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The only thing that hurts the album for me is Jagger's falsetto voice. I think Worried About You is a good song but I can't listen to it much because of that. Really don't understand why he uses that voice live.
The Jaggerfalsetto is my favourite falsetto. Worried About You is so great.
And when he uses it live ...that's the only time that he still sounds like he is in his 30's...
Sounds like an old guy singing like a girl to me.
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I've said it here before, but the first week of Start Me Up's release I heard an L.A. DJ say during its fade out, "Sounds like the old Stones." I don't think he knew its history at all. That same month, I was playing the new album, and a buddy—who didn't even like the Stones! (although his mom did)—said, "This sounds like their old stuff." (I think Waiting on a Friend was playing, but I'm not sure.) I kind of shrugged. He said, "Well, I guess they know that's what people want to hear." When I later learned the grab-bag nature of the album's assembly I was impressed what my friend and this DJ heard in the music that I hadn't. And I think they both thought it was new music, but the Stones had contrived to recreate an old sound. Funny.
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Witness haven't you heard that Start Me Up is a warhorse?
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Witness
In a less positive approach than before the weekend:
Start Me Up ----- to me Stones-by-numbers. Not bad, but cheap and therefore slightly irritating, where e.g Highwire is only good
Hang Fire ----- the good punkish song from studio outtakes ruined in this arrangement and with those doo-doo's.
Slave ------ following the two opening songs, not working on me, might have been a good song on BLACK AND BLUE, e.g instead of "Melody"
Little T&A ----I am not so keen on that one either
Black Limousine ---- one rather redeeming song, without being in any way great
Neighbours ---- I found that quite banal, too
Worried About You ---- it is OK, but to me nothing more in the studio version
Tops ---- only "Melody" I like less of Stones music
Heaven ---- it's probably OK, but for me would have needed another setting
No Use in Crying ----- in spite of all preceding tracks, I quite like this one, which tells about some quality
Waiting on a Friend ----a gem good enough to be part of any Stones album, on condition of fitting stylistically, best and possibly only suited on GOATS HEAD SOUP.
An album that clearly is better than DIRTY WORK, but all the same gets on my nerve in a way that DIRTY WORK does not, after I only come through the first two songs, when that album is only relatively weak in the context of Stones music.
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Stoneage
Ten short ones about Tattoo You:
1) Great overall sound and production.
2) Their last album with a real hit: Start Me Up.
3) Why the title?
4) Sums up the seventies.
5) Except for SMU under-used live.
6) Falsettos!
7) Unpretentious videos with a great vibe to match the album.
8) Waiting on a Friend!
9) Striking, visual cover.
10) Perfect album to back up the Still Life Tour!
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5) Except for SMU under-used live.
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IrisC
Tattoo you is a wonderful album. The Stones best of the 80's even though the tracks are mostly from the 70's. A really good album non the less.
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HMS
The album is slightly better then Some Girls and quite as good as Emotional Rescue, but not as good as Undercover. And it certainly cannot match their last all-the-way masterpiece, the fantastic Dirty Work.
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GasLightStreet
It's possibly their most recognizable album cover. I know STICKY FINGERS is beyond a classic but you wouldn't see that from far away like you can TATTOO YOU. Not one of their album overs jumps out like TY does. A brilliant LP cover and great title.
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GasLightStreet
It's possibly their most recognizable album cover. I know STICKY FINGERS is beyond a classic but you wouldn't see that from far away like you can TATTOO YOU. Not one of their album overs jumps out like TY does. A brilliant LP cover and great title.
Agreed. And in my mind I go through all covers since TY, and it was also the LAST iconic album cover by them.
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Witness
In a less positive approach than before the weekend:
Start Me Up ----- to me Stones-by-numbers. Not bad, but cheap and therefore slightly irritating, where e.g Highwire is only good
Hang Fire ----- the good punkish song from studio outtakes ruined in this arrangement and with those doo-doo's.
Slave ------ following the two opening songs, not working on me, might have been a good song on BLACK AND BLUE, e.g instead of "Melody"
Little T&A ----I am not so keen on that one either
Black Limousine ---- one rather redeeming song, without being in any way great
Neighbours ---- I found that quite banal, too
Worried About You ---- it is OK, but to me nothing more in the studio version
Tops ---- only "Melody" I like less of Stones music
Heaven ---- it's probably OK, but for me would have needed another setting
No Use in Crying ----- in spite of all preceding tracks, I quite like this one, which tells about some quality
Waiting on a Friend ----a gem good enough to be part of any Stones album, on condition of fitting stylistically, best and possibly only suited on GOATS HEAD SOUP.
An album that clearly is better than DIRTY WORK, but all the same gets on my nerve in a way that DIRTY WORK does not, after I only come through the first two songs, when that album is only relatively weak in the context of Stones music.