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Witness
This song to me is a realization of the idea that a song on an album that is not necessarily the best individual track, in some cases may contribute more to making that album becoming great than many a straightforward very good song. The greatness that "Too Much Blood" imparts to UNDERCOVER, in the next instance is reflected back to "Too Much Blod" as individual track of the album. It emerges as an important track of UNDERCOVER. That is, an album is more than a collection of individually aspiring best songs. As such, I hail "Too Much Blood" in itself isolated as highly interesting song with its subjectmatter, and I immensely like and love the effect of what the song transfers to this great album.
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24FPS
Rip 'Underocover of the Night' from the album, make 'She Was Hot' the B-side, and then flush the rest of Undercover down the tube, along with most of Dirty Work.
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24FPS
Rip 'Undercover of the Night' from the album, make 'She Was Hot' the B-side, and then flush the rest of Undercover down the tube, along with most of Dirty Work.
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24FPS
Rip 'Underocover of the Night' from the album, make 'She Was Hot' the B-side, and then flush the rest of Undercover down the tube, along with most of Dirty Work.
Yup - but keep sleep tonight and wanna hold you and release that as a single too
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24FPS
Rip 'Underocover of the Night' from the album, make 'She Was Hot' the B-side, and then flush the rest of Undercover down the tube, along with most of Dirty Work.
Yup - but keep sleep tonight and wanna hold you and release that as a single too
That's from Dirty Work.
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24FPS
Rip 'Undercover of the Night' from the album, make 'She Was Hot' the B-side, and then flush the rest of Undercover down the tube, along with most of Dirty Work.
For your own benefit, you may in that case wonder, which songs from STEEL WHEELS some other posters would let survive a treatment of the same kind.
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StonesCat
I agree with what you're on to here. Undercover, to me, is the one album after Exile where I look at each song as a piece of the whole. It's hard for me to critique this one just on it's own, it just fits well, IMO.
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DandelionPowderman
Mathijs found a few licks in there that Keith supposedly played, but I'm still not 100 percent convinced he is on the track.
I better give it another 20 years of listening before I conclude
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DandelionPowderman
Mathijs found a few licks in there that Keith supposedly played, but I'm still not 100 percent convinced he is on the track.
I better give it another 20 years of listening before I conclude
Did I say that? Keith doesn't play on it, it's Jim Barber and Ron Wood. Barber plays all the chords and the 'sound scapes' like tremelo dives and noises, Ron Wood plays the tremelo picked rhythm guitar. Jim Barber has commented that he used Keith's single cut Les Paul Junior through a Boogie MK1 and a Boss CE-2 Chorus, and that Jagger had asked him to play something in the style of Andy Summers. He also stated that Jagger had said to him that when they shot the video both Wood and Richards had no clue what the chords where to the song.
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StonesCat
I agree with what you're on to here. Undercover, to me, is the one album after Exile where I look at each song as a piece of the whole. It's hard for me to critique this one just on it's own, it just fits well, IMO.
It's absolutely baffling to me that you think that...
ANyways, Too Much Blood is a catchy tune but it was released before they found the right rhythm for it, IMO. They should’ve kept it in the can a la Start Me Up and secretly worked on it when Mick was shopping in Paris. Slow it down a bit, add some raunchy guitars with a bluesy feel and viola – it’s the summer smash of 1989. Either that or Mick should’ve released it on She’s the Boss because it literally reeks of the solo artist Jagger was soon to become. Keith once said that you find the pure, unadulterated Mick Jagger when he’s playing the harp. Maybe so in the 60s and 70s but in the 80s this song represents the pure, unadulterated MJ...and it’s not that cool.
However, as I and others have said, it is catchy. The problem is that when encountering a Jagger solo piece on a Stones record one’s first (and noble) instinct is to scratch it off the record. Others may disagree but I believe in this day and age and with all this technology at our disposal, the morally correct decision is to transfer this song to that part of your music collection dedicated to Mick Jagger solo works, assuming you have one.
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Rockman
Massive powerful filthy dance funk .... the deepest The Stones ever went inta the jungle along with Feel On and Undercover of The Night ... should be more of it .....
The album reaches a pinnacle with Too Much and they return to safer territory for the rest of the show .... But Too Much -- GREAT STUFF -- PLAY F'n LOUD
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Rockman
Massive powerful filthy dance funk .... the deepest The Stones ever went inta the jungle along with Feel On and Undercover of The Night ... should be more of it .....
The album reaches a pinnacle with Too Much and they return to safer territory for the rest of the show .... But Too Much -- GREAT STUFF -- PLAY F'n LOUD
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runrudolph
One of my latterday Stones favourites. Great lyrics,powerful music, funny and hot as hell.
Great stuff.
Jeroen