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Under Cover Of The Night - Dub version ---- 6.22

12" maxi single
The Singles 1971-2006

Here's the Aussie version Rockee!




"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Fanks man …. id have
it somewhere …. And we gained 5 secs … hhhhaaaaaaa



ROCKMAN

One of the greatest albums they ever did. 90% of the people reading this will have no idea what I’m talking about but phase 3 of the Stones with Ronnie on 2nd guitar was what I call the rhythm machine.
It started with Black and Blue and ended with Undercover and that was the glorious end to the Stones recording career.
I’m paraphrasing slightly but I remember one reviewer saying “ this song makes me feel like I’m strapped to a freight train going through a tunnel with Sly and Robbie shoveling coal on the engine”

It certainly has that dark unsettling energy which characterises some of their greatest work... and which has been a little thin on the ground since.

40 years since this song was released as of oct 31

and it's one of my favorites

Bloody hell ! 40 years ? The older you get...the faster it flies.

Love this tune, and there's even better to be found on the album

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One of the greatest albums they ever did. 90% of the people reading this will have no idea what I’m talking about but phase 3 of the Stones with Ronnie on 2nd guitar was what I call the rhythm machine.
It started with Black and Blue and ended with Undercover and that was the glorious end to the Stones recording career.
I’m paraphrasing slightly but I remember one reviewer saying “ this song makes me feel like I’m strapped to a freight train going through a tunnel with Sly and Robbie shoveling coal on the engine”

Great description...I guess I'm a 10 percenter.

It's been 40 years and the screams from the centre of 42 is still loud enough to bust your brains out.

Love that blistering guitar solo!

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One of the greatest albums they ever did. 90% of the people reading this will have no idea what I’m talking about but phase 3 of the Stones with Ronnie on 2nd guitar was what I call the rhythm machine.
It started with Black and Blue and ended with Undercover and that was the glorious end to the Stones recording career.
I’m paraphrasing slightly but I remember one reviewer saying “ this song makes me feel like I’m strapped to a freight train going through a tunnel with Sly and Robbie shoveling coal on the engine”

I concur.

It's a blistering, funky, swaggering display of their talents at the end peak of their creativity and musicianship.

It just didn't "sound" right or sound Rolling Stones enough for people.

Which is ridiculous but whatever.

Undercover the album was really the end of the Stones as a relevant rock band in terms of new music. It took forty years for them to release an album that compares with it. Hackney to me is the best album since Some Girls. But Undecover is very good and the title track is really great! SOmehwere out there ther is version of Undercover Of the Night without the fake drums and production I cannot find it. WBCN in Boston played it a few times before they were told they had gotten the wrong song to play. I have searched for 41 years years for it and I cannot find it. I had recorded it off the radio but I lost my case of cassettes somewhere over the years. i would love to find it. I remember liking it better than the official release.

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Undercover the album was really the end of the Stones as a relevant rock band in terms of new music. It took forty years for them to release an album that compares with it. Hackney to me is the best album since Some Girls. But Undecover is very good and the title track is really great! SOmehwere out there ther is version of Undercover Of the Night without the fake drums and production I cannot find it. WBCN in Boston played it a few times before they were told they had gotten the wrong song to play. I have searched for 41 years years for it and I cannot find it. I had recorded it off the radio but I lost my case of cassettes somewhere over the years. i would love to find it. I remember liking it better than the official release.

AHEM

There is no title track on UNDERCOVER.

Great album, regardless, and their last fully creative work until HACKNEY DIAMONDS.

Bridges is way better thanUndercover

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Undercover the album was really the end of the Stones as a relevant rock band in terms of new music. It took forty years for them to release an album that compares with it. Hackney to me is the best album since Some Girls. But Undecover is very good and the title track is really great! SOmehwere out there ther is version of Undercover Of the Night without the fake drums and production I cannot find it. WBCN in Boston played it a few times before they were told they had gotten the wrong song to play. I have searched for 41 years years for it and I cannot find it. I had recorded it off the radio but I lost my case of cassettes somewhere over the years. i would love to find it. I remember liking it better than the official release.

Chech the Hot Stuff section, there's literally hundreds of outtakes available from Undercover, with at least a dozen for UOTK, starting with just an acoustic guitar to full blown final track with brass etc. If you want you can indulge yourself to 25 remixes of Too Much Blood.

Mathijs

Just ONE single chord (!) makes such a great song. Masterpiece!

Ha ha

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Ha ha

Add the production and vibe of these to it and you have Undercover:

Twilight Zone

When the Lady Smiles

Mathijs



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2024-02-08 14:16 by Mathijs.

glimmerman just posted what sounds like a demo for undercover here

i've never heard this before it's the most primitive version of the song i've heard mostly drums and acoustic guitar with mick improvising lyrics

Regarding whether Bill or Shakespeare played bass in undecover.

I thought this song was great live in 1989.

Kind of surprised they have not revisited it.

I was hoping we'd get a few more live songs from this album.

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I thought this song was great live in 1989.

Kind of surprised they have not revisited it.

I was hoping we'd get a few more live songs from this album.

UOTN performed more than once on tour

She Was Hot

Wanna Hold You

That's it.

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I thought this song was great live in 1989.

Kind of surprised they have not revisited it.

I was hoping we'd get a few more live songs from this album.

UOTN performed more than once on tour

She Was Hot

Wanna Hold You

That's it.

Yes. I caught them performing Undercover of the Night at my first Stones show; Giants Stadium, 2002.

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I thought this song was great live in 1989.

Kind of surprised they have not revisited it.

I was hoping we'd get a few more live songs from this album.

They did at least once, in 2006. A pretty bleak version, imo.





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I thought this song was great live in 1989.

Kind of surprised they have not revisited it.

I was hoping we'd get a few more live songs from this album.

They did at least once, in 2006. A pretty bleak version, imo.





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I had completely forgotten this rendition!

It’s not ‘bad’; a little ropey, perhaps.

Ok, so who do you think is playing the acoustic on the outtake?

I like it!


C

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Ok, so who do you think is playing the acoustic on the outtake?

I like it!


C

It's Mick. He and Charlie recorded the demo for it.

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Ok, so who do you think is playing the acoustic on the outtake?

I like it!


C

It's Mick. He and Charlie recorded the demo for it.

That was also my initial thought. But after repeated listens it doesn't quite sound like his usual style - which means nothing because he has surprised me many times before. Based on what I read on Timeisonourside, the very first version was Charlie on timpani and Mick on voc and acoustic guitar. This version already has at least bass and percussion overdubs and the vocals sound polished and relaxed. Could it be that the guitar is already Jim BArber's

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Ok, so who do you think is playing the acoustic on the outtake?

I like it!


C

It's Mick. He and Charlie recorded the demo for it.

That was also my initial thought. But after repeated listens it doesn't quite sound like his usual style - which means nothing because he has surprised me many times before. Based on what I read on Timeisonourside, the very first version was Charlie on timpani and Mick on voc and acoustic guitar. This version already has at least bass and percussion overdubs and the vocals sound polished and relaxed. Could it be that the guitar is already Jim BArber's

C

I think Ronnie was working on it with Mick and Charlie before they went electric.

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Ok, so who do you think is playing the acoustic on the outtake?

I like it!


C

It's Mick. He and Charlie recorded the demo for it.

That was also my initial thought. But after repeated listens it doesn't quite sound like his usual style - which means nothing because he has surprised me many times before. Based on what I read on Timeisonourside, the very first version was Charlie on timpani and Mick on voc and acoustic guitar. This version already has at least bass and percussion overdubs and the vocals sound polished and relaxed. Could it be that the guitar is already Jim BArber's

C

It sounds very much like Ron Wood on acoustic.

(W)e did put in some wonderful changes on the song Undercover of the Night, because Keith wouldn't get involved in the song. I remember it being just me, Mick and Charlie. I used to really enjoy playing that song with Mick and Charlie - we took it up into some wonderful adventures with all these different changes. It was really good. There was a great percussive and acoustic version, which is the kind of song it should be, really. The final polished, glossed-up version may have been Mick's vision of the song, but I know the funky version was one he loved as well.

- Ron Wood, 2003

Mathijs



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