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DandelionPowderman
It doesn't matter if they're better if you prefer the sound of a particular band anyway.
"Better" can mean so many things: Technical superior, vocals, solos, producing etc.
Many prefer Johnny Winter's take on JJF because of the guitar playing. I don't..
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HMS
It wasn´t my intention to "put the original down", but back in 1985 we loved the Bowie/Jagger-version a lot and didn´t care about the original. Actually it was years later that I stumbled across the original on an "Oldies"- sampler-CD. After listening to it I wasn´t very impressed and thought Bowie/Jagger´s version had a lot more power. If you wasn´t around when the original came out, it´s just an oldie like so many others... being a youngster in the mid 80s and hearing your favorite singers doing that song you just didnt care for the original by an artist you´ve never heard of before from way back when... like I said, its also a matter of age. When you were young in the 80s you just didn´t care for 60s soul music, at least the majority didn´t.
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marmass
It's the first record where Keith's guitar (right channel) is always quieter than Ronnie's one. If you listen closely the feeling is right but alas the fingers don't follow... But it's a good album, I listen to it everyday :-)
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matxil
Well, I was a youngster in the 80s and I didn't care for 80s music at all. By the way, the Stones, at least for most people I knew were considered "old farts" and obsolete in the 80s. I was lucky enough to discover all the wonderful stuff from the 50s, 60s and 70s, which turned me on to the Stones, to soul, blues, Aretha Franklin, etc... instead of listening to the typical 80s drivel like WetWetWet, Matt Bianco, and all of the rest of newwave/romantics/synthesizer barf. Admittedly Dancing in the Streets by Jagger and Bowie was fun, most people thought so at the time, but I don't know anybody who took it seriously for a second. It was just a joke, sorta ok to see on Music Box or MTV. Only when I heard the version by Martha and the Vandellas I realised that it was actually a real, serious, strong soulful song.
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HMS
All I can say is that is was a very exciting moment when in 1985 my top fav male singers teamed up and released a imo great version of DITS. All of my pals liked it, in fact I never heard anyone say it´s junk or something like that. Without all the social impact of the original it still was a great track and back then part of the soundtrack of the summer of ´85. It even was a huge hit in several countries all over the world.
Fair enough if that's all you can say but in fact there was more that you actually did say and that was putting the original down with your usual exaggarations like this:
"And the Jagger/Bowie version of Dancing In The Street beats every second of the original by I don´t even remember whom."
And you really wonder why you're standing back to the wall once again? And GasLight has not even joined this part of the discussion... YET!
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exhpart
I am loving B & L more everyday. I do wish they were producing original material but I'll take this instead. I think it helps that - to me - it's all new songs. I'd only heard Commit a Crime the first time when Mick and Jeff Beck did it at the White House and Everybody Knows About My Good Thing from Mick with the Red Devils, all the other songs are completely new to me.
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exhpart
I am loving B & L more everyday. I do wish they were producing original material but I'll take this instead. I think it helps that - to me - it's all new songs. I'd only heard Commit a Crime the first time when Mick and Jeff Beck did it at the White House and Everybody Knows About My Good Thing from Mick with the Red Devils, all the other songs are completely new to me.
You should check out I Can't Quit You Baby on Led Zeppelin's debut album, if you haven't heard it. Completely different. Both are great.
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liddas
Main reason is that the stones for the first time in decades were able to put on an official record that loose relaxed sexy groovy feeling that unfortunately since (when? Undercover?) can be found only in session bootlegs. When the stones deliver THAT feel, no need for further analysis, you have a great record.
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mtaylor
They should play it in London with Clapton as a guest appearance.
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NeverMakeASaintOfMe
All Of Your Love for sure. Mick's vocals and harp solo on that one are sensational.
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Cristiano Radtke
It's hard to choose just one track. For today, I'll go with Little Rain.
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Cristiano Radtke
It's hard to choose just one track. For today, I'll go with Little Rain.
This is the one.