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HMS
A pedantic, pedestrian homage? No, a superb homage.
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HMS
YGMR is a powerful song designed to please huge crowds, it stands as tall as their best rockers like Brown Sugar, Start Me Up, One Hit, Flip The Switch, Doom And Gloom, JJF, Rough Justice and Undercover Of The Night. It is pure Stones magic and delivers everything any Stones-fan could wish for.
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buttons67
you got me rocking dosent stand up to brown sugar, jj flash or undercover of the night in my opinion, each to their own, but it dosent do it for me, there is so many better songs and why it became a semi warhorse and has been played more regularly than so many better songs i will never get.
its a rather bland song and live versions although better than the studio, which isnt saying much i just cant find a reason for promoting this song. they have released better since 1994, stuff like gunface, doom and gloom, rough justice, flip the switch didnt get the same treatment as you got me rocking.
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HMS
A pedantic, pedestrian homage? No, a superb homage.
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HMS
YGMR is a powerful song designed to please huge crowds, it stands as tall as their best rockers like Brown Sugar, Start Me Up, One Hit, Flip The Switch, Doom And Gloom, JJF, Rough Justice and Undercover Of The Night. It is pure Stones magic and delivers everything any Stones-fan could wish for.
Nope. Wrong again. UOTN and One Hit are not "best rockers". Quit fictionising their catalogue.
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bitusa2012
Stones by numbers. "Hey Keith, play a scratchy intro, put a couple of simple riffs on top, I'll sing 'hey hey'...a lot... And we'll see how we go", says Mick.
Plodding, formulaic... Fail.
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GasLightStreet
I was thinking a pedestrian homage to their past.
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HMS
A pedantic, pedestrian homage? No, a superb homage.
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HMS
YGMR is a powerful song designed to please huge crowds, it stands as tall as their best rockers like Brown Sugar, Start Me Up, One Hit, Flip The Switch, Doom And Gloom, JJF, Rough Justice and Undercover Of The Night. It is pure Stones magic and delivers everything any Stones-fan could wish for.
Nope. Wrong again. UOTN and One Hit are not "best rockers". Quit fictionising their catalogue.
Undercover Of The Night not belonging to their best rockers???
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HMS
Imo, it is one of their five most impressive rockers of all time, it is classic Stones-riffing combined with modern studio technique and all parts fit together perfectly. Since then they havent recorded a more impressive rocker, some come close (Flip The Switch, One Hit, Doom And Gloom) but in the end fail to reach that height, Undercover Of The Night tops it all. The studio version is true perfection, live they´ve had always a hard time with it, but nevertheless the Shine-A-Light-DVD contains a brilliant live-version.
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HMS
Undercover Of The Night in the early 80s is what JJF was in the late 60s. The Stones at their peak, it cant get any better than that. Not even One Hit To The Body is as good as Undercover Of The Night and that says a lot. Even Start Me up has to step back.
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treaclefingers
a pedantic homage to their past.
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Shott
It rocks. Great lyrics, great bridge, great solo, great live. Not as good as Love is Strong, but if you don't like it, you are looking for things in latter day catalog not to like. It's better than anything between 73 and 78.
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HMS
So what´s wrong with that:
I was a butcher cutting up meat
My hands were bloody, I'm dying on my feet
I was a surgeon till I started to shake
I was falling but you put on the break
I was a pitcher down in a slump
I was a fighter taken for a sucker punch
I'm feeling bad, guess I lost my spring
I was the boxer who can't get in the ring
I was a hooker losing her looks
I was a writer, can't write another book
I was all dried up, dying to get wet
I was a tycoon drowning in debt
Very fine lyrics.
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HMS
So what´s wrong with that:
I was a butcher cutting up meat
My hands were bloody, I'm dying on my feet
I was a surgeon till I started to shake
I was falling but you put on the break
I was a pitcher down in a slump
I was a fighter taken for a sucker punch
I'm feeling bad, guess I lost my spring
I was the boxer who can't get in the ring
I was a hooker losing her looks
I was a writer, can't write another book
I was all dried up, dying to get wet
I was a tycoon drowning in debt
Very fine lyrics.
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HonkeyTonkFlash
Just an OK rocker; not terrible or great....It deserves neither slamming nor praise...