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Taylor1
And it has stupid lyrics,mannered singing, an ugly melody.If it had been written and performed by Englebert Humperdink would you listen to it?
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Taylor1
And it has stupid lyrics,mannered singing, an ugly melody.If it had been written and performed by Englebert Humperdink would you listen to it?
That's exactly what I mean with "lightweight" in my previous post. And a song like "Indian Girl" has actually more in common with MOR mainstream pop like Pussycat's "Mississippi" or ABBA's "Fernando" than with everything the Stones did before. Hell, in the right mood I can actually listen to the aforementioned songs, but we're talking about Pussycat and ABBA here, stuff like that from the Stones sounds outright ridiculous.
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Taylor1
Too Each his own.I find these songs annoying,unimaginative,and boring.Send it to me is horrible mannered crap
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Chris Fountain
Sweethearts Together is a cool slick song - like the tropical feel.
Send it To Me - she could be Boogarian!!
Sparks will Fly - don't for get the Sharks!! great stuff!
You Got me Rocking great Warhorse!
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DandelionPowderman
Are Summer Romance, Where The Boys Go and Let Me Go more lightweight than Whip, Lies and Respectable? Of course not.
Dance, Down In The Hole and She's So Cold are classic funk, blues and rock/pop.
Trying to establish a kind of 'truth' about this album being more lightweight than it's predecessor is imo unfathomable.
It was a natural next step, with an even more varied collection of songs.
ER was a huge single as well. And there couldn't have been that many disappointed fans, as the album topped the charts in six countries and became very popular.
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Chris Fountain
Sweethearts Together is a cool slick song - like the tropical feel.
Send it To Me - she could be Boogarian!!
Sparks will Fly - don't for get the Sharks!! great stuff!
You Got me Rocking great Warhorse!
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DandelionPowderman
Are Summer Romance, Where The Boys Go and Let Me Go more lightweight than Whip, Lies and Respectable? Of course not.
Dance, Down In The Hole and She's So Cold are classic funk, blues and rock/pop.
Trying to establish a kind of 'truth' about this album being more lightweight than it's predecessor is imo unfathomable.
It was a natural next step, with an even more varied collection of songs.
ER was a huge single as well. And there couldn't have been that many disappointed fans, as the album topped the charts in six countries and became very popular.
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Chris Fountain
Most under rated album in the Stones catalog.
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DandelionPowderman
Are Summer Romance, Where The Boys Go and Let Me Go more lightweight than Whip, Lies and Respectable? Of course not.
Dance, Down In The Hole and She's So Cold are classic funk, blues and rock/pop.
Trying to establish a kind of 'truth' about this album being more lightweight than it's predecessor is imo unfathomable.
It was a natural next step, with an even more varied collection of songs.
ER was a huge single as well. And there couldn't have been that many disappointed fans, as the album topped the charts in six countries and became very popular.
Trying to establish a kind of 'truth' about this album being a masterpiece and a natural next step from it's predecessor is imo unfathomable.
Look, the thing is, you love this album, I think it's mediocre and uneven, and that's perfectly ok. There's no universal truth to this, these are opinions and nothing more.
Therefore, I won't go into more details about why I think that Indian Girl and Where The Boys Go sound downright ridiculous, Send It To Me after it's promising opening riff is just faux tra la la reggae, All About You is the beginning of a (too) long row of Keith snoozefest ballads that can't hold a candle to Coming Down Again, You Got The Silver or even his version of We Had It All, why I think that while sounding great, Dance is just Miss You's poor little sister, why I love the live version of Let Me Go infinitely more than the studio version and what else.
The album is excellently produced, the sound is great, all players did an excellent job, there are great guitars on the album, yet all these values alone don't define a great album for me. Nor do sales figures after it's release.
If there is any objective truth or at least some truth, maybe it can be found in the number of times the band returned to the material after the initial tour. Or how many people who want to listen to Stones music or even in particular Stones from this time period think of the Emotional Rescue album first. From my observation - not too many. But your observations can be totally different, of course.
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Chris Fountain
Most under rated album in the Stones catalog.
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DandelionPowderman
Are Summer Romance, Where The Boys Go and Let Me Go more lightweight than Whip, Lies and Respectable? Of course not.
Dance, Down In The Hole and She's So Cold are classic funk, blues and rock/pop.
Trying to establish a kind of 'truth' about this album being more lightweight than it's predecessor is imo unfathomable.
It was a natural next step, with an even more varied collection of songs.
ER was a huge single as well. And there couldn't have been that many disappointed fans, as the album topped the charts in six countries and became very popular.
Trying to establish a kind of 'truth' about this album being a masterpiece and a natural next step from it's predecessor is imo unfathomable.
Look, the thing is, you love this album, I think it's mediocre and uneven, and that's perfectly ok. There's no universal truth to this, these are opinions and nothing more.
Therefore, I won't go into more details about why I think that Indian Girl and Where The Boys Go sound downright ridiculous, Send It To Me after it's promising opening riff is just faux tra la la reggae, All About You is the beginning of a (too) long row of Keith snoozefest ballads that can't hold a candle to Coming Down Again, You Got The Silver or even his version of We Had It All, why I think that while sounding great, Dance is just Miss You's poor little sister, why I love the live version of Let Me Go infinitely more than the studio version and what else.
The album is excellently produced, the sound is great, all players did an excellent job, there are great guitars on the album, yet all these values alone don't define a great album for me. Nor do sales figures after it's release.
If there is any objective truth or at least some truth, maybe it can be found in the number of times the band returned to the material after the initial tour. Or how many people who want to listen to Stones music or even in particular Stones from this time period think of the Emotional Rescue album first. From my observation - not too many. But your observations can be totally different, of course.
By all means, it's a matter of taste. And I don't have a problem with you finding the album mediocre.
But your argument with the 'brilliant' Some Girls-rockers vs the 'lightweight' ER-ones just doesn't hold water. Btw, they're all 'ridiculous' - only in a good way.
I struggle to see the musical genius of Respectable and Lies, but I love them just the same because of their sound and unpretentiousness.
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Chris Fountain
My only issue with the 2015? Tour was that Emotinal Rescue could have use a lower bass sound - It as a great tour and all shows were in arenas- Caught them in Boston on a Friday Night. They were all business!!!, which is favorable in my opinion. No antics, Nothing much said by Jagger.
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Chris Fountain
My only issue with the 2015? Tour was that Emotinal Rescue could have use a lower bass sound - It as a great tour and all shows were in arenas- Caught them in Boston on a Friday Night. They were all business!!!, which is favorable in my opinion. No antics, Nothing much said by Jagger.
I believe this was the 2013 tour Chris where ER was played often, and all shows were in arenas....and Mick Taylor...
My only problem with Emotional Rescue was that it was part of the setlists at all - it was silly and annoying, and yes the bass was WAY to loud.
I felt the same way when Mixed Emotions was part of the Desert Trip wkd. 1 setlist - silly and annoying, and probably the low point of both weekends (along w/their misguided cover of the Beatles' Come Together).
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Britney
I rank Emotional very high in my top 50 of favourite Stones albums, so a Super Deluxe reissue would be highly appreciated.
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Britney
I rank Emotional very high in my top 50 of favourite Stones albums, so a Super Deluxe reissue would be highly appreciated.
Agreed. Though I would easily put it high up in my top 40 favorite Rolling Stones records.
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Britney
I rank Emotional very high in my top 50 of favourite Stones albums, so a Super Deluxe reissue would be highly appreciated.
Agreed. Though I would easily put it high up in my top 40 favorite Rolling Stones records.
I would also put this in my top 40 favorite Rolling Stones records.