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24FPS
Some Girls is a sonically coherent album, with studio magic creating an overall sound. Just listen to the bonus on SG Deluxe and they simply don't fit. Excepting Claudine. If you substitute the throwaway Lies with the similar Claudine, it's a slightly better album.
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DandelionPowderman
IMO, Emotional Rescue has more facets musically than Some Girls.
Both are very diverse records, actually - more than people give them credit for,
With the exception of Black And Blue, there just isn't a better-sounding album than ER in the Stones catalogue, imo.
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DandelionPowderman
The songwriting is top notch.
Dance
Send It To Me
Let Me Go
Down In The Hole
Emotional Rescue
She's So Cold
All About You
are all excellent if one, for some reason, don't regard fast rockers good songwriting
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DandelionPowderman
The songwriting is top notch.
Dance
Send It To Me
Let Me Go
Down In The Hole
Emotional Rescue
She's So Cold
All About You
are all excellent if one, for some reason, don't regard fast rockers good songwriting
Dance has a great groove. the lyrics are awful. jagger stopped bothering with lyrics a lot of the time at this point.
Send it To Me is silly from a songwriting perspective. it's the start of what could be a good song, but unfinished.
Let Me Go is unimaginative, but as opposed to the 2 above songs, it is a genuinely finished song.
Down In the Hole is just a blues re-tread. no points for songwriting.
Emotional Rescue is good songwriting.
She's So Cold is also pretty good.
All About You the best written song on the album. complex, meaningful lyrics, and the music is unique, catching, and surprises the listener.
indeed, all about you highlights the weaknesses of the other songs.
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DandelionPowderman
IMO, Emotional Rescue has more facets musically than Some Girls.
Both are very diverse records, actually - more than people give them credit for,
With the exception of Black And Blue, there just isn't a better-sounding album than ER in the Stones catalogue, imo.
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DandelionPowderman
IMO, Emotional Rescue has more facets musically than Some Girls.
Both are very diverse records, actually - more than people give them credit for,
With the exception of Black And Blue, there just isn't a better-sounding album than ER in the Stones catalogue, imo.
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DandelionPowderman
Not a fact, your opinion, alimente
It might have been a letdown back then, but some records are bigger than the fashion waves. ER is one of those, imo.
And Dance has nothing to do with disco. Try funk.
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boogaloojef
The problem is that better-sounding does not translate to a good record. If they would have included some of the tracks that ended up on Tattoo You and the Some Girls deluxe edition, Emotional Rescue would have been a better record.
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DandelionPowderman
IMO, Emotional Rescue has more facets musically than Some Girls.
Both are very diverse records, actually - more than people give them credit for,
With the exception of Black And Blue, there just isn't a better-sounding album than ER in the Stones catalogue, imo.
All good and well, but that's just theoretical and does not take anything away from the fact that after SG, ER felt like a bit of a letdown.
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DandelionPowderman
I'm not sure if No Use In Crying or Heaven are better than their "cousins" on ER.
Love both of them, though.
If people only hear 12 bar blues in Down In The Hole or don't hear the fantastic playing and groove on Dance, that's their problem.
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barbabang
Everything is turning into gold. Great great track. Everything is there. The groove, the bass, Jagger's vocals. The guitars. One of the best. Great summer song too!
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DandelionPowderman
I'm not sure if No Use In Crying or Heaven are better than their "cousins" on ER.
Love both of them, though.
If people only hear 12 bar blues in Down In The Hole or don't hear the fantastic playing and groove on Dance, that's their problem.
Well, if the majority of the other tracks on ER had the quality of Down In The Hole and Dance, I would not have any problems with this album.
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barbabang
Everything is turning into gold. Great great track. Everything is there. The groove, the bass, Jagger's vocals. The guitars. One of the best. Great summer song too!
Indeed it is.
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HMS
Looking at the ER-tracklist I cant help but thinking every song is great-very good (except Indian Girl which is ridiculous indeed).
Have a look at the B-side - one great tune after another.
Send It To Me & Where The Boys Go arent silly, imo, but funny. Especially Where The Boys Go is a great track, very enjoyable.
The song ER (although it contains some crap lyric-wise) is much more impressive than Miss You. The very first seconds alone make it an almost-classic.
Down In The Hole is an outstanding track, show me a better one on SG... Keith´s All About You is one of his finest songs ever (I dont think he has done a better one since then). Dance is a groove-fest through and through...
If you combine the best tracks of SG, ER & TY you maybe get the best Stones-record ever, I guess - I´ll try and see if that´s really true.
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TY is much better IMO
Yes indeed.
If you´d consider SG, TY & ER a trilogy, ER would be the best.
It isn't a "trilogy" at all, because TY was cobbled together mostly from studio leftovers from the past decade, and the fact that the outcome was so much stronger than the last album of (nearly) all-new material - ER, of course - is telling and a clear indication that the Stones new-found creativity with SG was already beginning to dry.
TATTOO YOU was not mostly cobbled together from studio leftovers, it is entirely put together from studio leftovers.
Mostly with tracks from sessions at Pathe Marconi over a two year period, hence it's got a cohesive sound reminiscent of those two other albums.
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HMS
Looking at the ER-tracklist I cant help but thinking every song is great-very good (except Indian Girl which is ridiculous indeed).
Have a look at the B-side - one great tune after another.
Send It To Me & Where The Boys Go arent silly, imo, but funny. Especially Where The Boys Go is a great track, very enjoyable.
The song ER (although it contains some crap lyric-wise) is much more impressive than Miss You. The very first seconds alone make it an almost-classic.
Down In The Hole is an outstanding track, show me a better one on SG... Keith´s All About You is one of his finest songs ever (I dont think he has done a better one since then). Dance is a groove-fest through and through...
If you combine the best tracks of SG, ER & TY you maybe get the best Stones-record ever, I guess - I´ll try and see if that´s really true.
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MartinB
Very interesting to see the variation: what is a highlight to somebody is crap to somebody else and the other way round. That's good because, as it was commented above, these are just our opinions, not facts.
I personally can't remember when I last listened to ER or DW while I listened to GS last week. And that's a fact.
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shortfatfanny
Just your combination theory is strange...you can combine anything and the result will not be an original Stones album but some kind of something...