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100 Years Ago is a favourite track of mine from the album "Goats Head Soup", the tempo changes and Mick's vocals and Mick Taylor's great guitar solo make it shine.

Yes, an essential Stones track.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

Way back when Goats Head was first released my good
old friend Louie always reckoned Mick was singing the line .....

Call me lizard balls
Ain't got no time to waste away
Lizard balls ain't got no time to waste away

We still roll on the floor about that one ...... Love ya Louie



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Perhaps or arguably the best song on GOATS HEAD SOUP it is certainly a great track on a fantastic album. It's criminal that it's been completely ignored by the band.
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Great song from a great album

What a drag it is gettin' old

I remember being alarmed the first time I heard the song. They seemed to be looking back and thinking about packing it in. (Like they should have after Steel Wheels). It appeared that Exile was going to be the absolute peak (eventually it was considered so) and that they were burnt out and had enough.

I still think they should have made the effort to have Bill on as many songs as possible.

It's a wonderful song and always a joy to listen to.

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It's a wonderful song and always a joy to listen to.

This.

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Call me lizard balls
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That works too!

As mentioned in the GHS thread, this was my favorite back in the day, when I first got this album. But for some reason, I find it hard to listen to now, it no longer does anything for me.

As some say of other tracks, this one did not stand the test of time, at least for me.

Rehearsing it in Rotterdam 1973:

Btw, I thought Bill played bass on Hide Your Love.

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Btw, I thought Bill played bass on Hide Your Love.

Me too.

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LieB
Btw, I thought Bill played bass on Hide Your Love.

Me too.

Never mind, just listened to it! It's definitely different than what I imagine Bill Wyman would play.

100 Years Ago and Heartbreaker are the best songs on GHS (unless you're an Angie fan) and thanks to Billy's clavinet they sound kinda similar but more than that they are astoundingly different than anything found on Exile (or anything that was to follow for that matter). Very unique songs in the Stones canon.

Love this tune but I think 100 Years Ago could use another verse = I hate giving up this song to 'Lazybones.' It goes to shit after that IMO.

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Rehearsing it in Rotterdam 1973:

They should had made a 2 hour documentary of this rehearsal..................

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LieB
Rehearsing it in Rotterdam 1973:

They should had made a 2 hour documentary of this rehearsal..................

It will be on the 2018 Super Duper Deluxe Edition, no worries mate…..

One of my favorite bridges......"Call me lazy bones" . Which from this moment on will be referred to as "Liaed balls"...LOL....I bet we could have a great thread on misinterpreted Stones lyrics!

100 Years Ago is a favourite track of mine too, I never get bored of playing it!

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100 Years Ago and Heartbreaker are the best songs on GHS (unless you're an Angie fan) and thanks to Billy's clavinet they sound kinda similar but more than that they are astoundingly different than anything found on Exile (or anything that was to follow for that matter). Very unique songs in the Stones canon.

Love this tune but I think 100 Years Ago could use another verse = I hate giving up this song to 'Lazybones.' It goes to shit after that IMO.

That coda is what makes you want to listen to the song again...

id have to include Comin Down Again in with Heartbreaker and 100 Years Ago, in the

'best songs on GHS' category..

Coming Down Again starts nicely but runs out of gas very soon. After 1 min 30 unfortunately it starts getting very repetitive and oh so boring.

Imo, Hide Your Love is the hidden gem on GHS.

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HMS
Imo, Hide Your Love is the hidden gem on GHS.

I must agree and have to add Silver Train.

"Coming Down Again starts nicely but runs out of gas very soon. After 1 min 30 unfortunately it starts getting very repetitive and oh so boring. "

if that sax dont thrill you after all that Stones style soul, then too bad ..

Has anybody here ever listened to this acoustic cover version of 100 Years Ago by Inyang Bassey and Binky Griptite?

[www.youtube.com]

I know it has been mentioned here on this site a couple of years ago, but it's well worth going back to it, last but not least to remind us what a great song it is.

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Swayed1967
100 Years Ago and Heartbreaker are the best songs on GHS (unless you're an Angie fan) and thanks to Billy's clavinet they sound kinda similar but more than that they are astoundingly different than anything found on Exile (or anything that was to follow for that matter). Very unique songs in the Stones canon.

Love this tune but I think 100 Years Ago could use another verse = I hate giving up this song to 'Lazybones.' It goes to shit after that IMO.

That coda is what makes you want to listen to the song again...

Yeah it’s a coda technically but it’s also one of many instances where the boys can’t decide on an ending so Jagger just starts repeating the same thing over and over in a fade out (and the more incoherently the better it would seem) - same as Through The Lonely Nights, Plundered My Soul, Fool To Cry, Don’t Stop, Mixed Emotions etc. That’s just off the top of my head. Sometimes it works, sometimes it’s lame. I prefer songs that end in a bang a la Mother’s Little Helper and Shattered. But then I’m a dancer...

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HMS
Coming Down Again starts nicely but runs out of gas very soon. After 1 min 30 unfortunately it starts getting very repetitive and oh so boring.

Boring? No. It’s definitely a rainy day song better appreciated by junkies and youthful romantics, but it’s not boring. It’s a song you have to let pull you down (or pull you in?) or there’s little point in listening to it. Sometimes you have to take the music seriously, HMS, and submit to its demands; those who are unable to do that run the risk of becoming a deranged nut who talks up Dirty Work each and every day of the year.



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HMS
Coming Down Again starts nicely but runs out of gas very soon. After 1 min 30 unfortunately it starts getting very repetitive and oh so boring.

Imo, Hide Your Love is the hidden gem on GHS.

You know nothing about good songs.

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HMS
Coming Down Again starts nicely but runs out of gas very soon. After 1 min 30 unfortunately it starts getting very repetitive and oh so boring.

Imo, Hide Your Love is the hidden gem on GHS.

You know nothing about good songs.

You seem to love especially their most repetitive and boring songs just like Coming Down Again and most of all Thief In The Night. Little by little I get to know your musical taste.

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HMS
Coming Down Again starts nicely but runs out of gas very soon. After 1 min 30 unfortunately it starts getting very repetitive and oh so boring.

Imo, Hide Your Love is the hidden gem on GHS.

You know nothing about good songs.

You seem to love especially their most repetitive and boring songs just like Coming Down Again and most of all Thief In The Night. Little by little I get to know your musical taste.

Oh wow. You named two songs that aren't boring - except to a kook like you, who has awful taste in music. Repetitive? HA HA! Said someone that thinks the worst Rolling Stones album is great.

100 Years Ago has the same problem as the entire GHS: it's a nice song, but it just doesn't grab you. It's mainly in the production, it just doesn't have the rock and roll and swing we expect from the Stones. Same with Dancing with MR. D, Heartbreaker and Star Star, which where all played much better live.

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HMS
Coming Down Again starts nicely but runs out of gas very soon. After 1 min 30 unfortunately it starts getting very repetitive and oh so boring.

Imo, Hide Your Love is the hidden gem on GHS.

You know nothing about good songs.

You seem to love especially their most repetitive and boring songs just like Coming Down Again and most of all Thief In The Night. Little by little I get to know your musical taste.

Oh wow. You named two songs that aren't boring - except to a kook like you, who has awful taste in music. Repetitive? HA HA! Said someone that thinks the worst Rolling Stones album is great.

Few days ago I listened to the entire B2B-album, Thief In The Night (as always) was pure torture. I bet at least 7 out of 10 people would find it boring. Absolutely nothing moving post minute 1. Just a bunch of coyotes howling at the moon ("all the way baby, all the way").

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100 Years Ago has the same problem as the entire GHS: it's a nice song, but it just doesn't grab you. It's mainly in the production, it just doesn't have the rock and roll and swing we expect from the Stones.
Mathijs

I feel quite the opposite : it grabs me, both in the studio and live. Actually it proves that the Stones can sound great even without Keith on guitar. And listen to Vienna '73, 100 years ago rocks like hell with Keith being almost inaudible. Billy Preston does the trick here, together with the amazing rhythm section Watts/ Wyman.