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Testify
I do not understand what does Dirty Work with B & L .... nothing. Dirty Work is an album by the Stones 20 years ago, B & L is the Stones album of cover songs just came out.
Some comparisons are really foolish!
Maybe some fans do not like the blues, otherwise I can not understand some comments, even making comparisons with the original makes little sense, it makes sense instead open our ears to hear and enjoy !!!
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matxil
But I agree that the DW discussion seems to have entered in this thread through a wormhole from a parallel universe.
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Testify
Dirty Work is an album by the Stones 20 years ago
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Spud
"Guitarist" magazine has a brief review.
Gets 10/10 . That don't happen very often
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RipThisBone
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Maybe a forgotten name but Cyril Davies..... must have influenced Mick Jagger's blues harmonica playing.
Cyril Davies was there in the early days (1962) when Mick did get one or two songs to sing with Alexis Korner etc., Charlie on drums...Brian Jones hanging around...
There are some quotes by Mick about Cyril Davies from the past.........
I like what I hear on YouTube by Mr. Davies.
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Spud
"Guitarist" magazine has a brief review.
Gets 10/10 . That don't happen very often
can we get a link to the article?
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Idorh
...I think this is the best album they have ever made, it does not matter to me whether it covers or their own songs. It does me no matter what the text, it does not matter to me mono or stereo, it makes me or Ron or Keith left or right plays and so on...No background vocals for other artists no overdubbing...
Eh, well, there are overdubs. In fact there were two overdubbing sessions.
It may be possible that there is created a second time overdub. But I understand that recorded in the studio in 3 days 12 numbers. And that later no traces are wiped or new guitars or drums or vocals are added. However, later on piano. But for me it worked a fresh spontaneous honest album that with great pleasure. I can not get enough. Gr Bert.
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HMS
Tattoo You isn´t a regular Stones-album. It´s a compilation of leftovers, some of them very old. The songs on TY are not even the Stones´s choice, Kimsey came up with them after spending lots of time in the vaults in search of something that could be used to stitch an album together. Another producer maybe would have chosen different tracks to work with. Mick and Kimsey realized TY without any or only minor contributions by the other band members.
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HMS
So B&L is their best album since DW of course.
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HMS
I liked it immediately and it even grows on me, it´s the "real" Stones, the Stones "unmasked" for the first time in about 30 years. B&L, just like DW or Black And Blue practically consists of highlights only.
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HMS
Such a great cover album makes me somewhat afraid of a new album of originals to be honest, especially when thinking of the amount of fillers/inferior songs on SW, VL, B2B & ABB.
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HMS
The only way to top B&L is recording another Blues-album, this time consisting of even better material and a bit more variety.
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HMS
There isn´t only Chicago-Blues, there´s Country Blues, acoustic Blues and on and on.
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HMS
And all of the piano parts of course should be played by Chuck - he´s a marvelous Blues-pianist,listen to Fancy Man Blues and it´s clear to see.
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Spud
A few folks have suggested that as B&L is so good, they should forget the new material and do further Blues or covers albums.
I think folks are rather missing the point... [and I just hope that the band don't miss the point !]
It's not the material that makes B&L as good as it is.
It's the way they went about playing & recording it.
If they can come up with some half decent songs for a new album, play them as a band, live in the studio [with a few O/Ds where appropriate] ... they'll come up with a pretty good album.
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Hairball
The sound of this blues covers album coupled with the sincerity of Crosseyed Heart would be a great place to start something new.
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GasLightStreet
Although they spent months on SOME GIRLS, BLUE AND LONESOME has that kind of vibe going with it - it sounds vibrantly fresh ie different - on the edge of being abrasive. Looking at the amount of material they cut for SOME GIRLS, they were just flinging ideas all over the place.
They did the same with BLUE AND LONESOME only with 12 songs instead of 40 something (being covers obviously had a huge hand in the amount of time it took as well).
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Testify
I do not understand what does Dirty Work with B & L .... nothing. Dirty Work is an album by the Stones 20 years ago, B & L is the Stones album of cover songs just came out.
Some comparisons are really foolish!
Maybe some fans do not like the blues, otherwise I can not understand some comments, even making comparisons with the original makes little sense, it makes sense instead open our ears to hear and enjoy !!!
I would say when you like the blues, comparisons with the originals make a lot of sense. But I agree that the DW discussion seems to have entered in this thread through a wormhole from a parallel universe.
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DandelionPowderman
Mick must be a wizard, managing to blow two harp simultaneously on Just Your Fool. Of course there were a few overdubs - by members of the band.
Ronnie overdubbed the guitar track that eventually leads to his solo on EKAMGT as well. We can still hear his other track (the one mpj200 called weaving) while the other track starts right before «I was talking to my neighbour...».
Who played what appears to be an acoustic on Commit A Crime, and aren't there three electric guitars in there?
That said, this is a brilliant album, and no one criticises the Stones to add a bit of glimmer here and there to make it even better.
EDIT: If what mpj200 says is true, the only possibility is that Don Was picked up pieces from different places in the songs and added them on other places. I don't think that is the case, though, and I hope that isn't what they did.
Here is the proof that Mick Jagger plays two harps on Just Your Fool.
[www.youtube.com]
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DandelionPowderman
Mick must be a wizard, managing to blow two harp simultaneously on Just Your Fool. Of course there were a few overdubs - by members of the band.
Ronnie overdubbed the guitar track that eventually leads to his solo on EKAMGT as well. We can still hear his other track (the one mpj200 called weaving) while the other track starts right before «I was talking to my neighbour...».
Who played what appears to be an acoustic on Commit A Crime, and aren't there three electric guitars in there?
That said, this is a brilliant album, and no one criticises the Stones to add a bit of glimmer here and there to make it even better.
EDIT: If what mpj200 says is true, the only possibility is that Don Was picked up pieces from different places in the songs and added them on other places. I don't think that is the case, though, and I hope that isn't what they did.
Here is the proof that Mick Jagger plays two harps on Just Your Fool.
[www.youtube.com]
First off, both Ronnie and Keith have said there were no guitar over dubs. In post production, anything is possible. And certainly things could have been moved around and flown in by Was. Like every other producer does on their records.
Was had multiple takes to work with as the pre production sessions were also recorded.
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Hairball
For what it's worth, Keith had also said there were no new Mick Taylor overdubs on Plundered My Soul...
"Richards denies murmurings that Taylor, who left the band in late 1974, contributed overdubs to the reissue package. “That’s a rumor, babe,” he says.
“If he was on there, I would know. We’ve had no contact with Mick for a long time.”' (Guitar World magazine)
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GasLightStreet
History will support this accurate list of the Stones' greatest albums:
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
Some Girls
Tattoo You
Blue And Lonesome
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GasLightStreet
History will support this accurate list of the Stones' greatest albums:
Beggars Banquet
Let It Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile On Main Street
Some Girls
Tattoo You
Blue And Lonesome
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corriecas
No news on Bonus songs on the japanese release??
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Hairball
For what it's worth, Keith had also said there were no new Mick Taylor overdubs on Plundered My Soul...
"Richards denies murmurings that Taylor, who left the band in late 1974, contributed overdubs to the reissue package. “That’s a rumor, babe,” he says.
“If he was on there, I would know. We’ve had no contact with Mick for a long time.”' (Guitar World magazine)