How people don't hear this tune as magnificent I don't understand. Easily the top 3 songs by Keith on any Stones LP. All three are excellent.

Quintessentially Keith Richards and, by extension, quintessentially The Rolling Stones.

The Stones tracks featuring Richards lead vocals from the period 1980 to 2005 never cease to amaze me.

There are times when I lay awake at night thinking that little in the Stones catalogue from the 1960s and 1970s can compete with these stunning Richards-driven numbers.

Individually and collectively they possess a depth and an honesty, above all else, that elevates them above much of the band's output.

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Olly.

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The Stones tracks featuring Richards lead vocals from the period 1980 to 2005 never cease to amaze me.

All of them? Infamy included?

Drew

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The Stones tracks featuring Richards lead vocals from the period 1980 to 2005 never cease to amaze me.

All of them? Infamy included?

Drew

Yes, that statement reads as being deliberately provocative doesn't it (), but it wasn't intended as such... I should have qualified: some are better than others.

'Can't Be Seen' is the weakest, and 'Wanna Hold You' and 'Thru and Thru' are the weakest lyrically although both have their merits, especially the former.

'Infamy' was my favourite track on A Bigger Bang when I first heard the album. The drums are fantastic and the lyrics, wry as they are in places, fit Richards' persona perfectly.


Whilst the opposite could be said of other(s) in the band, Richards voice, in every sense, seems to have grown in sincerity since the turn of the 1980s.

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Olly.

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The Stones tracks featuring Richards lead vocals from the period 1980 to 2005 never cease to amaze me.

All of them? Infamy included?

Drew

Yes, that statement reads as being deliberately provocative doesn't it (), but it wasn't intended as such... I should have qualified: some are better than others.

'Can't Be Seen' is the weakest, and 'Wanna Hold You' and 'Thru and Thru' are the weakest lyrically although both have their merits, especially the former.

'Infamy' was my favourite track on A Bigger Bang when I first heard the album. The drums are fantastic and the lyrics, wry as they are in places, fit Richards' persona perfectly.


Whilst the opposite could be said of other(s) in the band, Richards voice, in every sense, seems to have grown in sincerity since the turn of the 1980s.

I was going to say, Drewmaster, that what Olly said does not imply it's all good. Just that they "never cease to amaze" him!

A little Down in Mississippi feel to it. Love it.

For me the most boring song on the Bridges-Album. And it sounds weired, needless to say that it´s tooooooo loooong.
Two minutes of ideas strechted out endlessly and it´s totally overproduced, maybe to camouflage the lack of ideas. A hopeless case.

I prefer stripped down arrangements and so I like Losing My Touch a lot, which is totally different. Losing My Touch is heartbreaking and leaves you breathless. Thief In The Night always leaves me bored to the max. Seconds turn into minutes if not hours of maximum boredom. For Keith-Lovers only.

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For me the most boring song on the Bridges-Album. And it sounds weired, needless to say that it´s tooooooo loooong.
Two minutes of ideas strechted out endlessly and it´s totally overproduced, maybe to camouflage the lack of ideas. A hopeless case.

Have to agree. Joke's on Keith with this one – while he’s singing this monotonous dirge, the woman he’s planning to pluck flew the coop with his guitar tuner.

It isn't a Stones tune, but one of my favorite Keith songs is "Say It's Not You" from the Bradley Barn Sessions with George Jones! Absolutely amazing! Dig it!

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The Stones tracks featuring Richards lead vocals from the period 1980 to 2005 never cease to amaze me.

All of them? Infamy included?

Drew

Infamy amazes me every time. Not in my worst nightmares I thought such crap could ever end up on an album by The Rolling Stones. They should have included Under The Radar and kicked Infamy off. ABB is a very good latter-day-Stones-album, but with Streets Of Love and Infamy it also contains the maybe worst Stones-songs ever done in this glorious band´s history.

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It isn't a Stones tune, but one of my favorite Keith songs is "Say It's Not You" from the Bradley Barn Sessions with George Jones! Absolutely amazing! Dig it!

Very nice!!! Never heard this one before. Thanks boldasluv!

Drew

Howdy,
I hadn't heard "Say It's Not You" either, but a buddy made a CD of Keith's greatest hits and used that track to fill the CD. It ran from "You Got the Silver" to "Thief In the Night" and "How Can I Stop". He called it "Keef Sings" and it really is a good sampling of Keith's efforts.

Deaf ears for some. Or tuneless ears.

Yes love this track, Keith never fails to amaze me, its like he is making music for me personally, i love everything he does.
He could sing silent night or dancing queen and i would be happy
Its his voice and the way he phrases everything and that's not to mention the guitar. Plugged in or acoustic he just blows my mind.

This is one of Keith's best lead vocal songs with the Stones.

Don´t think so. It´s "Losing My Touch".
LMT is amazing.



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They don't even use a real piano anymore. On pianoheavy songs like Losing My Touch it really shows that lack of a real piano.

Who is the young lady singing with Bernard on this clip of Thief in the night from Istanbul '98?

[www.youtube.com]

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They don't even use a real piano anymore. On pianoheavy songs like Losing My Touch it really shows that lack of a real piano.

From all that I've read Losing My Touch does have piano in it, an acoustic piano, not a digital keyboard. It's even credited that way on the album for the song - Chuck Leavell - piano.

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Who is the young lady singing with Bernard on this clip of Thief in the night from Istanbul '98?

[www.youtube.com]

Leah Wood.

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Olly.

I am just re-watching 1980's "The Blues Brothers" and guess what during James Brown's sermon he says... "For the day of the Lord cometh... as a thief in the night!". His words exactly!

Weird huh? I'm sure Keith watched this film back in the day. Did the line come up to him more or less consciously 17 years later?

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I am just re-watching 1980's "The Blues Brothers" and guess what during James Brown's sermon he says... "For the day of the Lord cometh... as a thief in the night!". His words exactly!

Weird huh? I'm sure Keith watched this film back in the day. Did the line come up to him more or less consciously 17 years later?

Or maybe Keef knows his Bible quotes?
Thessalonians 5:2


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Bad.

Boring. I don't know why they played it in stadiums dozens of times. Makes no sense at all. I'm glad it disappeared after 1999 (with one exception).

They played it because they liked it. The fans loved it, too.

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They played it because they liked it. The fans loved it, too.

That is not my experience. More the opposite. People started talking to each other during that song or went for another beer (I was seated). The level of interest dropped a bit. At least in my section.

This was rather a toilet break-show stopper kind of thing. If people liked it then because of Leah Wood who was sweet at the time.



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Toilet break-song OR showstopper? Make up your mind

Soporific song...just like 'Losing my Touch'.

Thief In The Night .... So much better than the late '90's performances of "Miss You" , "You Got Me Rocking" etc. .

Probably was both a break song for some and a show-stopper for those who actually stayed to listen to it.

Most people who left obviously didn't even give the song a chance. Those people who think Jagger leaving the stage is their chance for a break and / or who didn't care about hearing a less recognizable slow tempo song. The same thing even happens with "Slipping Away" "All About You" and "You Got the Silver" . Even "No Expectations" WITH Jagger. This does not mean that they are bad song(s).