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GasLightStreet
how GYYYO! remains their best live release.
But it is heavily overdubbed!
You can make almost everything stellar by overdubbing, without technical tricks GYYO would be average at best, I suppose. GYYO: no competition for Shine A Light, which is a true and honest live document without putting on make-up afterwards like they did on GYYYO. How can you know that it is overdubbed and still think it´s their best live album...
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Silver Dagger
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Doxa
This is the soundtrack song of that crazy year 1968... The Stones probably would not ever again be so urgent and reflecting the zeitgeist as they then were with this song. If there is ever a use for the term 'relevance', it applies just here.
I've heard this kind of stuff before about "Street Fighting Man" and it bothers me. I remember 1968 pretty well. Those were turbulent times. All of the late 1960s were. I remember driving across Los Angeles with my mom during the Watts Riots and being stopped by heavily armed National Guardsmen. I remember the anger against the U.S. government during the Vietnam War.
Here's what bothers me about "Street Fighting Man": Rock stars just play at revolution.
"The time is right for violent revolution," Jagger sings. Could he actually stomach that kind of violet upheaval? All those stoned hippies from the 1960s who talked revolution only talked it.
I love the music itself in this song. Richards laid down a great guitar sound. But the lyrics always bothered me. I've been to several Stones concerts where they played this one, usually as an encore. I gazed at all the stoned people around me and thought, "This revolution is for play."
Anyway, these are just my thoughts. I never cared for all the 1960s calls for revolution and considered them phoney. The punk rock reaction to all that phoniness was wonderful and one of the reasons I liked early punk rock.
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stonesstein
Always loved Oasis' and Rod Stewart's cover versions of this classic
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Christiaan
There is a photo of the single Street Fighting Man and on the back side of it Everybody Needs SOMEONE To Love??
Is this a miss print? Does anyone know. I don’t have the single. And I don’t know of the song either. Can’t find it anywhere online either.
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Christiaan
There is a photo of the single Street Fighting Man and on the back side of it Everybody Needs SOMEONE To Love
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Doxa
Just watched V FOR VANDETTA - a not so bad British movie from 2006 about a totalitarian society in near future... And during the closing credits hitted "Street Fighting Man" in its total raw glory. So apt, so powerful, so distinctive, so ageless. Jeez, one of those moments when I could only think that this must be the greatest rock and roll song ever made.
Reminds me of what Joe Strummer once said about hearing it first time from radio: 'now I know what I want to do'.
- Doxa