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plusplusjames
...and I still haven’t heard the two extra tracks off the rip-off expensive Japanese version...
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Rockman
.....well not really ...
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plusplusjames
Thank you sir!
They both offer only minor changes, both in vocalisations from what I can tell and some extended play at the end, which I eagerly accept.
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plusplusjames
I still think that GHS and IORR are overlooked gems with subtle sounds, lots of wah-wah, and Charlie coming into his own. IORR is a Watts masterpiece, just listen to the drums on the whole album.
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OpenG
Now that I listen to it more maybe not the stones? but sounds like an exile outtake?
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kowalski
Quite technical but positive review of the super deluxe edition : [www.soundandvision.com]
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GasLightStreet
So far the GHS deluxe reissue if my fave of the four. I loved the first 3 songs from the extra EOMS album but overall it's as disappointing as the SOME GIRLS second disc.
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plusplusjames
I wrote my review of GHS this past summer, well before the rerelease came out => [iorr.org].
After listening to the rerelease, I am persuaded more than ever that Mick deepsixed the more rocking numbers from the Kingston sessions to produce his own softer, lighter rock sound to emulate the music scene going on in 1973. How else to explain the omission of Criss Cross and All the Rage from the record. (Forget Scarlett, that was recorded well afterwards).
He had to leave at least one rocker, so he went with @#$%& cuz he knew he wasn’t gonna win that one with Keef.
Remember all the light rock going on at the time? CSN&Y. James Taylor. Cat Stevens. Bread. Seals & Croft. Me and You and a Dog Named Boo. This was Mick’s campy period.
He really wanted to detour from the raw backward-looking blues sound of Exile in favor of what he always wants to do. Look forward. This is what influenced him and he steered GHS in that direction.
The result was a Stones version of that softer rock sound. Which thoroughly confused the @#$%& out of all of us at the time, who were, as I wrote, all expecting an album more like Emotional Rescue. In fact Mick tried to create another artsy themed album with IORR, which again failed to win breath-taking accolades. He finally threw in the towel and went with the winning formula with Some Girls some 5 years later.
GHS would have sounded a lot different with not only the 2 aforementioned tracks, but also “Who Am I,” their first reggae track “I Got A letter,” and “Fast Talking, Slow Walking” included. In my opinion, it would have been a more satisfying album at the time and now, years later.
I still think that GHS and IORR are overlooked gems with subtle sounds, lots of wah-wah, and Charlie coming into his own. IORR is a Watts masterpiece, just listen to the drums on the whole album. So I am overall very happy with the GHS rerelease. I am concerned however that if Scarlett was scotch-taped to this GHS rerelease, then there may not be an IORR rerelease.
That would be a pity.
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GasLightStreet
Since they haven't done any of the deluxe reissues in regard to any anniversary dates, which I guess they could've if they'd wanted to, at least with EMOTIONAL RESCUE, and obviously this year STICKY FINGERS as well as TATTOO YOU, they only have two 1970s LPs to reissue as a deluxe.
I was surprised they bothered with GOATS HEAD SOUP. What in the hell would inspire UMG to want to deluxe reissue IORR or BAB? And where does it end? There's no reason to bother with anything post-1981, not that they'd do something for TY. Perhaps ER.
It's not like Fool To Cry gets played on the radio like Angie does nor did it as well as IORR(BILI) have the same chart success.
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GasLightStreet
Since they haven't done any of the deluxe reissues in regard to any anniversary dates, which I guess they could've if they'd wanted to, at least with EMOTIONAL RESCUE, and obviously this year STICKY FINGERS as well as TATTOO YOU, they only have two 1970s LPs to reissue as a deluxe.
I was surprised they bothered with GOATS HEAD SOUP. What in the hell would inspire UMG to want to deluxe reissue IORR or BAB? And where does it end? There's no reason to bother with anything post-1981, not that they'd do something for TY. Perhaps ER.
It's not like Fool To Cry gets played on the radio like Angie does nor did it as well as IORR(BILI) have the same chart success.
I think reissuing GHS might come from a desire to right a wrong. It was badly mixed, and not that well received. Angie is indeed a monster hit. And people are hungry for anything from the Golden Years. (Wah, wah, wah.)
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jbwelda
Those horses seem to be missing the same piece of anatomy the lion was.
jb