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HMS
Too Much Blood is the only weak spot on Undercover, but I can live with it. Aaaah... Undercover, what a great album!
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ThankGod
Inexplicably Put on a Pedestal:
Too Much Blood
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SharksWillCry
Kind of similar to overrated/underrated, I'll admit. There are the usual suspects like Streets of Love or Indian Girl, where I see some reasoning is involved, even if I disagree, but sometimes the musical tastes within the Stones canon by the folks here leave me scratching my head. I'll confine myself to songs done by the current band lineup (Black and Blue to now) to minimize "personnel selection bias".
Shamed for no good reason:
Fool to Cry
Lies
Hot Stuff
Infamy
Shattered
Brand New Car
Hang Fire
She Saw Me Coming
Inexplicably Put on a Pedestal:
Terrifying
Harlem Shuffle
Sex Drive
This Place is Empty
Rain Fall Down
Laugh, I Nearly Died
I agree about the shamed ones. However, I think I'm one of the very few here who loves Terrifying
And what's not to like with This Place Is Empty?
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SharksWillCry
Kind of similar to overrated/underrated, I'll admit. There are the usual suspects like Streets of Love or Indian Girl, where I see some reasoning is involved, even if I disagree, but sometimes the musical tastes within the Stones canon by the folks here leave me scratching my head. I'll confine myself to songs done by the current band lineup (Black and Blue to now) to minimize "personnel selection bias".
Shamed for no good reason:
Fool to Cry
Lies
Hot Stuff
Infamy
Shattered
Brand New Car
Hang Fire
She Saw Me Coming
Inexplicably Put on a Pedestal:
Terrifying
Harlem Shuffle
Sex Drive
This Place is Empty
Rain Fall Down
Laugh, I Nearly Died
I agree about the shamed ones. However, I think I'm one of the very few here who loves Terrifying
And what's not to like with This Place Is Empty?
OK, agree with your assertion on Terrifying Dandy, but seriously you must already know the "bare your breasts and make me feel at home" line is hurlworthy enough to ruin the entire song.
I don't want to cast aspersions, just stating the facts.
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Chris Fountain
Oh.... Plundered My Soul unjustly attacked over and over. We need to take this matter to the Supreme Court.
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ohmercy61
Almost hear you sigh a bad rap here why I don't know
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treaclefingers
OK, agree with your assertion on Terrifying Dandy, but seriously you must already know the "bare your breasts and make me feel at home" line is hurlworthy enough to ruin the entire song.
I don't want to cast aspersions, just stating the facts.
How can bare breast be hurlworthy?? Each to their own...
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Chris Fountain
Oh.... Plundered My Soul unjustly attacked over and over. We need to take this matter to the Supreme Court.
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Lady Jayne
I'll probably be drummed off the board but I've never been a fan of JJF and I like Miss You.
[I'll just leave the room quietly now]
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Send It To me
I like Indian Girl, and people always use it as an exemplar of a bad Stones song on here.
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Chester
I've never understood why She Saw Me Coming gets bashed so much.
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matxil
Shamed for no good reason:
Winning Ugly
Indian Girl
Sweethearts Together
Heaven (I am not sure it's shamed that much, but I think I saw some negative comments about it recently)
Inexplicably Put on a Pedestal:
Had It With You
Wandering Spirit (solo album Jagger)
Plundered My Soul
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TravelinMan
Unjustly bashed: Moonlight Mile and a lot of the ballads. Dancing With Mr. D too.
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matxil
Shamed for no good reason:
Winning Ugly
Indian Girl
Sweethearts Together
Heaven (I am not sure it's shamed that much, but I think I saw some negative comments about it recently)
Inexplicably Put on a Pedestal:
Had It With You
Wandering Spirit (solo album Jagger)
Plundered My Soul
Shamed for no good reason?
You're right.
Shamed for EXCELLENT reason!
Rock And A Hard Place
Winning Ugly
Back To Zero
DIRTY WORK
Sweet Neo Con
Streets Of Love
Following The River
Angie
Keys To Your Love
Stealing Your Heart - or whatever it's called
Did I mention Rock And A Hard Place? What about DIRTY WORK. Yeah... shit, awful. Horrible cover for one of if not the worst albums ever made in the history of music.
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matxil
Whereas I agree with most of your "shamed for excellent reasons" list, I cannot help (although it's a useless thing to do, as I am very well aware) trying to defend:
1) Rock And A Hard Place. Yes, it's Soul Survivor revisited, and, yes, the verses are a bit weak, guitar- and melodywise, but it still has some build-up and a powerful bridge. At least it's a better Soul-Survivor-revisited than Must Be Hell, can we agree on that?
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matxil
2) Winning Ugly. Yes, it smells of 80's pop with 80's keyboards and 80's drums and an 80's bass. But the guitar licks are rather groovy, the bassline could sound great if differently produced, and the melody isn't that bad. You sort of have to listen to this song not for what is, but imagining what it could have been. Or just imagine it was made by Wham, and you'd think: not bad at all...., for Wham.
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matxil
3) Angie???
The rest on your list are indeed obvious examples of very much shameworthy.
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Elmo Lewis
IMHO:
Unjustly priased:
Had It With You
Moonlight Mile
Mr. D
Oh No Not You ....
Hot Stuff on LYL
Unjustly vilified:
Angie
Fool To Cry
Indian Girl
Winning Ugly
If You Really .....
Biggest Mistake
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Elmo Lewis
IMHO:
Unjustly priased:
Had It With You
Moonlight Mile
Mr. D
Oh No Not You ....
Hot Stuff on LYL
Unjustly vilified:
Angie
Fool To Cry
Indian Girl
Winning Ugly
If You Really .....
Biggest Mistake
Are those songs really praised?
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angee
I still think "Angie" is a very good song.
Yes, it's been overplayed over the years.
Sometimes just listening to a different version, such as a live track, gives me a new
take on it.
cheers,
angee
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HMS
Too Much Blood is the only weak spot on Undercover, but I can live with it. Aaaah... Undercover, what a great album!