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GasLightStreet
Flip The Switch - 9
Anybody Seen My baby - 6
Low Down - 8
Already Over Me - .5
Gunface - 0
You Don't Have To Mean It - 10
Out Of Control - 7
Saint Of Me - 6
Might As Well Get Juiced - 0
Always Suffering - .5
Too Tight - 7
Thief In The Night - 10
How Can I Stop - 10
Already Over Me, Gunface, MAWGJ and Always Suffering keep BRIDGES TO BABYLON from being their best album since 1983, which was a span of 4 LPs in 14 years. Those songs are atrocities. With the exception of the blatant lack of inventiveness with Out Of Control, the rest of the LP is pretty damn good.
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DandelionPowderman
The live versions of OOC are all 10. But the studio version is sloppily played, recorded and mixed, imo.
I'm with you 100% on Always Suffering, Palace.
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keefriff99
Flip The Switch - 7.5
Anybody Seen My baby - 7
Low Down - 6
Already Over Me - 4 (the mawkish singing is almost laughably forced)
Gunface - 7
You Don't Have To Mean It - 6
Out Of Control - 8
Saint Of Me - 7.5
Might As Well Get Juiced - 6.5
Always Suffering - 4
Too Tight - 5.5
Thief In The Night - 7.5
How Can I Stop - 6.5
I feel like I'm the only person who enjoys the experimentation on the album...Gunface is a ferocious, heavy stomper and Might As Well Get Juiced is a cool little stab at blues/techno fusion.
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GasLightStreet
BRIDGES still has a vitality to it that keeps me going back to it. There's something about it that VOODOO doesn't have, aside from sounding better. Maybe it's because they toured for VL for 2 years and then recorded BRIDGES.
Whatever it is, it's a much better album, overall, even with the crappy songs on it.
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Rocky Dijon
Flip The Switch - 10
Anybody Seen My baby - 8
Low Down - 8
Already Over Me - 9
Gunface - 10
You Don't Have To Mean It - 9
Out Of Control - 10
Saint Of Me - 10
Might As Well Get Juiced - 7
Always Suffering - 9
Too Tight - 10
Thief In The Night - 6
How Can I Stop - 10
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Bjorn
Thief in the night - 1.
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Monsoon Ragoon
Are you sure? But if you compare BTB with Beggars Banquet or Exile... On the other hand: BTB was their last "contemporary" album, it had its moments. And they played a lot of the tracks lives (at least once).
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cyoe
Mr. Dijon, in another thread (Beggars Banquet Help Front Cover) I am trying to list all the graffiti on the Beggars Banquet toilet cover as part of a project to document the history of that album cover (rather than the music, which has been well documented). You are a part of that graffiti and that history. Do you have a few minutes to look the list over and help us solve some of the mysteries,like who engineer Ricky was? Was the creation of the graffiti walls discussed in the studio?
Apologies for redirecting your B2B post, which I enjoyed.
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GasLightStreet
BRIDGES still has a vitality to it that keeps me going back to it. There's something about it that VOODOO doesn't have, aside from sounding better. Maybe it's because they toured for VL for 2 years and then recorded BRIDGES.
Whatever it is, it's a much better album, overall, even with the crappy songs on it.
Exactly. Voodoo somehow doesn't grab me at all. To me it is the least alive of all Stones albums. I'd rather listen to Steel Wheels or Dirty Work over VL.
But that is really good point: that they did B2B after working the road with VL for 2 years.
They were pretty on in those late 90's. I still remember when they tacked on the '99 tour, and just kept running. The setlists were great for that tour.
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keefriff99I have a hard time viewing Voodoo Lounge through a critical lens. It was the first Stones album I ever bought after I saw their performance of Love Is Strong and Start Me Up on 1994 MTV VMAs, so it holds a particularly special status for me.Quote
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GasLightStreet
BRIDGES still has a vitality to it that keeps me going back to it. There's something about it that VOODOO doesn't have, aside from sounding better. Maybe it's because they toured for VL for 2 years and then recorded BRIDGES.
Whatever it is, it's a much better album, overall, even with the crappy songs on it.
Exactly. Voodoo somehow doesn't grab me at all. To me it is the least alive of all Stones albums. I'd rather listen to Steel Wheels or Dirty Work over VL.
But that is really good point: that they did B2B after working the road with VL for 2 years.
They were pretty on in those late 90's. I still remember when they tacked on the '99 tour, and just kept running. The setlists were great for that tour.
When I revisit the album these days and put it up against the vast amount of musical knowledge gained over the last 25 years, its flaws certainly become more glaring.
"Least alive" is an interesting way to describe it, as there is certainly a bit of a low energy vibe that permeates much of the album. Had they only replaced a few of the more tedious, meandering ballads with a combination of uptempo rockers and blues numbers, it would have gone a long way towards making the album better overall.