights and big city that Oldham took them to. These are songs born in the basement, inhabiting a space down there in the hole where the blues lives and where the ventilator don't work so well.
And more than anything this is the essence of the Stones, the soul of the band and the part that has been missing for so long.
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Doxa
It is very primitive and formal yet, but seeds for upcoming greats are to be heard there.
An interesting song indeed!
- Doxa
You made me listen to it again Doxa and I've heard the seeds of Midnight Rambler, especially the part when they go into their amazing instrumental overdrive when Jagger starts playing the harp.
There's also that darkness, that Come On mentioned, and which again is the essential ingredient in colouring the sound of Midnight Rambler.
Both these songs aren't looking at the pop horizon or at the glittery bright lights and big city that Oldham took them to. These are songs born in the basement, inhabiting a space down there in the hole where the blues lives and where the ventilator don't work so well.
And more than anything this is the essence of the Stones, the soul of the band and the part that has been missing for so long.
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Doxa
It is very primitive and formal yet, but seeds for upcoming greats are to be heard there.
An interesting song indeed!
- Doxa
You made me listen to it again Doxa and I've heard the seeds of Midnight Rambler, especially the part when they go into their amazing instrumental overdrive when Jagger starts playing the harp.
There's also that darkness, that Come On mentioned, and which again is the essential ingredient in colouring the sound of Midnight Rambler.
Both these songs aren't looking at the pop horizon or at the glittery bright lights and big city that Oldham took them to. These are songs born in the basement, inhabiting a space down there in the hole where the blues lives and where the ventilator don't work so well.
And more than anything this is the essence of the Stones, the soul of the band and the part that has been missing for so long.
An inspired Dagger
Do you think any of them would in their wildest imagination have thought people would be discussing this song 50 + years later? I'm sure we've spent more time discussing than they spent writing and recording it.
A great tune BTW.
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