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Rocks Off and All Down The Line (two of the better tracks on EOMS) are just like Mixed Emotions enjoyable guitar-driven Stones-tracks. Songwise ME is not worse than Rocks Off or All Down The Line, imo. It would perfectly fit in EOMS (Just like Sad Sad Sad).
i almost choked on my morning Rice Krispies when I read this.
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Rocks Off and All Down The Line (two of the better tracks on EOMS) are just like Mixed Emotions enjoyable guitar-driven Stones-tracks. Songwise ME is not worse than Rocks Off or All Down The Line, imo. It would perfectly fit in EOMS (Just like Sad Sad Sad).
i almost choked on my morning Rice Krispies when I read this.
Strange reaction. Come on, in what way All Down The Line or Rocks Off are better than Sad Sad Sad & Mixed Emotions? I´d go so far to say they are interchangeable. If they had written Sad Sad Sad & ME in 1972 and recorded them for EOMS they would fit like a hand in glove. People, stop mystifying EOMS...
Btw, the best up-tempo tracks of EOMS and the best up-tempo-tracks of Steel Wheels combined would make a hell of an album. Add Dirty Work and Had It You (maybe also Highwire) and you might get the best Stones-album ever.
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Rocks Off and All Down The Line (two of the better tracks on EOMS) are just like Mixed Emotions enjoyable guitar-driven Stones-tracks. Songwise ME is not worse than Rocks Off or All Down The Line, imo. It would perfectly fit in EOMS (Just like Sad Sad Sad).
i almost choked on my morning Rice Krispies when I read this.
Strange reaction. Come on, in what way All Down The Line or Rocks Off are better than Sad Sad Sad & Mixed Emotions? I´d go so far to say they are interchangeable. If they had written Sad Sad Sad & ME in 1972 and recorded them for EOMS they would fit like a hand in glove. People, stop mystifying EOMS...
Btw, the best up-tempo tracks of EOMS and the best up-tempo-tracks of Steel Wheels combined would make a hell of an album. Add Dirty Work and Had It You (maybe also Highwire) and you might get the best Stones-album ever.
have you listened to rocks off? the horns in it are phenomenal. do you hear horns in "mixed emotions"? have you paid attention to the lyrics? "mixed emotions" is about a rich middle-aged rock star who can't make up his mind about something, most likely a woman (or his lead guitarist). "rocks off" is about alienation, frustration, loneliness, being let down, letting people down, and ennui in general. have you listened to the riffs in both songs? one of them is much more complex and varied than the other. what about the guitar fills? the changes in tempo in the songs?
"mixed emotions" is a half-hearted attempt to re-create the greatness that the stones had achieved around the time of EOMS. "rocks off" is that greatness. it's deeper and more complex both musically and lyrically. to the extent that you believe "mixed emotions" sounds like "rocks off", the Rolling Stones succeed magnificently in getting you to believe they still "had it".
personally, i am glad you enjoy Mixed Emotions, but that doesn't change my shock (and spilt rice kristies) at finding out you think it's comparable to what's on EOMS.
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Rocks Off and All Down The Line (two of the better tracks on EOMS) are just like Mixed Emotions enjoyable guitar-driven Stones-tracks. Songwise ME is not worse than Rocks Off or All Down The Line, imo. It would perfectly fit in EOMS (Just like Sad Sad Sad).
i almost choked on my morning Rice Krispies when I read this.
Strange reaction. Come on, in what way All Down The Line or Rocks Off are better than Sad Sad Sad & Mixed Emotions? I´d go so far to say they are interchangeable. If they had written Sad Sad Sad & ME in 1972 and recorded them for EOMS they would fit like a hand in glove. People, stop mystifying EOMS...
Btw, the best up-tempo tracks of EOMS and the best up-tempo-tracks of Steel Wheels combined would make a hell of an album. Add Dirty Work and Had It You (maybe also Highwire) and you might get the best Stones-album ever.
have you listened to rocks off? the horns in it are phenomenal. do you hear horns in "mixed emotions"? have you paid attention to the lyrics? "mixed emotions" is about a rich middle-aged rock star who can't make up his mind about something, most likely a woman (or his lead guitarist). "rocks off" is about alienation, frustration, loneliness, being let down, letting people down, and ennui in general. have you listened to the riffs in both songs? one of them is much more complex and varied than the other. what about the guitar fills? the changes in tempo in the songs?
"mixed emotions" is a half-hearted attempt to re-create the greatness that the stones had achieved around the time of EOMS. "rocks off" is that greatness. it's deeper and more complex both musically and lyrically. to the extent that you believe "mixed emotions" sounds like "rocks off", the Rolling Stones succeed magnificently in getting you to believe they still "had it".
personally, i am glad you enjoy Mixed Emotions, but that doesn't change my shock (and spilt rice kristies) at finding out you think it's comparable to what's on EOMS.
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Rocks Off and All Down The Line (two of the better tracks on EOMS) are just like Mixed Emotions enjoyable guitar-driven Stones-tracks. Songwise ME is not worse than Rocks Off or All Down The Line, imo. It would perfectly fit in EOMS (Just like Sad Sad Sad).
i almost choked on my morning Rice Krispies when I read this.
Strange reaction. Come on, in what way All Down The Line or Rocks Off are better than Sad Sad Sad & Mixed Emotions? I´d go so far to say they are interchangeable. If they had written Sad Sad Sad & ME in 1972 and recorded them for EOMS they would fit like a hand in glove. People, stop mystifying EOMS...
Btw, the best up-tempo tracks of EOMS and the best up-tempo-tracks of Steel Wheels combined would make a hell of an album. Add Dirty Work and Had It You (maybe also Highwire) and you might get the best Stones-album ever.
have you listened to rocks off?
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Overdubbing is not recording new songs, it's overdubbing.
Highwire is a STEEL WHEELS leftover. Uptempo it ain't. STEEL WHEELS has an uptempo song on it but the song sucks.
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Overdubbing is not recording new songs, it's overdubbing.
Highwire is a STEEL WHEELS leftover. Uptempo it ain't. STEEL WHEELS has an uptempo song on it but the song sucks.
Sad Sad Sad, Highwire and Mixed Emotions are not what the average listener would call ballads, are they? Anyway, if you say they aren´t uptempo they aren´t.
Btw, the uptempo song on Steel Wheels is one of the very few reasons to listen to that album.
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GasLightStreet
The fast song on STEEL WHEELS has been deleted and it is no reason to listen to the album.
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HMS
Okay, EOMS was not recorded in 1972, but they did final overdubs in 1972. Well, if they had written Sad Sad Sad & Mixed Emotions for GHS, both songs would be the highlights of this boring album.
"pedestrian songs"? EOMS got a fair share of pedestrian songs, some even superfluous.
Lately I´ve been listening to the up-tempo tracks of Steel wheels plus the fantastic Highwire and it gave me a real good time. To continue with the up-tempo tracks of Exile after a short break would be even more pleasing, I suppose. Any volunteers?