love the song.....great pre- opener in 89'

i like it too...i wonder if brian jones would have liked it? they used the musicians of jajouka on it. has a paint it black feel to it...

gazza hates it - can't be that good....

great song. too bad that after SW it disappeared at the speed of light . . .

if they ever do a tour of Morrocco, though, it will surely make the setlist...

It would be nice to hear it with a fatter production than that tinny Steel Wheels sound. Excellent song... but I also like "Can You Hear the Music" so what do I know.

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pah!!

One of the best 5 or 6 songs the Stones ever did

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> great song. too bad that after SW it disappeared
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are you saying that you could have reasonably expected them to perform it in concert?

In Morocco they should be able to perform it... ?
But, well, ok, they dont appear that often there...

Love comes... in the speeeeeeeeeeeeeeed of lliiiiiiiiiight.........

A great track. One of the few real original Jagger/Richards tracks since the BIG 4

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No; I just wanted to make that stupid "speed of light" joke. I hang my head in shame.






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Fantastic song!

Best Opener, with SMU, ever!

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LOL..actually I liked the pun, for what its worth

Great song. That and Slipping Away are about the only songs from Steel Wheels that have held up, although I still have a soft spot for Mixed Emotions, which is and will probably always remain their last top ten hit.

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me too- underrated in my opinion.
Their last top 10 hit?- i'd never right them off

i love the bit in 25 by 5 when they are recording the track and kieths say's "we need another cord in there "

"Almost Hear You Sigh" is good, too, though a bit of a "Beast of Burden " recycle.

>> in 25 by 5 when they are recording the track and Keiths says "we need another chord in there "

that's Mixed Emotions, isn't it?

>> Almost Hear You Sigh is good, too, though a bit of a Beast of Burden recycle. <<

Keith's working title for it was apparently Cousin of Beast of Burden ... ah yeah, here it is:

When you're playing something like that, the obvious thing you start hitting is the soul licks. When we first did Almost Hear You Sigh, I played it very much like Beast of Burden. In fact, it was TOO much like it, so I called it Cousin of Beast of Burden (laughs) - I don't know if it was going to get any further than a poor relative. But as we started to add the bridge part and it started to open up for me, then I thought to myself exactly what you said - Curtis Mayfield. It's that style. Curtis is the king of that.
- Keith Richards, 1989 (from timeisonourside.com)





"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

aha!... Well, ahem, keith knows what he's talking about some of the time. ;-) No, they did a great job of arranging it differently, b/c I didn't notice the similarity until I picked out the riff on guitar the other day. The nylon string solo helps, but mick sings in a different style, at least until the end bit ("I don't need no photogray-aff").

i think he said all the songs are really cousins????

Best Stones track since 1971