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drewmaster
The first 30 seconds of this track are delightful … the alchemy between Keith, Ronnie, and Charlie generates some seriously high-octane rock-and-roll magic. But after that – indeed, when Mick comes in – the song becomes strangely flat, clichéd even, and loses its appeal. At least to me.
Drew
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DandelionPowderman
Mick sounds good indeed, but the melody wasn't his. That's my main beef with TT + the fact that it runs out of fuel and crashes as well after a while
EDIT: We shouldn't forget that it was indeed Keith who wrote Too Tight, and that Mick added lyrics and melody later.
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DandelionPowderman
Mick sounds good indeed, but the melody wasn't his. That's my main beef with TT + the fact that it runs out of fuel and crashes as well after a while
EDIT: We shouldn't forget that it was indeed Keith who wrote Too Tight, and that Mick added lyrics and melody later.
So Mick added a melody that wasn't his?
Drew
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DandelionPowderman
EDIT: We shouldn't forget that it was indeed Keith who wrote Too Tight, and that Mick added lyrics and melody later.
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Naturalust
I tend to agree that the band does a great job on this but something about Mick's performance actually detracts from the song from me. It's probably a combination of another lyrical statement about Mick evaluating another woman in his life (yawn) and the way the vocals are mixed. Jagger was so much more effective when he was doing alot of doubling and harmonies and buried more in the mix, that classic Stones vocal sound is what I crave and is missing from Too Tight, imo.
I actually think this is the problem with ALL the modern records. Compare the vocals on any of them to the way Exile was done and it's easy to see the change.
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Naturalust
I tend to agree that the band does a great job on this but something about Mick's performance actually detracts from the song from me. It's probably a combination of another lyrical statement about Mick evaluating another woman in his life (yawn) and the way the vocals are mixed. Jagger was so much more effective when he was doing alot of doubling and harmonies and buried more in the mix, that classic Stones vocal sound is what I crave and is missing from Too Tight, imo.
I actually think this is the problem with ALL the modern records. Compare the vocals on any of them to the way Exile was done and it's easy to see the change.
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Naturalust
I tend to agree that the band does a great job on this but something about Mick's performance actually detracts from the song from me. It's probably a combination of another lyrical statement about Mick evaluating another woman in his life (yawn) and the way the vocals are mixed. Jagger was so much more effective when he was doing alot of doubling and harmonies and buried more in the mix, that classic Stones vocal sound is what I crave and is missing from Too Tight, imo.
I actually think this is the problem with ALL the modern records. Compare the vocals on any of them to the way Exile was done and it's easy to see the change.
I agree. The vocal is definitely too up-front, too in-your-face, like on a Jagger solo record. And the yet-another-woman-who-needs-to-back-off lyrics are really becoming boring.
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Doxa
"Too Tight"... for some reason for me one of the most enjoyable of those latter-day Stones-by-numbers rockers that unfortunately are doomed to be nothing but forgettable album fillers in the long run.
Good features: a fresh feel, the melodic hook of the main melody line (borrowed or not), the whole song written well (a real Jagger/Richards baby!), Jagger's delivery - gives me nice recollections of good old rockers, of that sound ("Rocks Off", "She Was Hot", even "Miss Amanda Jones" etc.)
Bad features: a bit too obvious, creatively boring arrangement ideas typical for latter day efforts (Jagger too upfront, seperation of the instruments, etc.) the lyrical content, that annoying, always similar 'aah-aah-ahh-aah'- background singing idea Keith came up with during the late 80's or so - the charm of the track fades a bit too quickly, and gives no reason to go back.
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with sssoul
It has a great intro!
Interesting comments from a lot of y'all up there. I don't think about lyrics that much as a rule -
the guitars and the beat are the main things I respond to. But GetYerAngie's interpretation really made me laugh - thank you! -
and I do wonder how Swayed1967 feels about Dance Little Sister, which I think has the title phrase repeated more times than any song ever.
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Mel Belli
Always loved that track. But the thing I remember most about it is a B2B album review by J.D. Considine in which he suggested "Too Tight" was a ripoff of Husker Du. I thought then and now, There's no way in hell Keith has ever heard of Husker Du, full stop, let alone copped a riff from them.
And where is Considine today? As Keith says on "Amnesia" ... Nowhere ... nowhere.