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Best Kiss-album ever = DYNASTY
I could listen to DESTROYER from back to forth if it weren't for Sweet Pain.
Also the '78 Paul Stanley solo album is almost flawless, in fact it's an amazing rock album, yet completely underrated. The only song off of that album that I don't like is Ain't Quite Right.
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HMS
Sticky Fingers is only disqualified by Moonlight Mile.
Indeed there is no Stones-album only filled with "masterpieces". IMO, this would be rather boring. Sometimes you need one or two so-so-songs to make the rest shine really bright.
The only "masterpieces" I can hear on SG are Beast Of Burden & Some Girls. All the rest is just so-so, mostly quite enjoyable but far from being masterpieces. I could easily do without Lies, Imagination, Far Away Eyes, Shattered, Whip - there´s almost nothing truly essential on the album. What an overrated album SG is.
"Who´s next" rules.
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HMS
Best Kiss-album ever = DYNASTY
I could listen to DESTROYER from back to forth if it weren't for Sweet Pain.
Also the '78 Paul Stanley solo album is almost flawless, in fact it's an amazing rock album, yet completely underrated. The only song off of that album that I don't like is Ain't Quite Right.
That's interesting. I could say the same thing about Ace's album. Paul's album is only the third best of those solo albums to me.
Will have to check it out again (after many, many years), though
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Best Kiss-album ever = DYNASTY
I could listen to DESTROYER from back to forth if it weren't for Sweet Pain.
Also the '78 Paul Stanley solo album is almost flawless, in fact it's an amazing rock album, yet completely underrated. The only song off of that album that I don't like is Ain't Quite Right.
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HMS
Best Kiss-album ever = DYNASTY
I could listen to DESTROYER from back to forth if it weren't for Sweet Pain.
Also the '78 Paul Stanley solo album is almost flawless, in fact it's an amazing rock album, yet completely underrated. The only song off of that album that I don't like is Ain't Quite Right.
That's interesting. I could say the same thing about Ace's album. Paul's album is only the third best of those solo albums to me.
Will have to check it out again (after many, many years), though
Ace's is a close second for me. A song like Ozone and to some extend Snow Blind brings it down a bit. But overall it is a fantastic rock album.
I think I'm one of the very few people who loves all of the four '78 solo albums. YES, even Peter's :-D.
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Best Kiss-album ever = DYNASTY
I could listen to DESTROYER from back to forth if it weren't for Sweet Pain.
Also the '78 Paul Stanley solo album is almost flawless, in fact it's an amazing rock album, yet completely underrated. The only song off of that album that I don't like is Ain't Quite Right.
Sweet pain is the weak track i was thinking of. Kiss debut album is great but not perfect.
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Best Kiss-album ever = DYNASTY
I could listen to DESTROYER from back to forth if it weren't for Sweet Pain.
Also the '78 Paul Stanley solo album is almost flawless, in fact it's an amazing rock album, yet completely underrated. The only song off of that album that I don't like is Ain't Quite Right.
That's interesting. I could say the same thing about Ace's album. Paul's album is only the third best of those solo albums to me.
Will have to check it out again (after many, many years), though
Ace's is a close second for me. A song like Ozone and to some extend Snow Blind brings it down a bit. But overall it is a fantastic rock album.
I think I'm one of the very few people who loves all of the four '78 solo albums. YES, even Peter's :-D.
I love Peter's album, too, even the pop-tunes. I always thought he was a good singer and songwriter. Paul dissed him a lot in his bio, though
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Best Kiss-album ever = DYNASTY
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Sticky Fingers is only disqualified by Moonlight Mile.
Indeed there is no Stones-album only filled with "masterpieces". IMO, this would be rather boring. Sometimes you need one or two so-so-songs to make the rest shine really bright.
The only "masterpieces" I can hear on SG are Beast Of Burden & Some Girls. All the rest is just so-so, mostly quite enjoyable but far from being masterpieces. I could easily do without Lies, Imagination, Far Away Eyes, Shattered, Whip - there´s almost nothing truly essential on the album. What an overrated album SG is.
"Who´s next" rules.
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Some Girls is their most overrated album in my humble opinion. I almost never listen to it. I don't like most of its songs and I find the production horrible. I never understood what people find so great with that album.
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Some Girls is their most overrated album in my humble opinion. I almost never listen to it. I don't like most of its songs and I find the production horrible. I never understood what people find so great with that album.
You had to be there at the time when SG came out to understand what this album, and the single "Miss You" meant for them. The Stones were essentially written off back then. Punk, New Wave, Pub Rock (=essentially a return to the roots) and Disco ruled at the time. The Stones were regarded as decadent dinosaurs with nothing left to say. Keith's drug bust in Toronto. The future of the band very much in doubt. Questions if they would carry on without him if he indeed would go 10 years in jail. Then came Miss You. I swear that I said back then that I would never listen to the Stones again if they would ever dare to jump on the "Disco train" like so many of their contemporaries. But I loved Miss You right from the start when I first heard it in a record shop in London, the 12" version, to be precise. "Blues meets Disco" were my first thoughts. The groove. Bill's fantastic bass. The bluesy guitars. The soulful harp. Only the Stones could do that! Then came the album, full of more sounds that fitted thoses times and the musical climate perfectly. A relief. A resurrection. The Stones rose like phoenix from the ashes, last but not least also commercially. In a way similar to what JJF and Banquet did for them exactly 10 years earlier. The production? Hell, who cared for top-notch production back in 1978? Rough, raw and in yer face was all the rage back then.
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They indeed sound refreshed and re-energized on SG, but the songs are mostly mediocre, imo. SG was one of the first RS-albums I bought in the very early 80s and I wasn´t too thrilled when listening to it. Bought Black And Blue a couple of weeks later and thought it was a much better album.
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Some Girls is their most overrated album in my humble opinion. I almost never listen to it. I don't like most of its songs and I find the production horrible. I never understood what people find so great with that album.
You had to be there at the time when SG came out to understand what this album, and the single "Miss You" meant for them. The Stones were essentially written off back then. Punk, New Wave, Pub Rock (=essentially a return to the roots) and Disco ruled at the time. The Stones were regarded as decadent dinosaurs with nothing left to say. Keith's drug bust in Toronto. The future of the band very much in doubt. Questions if they would carry on without him if he indeed would go 10 years in jail. Then came Miss You. I swear that I said back then that I would never listen to the Stones again if they would ever dare to jump on the "Disco train" like so many of their contemporaries. But I loved Miss You right from the start when I first heard it in a record shop in London, the 12" version, to be precise. "Blues meets Disco" were my first thoughts. The groove. Bill's fantastic bass. The bluesy guitars. The soulful harp. Only the Stones could do that! Then came the album, full of more sounds that fitted thoses times and the musical climate perfectly. A relief. A resurrection. The Stones rose like phoenix from the ashes, last but not least also commercially. In a way similar to what JJF and Banquet did for them exactly 10 years earlier. The production? Hell, who cared for top-notch production back in 1978? Rough, raw and in yer face was all the rage back then.
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Some Girls is their most overrated album in my humble opinion. I almost never listen to it. I don't like most of its songs and I find the production horrible. I never understood what people find so great with that album.
You had to be there at the time when SG came out to understand what this album, and the single "Miss You" meant for them. The Stones were essentially written off back then. Punk, New Wave, Pub Rock (=essentially a return to the roots) and Disco ruled at the time. The Stones were regarded as decadent dinosaurs with nothing left to say. Keith's drug bust in Toronto. The future of the band very much in doubt. Questions if they would carry on without him if he indeed would go 10 years in jail. Then came Miss You. I swear that I said back then that I would never listen to the Stones again if they would ever dare to jump on the "Disco train" like so many of their contemporaries. But I loved Miss You right from the start when I first heard it in a record shop in London, the 12" version, to be precise. "Blues meets Disco" were my first thoughts. The groove. Bill's fantastic bass. The bluesy guitars. The soulful harp. Only the Stones could do that! Then came the album, full of more sounds that fitted thoses times and the musical climate perfectly. A relief. A resurrection. The Stones rose like phoenix from the ashes, last but not least also commercially. In a way similar to what JJF and Banquet did for them exactly 10 years earlier. The production? Hell, who cared for top-notch production back in 1978? Rough, raw and in yer face was all the rage back then.
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The only song I like from that album is Beast of Burden but even that version cannot touch Bette Midler's rendition of the song IMO.
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The only song I like from that album is Beast of Burden but even that version cannot touch Bette Midler's rendition of the song IMO.
You are completely right about Bette Middler. Her versions of BOB is marvelous. BOB and Some Girls are the best songs on SG. But BOB is only outstanding because of the intro and the guitar work. Otherwise it´s - just like most songs on SG - mediocre. Mick totally kills it for me with that silly "pretty-pretty-pretty-you´re such a pretty pretty"-garbage.
Faraway Eyes, btw, is probably the most ridiculous Stones-song ever.
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you called BOB a masterpiece and then a few hours later said it was mediocre except for the guitar work... don't ever change HMS ;-)