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Making the video visible for you, liddas. Incredible version!
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
It doesn't matter at all to disagree. Otherwise we could save ourselves all the discussions on this board.
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
It doesn't matter at all to disagree. Otherwise we could save ourselves all the discussions on this board.
I live in the Bible Belt, are you talking about me, Sunshine?
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Japanese SHM-CD of 'Sweet Sounds Of Heaven' (2-track version) also available at [www.jpc.de] - (24-Nov-2023).
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
It doesn't matter at all to disagree. Otherwise we could save ourselves all the discussions on this board.
I live in the Bible Belt, are you talking about me, Sunshine?
So, do you like the lyrics?
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
It doesn't matter at all to disagree. Otherwise we could save ourselves all the discussions on this board.
I live in the Bible Belt, are you talking about me, Sunshine?
So, do you like the lyrics?
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
It doesn't matter at all to disagree. Otherwise we could save ourselves all the discussions on this board.
I live in the Bible Belt, are you talking about me, Sunshine?
So, do you like the lyrics?
I don't live anywhere near a bible belt, and I agree with you, the lyrics are silly. Over the last decades, Mick quite often uses the bible or biblical references as an inspiration for his lyrics. Of course, it's a rich source, full of material about blood, violence, sex and redemption, but indeed it's a bit silly. I am pretty sure none of the Stones really believes in religious nonsense, and the only thing that falls from the sky is rain, not sweet sounds.
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
It doesn't matter at all to disagree. Otherwise we could save ourselves all the discussions on this board.
I live in the Bible Belt, are you talking about me, Sunshine?
So, do you like the lyrics?
I don't live anywhere near a bible belt, and I agree with you, the lyrics are silly. Over the last decades, Mick quite often uses the bible or biblical references as an inspiration for his lyrics. Of course, it's a rich source, full of material about blood, violence, sex and redemption, but indeed it's a bit silly. I am pretty sure none of the Stones really believes in religious nonsense, and the only thing that falls from the sky is rain, not sweet sounds.
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This is the weakest song on HD for me. The lyrics are cheesy, the three chords of the verses are tortured over 7 minutes. It's all pretty unimaginative. Plus, who needs a Lady Gaga on a Stones album, since the Stones have always had and continue to have good backup singers? The bleeping and yowling gets on my nerves. But I'm sure the Bible Belt and the marketing people are happy.
I’m sorry. With all due respect it’s the best thing on there. I never expected a track of EOMS quality this late, but we can of course agree to disagree.
It doesn't matter at all to disagree. Otherwise we could save ourselves all the discussions on this board.
I live in the Bible Belt, are you talking about me, Sunshine?
So, do you like the lyrics?
I don't live anywhere near a bible belt, and I agree with you, the lyrics are silly. Over the last decades, Mick quite often uses the bible or biblical references as an inspiration for his lyrics. Of course, it's a rich source, full of material about blood, violence, sex and redemption, but indeed it's a bit silly. I am pretty sure none of the Stones really believes in religious nonsense, and the only thing that falls from the sky is rain, not sweet sounds.
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maumau
watching the live versione again (commotion). To me, by now, rooted in one of their black music american roots, it is safe to say that in 2023 the band delivered another classic
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It's a fabulous song. I don't understand some of the dislike by some.
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Lady Gaga might not be your cup of tea, (she is not someone that I would go see in concert or an artist that I would listen to) but talent she has in spades. I did not think so until I heard her sing with Tony Bennet. That gentleman would NEVER come together with anyone who was not an elite-level talent.
Her vocals on Sweet Sound of Heaven lift that song - much like Mary Clayton did for Gimme Shelter 54 years ago - to mythic status. That song is the glittering jewel of Hackney Diamonds, and - truly and for the first time in many years - provides the Stones with a new song that will have to be played live as one of their canon of unforgettable classics. Lady Gaga is partly responsible for that... and bless her for it...
I am sorry, you're not the first to make that comparison and most likely not the last, but comparing "Sweet Sounds of Heaven" to "Gimme Shelter", or the performance of Lady Gaga to Mary Clayton, just rubs me the wrong way.
Lady Gaga sings very well, and SSOH is a good song, and I certainly don't think the Stones should sound like the 60s (but I do wish they would be less of a pop band) or re-do Let It Bleed. In short, there's nothing wrong with SSOH, but it's not Gimme Shelter, for many reasons.
I think Gimme Shelter is one of the rare occasions where the Stones really touched something (and I hesitate to use this word) "spiritual". The guitar, the drums, the drive, the whole sense of doom and threat, the poignant lyrics full of terribly violent images, somehow sounding sincere, and then Mary Clayton giving it all, singing those utterly devastating lyrics..., I think it's otherwordly and at the same utterly about the misery of this world, and - judging by human nature - its message will (unfortunately) still strike after 500 years.
I don't mean to put down SSOH in some nasty way, but it just doesn't reach that same level.
Firstly, I never said that SSOH "is Gimme Shelter". SSOH -magnificent as it is - stands on its own and needs not be "compared" to any other song in the Stones' canon. I clearly wrote that Lady Gaga's vocals elevated the song in much the same way that Mary Clayton's vocals elevated the masterful Gimme Shelter. That is all.
Secondly, Gimme Shelter "reaches" me the same way it reaches you... I remember the feeling 54 years ago when I first heard it as a kid... it was, as you so beautifully put it, "otherworldy". Where you and I differ is that SSOH "reaches" me in a similar way in 2023... and it doesn't reach you. I truly believe that SSOH will also be revered many years into the future as one of the Stones' finest moments.