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Cooltoplady
He produced Blue And Lonesome. So I guess some people here hate that too.
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LazarusSmith
At the risk of being provocative, I wonder which of these two things is true?
The songs on VL, BtB, and ABB are, in general, sub-par, and evidence of a band in creative decline, or
The songs on VL, BtB, and ABB are quite likely outstanding and two of the greatest songwriters in the history of rock'n'roll allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by a crap producer into releasing inferior versions of them.
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EdubertoPalitroke
I regard Voodoo Lounge as one of the their great albums, among Exile, Let it bleed, Some Girls, and all those, so i don't get why most people say it's sub-par and someone somehow ruined it.
I remember meeting a guy at school in 1999, whom would later become my friend, and saying something like "that new album from the Stones, Voodoo Lounge" and him arguing that it was an old one.
I still think about it as a "new" album and mades me proud them achieving such greatness at that stage of their lives, which feels to me like it belongs into the present era.
I know it's been released 25 years ago,
I love that album, as well as Blue and Lonesome, but I don't like BtB that much and ABB it's almost unlistenable to me, since it is a Mick solo album.
In any case, Don Was plaqys his role as Clifford, Denson, Chaplin and Leavell, as people who may have a different idea of what's rock and roll.
And if anything is wrong with the Stones, it's Chuck Leavell to be blamed, since he's the worst thing ever happened to the Stones.
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hopkins
well gosh, people. you don't have to set him on fire.
Just ask him to leave. Pay him to leave. Pay people to make him leave.
Just give them half of the money, though; till we're sure he's gone.
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funkydrummer
Oh yeah - and I am not a fussy audiophile type - but Blue and Lonesome CD was unlistenable. It was so compressed it gave me a headache listening to it and I have never listened to the whole thing to this day. While mastering is not the producers job - Was has some responsibility for how brickwalled that mess is.
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funkydrummer
Totally concur with the Don Was criticisms. He produced one of Dylan's worst Under the Red Sky...
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Rip This
thanks for making my point.