Well, 9 tracks from ABB reminds me of equal in number older songs. You know, a riff, the rhythm, the structure or just the “atmosphere” of a song are able to make you saying: “Oh, it reminds me of ...”

Of what? Here is my catalogue of the 9 ..."of".

Rough Justice - All Down The Line (Exile On Main Street)
It Won’t Take Long - Dancing With Mr. D (Goats Head Soup)
Rain Fall Down - Back To Zero (Dirty Work)
Streets Of Love - Out Of Tears (Voodoo Lounge)
She Saw Me Coming - Hey Nigrita (Black and Blue)
Oh No, Not You Again - Lies (Some Girls)
Dangerous Beauty - It Must Be Hell (Undercover)
Laugh I Nearly Died - Heaven (Tattoo You)
Driving Too Fast - Mean Disposition (Voodoo Lounge)

Any thoughts?

ain't it funny how differently we hear things -
maybe i see what you mean about two of those.


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

i don't see or hear that at all.

Biggest Mistake - Dead Flowers.

I hear these:

It Won't Take Long - Lowdown
Rain Fall Down - Hide Away (on Goddess In The Dorrway)
Laugh, I Nearly Died - Already Over Me
Look What The Cat Dragged In (especially the guitar on the left side) - Undercover
Infamy - Rockawhile (from Talk Is Cheap)

if you listen with earphones you can hear on the background the next album..

"Biggest Mistake - Dead Flowers"

Mmm... Reptile you're right!

"Laugh, I Nearly Died - Already Over Me"

Inopeng, it was my second thought, too. Honestly! But i prefered to parallel "Laugh, I Nearly Died" with "Heaven" feeling an atmosphere 's similarity in the biginning of the two (great songs)...

It Won’t Take Long reminds me Mother Of a Man on Wandering Spirit

I would associate Rain Fall Down with Terrifying

0 for 9

"Oh no not you again - As tears go by" - the same singer...

stickydion Wrote:
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>
> Rough Justice - All Down The Line (Exile On Main
> Street)
> It Won’t Take Long - Dancing With Mr. D (Goats
> Head Soup)
> Rain Fall Down - Back To Zero (Dirty Work)
> Streets Of Love - Out Of Tears (Voodoo Lounge)
> She Saw Me Coming - Hey Nigrita (Black and Blue)
>
> Oh No, Not You Again - Lies (Some Girls)
> Dangerous Beauty - It Must Be Hell (Undercover)
> Laugh I Nearly Died - Heaven (Tattoo You)
> Driving Too Fast - Mean Disposition (Voodoo
> Lounge)

I agree with Laugh and Heaven. But I can't see the slightest similarity for the others you gave. Totally different songs.

It won't take long and Low Down.
Rain Fall Down and Hide Away.
Laugh, I nearly Died and Heaven.

Those three, period IMHO.

streets of love - brand new set of rules

barcelona Wrote:
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> streets of love - brand new set of rules


True.

How about Soul Survivor , Must be Hell, and Rock and a Hard Place?

Wicked As It Seems and Love Is Strong?

Mother of a Man and Out of Control...Lord Help Me Now!

inopeng Wrote:
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> How about Soul Survivor , Must be Hell, and Rock
> and a Hard Place?
>
> Wicked As It Seems and Love Is Strong?
>
> Mother of a Man and Out of Control...Lord Help Me
> Now!
>
>


The discussion is about the songs on A Bigger Bang.

I knew there was a Mother Of A Man in there somewhere. All I didn't know is where.

I think Out Of Tears is better than Streets of Love, which unfortunately for a 1st single, mentions the word awful too often to digest the song easily. It hasn't grown much for me so far.

Look What the Cat Dragged In - Why do they use Beatles metaphors? Sgt. Peppers, Lost Weekend etc. For a change, next time please use NRBQ metaphors (remember that's Joey Spampinato's band, who was rumored as a replacement for Bill at the time but declined.) NRBQ writes such nice Stones hints like
"I heard about a group with to much cash / they came out with something really rash / they had the money, they had the power, they built themselves a great big tower / you know they never got to heaven / you know something it went wrong / check it out, you can still hear them / hear them babble on / babble on / babylon"
or
"Get down / I don't mean get down like when Mick Jagger says get down / I mean get down before I knock you down"

I dislike Rain Fall Down, so if they release it as a single, they should have it remixed by a classy DJ first. It's the song I always skip on ABB.

Plus I'm beginning to dig Infamy. It's like Keith's Break the Spell.

This weeks scores:
Mean Disposition VS Driving Too Fast 0:1
Rain Fall Down VS Hideaway Me 0:7
Laughinearlydied VS Already Over Me 1:3

"laugh, i nearly died" has a "tattoo you" side 2, feel to it

"streets of love - brand new set of rules"
...true....the same piece of crap

KRiffhard Wrote:
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> "streets of love - brand new set of rules"
> ...true....the same piece of crap


I agree, they are the same song, and both versions suck.

Sweet Neo-Con sounds like a rewrite of Love is Strong to me.

Driving Too Fast and Let Me Down Slow fits this line of songs:

Jump On Top Of Me
I'm Gonna Drive
Brand New Car

Same type of sound and feeling, though one is rocking, the other more blues, but listen to the guitars... those are great on these songs!