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HMS
Honky Tonk Women is miles above Brown Sugar.
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Swayed1967
I don't even know what 'Honky Tonk' women are. Are they horny?
It's a great song, especially the intro and open G fills from Keith. But the lyrics - while cool - are kinda bum-fluffy. He bangs drunk chicks while he's got a cold.
Brown Sugar on the other hand is pure poetry and twice as cool.
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pepganzo
I prefer HTW but also BS is a gem. So is very difficult to decide.
I think that HTW has got something of Ry Cooder's style.
Mick Taylor's work here is fantastic, also the percussions of Jimmy Miller.
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Swayed1967
I don't even know what 'Honky Tonk' women are. Are they horny?
It's a great song, especially the intro and open G fills from Keith. But the lyrics - while cool - are kinda bum-fluffy. He bangs drunk chicks while he's got a cold.
Brown Sugar on the other hand is pure poetry and twice as cool.
They are women who go to honky tonks
The real question is whether you know what the honky tonk blues are...
I think "I met a gin-soaked Barroom queen in Memphis" is as good a line as any in brown sugar
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GasLightStreet
Lyrically and musically Brown Sugar is supreme over HTW. Besides, (this is a joke) Brown Sugar is on MADE IN THE SHADE and REWIND...
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GasLightStreet
Lyrically and musically Brown Sugar is supreme over HTW. Besides, (this is a joke) Brown Sugar is on MADE IN THE SHADE and REWIND...
i think HTW is a bit more creative, rhythmically at least. brown sugar is essentially straight forward chuck berry. (not that there is anything wrong with straight forward chuck berry - the stones do it best!)
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nightskyman
They're both great rock and roll songs. I love both of them.
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nightskyman
They're both great rock and roll songs. I love both of them.
now if you throw JJF into the mix
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GasLightStreet
Lyrically and musically Brown Sugar is supreme over HTW. Besides, (this is a joke) Brown Sugar is on MADE IN THE SHADE and REWIND...
i think HTW is a bit more creative, rhythmically at least. brown sugar is essentially straight forward chuck berry. (not that there is anything wrong with straight forward chuck berry - the stones do it best!)
Chuck Berry. You hear Chuck Berry in Brown Sugar? I dunno how you hear that.
The only Chuck Berry sounding song they did in the 1970s was Star Star and Respectable!
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OutOfTime
Both are great. I call it a draw. Warhorses equal.
An idea is to swith these two per show so they can play another song extra.
Oh sorry, this belongs in the sticky about setlists...
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MileHigh
Both songs are signature Stones at their best. There isn't a whiff of Chuck Berry in BS.
Both songs are so great that run-of-the-mill rock bands look up at those songs in awe and are speechless.
HTW to me is the ultimate "Stones summer single." I am sure it made jukebox owners very happy because all though the 1970s when I looked at any jukebox HTW was always there. It was probably on jukeboxes well into the 1980s also. You don't remove a revenue-generating winner.
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snorton
When BS comes on the radio I change the station. When HTW comes on the radio I turn it up.