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I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys
Gunface
Blinded By Rainbows

I @#$%& LOVE GUNFACE....BLASPHEMY !!

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Least Favorite 5

1) Cherry Oh Baby
2) She Smiled Sweetly
3) Anybody Seen My Baby?
4) Melody
5) if you Really Want to be my Friend

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1. Take It Or Leave It
2. Who's Driving Your Plane?
3. Blinded By Love (Or Rainbows, they're both horrid)
4. New Faces
5. Driving Too Fast (or substitute just about every other song on AB

It doesn't get much worse than the above IMO...but admit it - you all secretly wish Mick would add your least favorite songs to the setlist.

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1. Take It Or Leave It
2. Who's Driving Your Plane?
3. Blinded By Love (Or Rainbows, they're both horrid)
4. New Faces
5. Driving Too Fast (or substitute just about every other song on AB

It doesn't get much worse than the above IMO...but admit it - you all secretly wish Mick would add your least favorite songs to the setlist.

Who's Driving Your Plane is a great tune! It's mean and raw. Great stuff!

Worst? Out Of Control -- no doubt about it. A silly, forced, boring song, dull songwriting. All you do is wait for the dumb chorus to kick in and again and again and again while Keef barely touches his guitar. Lame.

I am not sure what the problem is with Back To Zero. It's not typical Stones, but BTB or ABB are not typical Stones -- it's solo Jagger with the rest of the Stones contributing.

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Every recorded track with Stones is rock-history but there are a couple of them that I don't happened to like...My least favorite studio cut is:

...is...well who would care...

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Back To Zero
Don't Hold Back
Sweet Neocon
Sing This Together (See What Happens)
On With The Show
I Wanna Hold You

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Come On
Every recorded track with Stones is rock-history but there are a couple of them that I don't happened to like...My least favorite studio cut is:

...is...well who would care...

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Every recorded track with Stones is rock-history but there are a couple of them that I don't happened to like...My least favorite studio cut is:

...is...well who would care...

I do like your attitude towards giving an answer to that particular (somewhat odious) question. But you are, in fact, one of the few posters, whose point of view even on that non-subject has more interest than from many others.

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Again and again in this thread I read "Blinded by Rainbows" denounced as bad and am quite surprised. While neither a major attraction from an all over their career perspective, nor one of the very best from that medium good album VOODOO LOUNGE, it is in my evaluation still one of the better songs of that album. Interesting song, besides, because of its anti-terrorist stance. Maybe that is the reason: Many posters prefer the Stones to be shortsightedly absorbed in sex and drugs. Or?

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Witness
You might as well have nominated "Ruby Tuesday" or "Wild Horses" as "She Smiled Sweetly" among your least respected five. You earn the equivalent amount of respect.

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You might as well have nominated "Ruby Tuesday" or "Wild Horses" as "She Smiled Sweetly" among your least respected five. You earn the equivalent amount of respect.

They way most people feel about Dirty Work is how I feel about Between the Buttons. After following Aftermath, Between the Buttons seems like a MAJOR step backwards. Its like they tried to create a "Beatles Album". Honestly anything not named Ruby Tuesday, Miss Amanda Jones, or Lets Spend the Night Together could qualify for my least favorite songs. Even Ruby Tuesday doesn't do much for me. I like my Stones with swagger. Songs with string arrangements don't exactly do it for me. Not surprising I much more prefer The Who, Kinks, and Zeppelin to the Beatles.

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As expressed formerly, to me the flavour and feel of BETWEEN THE BUTTONS and the Kinks are widely apart. My impression as one living at the time was like that then, too. The first album by the Kinks was in fact the first album I ever owned, and I also bought their third one, KINK KONTROVERSY, when that one was quite new.

"It's All Over Now" was never like the Kinks to me either.

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Again and again in this thread I read "Blinded by Rainbows" denounced as bad and am quite surprised. While neither a major attraction from an all over their career perspective, nor one of the very best from that medium good album VOODOO LOUNGE, it is in my evaluation still one of the better songs of that album. Interesting song, besides, because of its anti-terrorist stance. Maybe that is the reason: Many posters prefer the Stones to be shortsightedly absorbed in sex and drugs. Or?

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But don't you hear the vibe on tracks like Something Happens To Me Yesterday? The music hall-influence, which the Stones never had done before. The resemblance, both musically and attitude-wise, between Connection and Party Line should be obvious. The playfulness, much similar to the Kinks, in Cool, Calm, Collected. Even the semi-freakiness, cobbled with the melodious, in All Sold Out was also to be found in the Kinks's music – at the time this was new for the Stones.

They might have picked up a thing or two from the Beatles (as the Kinks also did), but the final product – the sound – is imo reminiscent of that of the Kinks.

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Speaking for myself, the words ring very hollow. I dislike the music and arrangement; it i as by the numbers minor key ballad. You know every change that is going to happen before it occurs. I hate the choice of words, but more than anything it is just the sense of treading water that I get.

To me the words don't ring hollow here, but on the contrary more sincere than usually.

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But don't you hear the vibe on tracks like Something Happens To Me Yesterday? The music hall-influence, which the Stones never had done before. The resemblance, both musically and attitude-wise, between Connection and Party Line should be obvious. The playfulness, much similar to the Kinks, in Cool, Calm, Collected. Even the semi-freakiness, cobbled with the melodious, in All Sold Out was also to be found in the Kinks's music – at the time this was new for the Stones.

They might have picked up a thing or two from the Beatles (as the Kinks also did), but the final product – the sound – is imo reminiscent of that of the Kinks.

I have in at least one former thread acknowledged the likeness in melody between "Party Line" and "Connection"(which I had not noticed before), but it was then I used the words flavour and feel as different. And I referred myself to a certain kind of similiarity in build up between "Got Love If You want It" from Kinks' first album and "Cool, Calm, Collected", but in that case everything is always brought from some other issue. The other examples I find even more farfetched.