I know some of you consider it to be one of the lamer ballads the band has recorded, but I just finished downloading and converting one of the No Security Philly shows from DAD with Fool To Cry and, in all honesty, the song doesn't sound half bad live.

Wonder why they don't play it more often . . . .

I love FTC and think it gets knocked around a little too roughly. In fact, I like damn near everything they've put out. I never knew so many of the songs were bad until I found this board.

I agree Elmo...it's music; too many critics on this board..I wish I could

write a song like FTC, let alone put together an album of material...people

critique them like they're a baseball or football team....in the immortal

words of Don Henley...Get over it..

I think it's a great song, and I'm soooo glad that this isn't another thread about a Stones fan who feels a fool for spending his money to buy a ticket to a show in Europe.

The thread title had me going for a second there.

Great song.

Hey and dont forget to have a listen to the early studio version...very nice.

Static In The Attic - Midnight Beat MB CD084



ROCKMAN

Yeah, Rockman, that early studio version is so beatiful. I tend to put on that instead of the official version. "How about that one" Mick says afterwards, and you hear a great sniff from his nose. (The flu or the cocaine?)

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> I love FTC and think it gets knocked around a
> little too roughly. In fact, I like damn near
> everything they've put out. I never knew so many
> of the songs were bad until I found this board.


there ya go! we're a free, valuable resource aren't we?

Yeah Eric....Mick's a famous sniffer-snorter ain't he.



ROCKMAN

Well, but Bill Wyman is THE known snorter....

I've always preferred the slightly edited and rearanged 'Sucking in the Seventies' version to the official B&B one, but I'll have to check out 'Static in the Attic'.
I know I've seen it on ebay...

Fool To Cry ain't all that bad. But it does make me feel a little sleepy. I'm going to have to play it one night with the Beatles' Good Night directly after it! Eat your heart out NyQuil!! lol

The only negative thing about "Static In The Attic" is that the songs are too close to the original version. Of course there are some expectations, like FTC. Some tracks are unreleased like "We Had It All", "Lets Go Steady" and "Claudine". Its quite unbelievable how ABSOLUTELY PERFECT the quality is.

Static In The Attic...Yeah every Stone House should have one.




ROCKMAN

the fool 2 cry early version = incredible stones outtake , just think they probly got buckets of early stuff like that locked up in the vaults collectin dust

I think it's one of the best off B & B. That and Memory Hotel plus Hand of Fate!

I loved hearing it LIVE at Philly 2 (or 1??) IN 1999. Before that, I had only seen it live from the Paris film.

The sound on that boot is great... never saw the art before. I like this:
No Use in Crying #1 (long version) 4.28
No Use in Crying #2 4.27

Love that song, too, though it's the album version with all the vocal overdubs that really has a haunting feeling.

cc

Fool to Cry was the Streets of Love of it's day.

i don´t like it too much, i think its just too long and at the end boring.....