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Rockman
Nothing on X-Eyed matches the sheer
ferocity and attack of It Wont Take Long ....
Nothing on X-Eyed comes anywhere near Hoo Doo Blues ...
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stillife
In the latest Stones albums there are some good songs but in many of them I think there is a big influence of Mick Jagger solo kind of songs and a decrease of quality. Crosseyed Heart seems to me a solid work with an overall quality that I don`t find in the latest Stones albums. What do you think?
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windmelody
In my opinion Crosseyed Heart is a collage, Richards played some riffs and licks and sang a little. His friends took those snippets ad turned it into an album with nice moments, but it is fa from being great.
Crosseyed Heart is a bunch of songs, not really an 'album.' A Bigger Bang is an album where the songs fit together well.
Oh. You're one of THOSE.
Next thing you'll be saying is TATTOO YOU is a "compilation".
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Witness
I prefer DIRTY WORK to CROSSEYED HEART.
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Four Stone Walls
Tattoo You IS a compilation
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Four Stone Walls
Tattoo You IS a compilation
Absurd statement ... but at least we now know HMS's new username.
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Witness
I prefer DIRTY WORK to CROSSEYED HEART.
So do I.
I really like CIH!
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retired_dog
It's a pity that Keith only started to release solo albums after he lost his voice. I could listen to the Toronto 1977 stuff endlessly or We Had It All, Run Rudolph Run, The Harder They Come and the like, not to speak of You Got The Silver, Happy, Coming Down Again, Before They Make Me Run and whatever, but have a hard time playing his solo albums from start to finish just because of this voice - no matter how good or bad the actual songs are. Speaking of this, his first two albums have the memorable songs.
An old friend of mine used to say: "People don't love him because he's a good singer, they love him because he's Keith Richards!". In that respect, CH is for dedicated Keith lovers only.
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retired_dog
It's a pity that Keith only started to release solo albums after he lost his voice. I could listen to the Toronto 1977 stuff endlessly or We Had It All, Run Rudolph Run, The Harder They Come and the like, not to speak of You Got The Silver, Happy, Coming Down Again, Before They Make Me Run and whatever, but have a hard time playing his solo albums from start to finish just because of this voice - no matter how good or bad the actual songs are. Speaking of this, his first two albums have the memorable songs.
An old friend of mine used to say: "People don't love him because he's a good singer, they love him because he's Keith Richards!". In that respect, CH is for dedicated Keith lovers only.
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retired_dog
It's a pity that Keith only started to release solo albums after he lost his voice. I could listen to the Toronto 1977 stuff endlessly or We Had It All, Run Rudolph Run, The Harder They Come and the like, not to speak of You Got The Silver, Happy, Coming Down Again, Before They Make Me Run and whatever, but have a hard time playing his solo albums from start to finish just because of this voice - no matter how good or bad the actual songs are. Speaking of this, his first two albums have the memorable songs.
An old friend of mine used to say: "People don't love him because he's a good singer, they love him because he's Keith Richards!". In that respect, CH is for dedicated Keith lovers only.
That's mainly because he didn't bother to perfect/work out the melodies for SOME of his songs, I guess. However, I will claim that Mick has that very same "problem" - hence we get too many Mother Of A Man-ish songs.
With Keith's tenor still intact, though, we wouldn't have gotten songs like Make No Mistake sung with conviction, so it's a double-edged sword.
Just to make sure you get me. I'm not blind or deaf - I too shake my head from time to time when I hear "melodies" like Running Too Deep or the studio version of Big Enough (the melody was completed when he took it to the stage, though, rather nicely, imo).
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Maindefender
Why does Blues In The Morning get mixed reviews? Such a raucous song, supposedly spit out rapidly after Pierre handed Keith guitar that fit that genre. Hopefully the new album will have awesome numbers reminiscent of this song and B&L tunes....something that strikes my nervous system
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Stoneage
I do remember almost everyone praising it (CH) when it was new though. Seems to be more of a mixed feeling now?
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Stoneage
I do remember almost everyone praising it (CH) when it was new though. Seems to be more of a mixed feeling now?