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S.T.P
I thought I was the only one that doesn't think Exile is the best album in the Stones catalouge. As mentioned above Rocks Off and Casino Boogie are songs that comes to mind when argueing for what a great album it is. Rocks Off opends the album like Brown Sugar does and I'd say that is a good example: BS is one of their biggest classics while Rocks off more or less is a forgotten filler. When it comes to the classics on Exile, there are songs like Happy which in my opinion are porly played. Look what happened to Midnight Rambler from the studio version till the finished Ya Yas version. To me it's almost the same. The song is great but doesn' t reach to its potential before the whole band play it live on the american tour the year after it probably was recorded. If they had released the live version from '72, Happy would have been an elimentary classic on ther greatest hits albums. For me, Exile boils down to one perfect song (TS) and two really good songs ADTL and Ventilator Blues. The rest sounds like fillers, some great, others not. Anyway it's a huge amount of fillers for a double album. In general, I think, that many albums miss the great playing that Sticky Fingers has, and I beleave that particular album was more a democratic band thing than many of the other albums from their greatest periode.
Anyway I hope that I haven't offend anyone.
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I thought I was the only one that doesn't think Exile is the best album in the Stones catalouge. As mentioned above Rocks Off and Casino Boogie are songs that comes to mind when argueing for what a great album it is. Rocks Off opends the album like Brown Sugar does and I'd say that is a good example: BS is one of their biggest classics while Rocks off more or less is a forgotten filler. When it comes to the classics on Exile, there are songs like Happy which in my opinion are porly played. Look what happened to Midnight Rambler from the studio version till the finished Ya Yas version. To me it's almost the same. The song is great but doesn' t reach to its potential before the whole band play it live on the american tour the year after it probably was recorded. If they had released the live version from '72, Happy would have been an elimentary classic on ther greatest hits albums. For me, Exile boils down to one perfect song (TS) and two really good songs ADTL and Ventilator Blues. The rest sounds like fillers, some great, others not. Anyway it's a huge amount of fillers for a double album. In general, I think, that many albums miss the great playing that Sticky Fingers has, and I beleave that particular album was more a democratic band thing than many of the other albums from their greatest periode.
Anyway I hope that I haven't offend anyone.
What's TS?
Let It Loose and All Down The Line are amongst the best they've done.
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I thought I was the only one that doesn't think Exile is the best album in the Stones catalouge. As mentioned above Rocks Off and Casino Boogie are songs that comes to mind when argueing for what a great album it is. Rocks Off opends the album like Brown Sugar does and I'd say that is a good example: BS is one of their biggest classics while Rocks off more or less is a forgotten filler. When it comes to the classics on Exile, there are songs like Happy which in my opinion are porly played. Look what happened to Midnight Rambler from the studio version till the finished Ya Yas version. To me it's almost the same. The song is great but doesn' t reach to its potential before the whole band play it live on the american tour the year after it probably was recorded. If they had released the live version from '72, Happy would have been an elimentary classic on ther greatest hits albums. For me, Exile boils down to one perfect song (TS) and two really good songs ADTL and Ventilator Blues. The rest sounds like fillers, some great, others not. Anyway it's a huge amount of fillers for a double album. In general, I think, that many albums miss the great playing that Sticky Fingers has, and I beleave that particular album was more a democratic band thing than many of the other albums from their greatest periode.
Anyway I hope that I haven't offend anyone.
What's TS?
Let It Loose and All Down The Line are amongst the best they've done.
Probably Tumbling Dice
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I thought I was the only one that doesn't think Exile is the best album in the Stones catalouge. As mentioned above Rocks Off and Casino Boogie are songs that comes to mind when argueing for what a great album it is. Rocks Off opends the album like Brown Sugar does and I'd say that is a good example: BS is one of their biggest classics while Rocks off more or less is a forgotten filler. When it comes to the classics on Exile, there are songs like Happy which in my opinion are porly played. Look what happened to Midnight Rambler from the studio version till the finished Ya Yas version. To me it's almost the same. The song is great but doesn' t reach to its potential before the whole band play it live on the american tour the year after it probably was recorded. If they had released the live version from '72, Happy would have been an elimentary classic on ther greatest hits albums. For me, Exile boils down to one perfect song (TS) and two really good songs ADTL and Ventilator Blues. The rest sounds like fillers, some great, others not. Anyway it's a huge amount of fillers for a double album. In general, I think, that many albums miss the great playing that Sticky Fingers has, and I beleave that particular album was more a democratic band thing than many of the other albums from their greatest periode.
Anyway I hope that I haven't offend anyone.
What's TS?
Let It Loose and All Down The Line are amongst the best they've done.
Probably Tumbling Dice
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GasLightStreet
Of course, somehow it's just glazed over for some people that part of EOMS is from the SF sessions. But whatever. Rocks Off is killer Stones. A majority of EOMS is killer stones. Sure there are some tunes that are not up enough but whatever. Turd is a monster. Filler? It may be - but it's killer filler. The weakest track is Sweet Black Angel... in terms of overallness. But in regard to the LP, it works, it fits, it's just fine.
I've been one to say EOMS works great as a single LP running time - which it does. How one can deny that is idiotic: it's still great. But the journey that the album is, there's no topping that.
I'm not one to say it's their greatest LP ever - that's always a battle between LET IT BLEED and STICKY FINGERS, but it's easily in the Top 5, and considering their catalogue, that says a lot.
Happy could not've been done better. It's a brilliant tune. So it Tumbling Dice. And quite a few others. There's no way around that.
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GasLightStreet
Happy could not've been done better. It's a brilliant tune. So it Tumbling Dice. And quite a few others. There's no way around that.
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GasLightStreet
Happy could not've been done better. It's a brilliant tune. So it Tumbling Dice. And quite a few others. There's no way around that.
One might argue that :
"Happy" sounds unfinished - it was recorded in a single afternoon.
TD is a masterpiece - it was rehearsed over entire days.
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I thought I was the only one that doesn't think Exile is the best album in the Stones catalouge. As mentioned above Rocks Off and Casino Boogie are songs that comes to mind when argueing for what a great album it is. Rocks Off opends the album like Brown Sugar does and I'd say that is a good example: BS is one of their biggest classics while Rocks off more or less is a forgotten filler. When it comes to the classics on Exile, there are songs like Happy which in my opinion are porly played. Look what happened to Midnight Rambler from the studio version till the finished Ya Yas version. To me it's almost the same. The song is great but doesn' t reach to its potential before the whole band play it live on the american tour the year after it probably was recorded. If they had released the live version from '72, Happy would have been an elimentary classic on ther greatest hits albums. For me, Exile boils down to one perfect song (TS) and two really good songs ADTL and Ventilator Blues. The rest sounds like fillers, some great, others not. Anyway it's a huge amount of fillers for a double album. In general, I think, that many albums miss the great playing that Sticky Fingers has, and I beleave that particular album was more a democratic band thing than many of the other albums from their greatest periode.
Anyway I hope that I haven't offend anyone.
What's TS?
Let It Loose and All Down The Line are amongst the best they've done.
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GasLightStreet
Happy could not've been done better. It's a brilliant tune. So it Tumbling Dice. And quite a few others. There's no way around that.
One might argue that :
"Happy" sounds unfinished - it was recorded in a single afternoon.
TD is a masterpiece - it was rehearsed over entire days.
Yet it sounds excellent.
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GasLightStreet
Happy could not've been done better. It's a brilliant tune. So it Tumbling Dice. And quite a few others. There's no way around that.
One might argue that :
"Happy" sounds unfinished - it was recorded in a single afternoon.
TD is a masterpiece - it was rehearsed over entire days.
Yet it sounds excellent.
Yes it's perfect the way it is. Keith knew exactly what he wanted, and when to call it a day with it.
Why keep polishing something that already shines like a diamond?
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GasLightStreet
Happy could not've been done better. It's a brilliant tune. So it Tumbling Dice. And quite a few others. There's no way around that.
One might argue that :
"Happy" sounds unfinished - it was recorded in a single afternoon.
TD is a masterpiece - it was rehearsed over entire days.
Yet it sounds excellent.
Yes it's perfect the way it is. Keith knew exactly what he wanted, and when to call it a day with it.
Why keep polishing something that already shines like a diamond?
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mtaylorSweet Virginia and Loving Cup!!Quote
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I thought I was the only one that doesn't think Exile is the best album in the Stones catalouge. As mentioned above Rocks Off and Casino Boogie are songs that comes to mind when argueing for what a great album it is. Rocks Off opends the album like Brown Sugar does and I'd say that is a good example: BS is one of their biggest classics while Rocks off more or less is a forgotten filler. When it comes to the classics on Exile, there are songs like Happy which in my opinion are porly played. Look what happened to Midnight Rambler from the studio version till the finished Ya Yas version. To me it's almost the same. The song is great but doesn' t reach to its potential before the whole band play it live on the american tour the year after it probably was recorded. If they had released the live version from '72, Happy would have been an elimentary classic on ther greatest hits albums. For me, Exile boils down to one perfect song (TS) and two really good songs ADTL and Ventilator Blues. The rest sounds like fillers, some great, others not. Anyway it's a huge amount of fillers for a double album. In general, I think, that many albums miss the great playing that Sticky Fingers has, and I beleave that particular album was more a democratic band thing than many of the other albums from their greatest periode.
Anyway I hope that I haven't offend anyone.
What's TS?
Let It Loose and All Down The Line are amongst the best they've done.
Probably Tumbling Dice
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mickschix
I know what you mean, THE GREEK! I saw 2 shows in Boston in 2013 and I got to see Mick T play on SWAY! A real thrill, and of course the final bow was a real treat. MT was NOT at the Brooklyn show that I went to and that was a huge disappointment! ( Dec 0f 2012). Will we EVER know the real reasons why he did not continue touring with the Stones?
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RollingFreak
I'm so so happy I got to see him in Philadelphia on that tour. I said I would never see the Stones again after 2006, and I meant it. Had only seen them once, but for their prices and usually their setlist, once IS enough (at this stage in the game. They aren't getting "better"). And I had amazing side stage seats when I saw them. I'll save the money I'd spend on them a second time and use it towards someone else I've never seen (Petty, David Gilmour, Bob Dylan, list is long).
But when it was confirmed Mick Taylor was back, even for a song or two, I had to go. Its the ONLY thing that would get me to go to a Stones show again, short of it being free or really cheap, which it usually never is. I was lucky enough to get one of the cheap "sit anywhere" tickets (which was basically me just paying $90 to sit in the rafters), but whatever it was totally worth it. The sheer joy I felt when the lights went out and they burst into Can't You Hear Me Knockin' is something indescribable. Midnight Rambler just killed. It was worth spending the money to finally see Taylor back on that stage with them, not to mention that the Stones sounded better and had a better set this time around. NOW, I'll most likely never be back at a Stones show, but that Philly show was everything I ever needed.