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Undercover (Of The Night)
Tie You Up
Too Tough
All The Way Down
One Hit (To The Body)
Continental Drift
Blinded By Love
Slipping Away
Blinded By Rainbows
Saint Of Me
Dangerous Beauty
Back Of My Hand
Plundered My Soul
No Spare Parts
Doom And Gloom
An extremely difficult list to pare down for me. Surprisingly perhaps lots off ABB that I wanted to include but ended up trimming, Rough Justice, SSMC, This Place Is Empty, Rain Falls Down.
Yep, same here! But, like you, I ended up including more Undercover material
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My 'Best Of '83 - present' would be the entire track list of Undercover. I love that album and do not put it at all in the category of the 5 LPs released in the 32 years that followed.
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My 'Best Of '83 - present' would be the entire track list of Undercover. I love that album and do not put it at all in the category of the 5 LPs released in the 32 years that followed.
This. I see that album as kind of the last gasp from the creative early Wood years.
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Very hard to compile this because the first 10 songs would be taken straight from Under Cover and that would leave only 5 empty spaces for the rest of the five albums Best of 1986-2015 would be totally different situation...
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Very hard to compile this because the first 10 songs would be taken straight from Under Cover and that would leave only 5 empty spaces for the rest of the five albums Best of 1986-2015 would be totally different situation...
You find It Must Be Hell to be superior of How Can I Stop, Almost Hear You Sigh, Love Is Strong and Doom And Gloom? OK...
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My 'Best Of '83 - present' would be the entire track list of Undercover. I love that album and do not put it at all in the category of the 5 LPs released in the 32 years that followed.
This. I see that album as kind of the last gasp from the creative early Wood years.
I think that's a bit of a stretch, but I can relate to what you're saying. ER and U were the last real albums from "the old" band. From DW and on there were new producers involved, as well as new musicians who would form a new touring band.
For me, songs like Continental Drift, How Can I Stop and Laugh, I Nearly Died also show a creative band. Even Thru And Thru is breaking new ground in a way.
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My 'Best Of '83 - present' would be the entire track list of Undercover. I love that album and do not put it at all in the category of the 5 LPs released in the 32 years that followed.
This. I see that album as kind of the last gasp from the creative early Wood years.
I think that's a bit of a stretch, but I can relate to what you're saying. ER and U were the last real albums from "the old" band. From DW and on there were new producers involved, as well as new musicians who would form a new touring band.
For me, songs like Continental Drift, How Can I Stop and Laugh, I Nearly Died also show a creative band. Even Thru And Thru is breaking new ground in a way.
Yeah, that's what I mean. I like some stuff from the later albums(excluding DW), but Undercover just "smiles" with energy to me, whereas the following ones don't. Some that I do like:
Almost Hear You Sigh
Slipping Away
Jump on Top of Me
Saint of Me
Flip The Switch
She Saw Me Coming off the top of my head.
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My 'Best Of '83 - present' would be the entire track list of Undercover. I love that album and do not put it at all in the category of the 5 LPs released in the 32 years that followed.
This. I see that album as kind of the last gasp from the creative early Wood years.
I think that's a bit of a stretch, but I can relate to what you're saying. ER and U were the last real albums from "the old" band. From DW and on there were new producers involved, as well as new musicians who would form a new touring band.
For me, songs like Continental Drift, How Can I Stop and Laugh, I Nearly Died also show a creative band. Even Thru And Thru is breaking new ground in a way.
Yeah, that's what I mean. I like some stuff from the later albums(excluding DW), but Undercover just "smiles" with energy to me, whereas the following ones don't. Some that I do like:
Almost Hear You Sigh
Slipping Away
Jump on Top of Me
Saint of Me
Flip The Switch
She Saw Me Coming off the top of my head.
Even though I don't see UNDERCOVER as a very strong album, I also think that it is the last of the mohicaans kind of album of the 'old band'. There are experimental, current things - very different what they had done before - but still I think the sound of teh band is based on that same feel and concept they mastered in those Pathe Marconi sessions, and we had used to in SOME GIRLS and EMOTIONAL RESCUE albums (to an extent in TATTOO YOU). Call it 'Pathe Marconi groove' or something. The modern sounds they apply there sound to me almost like a make up thing, and I have never really been too convinced of the claimed experimental, contemporary nature of the album. (Part of me thinks that Jagger was neither.) There probably are two or three tracks they clearly are trying to update their sound and sound 'different' ("Undercover of The Night", "Too Much Blood", and the experimental jam "Feel On Baby").
But that they still mostly had that 'Pathe Marconi groove' there, most of the songs sounding like were born from endless jams, which probably in 1983 started to sound stubborn, 'by-numbers' and repitive, is I think the lasting merit of UNDERCOVER - no other album ever since has been able to give us that classical Stones band effort feel - all the cylinders on. There was nothing wrong with the band (no matter how much Mick and Keith were supposedly hating each other); if the individual songs just been a bit more memorable we would have a winner there. But despite its faults, I think UNDERCOVER is clearly a better album than any of its followers. Like said, belongs to different category altogether.
It is also that kind of classical Stones album that there are so much little, interesting - almost transcendental - things going on there, that it alawys offers some new things to discover by each new listening - and still the mystery remains to ask one more listening; the mystery is never solved (I hope)... All the albums ever since have been so explicit - by almost one listening one can hearr everything one possibly can, and there would be no any mystery left...
- Doxa
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Even though I don't see UNDERCOVER as a very strong album, I also think that it is the last of the mohicaans kind of album of the 'old band'.
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Keys To Your Love
Sweet Neo-con
Back to Zero
Gunface
Blinded by Rainbows
Blinded by Love
Streets of Love
Sweethearts Together
Little Baby
Fight
Anyway You Look at It
Rocks Off (from Live Licks)
Biggest Mistake
This Place is Empty
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<<ER and U were the last real albums from "the old" band. From DW and on there were new producers involved, as well as new musicians who would form a new touring band.>>
Add to this, Dirty Work was the first product of the fortysomething Stones, and with the way things imploded on all fronts represents a middle age crisis for the band. And once you reach that point, there's no turning back to the way you were, unless you want to try and pretend. Consequently, the band that once was, all the way up to 1982, returned in 1989 a slick professional multinational corporation, a kind of larger than life Traveling Minstrels Incorporated, and the portfolio has been well diversified ever since.
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Yes, to me Under Cover is also the last album that can hold many listenings from start to end. Of course there are also good songs on later albums but they're different. UC still has that old feeling. To me it'd be easier to compile 1986-2015 album. I just thought this isn't that serious issue ;-)