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ThePaleRider
Fans of the Stones from the Ya-Ya's years or even the Love You Live years probably thought Still Life sucked. I know I did. I can see new fans liking it though...
I think you are correct.
The three albums can't be compared. They are all different. I'm glad to have all of them.
Still Life has so many great songs to listen to and it's different. It's not chocked full of war horses. It rocks. It's short and sweet. I love it.
How is he correct? Who think Still Life sucks?
As you say, it's great to have both.
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GasLightStreet
What was the gripe? Mick wanted to record a bunch of old songs (covers) in a studio and release that as a live album? But instead he recorded almost all new vocals in a studio and Keith threw in some more guitar tracks and...
FOUR FLICKS sounds pretty good but STILL LIFE has the best sound of all of their live albums.
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GasLightStreet
What was the gripe? Mick wanted to record a bunch of old songs (covers) in a studio and release that as a live album? But instead he recorded almost all new vocals in a studio and Keith threw in some more guitar tracks and...
LIVE LICKS sounds pretty good but STILL LIFE has the best sound of all of their live albums.
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Elmo Lewis
The Hampton release has made it kinda unnecessary .....
We sure enjoyed reliving the concert in the summer of 82 though.
Faves are UMT, 20 Flight, and TIOMS.
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Doxa
Yeah, kinda... but the thrilling opening of STILL LIFE - you know, a little snippet of Ellington tune, then a sudden burst of audience noise, the introduction and the majestic opening riff of "Under My Thumb" loud, clear and distinct, so powerful... that's probably the best reconstructed start of a Rolling Stones concert ever made in a recording. It really gets one to feel like being there at present, capturing the moment of grasping 'oh man, it's the Stones'... It gives goosegumps every time I hear it.
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35love
Great pics, thank you-
They shoulda put Philadelphia '81 'Tops' on Still Life. Now we're talkin'
I shoulda been able to use the RS tickets I won in '81 to see them
coulda woulda shoulda shoodbie shattered
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DandelionPowderman
They did Tops in Buffalo, too.
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DandelionPowderman
They did Tops in Buffalo, too.
And in Boulder. Considering that them 3 live attempts of Tops were all early in the tour when they were quite rusty, Tops was allright. Buffalo-Tops is my favourite
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Elmo Lewis
The Hampton release has made it kinda unnecessary .....
We sure enjoyed reliving the concert in the summer of 82 though.
Faves are UMT, 20 Flight, and TIOMS.
Yeah, kinda... but the thrilling opening of STILL LIFE - you know, a little snippet of Ellington tune, then a sudden burst of audience noise, the introduction and the majestic opening riff of "Under My Thumb" loud, clear and distinct, so powerful... that's probably the best reconstructed start of a Rolling Stones concert ever made in a recording. It really gets one to feel like being there at present, capturing the moment of grasping 'oh man, it's the Stones'... It gives goosegumps every time I hear it. I call it 'reconstructed' because I have never heard any other recording of the tour - official or not - making such an impression (actually the ones in Hal Ashby movie and Hampton are pretty lame compared to it). What is great in old-time live albums is that they were more like trying to make an impression, or even illusion of a Rolling Stones concert, not an authentic documentation. They were their own works of art.
Nowadays when I very rarely listen the album it is "Under My Thumb", "Let's Spend The Night Together" or "Time Is On My Side" that I mostly pick up. All great played and mixed and sounding sonically superb. The rest of the tracks don't work so well in that context me thinks. Some of them are way too rushed or autopilot-like ("Shattered","Let Me Go", "Start Me Up", "Satisfaction"), and the whole album sounds a bit monotonic. When those tracks are 'buried' in the setlist and a part of the natural flow in the concert - as represented in Hampton - they work better but not when having such a distinguished room of their own.
- Doxa
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Elmo Lewis
The Hampton release has made it kinda unnecessary .....
We sure enjoyed reliving the concert in the summer of 82 though.
Faves are UMT, 20 Flight, and TIOMS.