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deardoctortake1
I always thought it was recorded too fast. I slowed it down and made my own copy and to me it sounds more natural.
I enjoyed it when it came out, although 6 months earlier we had the Hampton show as a full show, and about 1 year later we had the Let's Spend The Night Together film.
As far as live albums, you have to put it in perspective, at the time we had officially on LP, Got Live, Ya Yas, and Love You Live only. That's it. It was 9 more years until Flashpoint. Double Albums cost more to make, and CDs did not exist in 1982.
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Lynd8
The Stones were on top of the world in '81-82 and it was a fun time. I used to watch MTV for a few hours to catch a glimpse of Jagger strutting to "Start Me Up" "Kids these days" have no idea how lucky they are to have YouTube LOL
Tatoo ought to possibly be the next Super Deluxe!
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coffeepotman
I hated the album when it came out only to be topped by the sterility of Flashpoint. Luckily we had the Hampton boot so I didn't have to listen to Still Life.
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Stoneage
Tattoo You was my first Stones album and Still Life my first Stones live album. Loved both at the time. And still do. The last Stones live album before the Vegas period.
Seems to be a love or hate album for many though. Maybe it depends on during which period you first "discovered" the band?
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Stoneage
Tattoo You was my first Stones album and Still Life my first Stones live album. Loved both at the time. And still do. The last Stones live album before the Vegas period.
Seems to be a love or hate album for many though. Maybe it depends on during which period you first "discovered" the band?
Likewise in re TATTOO YOU and STILL LIFE. So, for a just-born fan boy, hooked seriously by TATTOO YOU, STILL LIFE was the first new Stones product... Aah, memories...
So the album is so dear to my heart that it is pretty hard to be objective about it. Anyway, I still recall how 'odd' the album, or actually the band, sounded like. Before that I didn't have any idea how the Stones live 1981/82 sounded like. Those clean, thin guitars, Jagger's horse-mouthed vocals, the songs mostly rushed uptempto through... VERY different what YA-YA'S or LOVE YOU LIVE were like. But sounding damn majestic to my ears... And still today that opening guitar riff of "Under My Thumb" gives me shivers... Probably never had the excitment of the show start - that thrilling moment realizing that 'yeah, they actually there', captured so well as it is here. Well, the one in GOT YOU LIVE IF YOU WANT isn't bad either... Which makes remember that how funny it was that those two albums had the same opening number ("Under My Thumb"), the same second number on B-side ("Time Is On My Side", and also the same final number ("Satisfaction"). It was funny to listen to those two different versions against each other, and see how the band was 'matured' in their sound in 15 years. Today I think only the oldie numbers "Under My Thumb", "Let's Spend The Night (both mostly for hot guitars) and "Time is On My Side" (Mick and Keith's rich and mature vocals) are the cuts in the album I still listen sometimes. The rest I can do without. With "Satisfaction" they - especially Mick - sound like they have a sort of an attitude problem how to approach the iconic song, and it ends up being like a parody. "Going To A Go-Go" and "Twenty Flight Rock" are funny oddities, but I don't think the versions are very memorable, the band sounds like playing in autopilot. The recent Pathe Marconi songs, "Shattered", "Let Me Go" and "Start Me Up" rock hard as hell, but I think they the rushed uptempo sounds more like a trick - the band actually hasn't as much energy as they wanted us to believe (though, I like that they play them differently than in studio). Anyway, those and "Imagination" (the best of them, not so hurry there) are clear testimonies of their live sound in 1981/82, and I guess you love or hate it, as stated by Stoneage here. I don't like it as much as I used to, because I hear there some sort of monotony, despite the free-going jam-like nature of their whole sound (I think this perception of monotony comes more clearer when watching HAMPTON or LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER or LEEDS - damn, there is a lot of official document of that tour nowadays!). Some of their traditional richness and depth in music is reduced a bit. But it is a trademark for that particular period, and one interesting chapter of its own in their story. Nothing 'Vegas' there for sure... it sounds like it could collapse any minute, but won't... the presence of 'danger'...
- Doxa
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Stoneage
Tattoo You was my first Stones album and Still Life my first Stones live album. Loved both at the time. And still do. The last Stones live album before the Vegas period.
Seems to be a love or hate album for many though. Maybe it depends on during which period you first "discovered" the band?
Likewise in re TATTOO YOU and STILL LIFE. So, for a just-born fan boy, hooked seriously by TATTOO YOU, STILL LIFE was the first new Stones product... Aah, memories...
So the album is so dear to my heart that it is pretty hard to be objective about it. Anyway, I still recall how 'odd' the album, or actually the band, sounded like. Before that I didn't have any idea how the Stones live 1981/82 sounded like. Those clean, thin guitars, Jagger's horse-mouthed vocals, the songs mostly rushed uptempto through... VERY different what YA-YA'S or LOVE YOU LIVE were like. But sounding damn majestic to my ears... And still today that opening guitar riff of "Under My Thumb" gives me shivers... Probably never had the excitment of the show start - that thrilling moment realizing that 'yeah, they actually there', captured so well as it is here. Well, the one in GOT YOU LIVE IF YOU WANT isn't bad either... Which makes remember that how funny it was that those two albums had the same opening number ("Under My Thumb"), the same second number on B-side ("Time Is On My Side", and also the same final number ("Satisfaction"). It was funny to listen to those two different versions against each other, and see how the band was 'matured' in their sound in 15 years. Today I think only the oldie numbers "Under My Thumb", "Let's Spend The Night (both mostly for hot guitars) and "Time is On My Side" (Mick and Keith's rich and mature vocals) are the cuts in the album I still listen sometimes. The rest I can do without. With "Satisfaction" they - especially Mick - sound like they have a sort of an attitude problem how to approach the iconic song, and it ends up being like a parody. "Going To A Go-Go" and "Twenty Flight Rock" are funny oddities, but I don't think the versions are very memorable, the band sounds like playing in autopilot. The recent Pathe Marconi songs, "Shattered", "Let Me Go" and "Start Me Up" rock hard as hell, but I think they the rushed uptempo sounds more like a trick - the band actually hasn't as much energy as they wanted us to believe (though, I like that they play them differently than in studio). Anyway, those and "Imagination" (the best of them, not so hurry there) are clear testimonies of their live sound in 1981/82, and I guess you love or hate it, as stated by Stoneage here. I don't like it as much as I used to, because I hear there some sort of monotony, despite the free-going jam-like nature of their whole sound (I think this perception of monotony comes more clearer when watching HAMPTON or LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER or LEEDS - damn, there is a lot of official document of that tour nowadays!). Some of their traditional richness and depth in music is reduced a bit. But it is a trademark for that particular period, and one interesting chapter of its own in their story. Nothing 'Vegas' there for sure... it sounds like it could collapse any minute, but won't... the presence of 'danger'...
- Doxa
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coffeepotman
I hated the album when it came out only to be topped by the sterility of Flashpoint. Luckily we had the Hampton boot so I didn't have to listen to Still Life.
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stone4ever
I know its not the Stones at their best musically but Still Life gave me more pleasure than any album ever. The atmosphere of it more than makes up for any weaknesses in the guitar or vocal department.
The video release Lets Spend The Night Together was just incredible for me at the time, i kept renting it out from the video store, i just couldn't get enough of seeing these legends up close. Finally when the video went out on release and i had it at home to play when i wanted to was the greatest feeling.
You see this is what a lot of Stones fans that are older than me don't understand. When they have this attitude that since Mick Taylor left its all been down hill. Well it just doesn't feel that way when you are 18 years old and you see this band playing live in 81'. I'd never seen anything like Mick and Keith in my life before. They were larger than life in 81' 82' they were beyond words and they made such an impression and influence that changed peoples lives for the better ( or not if you copy Keith to the extent i did lol )
I lived and breathed this band because of Still Life and the video release of LSTNT, and of course albums like Rolled Gold and Tattoo You that came out just prior to Still Life.
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stone4ever
I know its not the Stones at their best musically but Still Life gave me more pleasure than any album ever. The atmosphere of it more than makes up for any weaknesses in the guitar or vocal department.
The video release Lets Spend The Night Together was just incredible for me at the time, i kept renting it out from the video store, i just couldn't get enough of seeing these legends up close. Finally when the video went out on release and i had it at home to play when i wanted to was the greatest feeling.
You see this is what a lot of Stones fans that are older than me don't understand. When they have this attitude that since Mick Taylor left its all been down hill. Well it just doesn't feel that way when you are 18 years old and you see this band playing live in 81'. I'd never seen anything like Mick and Keith in my life before. They were larger than life in 81' 82' they were beyond words and they made such an impression and influence that changed peoples lives for the better ( or not if you copy Keith to the extent i did lol )
I lived and breathed this band because of Still Life and the video release of LSTNT, and of course albums like Rolled Gold and Tattoo You that came out just prior to Still Life.
Spot on, stone4ever. Exactly the same for me - I would never had got into the Stones as much and for as long as I have it wasn't for the amped-up excitement of Still Life and LSTNT film, listened/watched over and over again in those mid-teen years. I can't claim it is their best work but it's what hooked me :-)
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wonderboy
Go Go and Twenty Flight Rock gave it a 'Sha Na Na' oldies air, hate to say.
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Go Go and Twenty Flight Rock gave it a 'Sha Na Na' oldies air, hate to say.
Well, to me it sounded like RnR and rocking Soul.
GoGo was the one I heard in the store and asked:
"Welche Band ist das?"
"Die Neue von den stones"
Bought it and here I am.
Btw: This is the picture...the coolest pic of Keith...ever.
Anyone knows where it was taken?
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LongBeachArena72
It's so difficult to make definitive statements about the quality or "worth" of a particular piece of music, especially a contemporary one. You have to fight through your own perspective—which is always limiting—and attempt to apply an "objective" standard, outside of time, to what you're listening to. It's nearly impossible ... in fact, it may be impossible.
In 1981 the Stones were almost two decades into their careers. A teenager buying Still Life the day it came out would have been roughly chronologically equivalent to me buying Dean Martin Sings in 1970. Why would any teenager buy a new record by a band that started up nearly two decades before? But rock music proved to be remarkably. a-historically resilient, and has only (relatively) recently (since the rise of hip-hop) been made to sound ancient ... so that teenager in 1981 could certainly have been excused for thinking the Stones at least sounded kind of modern.
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LongBeachArena72
Why would any teenager buy a new record by a band that started up nearly two decades before? But rock music proved to be remarkably. a-historically resilient, and has only (relatively) recently (since the rise of hip-hop) been made to sound ancient ... so that teenager in 1981 could certainly have been excused for thinking the Stones at least sounded kind of modern.