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Love is Strong and The Worst are great tracks but overall this album is pretty average by their standards.
Bridges much more like it, best modern stones album with ABB just a notch below. The other post Undercover stuff I rarely bother with

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When it came out, I kinda liked it, but I haven't listened to it much ever since. I think for anyone who's not a Stones fan, the album sounds almost like archetypical post-70's/post-80's Stones: nothing new, nothing surprising, nothing special, nothing fresh. Stones by numbers.


Love Is Strong - Great
You Got Me Rocking - Works great live
Sparks Will Fly - Okay, but a bit filler really
The Worst - Okay
New Faces - Too pop, too evident
Moon Is Up - Nice try but doesn't work for me
Out of Tears - Typical kind of post 80's Stones ballad that I don't like much

I Go Wild - Almost the definition of "filler"
Brand New Car - It's sad that post-80's, when they do a bluesy tune (this one, or Break The Spell for instance), it's just an uninspired cliché
Sweethearts Together - I like it, just as I like Indian Girl. Actually I think their attempts at latin work better than their attempts at reggae (with the exception of Feel On Baby)
Suck on the Jugular - Rubbish
Blinded By Rainbows - Nothing
Baby Break It Down - Interesting song, maybe they should have worked it more
Thru and Thru - I like it. The only experiment on the album that works well.
Mean Disposition- Okay.


My playlist of this album would be:
Love Is Strong
You Got Me Rocking
Sweethearts Together
Baby Break It Down
Thru and Thru

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The Rolling Stones going to affect this album in Ireland at the home of Ron Wood, you feel it is a group work (listen to bootlegs), good to see Charlie experience the sound using a waste bin upside down, even some sounds of guitars are interesting . In my opinion one of the best albums ever by the Rolling Stones.

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KRiffhard
VL would have been a better album without Don Was 'The Anti-groove'.

Don Was is definitely anti-groove. Charlie and I worked on a lot of groove tunes that never made it on to the record. That was the one thing I was slightly disappointed by.

- Mick Jagger, May 1994

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VL would have been a better album without Don Was 'The Anti-groove'.

Don Was is definitely anti-groove. Charlie and I worked on a lot of groove tunes that never made it on to the record. That was the one thing I was slightly disappointed by.

- Mick Jagger, May 1994

sounds like they didn't have the right guy in the room to work on the groove... :-)

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The Rolling Stones going to affect this album in Ireland at the home of Ron Wood, you feel it is a group work (listen to bootlegs), good to see Charlie experience the sound using a waste bin upside down, even some sounds of guitars are interesting . In my opinion one of the best albums ever by the Rolling Stones.

i'm guessing it was recorded in ireland for tax reasons.

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The Rolling Stones going to affect this album in Ireland at the home of Ron Wood, you feel it is a group work (listen to bootlegs), good to see Charlie experience the sound using a waste bin upside down, even some sounds of guitars are interesting . In my opinion one of the best albums ever by the Rolling Stones.

i'm guessing it was recorded in ireland for tax reasons.

And because Ronnie lived there and they did the preprod in his studio?

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VL could have been great, WOULD have been great in the old, old vinyl days, when bands had to produce two sides of music that worked in a satisfying sequence. Because Jagger knows that 'no one sits and listens to a whole album anymore' he doesn't see the point in crafting a coherent listening experience.

As a result, after quite a strong run of songs, we get a rambling grab-bag of second rate stuff in the final third of the record. For example we get half baked closing songs (Baby Break it down - which should have been GREAT - why is it so slow and laboured??)) marooned in the middle of what would have been side two.

Faced with this refusal to craft an album we are forced to (and in this digital age enabled to) create our own Voodoo Lounges, as someone stated a few posts back.

My suggestion is , like Tattoo You, a rock side and a ballad side.


Love is Strong
You Got me Rocking
Sparks Will Fly
The Storm
Moon is Up
Brand new car


New Faces
The Worst
Sweethearts Together
Out of tears
Thru and Thru

One last thing: 'Blinded By Rainbows' shows out out of touch Jagger had become. Whilst he used to be literate, oblique and memorable ('Sympathy for the Devil') he produces a horribly banal song with the ground breaking message us that terrorism is bad.

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One last thing: 'Blinded By Rainbows' shows out out of touch Jagger had become. Whilst he used to be literate, oblique and memorable ('Sympathy for the Devil') he produces a horribly banal song with the ground breaking message us that terrorism is bad.

However, maybe "Blinded by Rainbows" is devised to be heard by potential terrorists, with an aim to influence some of them. That motive for a song is not banal or trivial from my point of view.

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The Rolling Stones going to affect this album in Ireland at the home of Ron Wood, you feel it is a group work (listen to bootlegs), good to see Charlie experience the sound using a waste bin upside down, even some sounds of guitars are interesting . In my opinion one of the best albums ever by the Rolling Stones.

i'm guessing it was recorded in ireland for tax reasons.

And because Ronnie lived there and they did the preprod in his studio?

Well it makes sense to do the pre-production in the studio where you're going to record.
As for Ronnie living there... The stones have been known to live places for tax reasons too... :-)

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One last thing: 'Blinded By Rainbows' shows out out of touch Jagger had become. Whilst he used to be literate, oblique and memorable ('Sympathy for the Devil') he produces a horribly banal song with the ground breaking message us that terrorism is bad.

However, maybe "Blinded by Rainbows" is devised to be heard by potential terrorists, with an aim to influence some of them. That motive for a song is not banal or trivial from my point of view.

It's one of the few songs on the album I thought was actually worth listening to. Far from showing Jagger to be out of touch, for a change the song was actually about something besides how intensely he suffers from priapism.

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VL would have been a better album without Don Was 'The Anti-groove'.

Don Was is definitely anti-groove. Charlie and I worked on a lot of groove tunes that never made it on to the record. That was the one thing I was slightly disappointed by.

- Mick Jagger, May 1994