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Other than the fact that I HATE "It Must be Hell" or "Feel on Baby," I totally agree. Most interesting post-TY record.
Well the problem with It Must Be Hell was we already heard the song before, 11 years earlier, so that was a cheap move.
But I like Feel On Baby...not maybe a standout track but just like some of the stuff on Exile that you may not think works on it's own, it fits the mood and tempo of the album. I think the album's better because of that song.
On your rec, I'll give it another shot tmrw, Mr. Fingers. But I'm skeptical ...
DAMN! I feel all kinds of pressure now!
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Other than the fact that I HATE "It Must be Hell" or "Feel on Baby," I totally agree. Most interesting post-TY record.
Well the problem with It Must Be Hell was we already heard the song before, 11 years earlier, so that was a cheap move.
But I like Feel On Baby...not maybe a standout track but just like some of the stuff on Exile that you may not think works on it's own, it fits the mood and tempo of the album. I think the album's better because of that song.
On your rec, I'll give it another shot tmrw, Mr. Fingers. But I'm skeptical ...
DAMN! I feel all kinds of pressure now!
Ok, it DOES fit the mood of the record, certainly will grant you that. But I still don't like it much. And now I know why: the vocals. Not Mick's finest hour. Listened to the 6 1/2 min extended B-side version and liked that a lot more.
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JWSHC creates an atmosphere, Feel On just leaves a stench
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kammpberg
Great album for "true" Rolling Stones fans. Dark, moody and not overly commercial. Album flows really well. Too Much Blood is a lost classic to me and their best video as well. Keith always trashed Undercover of the Night, but also a great uncommercial Stones single (as was Love Is Strong from Voodoo Lounge).
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Great comments about the lyrics...last Stones album where Mick thought about
lyrics...the albums after that are all littered with clichés...
ABB...sounds like it was recorded...in Micks dining room with Keith & Charlie...basically a guitar and drum album with cliché lyrics.
The lyrics on Undercover are interesting and some of it is of the times...
especially "Undercover" and "Too Much Blood".
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buttons67
very good album, but no tour and videos that were banned didnt do it any justice.
glad they played she was hot at the o2 gig in 2007.
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they coudnt promote the singles to mainstream audience though, in the way they would have done in the 60,s with paint it black, the last time etc.
the undercover of the night video was eventually banned though.
it was said in the mid 80, that the stones had become an even more grotesque caricature of themselves, i think they needed to reinvent themselves and they did.
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georgelicks
Last real Stones' album, it was never the same since then.
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kammpberg
I really liked Love Is Strong - but wasn't commercial sounding in that I never thought it had big hit potential. (Mixed Emotions I thought was just lame - one of the weakest tracks on Steel Wheels). Thought Love Is Strong was a strange choice for an opening single, even though I really liked the song.
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Last real Stones' album, it was never the same since then.
Even more stunning is the fact that the same band, in name only anyway, would release what is known as their worst LP ever and one of the worst LPs in the history of rock'n'roll.
Amazing, innit.
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Last real Stones' album, it was never the same since then.
Even more stunning is the fact that the same band, in name only anyway, would release what is known as their worst LP ever and one of the worst LPs in the history of rock'n'roll.
Amazing, innit.
Steel Wheels is indeed not a great album and has some lousy songs on it, but "one of the worst LPs in the history of RnR" it isnt.
Undercover, of course, is their second-best post Black & Blue album.