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DandelionPowderman
I think all the tracks on side 2 are very good. If You Let Me is great. I'm Going Down starts out nice, but isn't really going anywhere.
Don't Lie To Me is an old favourite. They did a nice live version of that track in Texas 1972.
Mick Taylor plays beautifully on I Don't Know Why (the solo is looped, though) and Jiving Sister Fanny. They are the only tracks where he is featured, I believe? Maybe he plays bass on I'm Going Down, as some sources say?
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DandelionPowderman
I think all the tracks on side 2 are very good. If You Let Me is great. I'm Going Down starts out nice, but isn't really going anywhere.
Don't Lie To Me is an old favourite. They did a nice live version of that track in Texas 1972.
Mick Taylor plays beautifully on I Don't Know Why (the solo is looped, though) and Jiving Sister Fanny. They are the only tracks where he is featured, I believe? Maybe he plays bass on I'm Going Down, as some sources say?
That's pretty much what I think about this album. Plus, I really love the Out Of Time version. Maybe because I always loved Chris Farlowe's version and often wondered how it would sound with Mick's lead vocals since it came out - and by 1975, I finally got it!
It could have been a much better album without the majority of tracks on side 1, the "pop demos" for other artists. With some more Chess material, maybe. But ABKCO was keen on having as much Jagger/Richards originals on the album as possible, so financial aspects won over artistic content as outlined in Wyman's Black Box compilation. But still, they could have included I Can See It aka Get Yourself Together or Pay Your Dues.
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Deltics
Did anybody ever figure out why "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" and "We're Wastin' Time". weren't included on the original American release?
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LeonidP
Nice compilation of outtakes! Some pretty good tunes. I love Mick's singing in the verses of If You Let Me.
BTW, in Tony Jasper's book, in the discography section, for Metamorphosis, it lists a track called "Ana". That was the days before the internet,so it wasn't easy to check other sources. I spent many hours trying to track down that non-existent song.
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LeonidP
Nice compilation of outtakes! Some pretty good tunes. I love Mick's singing in the verses of If You Let Me.
BTW, in Tony Jasper's book, in the discography section, for Metamorphosis, it lists a track called "Ana". That was the days before the internet,so it wasn't easy to check other sources. I spent many hours trying to track down that non-existent song.
ANA 1 was the catalogue number of the American issue!
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LeonidP
Nice compilation of outtakes! Some pretty good tunes. I love Mick's singing in the verses of If You Let Me.
BTW, in Tony Jasper's book, in the discography section, for Metamorphosis, it lists a track called "Ana". That was the days before the internet,so it wasn't easy to check other sources. I spent many hours trying to track down that non-existent song.
ANA 1 was the catalogue number of the American issue!
Haha, where were you 35 years ago, when that info could have saved me a lot of time!
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Big Al
An interesting release, certainly. I particularly like Jimmy Page's sloppy soloing on Heart Of Stone and, I think, Big Jim Sullivan's lead-guitar on We're Wasting Time; at least, I suspect that's him. It's certainly not Keith and it doesn't sound like Jimmy Page to my ears.
Side-two has some wonderful moments, of course: I Don't Know Why, Jiving Sister Fanny, etc.
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BroomWagon
"I'm Going Down" reminds me very much of "Soul Survivor".
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"I'm Going Down" reminds me very much of "Soul Survivor".
I think that "I'm Going Down" could easily have made it onto Exile. A more polished version but still with some Exile muddiness. It's got a great feel. That whole "down shifting" thing is great.