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Can You Hear The Music:
Love is a mystery I can't demystify, oh no ....
(I'd leave this one on the disc, I like this song very much)
"Waiting On a Friend" would have made a good closer on side two,
just as it did on "Tattoo You" .....
"Hide Your Love" could have been left off ....
Maybe they could have included "Leather Jacket" somewhere on side B.
But, when I come to think of the running order, I'm really not sure where
to place it.
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"Goats Head Soup" has always been this "great mess of a slow burning aftermath" a year after highlight Exile On Main St.
I always thought the album had more potential with a different track order more in the vein of "Sticky Fingers".
Info on the sessions reveals Keith Richards was pretty out of it on smack and didn't come with much material and this is really clear when it comes to the opening track… Where is THAT great Keith riff from these sessions?
"Dancing With Mr. D" has never cut it for me - it is not one of Keith's great riff's - among the remaining tracks there is little to choose from - remember the kind of track we are looking for is in the league of Sympathy for The Devil, Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar, Rocks Off...
Star Star (@#$%&) has the attitude and the lyrics that has that provoking nastiness that Stones album opener was expected to have - but for me it's a little to traditional basic rock'n'roll number -music wise - to open up with - then there is "Silver Train" it has the energy - the great slide guitar work - Jaggers vocals are strong- but it's a close cousin' to "All Down The Line" and the band actually discovered upon playing them both live they cancelled each other out by similarity…
Then there is "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" which is the most commercial rock song on the album but it lacks the Keith riff - he plays bass on it - so no dice…
Then there is the outtake "Criss Cross Man (Save Me)" it has a Keith riff from the intro which build really well it has the mid tempo percussion-driven groove that swings that Stones way… It's not in the league of the before mentioned opening songs it seems a little under developed - but it does has the cool nasty lyrics "I think I need a blood transfusion" which can be understood all kinds of ways - Keith needs to get off drugs - the band needs his songwriting input - From Micks point of view the words "Save Me" can be understood quite literally - his songwriting partner is out cold at it starts to seriously affect his ability and i doing so the bands songwriting ability…
From that point of view it is not optimal - but the one-two-punch of
"Criss Cross Man (Save Me)" on to "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" does work quite well the on to "Wild Horses" of the record "Angie" - from the big regret of missing "Angie" on to the opening line of "Baby I've been so sad since you've been gone back to NYC where you do belong" right back back to the nasty side of things with "Star star" kind of what happened after "Angie" left... and ending side 1 of with the blues piano song "Hide Your Love" rounding out the love gone wrong cycle...
Then for opening side 2 - we've just had a "traditional" rock'n'roll song and a blues song - so breaking it up with the album's second big ballad "Winter" which lyrically looks forward to new things and summer and gives a surprise kind of dynamic switch. Then getting in the groove with a blues rocker" "Silver Train" and then the opening three songs from the original track order to round things out - the "Silver train" could have gone to New Orleans looking for dirty adventures and finding that Dr. John groove that isn't quite developed but still a cool song "Dancing With Mr. D" - "100 years Ago" gives that melodically older Stones feeling back to "Aftermath"/ "Between the Buttons" era and builds to a great climax before Keith's confession song the big third ballad "Coming Down Again" ends the album with lyrics about the Marocco trip with Brian Jones & Anita Pallenberg where Keith tries to justify his involvement with Anita Pallenberg "Slip my tongue in someone else's pie tasting' better every time" but "Being hungry ain't no crime"
And then the conclusion "Coming Down Again"… which is the state Keith suffers from in the 70's…
Yes I never liked "Can You Hear The Music" in the context of "Goats Head Soup" it already has enough slow songs so a b-side for that one…
Criss Cross Man (Save Me)
Doo doo doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
Angie
Star Star
Hide Your Love
Winter
Silver Train
Dancing With Mr. D
100 Years Ago
Coming Down Again
Well Anybody out there who agrees/disagrees can come up with something better?
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It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
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It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
I really really really really really really really really really really could do with the awful Angie.
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It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
I really really really really really really really really really really could do with the awful Angie.
Corny girl-themed songs don't do it for some. Generally the same goes for me, but I still love Angie.
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It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
I really really really really really really really really really really could do with the awful Angie.
Corny girl-themed songs don't do it for some. Generally the same goes for me, but I still love Angie.
It's possibly their most over-played single ever. That could be a toss up between Honky Tonk Women, Miss You and... well, Angie. Perhaps Angie is the most annoying.
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It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
I really really really really really really really really really really could do with the awful Angie.
Corny girl-themed songs don't do it for some. Generally the same goes for me, but I still love Angie.
It's possibly their most over-played single ever. That could be a toss up between Honky Tonk Women, Miss You and... well, Angie. Perhaps Angie is the most annoying.
If you get annoyed by beautiful music and singing, then sure.
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LeonidP
It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
I really really really really really really really really really really could do with the awful Angie.
Corny girl-themed songs don't do it for some. Generally the same goes for me, but I still love Angie.
It's possibly their most over-played single ever. That could be a toss up between Honky Tonk Women, Miss You and... well, Angie. Perhaps Angie is the most annoying.
If you get annoyed by beautiful music and singing, then sure.
Saccharine.
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It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
I really really really really really really really really really really could do with the awful Angie.
Corny girl-themed songs don't do it for some. Generally the same goes for me, but I still love Angie.
It's possibly their most over-played single ever. That could be a toss up between Honky Tonk Women, Miss You and... well, Angie. Perhaps Angie is the most annoying.
If you get annoyed by beautiful music and singing, then sure.
Saccharine.
Really? It's known it is about an actual person, hinted possibly of even being about Angie Bowie.
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half these tracks shouldn't have been released at all, until possibly a 2020 deluxe edition. the exile and sticky fingers cutting room floor songs are better than 80% of GHS
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It suffers from following the big 4 ... other than that it's a perfectly fine album as is -- no need to change anything here, I'll take the original, as is.
I really really really really really really really really really really could do with the awful Angie.
Corny girl-themed songs don't do it for some. Generally the same goes for me, but I still love Angie.
It's possibly their most over-played single ever. That could be a toss up between Honky Tonk Women, Miss You and... well, Angie. Perhaps Angie is the most annoying.
If you get annoyed by beautiful music and singing, then sure.
Saccharine.
Really? It's known it is about an actual person, hinted possibly of even being about Angie Bowie.
Yes, really.
The hint about Angela Bowie... it's tired.
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LeonidP
Really? It's known it is about an actual person, hinted possibly of even being about Angie Bowie.
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LeonidP
Really? It's known it is about an actual person, hinted possibly of even being about Angie Bowie.
Yes, really.
The hint about Angela Bowie... it's tired.