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Naturalust
Love this tune. Not quite as good as Ventilator Blues but a good cover tune for the Stones. They made it their own. Mick's harp is outstanding on this one and it fits on Exile very well. I wonder if they played this at Nellcote? Seems like a good dirty basement tune. peace

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Naturalust
Love this tune. Not quite as good as Ventilator Blues but a good cover tune for the Stones. They made it their own. Mick's harp is outstanding on this one and it fits on Exile very well. I wonder if they played this at Nellcote? Seems like a good dirty basement tune. peace

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DandelionPowderman
It's a great, great groove, and this track is one of my absolute favourites on Exile. The sound, the playing and the muddy atmosphere... With all this, repetition becomes a blessing

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DandelionPowderman
It's a great, great groove, and this track is one of my absolute favourites on Exile. The sound, the playing and the muddy atmosphere... With all this, repetition becomes a blessing

I couldn't have said it better. Completely agree.

(I am embarrassed to admit that once upon a time I too thought that it was Keith on rhythm. I was shocked when I learned otherwise.)

-R

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whitem8
Taylor elevates the song to the blues stratosphere. How his lead crescendos against Mick's vocals and harp. Oh and that harp? WHEW! One of Jagger's best harp tracks.

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71Tele
Fantastic gritty guitar by Jagger, as well as great harp. Stinging slide work from Taylor. The rhythm section stomps and kicks like nobody's business. The tension builds beautifully...The Stones at their blues best, and yet a few here find fault with it. Incredible.

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liddas
What tuning is Taylor on this?

C

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liddas
What tuning is Taylor on this?

C

Open G, most likely.

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drewmaster
Apologies to Exile worshippers, but IMO this track just does not measure up to the Stones’ best blues covers. It is bland, repetitive, and tiresome, Charlie is buried way too deep in the mix, and Jagger’s delivery seems forced.

Drew

Everything you said is wrong.

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drewmaster
Apologies to Exile worshippers, but IMO this track just does not measure up to the Stones’ best blues covers. It is bland, repetitive, and tiresome, Charlie is buried way too deep in the mix, and Jagger’s delivery seems forced.

Drew

Everything you said is wrong.

That's not a very nice thing to say. (And I tip my hat to everyone else here for biting their tongue). I truly would love to appreciate the magic of this song, as it was created by the band that I so dearly love, and in their artistic heyday, but for some reason I just can't. Does that make me "wrong"? Nope, it just means there's one less song out there that I can get my rocks off to. Music chooses us, not the other way around. It's my loss, not yours, so there's no need to be hostile.

Drew

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Palace Revolution 2000
Has anyone mentioned jagger's harp howls? Those blasts of "WHOO" he throws in every once in a while?. I remember when I first used to listen to this track as a kid, I never knew what made that sound, but I kept coming back for it. And also thw way Jagger comes back in with the verse "I love mhy baby 99 degree"

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Doxa
One of the tracks in EXILE that immedeately made a huge impression for me. Being such an angry, straightforward blues number, with one of the dirtiest guitars they ever have done, it didn't need time to grew on me, unlike with many other EXILE tracks. It hit just right home, like "Rocks Off" did. I naturally assumed that it was Richards on the rhythm guitar, and I kind of thought that that's so pure and raw Richards, played with such an attitude, no other cat can do (I even started to think Keith's playing in terms of that number). So it was a huge surprise when I finally realized that it was Jagger... A similar thing that happened with "The Last Time", another 'signature Keith riff' for me at the time. You live and learn..

The careful, sublime reading and study of 30's country blues numbers, that they mastered in BEGGARS ("Prodigal Son"), LET IT BLEED ("LOve In Vain"), and to an extent still in STICKY FINGERS ("You Gotta Move") was now transformed into straight-forward 70's loud electric guitar-heavy orgy. There is not one drop of Delta left, but pure blues rock; if the Chicago cats tranformed acoustic solo numbers into electric band stuff, that so much impressed the British r&b groups of the 60's, the Stones updated the latter into 70's sound, played by the greatest rock and roll band in the world. Could be even some Johnny Winter influence there. But I guess Robert Johnson must be smiling somewhere out there, 'those devils got it, man...'

Basically, a 'modern' blues can get not much easier, text-book like, and recording it must have taken just a few minutes, and not much thinking, but shit, kids, don't try that at home... You NEVER gonna sound as bad and mean and dangerous and distinct as these guys do. The sound, man... They just were so red hot, each contributor having so much idiosyncratic color in their touch. (Unfortunately, not much, if anything, of that was left when the Stones played the song as a guest number during 1994/95. Especially Jagger's bored and boring vocals are lamer than ever.)

The passion. That's what it is.

- Doxa

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Christian
Someone knows what means 'I love my baby, ninety-nine degrees'?

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Christian
Someone knows what means 'I love my baby, ninety-nine degrees'?

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Silver Dagger

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Christian
Someone knows what means 'I love my baby, ninety-nine degrees'?

The 99 degree heat created by the friction of their furious love making. ><

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NICOS

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Christian
Someone knows what means 'I love my baby, ninety-nine degrees'?

The 99 degree heat created by the friction of their furious love making. ><

And if you get tired you take the 180 degree

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Silver Dagger
The sound of those two guitars rocking from side to side, speaker to speaker and sliding from top to bottom is nothing short of magnificent. It's a great kinetic energy and almost hypnotic in its simplicity.