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GasLightStreet
So, this intro some of you are saying you like, are you talking about the strangled bird tweets and chugging in the very beginning or when the guitar goes A DUNNA DUNNA DUNNAA DUNNNNNN when the drums kick in? They should've edited off that strangled bits and just gone to the A DUNNA DUNNA DUNNAA DUNNNNNN part, which starts at 15 seconds in. Too much nothing happening before that.
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GasLightStreet
So, this intro some of you are saying you like, are you talking about the strangled bird tweets and chugging in the very beginning or when the guitar goes A DUNNA DUNNA DUNNAA DUNNNNNN when the drums kick in? They should've edited off that strangled bits and just gone to the A DUNNA DUNNA DUNNAA DUNNNNNN part, which starts at 15 seconds in. Too much nothing happening before that.
What about the ending of Flip The Switch? I guess garage bands were in fashion that year, or at least Mick and Don Was thought so...
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Turner68
I just listened to "Too Tight" for the first time in a while.
It's somewhere between weak and middle of the road Stones-by-Numbers. If "sad sad sad" is a 7/10 stones-by-numbers tune, i'd give "Too Tight" a 4.
The intro is just bad, IMO. It's like they said "let's do something cool and creative with the intro" and then just randomly picked a take that happened to be different from the others and went out to a park somewhere and recorded the birds choking.
Whereas back when they were a fully functioning creative unit they'd have taken several days just to get the intro right.
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Nikkei
muhahaha i just pictured the "strangled bird tweets" which is a good metaphor i suppose but not at all for this intro. which is clearly supposed to invoke the picture of a quivering cat getting ready to jump at small rodents in the grass or something. I also didn't read all four pages but I do remember lots of people calling this a "fun little rocker" or "throwaway track" which imo just means they didn't pay attention to or didn't fully get the lyrics because then they would know it is one of the most important tracks regarding the overall message of the album.
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wonderboy
I'm not a sound expert, but that song and album sounds cold and brittle. There's none of the warmth of an acoustic guitar, no bottom that Bill's bass used to inhabit, very little in the way of harmonic backing vocals.
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wonderboy
I'm not a sound expert, but that song and album sounds cold and brittle. There's none of the warmth of an acoustic guitar, no bottom that Bill's bass used to inhabit, very little in the way of harmonic backing vocals.
I agree, but Anybody Seen My Baby and How Can I Stop are the exceptions. They sound somewhat 'warmer' than the rest of the lot. The b-side Anywhere You Look At It, too.
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LeonidP
Great rocker. .. Love the guitars, the riff, and especially the vocals!
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Virgin Priest
Ok, let´s sum it up: many people call “Too Tight“ a filler, or 2nd rate.
But even as a filler... it´s a filler in a league of it´s own – because it´s done by THE ROLLING STONES !!
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