I cant Even feel the pain no more when I read some of these thoughts about ABB

Well, different people, different taste.....

It is the same with everything, food, drinking, clothes, paiting, books etc...

Nobody can't expect that everybody has the same taste .....

Remember: Mull of Kintyre sold much more than any other Stones single, but the quality of MOK ?????

yeah I guess I"ll Fall Down Drunk

To answer your question, I don't know. You do get the award for longest subject line on the board though! Just giving you shit. It's longer than your message!

Different Era... not comparable to Exile...
A Bigger Bang is just a F^$^@ ing great album and can easily go along after the Beggars-Exile era. Exile is musically better (great riffs, a lot to discover on the album), but A Bigger Bang also just ROCKS!

ABB is a EASY COMFORTABLE LISTEN(A good safe record) Exile is an experience and
one needs to disgust the greatness and masterpiece.

Not rating, I just love it

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obviously some people only know the stones by newer material. u can spot a "newbie" a mile away.they just need some seasoning.

LOL JJF, spot me.

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J.J.Flash wrote

"obviously some people only know the stones by newer material. u can spot a "newbie" a mile away.they just need some seasoning"

you can also spot an oldie just as easy if not easier.

but I agree with the post. Exile and all that era has so much more feeling to it than pretty much most music these days.Man thats a top album. Took a while but it got their in the end.

"people think i'm crazy"
" always try'na wates me"
"make me burn da candle right down"

"you gotta rub me ye keep on rubbing gotta rub me
cause they call me the tummbaling dice"

stonecowboy

I don't think it is anyway near as good as exile but is a damn good record and should not be dismissed as crap as many of the taylorites seem to think every thing post 74 is. I know it is a better album then Mick Taylor could ever produce himself considering his weak song writing skills. He is just a sideman and always will be remebered as one

ABB is more melodic.

More melodic??
IMO, it is one of the least ones...

I wrote in another thread already: it is not essential if ABB is the No. 1 or the runner-up or third, you know. It's great, great music and nothing but great music. And we would be happy that we have a band which have in every decade an extraordinary album.

RobertJohnson Wrote:
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> I wrote in another thread already: it is not
> essential if ABB is the No. 1 or the runner-up or
> third, you know. It's great, great music and
> nothing but great music. And we would be happy
> that we have a band which have in every decade an
> extraordinary album.


not "would be happy", "but should be happy" sorry

Don't count me in that bunch! Exile is WAYYY better!!!

ther both great,it doesn't matter after that,right?

john scialfa

ABB is a good record, but can't be compared to Exile.

What we should applaude is that ABB is much, much better than B2B, VL, SW and DW! That is really well done by a bunch of 60 y olds.

"One Of The Best Rock Records Ever Put Down On Record"

I think this essenatially manifests the essence of a record in it's essence.

OpenG Wrote:
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> ABB is a EASY COMFORTABLE LISTEN(A good safe
> record) Exile is an experience and
> one needs to disgust the greatness and
> masterpiece.


So is Exile if you hear it enough times. When you get used to it, it sounds safe. All records do.

JumpingKentFlash

afree with Dandelion powerman ,ABB is way beyond my expectations.
These guys are talented,that's the only reason why they are still around and people pay high ticket prices to see them.

It was the way they put down the record in the crazy drunken drugged out state
that created the magic and masterpiece in the basement. Finding the perfect
SPACE to make a record is important for musicians to feed off and having a
different environment to make the record. yeah they fleed to france to avoid
the tax man but it all worked.Like any masterpiece it just happens.

>>crazy drunken drugged out state
that created the magic and masterpiece in the basement<<

I'd say you are half right. This is the state of mind, but don't omit the environment, the actual living people and musician that were around them, also the actual musical legends that had just left their mark on the scene.. It WAS still a whole scene in '71...
Ensconse them today down there with the same drug and booze, even if still in their late 20s, I doubt highly you would get the masterpice...