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HopeYouGuessMyName
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN HOW THIS IS POSSIBLE? AFTER THE EXTRA BONUS CD'S OF RECENT YEARS... How can such 'new' amazing stuff still be available? and in pristine condition! How is this possible? Do you realize that the bottom of the barrel of any Stones recording session is still great? Of course you do! We all do! Why did not the Stones simply release this to us? why? why? why? THEORIES?
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Doxa
But feels like a kid in a candy shop.
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JordyLicks96
Listening to the exuberant amount of material they recorded for UNDERCOVER, it's a shame the final product wasn't that great. Just my opinion, but they had a great batch of songs that could have made the album.
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MelBelli
I'm loving these B2B-era Keith vocal tracks. They remind me of Love Is Strong, YGMR, Sparks -- gives you a sense of how Mick can takes cues from Keith on melody and lyrics. They're not really 50/50. More like 85% Keith, in these cases.
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MelBelli
I'm loving these B2B-era Keith vocal tracks. They remind me of Love Is Strong, YGMR, Sparks -- gives you a sense of how Mick can takes cues from Keith on melody and lyrics. They're not really 50/50. More like 85% Keith, in these cases.
You’re right. The best songs on VL and BtB are Keef songs with unfinished lyrics.
Love is Strong, Sparks Will Fly, YGMR, Flip the Switch, Low Down, Too Toght...
Then Jagger put the lyrics...some time good, some time really bad.
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MelBelli
I'm loving these B2B-era Keith vocal tracks. They remind me of Love Is Strong, YGMR, Sparks -- gives you a sense of how Mick can takes cues from Keith on melody and lyrics. They're not really 50/50. More like 85% Keith, in these cases.
You’re right. The best songs on VL and BtB are Keef songs with unfinished lyrics.
Love is Strong, Sparks Will Fly, YGMR, Flip the Switch, Low Down, Too Toght...
Then Jagger put the lyrics...some time good, some time really bad.
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bakersfield
Deep Love was a snooze with Keith on vocals. Jagger brought the song to life. The same is true of Love is Strong, Keith version of Soul Survivor was a waffly mess. Jagger provides melody and focus.
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MelBelli
I'm loving these B2B-era Keith vocal tracks. They remind me of Love Is Strong, YGMR, Sparks -- gives you a sense of how Mick can takes cues from Keith on melody and lyrics. They're not really 50/50. More like 85% Keith, in these cases.
You’re right. The best songs on VL and BtB are Keef songs with unfinished lyrics.
Love is Strong, Sparks Will Fly, YGMR, Flip the Switch, Low Down, Too Toght...
Then Jagger put the lyrics...some time good, some time really bad.
Yeah, Low Down or Too Tight with Keith on lead vocals could have been major hits, so who really needs this Jagger guy anyway?
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Rockman
Thought Joe Meek had come back
ta help out on start ah Flip Da Switch ....
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Freebird1959
In the early seventies I started to become a Stonesfan. Especially when Black and Blue came out when I was in High School. Bought some bootleg lp's in Amsterdam on the Waterlooplein and in the early ninetees I bought bootleg cd's from the same guy who had a shop in Utrecht. Amongst other "dealers". At a certain point you have collected all that you wanted and searched for. Very happy when the Deluxe version of Goat Heads's Soup from last year had the unknown piano version of 100 Years Ago. Mick's voice....great!! And now this 3-cd suddenly came out of heaven. Now I know why i became a Stones-fan in the first place. The variation in their songs and yes Mick's insane voice on Dreams To Remember. If it's true that ther will be a 100 songs to come, well that's way more than that we could ever hoped for. Isn't it?! Can ya? Can ya? Well, for now this 61 aged guy feels like a kid in Luilekkerland met een strakke plasser and enjoys his Friday off listening to the Stones on a bright sunshiny day in Holland!!
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Freebird1959
Well, for now this 61 aged guy feels like a kid in Luilekkerland met een strakke plasser and enjoys his Friday off listening to the Stones on a bright sunshiny day in Holland!!
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MelBelli
I'm loving these B2B-era Keith vocal tracks. They remind me of Love Is Strong, YGMR, Sparks -- gives you a sense of how Mick can takes cues from Keith on melody and lyrics. They're not really 50/50. More like 85% Keith, in these cases.
You’re right. The best songs on VL and BtB are Keef songs with unfinished lyrics.
Love is Strong, Sparks Will Fly, YGMR, Flip the Switch, Low Down, Too Toght...
Then Jagger put the lyrics...some time good, some time really bad.
Yeah, Low Down or Too Tight with Keith on lead vocals could have been major hits, so who really needs this Jagger guy anyway?
I was just listening 'Keith on vocals' songs... They sound to me more like Winos than Stones songs. In a way it is a Keith style to write: not really work out the melodies and finish up the lyrics but leave them more like unfinished business. Makes me wonder how much Keith's proper song-writing has 'suffered' from or 'being spoiled' by Jagger/Richards team-work: he provides the riffs and the structure of the songs, but does not pay any more attention to finishing up the songs, since that's been Mick's task for ages (first it was work totally or just finish up the lyrics, but later finish up or write the melodies as well). I guess that's partly what Keith means by 'any song' he writes is 'made for Mick to sing' (or what he said while promoting CROSSEYED HEART) - the singing part involving writing the proper melody from Keith's cues as well. I also recall Mick saying of TALK IS CHEAP or MAIN OFFENDER that the songs sound like demos Keith offers him to finish up.
I guess it is a question of taste what one prefers - the songs as Keith sketches or finished up Jagger-Richards deals. There is certain charm in Keith's latter-day free-going, lazy melodies and lyrics presented by his idiosyncratic, soulful way to interpret them (and sometimes, especially in ballads, they work damn well), but still, as a Rolling Stones fan, it makes me feel that if people prefer those over Jagger ones, people actually like different band than I do.
However, there are also in this collection of hidden gems songs that provide Mick just fooling around with melodies and words - like capturing the moment when he is in the process of creating them with trial and error. But I think what is noteworty how determinate he sounds being there - like being awere of that it is his task to nail the thing there - to give the song a final form. The way he uses his voice like an instrument to be tuned up rightly and efficiently there was one thing that stood out by the first listening of the whole lot. It's powerful and distinctive - I really can't think of the Rolling Stones sound without that instrument.
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Taylor1
Is Mick Taylor on any of the tracks which were are new
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rollmops
Built that Way: really great. The lead guitar doesn't sound like Keith or Ron. An american player maybe?
Rockandroll,
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Mathijs
Living in the Heart, Built That Way
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