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Thanks for posting , very good read .
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Hairball
I never fully understood the hatred for Dancing with Mr. D. Sure it's not a Sympathy or a Gimme Shelter or a Brown Sugar, and yes the lyrics are cheesy, and yes it's a bit lazy sounding, but it has a great groove and guitar riff. /quote]
Without the lazy studio version we would not have the brillant 1973 live versions. It's the same with 100 years ago. They seen to have not recorded the concerts at Vienna and Mannheim where they performed it in professional quality, otherwise 100 years ago would have made a great bonus track on Brussels Affair.
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Moonshine
Dancing with Mr D almost pips Sad Sad Sad as the worst album opener. They've had so many fantastic ones but those 2 stand out as the duds.
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Moonshine
Dancing with Mr D almost pips Sad Sad Sad as the worst album opener. They've had so many fantastic ones but those 2 stand out as the duds.
I love the almost morbid aura of this song. It works great both in the studio and Brussels'73[/quote
Song comes alive on Brussels, similar to IORR on Love You Live.
There's been some great openers on ok albums, Love is Strong, One Hit, Flip the Switch, Rough Justice.
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Moonshine
Dancing with Mr D almost pips Sad Sad Sad as the worst album opener. They've had so many fantastic ones but those 2 stand out as the duds.
I love the almost morbid aura of this song. It works great both in the studio and Brussels'73
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Redhotcarpet
Love this mainstream attempt by Mick with the help of Taylor and Miller.
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lem motlow
this entire article is basically someone rewriting history.i don't have to imagine someone buying the new stones album and feeling the letdown after the brilliance of exile because i was there and remember it perfectly and it's frankly, a bunch of nonsense.
there was no "big four" or majesty of exile in all it's glory because beggars,let it bleed,ya ya's,sticky and exile were just stones albums,that's the stuff they put out.they hadn't yet been studied,lionized or set as testaments to the greatness of the band and rock and roll itself.
when goats head was released it was a huge album,it shot to number one and stayed there for weeks.you couldn't go anywhere without hearing angie on the radio and everyone talked about how beautiful and great the new rolling stones song was.the fact that one of the stones most important ballads gets trashed on this site just reminds me that about 65% of the people here believe the beatles were the best rock band ever,that kind of clueless mentality.
goats head was recorded during the break between the 72 and 73 tours,not exactly a downturn in their playing ability and is featured all over the best live album they ever did-brussels affair.
the songs came across great onstage,silver train was dropped from the set because it sounded too much like all down the line live,enough said.
since it's a goats head soup thread i'll once again explain dancing with mr d[it's been a tradition for ghs threads for years now]
this song starts off with one of the dirtiest,asskicking keith riffs on record,it just slithers out of the speakers followed closely by mick taylors slide,the music following the lyrics perfectly,you can almost see jagger standing in the dark night with the mist rising.
how anyone who like the stones cannot like this song just baffles me,i'd never even heard a stones fan say they didn't like it until reading people say it on the internet,it's bizarre.
again-dancing with mr d =dancing with death,not"the devil".the song is about dying,"down in the graveyard where we had our tryst" shot,poisoned,one of these days he gonna set you free...awesome stuff,great record.the stones didn't really have a fall off period fromn 62-81 it was just fluctuated
between great,greater and greatest.to say anyone was sitting there listening to their new copy of goats head and feeling letdown is just stupid,it stayed at number one for a month or so because word got out how great it was,not that it was a letdown-revisionist history on the internet,what a shock.
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HankM
No, The biggest let down is the albums, music and videos notreleasedavailable (to me)... yet
Goats Head Soup is a great album letdownschmetdown
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HankM
btw- I didn't even click the link, they do not get my view with that title.
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Redhotcarpet
Yes Keith too of course I know but it's very much a Jagger construction with Taylor and Miller and Billy.
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Moonshine
Dancing with Mr D almost pips Sad Sad Sad as the worst album opener. They've had so many fantastic ones but those 2 stand out as the duds.
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Hairball
I never fully understood the hatred for Dancing with Mr. D. Sure it's not a Sympathy or a Gimme Shelter or a Brown Sugar, and yes the lyrics are cheesy, and yes it's a bit lazy sounding, but it has a great groove and guitar riff