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Turner68
Hairball I rarely disagree with you, but this time I do. The fact that the Stones didn't write You Gotta Move, or perform it as "authentically" as Fred McDowell does not reflect on whether or not it is a great track on Sticky Fingers
The Stones present their own arrangement of the song, and in some people's opinion (mine included), it's dynamite. In particular, I think Charlie's drumming is great, and I love the background singing.
But thanks to everyone who answered my question - before I didn't understand why some people give it a 0 or 1 out of 10, and now I do. I maintain my 10/10 rating for it however.
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Naturalust
Comparing SF to ER is like comparing CrossEyed Heart to Exile, there is always going to be someone willing to go there but it doesn't really hold water.
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Comparing SF to ER is like comparing CrossEyed Heart to Exile, there is always going to be someone willing to go there but it doesn't really hold water.
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Hairball
Merry Christmas Naturalust, and may Crosseyed Heart some day sooth your soul in the same way Exile does (yeah I know you're already over it).
That comparison may not hold water for you, but it does for me and that's really all that matters.
Cheers!
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whitem8
Most overrated album? That I can't abide by! A classic. Set the template for classic British blues-rock in the 70s.
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HMS
I´m wondering why all of you are loving Moonlight Mile. It never appealed to me and never will.
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I´m wondering why all of you are loving Moonlight Mile. It never appealed to me and never will.
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whitem8
Most overrated album? That I can't abide by! A classic. Set the template for classic British blues-rock in the 70s.
It might be comments like that which make him say it's overrated... just saying ;-)
Eric Clapton was doing some interesting blues-rock work in 69,70 and 71...
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whitem8
Most overrated album? That I can't abide by! A classic. Set the template for classic British blues-rock in the 70s.
It might be comments like that which make him say it's overrated... just saying ;-)
Eric Clapton was doing some interesting blues-rock work in 69,70 and 71...
Clapton has never done anything that could come close to Exile.
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Naturalust
Comparing SF to ER is like comparing CrossEyed Heart to Exile, there is always going to be someone willing to go there but it doesn't really hold water.
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HMS
I´m wondering why all of you are loving Moonlight Mile. It never appealed to me and never will.
i dont know. I used to hate it. It took me many many years before i started to enjoy it.Quote
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I´m wondering why all of you are loving Moonlight Mile. It never appealed to me and never will.
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whitem8
Most overrated album? That I can't abide by! A classic. Set the template for classic British blues-rock in the 70s.
It might be comments like that which make him say it's overrated... just saying ;-)
Eric Clapton was doing some interesting blues-rock work in 69,70 and 71...
Clapton has never done anything that could come close to Exile.
Of course. That's irrelevant however since the comment was about sticky fingers and British blues-rock; there is very little British blues-rock on Sticky Fingers (only a couple tracks). Bitch and Brown Sugar are straight ahead rock, Wild Horses a country-flavored ballad, Dead Flowers country, Moonlight Mile a ballad, Sister Morphine certainly not rock at all although definitely blues inspired, and You Got to Move straight blues.
I was not commenting on how great SF is, or Clapton relative to the Stones, simply the assertion that Sticky Fingers "set the template" for British blues-rock in the 70s.
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HMS
I´m wondering why all of you are loving Moonlight Mile. It never appealed to me and never will.
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whitem8
I would assert that Clapton's stuff was more toward The Band and Delaney and Bonnie...whereas the Stones on Sticky is something very different. And more unique.
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I would assert that Clapton's stuff was more toward The Band and Delaney and Bonnie...whereas the Stones on Sticky is something very different. And more unique.
I would assert that Layla was a blues-rock album. Call me crazy.
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I would assert that Clapton's stuff was more toward The Band and Delaney and Bonnie...whereas the Stones on Sticky is something very different. And more unique.
I would assert that Layla was a blues-rock album. Call me crazy.
Of course it was, but perhaps it was sounding more «american» than that of Sticky Fingers? IMO, the genius of the Stones was that they never really left that little ounce of «britishness» in their sound.
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whitem8
I would assert that Clapton's stuff was more toward The Band and Delaney and Bonnie...whereas the Stones on Sticky is something very different. And more unique.
I would assert that Layla was a blues-rock album. Call me crazy.
Of course it was, but perhaps it was sounding more «american» than that of Sticky Fingers? IMO, the genius of the Stones was that they never really left that little ounce of «britishness» in their sound.
you're stretching :-)
personally, i think in a lot of ways it sells Sticky Fingers short to call it a/the template British blues-rock. As I pointed out above, it is much more.
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HMS
To me SF doesnt sound "british" at all. It sounds VERY american. Beggars sounded british, but SF is the first Stones-album that could as well be recorded by an american band. They said goodbye to their british roots, they became "international".