IS a great album! maybe a couple of songs short of brillant but i like it. Flip the switch, Lowdown, Might as well get juiced, Too tight. A pity out of control is not as good as played live. It doesn't have the jam at the end and production is lame. Anyhow the album is a keeper.

If you forget about Might As Well Get Juiced and Gunface, you're right. I wonder what MAWGJ would have sounded like if the Glimmers would have produced it themselves. As an intro in 1999 it worked really well, though.

BTW: don't forget the mighty Lowdown: great guitars! Hope that one day the Stones will dust off Too Tight and play it live. Wishful thinking, I guess...







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Lowdown is the first ABB-kind of track, nearly 9 years ago.
Might as well is a phantastic modern blues song, and gunface a very modern stones sound, but way cool. I like all of B2B, except of "Dont have to mean it", which is very lame. Great:
Flip
Lowdown
Anybody seen my baby
Already over me
Saint
Out of control (which suffers of its lame production, indeed)
Gunface
Juiced
Too tight
Thief
How can i stop (for me the best keith ballad of all time, so well played)

They better had replaced Always suffering with Anyway you look at it, which IMO is much better. Love the Keith/Mick vocal stuff as it is on Memory motel.

>>>I wonder what MAWGJ would have sounded like if the Glimmers would have produced it themselves


Yeah but it is easy to say that. If you stop imagining what it could be like ( i.e a brilliant blues tune) and just listen on face value it is still great. I love the lyrics . The bass is heavy, swirlin and not very stones like, but it suites the song.

Lowdown is nice. Everyone said it was great that ABB was stripped back with just the 4 of them, but listen to Lowdown, Too tight e.t.c and imagine how much the extra production they recieved could have improved ABB.

I love Bridges. It gets a weird rap sometimes becausae of the different producers. But it sounds very together to me. And the songwriting is superb. IMO the very best Stonesalbum in ages. Now THAT is one album I would say is the best since 78.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Not one of my favourite albums.

I like How Can I stop, Thief in the Night, You Don't Have To Mean It and Already Over Me.

Don't care much for the rest.

Great record.

Sorry to say that it's miles better than "ABB."

"Saint of Me" is, for me, the weakest track while "Thief/How Can I Stop," "Juiced," and "Suffering" are probably my favorites. And "Out Of Control." All latter-day Stones classics for those who are willing to listen. Throughout, the Stones sound weathered, tough and classic--yet completely modern.

Probably the single worst album cover of thier career, though. Narrowly beating "ABB."

might as well get juiced sounded very good at msg when i saw that show.

everytime (well - doesn't happen SO often...)
the rolling stones bring out a new record, i
am one of the first who buy it (i am oldschool -
no downloading - i want the cd), i listen nervous
and always think:"god - they finally lost it.
just formula. just old songs redone. nothing the
world will remenber next year.nothing that brings
some light into my life, as it used to be."
but with the time some songs grow, and on every
stones-record there finally is something shining.
time is right to give bridges another chance,
i will check it out, when i'am back from holidays.
"anybody seen my baby" was succesful as a single
in germany.the video was shown often on mtv.
i had to smile, when i saw on a bubblegum-music-
collection that this song was included (bravo-hits).
they reached a public with the same age, they had
played to 30 years ago. even if it was a k.d. lang-
coproduction.
"saint" was on tv too.
the last new stones video actually i saw on tv.
"too tight" i remember well, liked that one.
"abb" still needs some time to grow for me - one or two new
stones-albums later (hopefully) and i will like it...
in my personal time-schedule, i have reached "voodoo lounge"
now...
p.s.:
if they finally WOULD loose it - it would be okay.
they did so much good stuff, no complaining.

It's an album with "legs."

I thought it had a strange lookin lion?....

the lion that purred instead of roared..........

I think this was/is an excellent record. For me it has a certain
cohesivness that really works and is something you would not expect given the
different producers etc.

For me, this one has stood up quite well and with ABB makes for a nice 1-2 combination.

didn't we just have a thread like this? i thought we were "already over it." apparently somebody thought "how can i stop" posting about B2B? Now the thread is going "out of control!" I keep seeing all of these b2b threads; I'm "always suffering!"

never liked the album cover..but love the album..in fact i like it more today than when it was 1st released...i like it more than v.l...

I think it's overall a very strong album, probably the Stones most adventurous since "Satanic." Despite (?) Danny Saber, Dust Bros, etc it doesn't sound dated as many (like Bowie's) albums that had an electronica/drum & bass-influence do. The Stones' musical identity & presence remains central despite the various producers. And some of the extra musicians (Shorter, the bassists, Wachtel) add fine performances. Always thought "Saint" would have made a stronger first single (it was the only one to chart on Billboard's Hot 100, in February 1998), and "Out of Control" is a live favorite of mine. The Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project cd also originated from the B2B sessions, which I like - especially the beautiful "Elvin Suite". Yes, 'Lowdown' does remind me of ABB, too. I like ABB quite a lot - except for Streets Of Love - as well, but it is certainly a very different album from B2B. I remember it came out the same week as Dylan's "Time Out Of Mind" ("His Best!!! Since Blood On the Tracks"!!!) and the latter seemed to be seen as a fine late period work, whereas B2B was written off by some as trendy. But for me it holds up (as does Bob's, needless to say)

The only "bad" things I can say about Bridges is that I never really liked Saint, and that I do not like the chorus of Too Tight. All the rest of it is very good with some truly superb moments.

C

sucks

nikkibong Wrote:
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> didn't we just have a thread like this? i thought
> we were "already over it." apparently somebody
> thought "how can i stop" posting about B2B? Now
> the thread is going "out of control!" I keep
> seeing all of these b2b threads; I'm "always
> suffering!"


C'mon, Nikki, You don't Have To Mean It!

T&A Wrote:
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> It's an album with "legs."


you mean ZZTop Eliminator. Legs is song 1 side 2.

nikkibong Wrote:
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> didn't we just have a thread like this? i thought
> we were "already over it." apparently somebody
> thought "how can i stop" posting about B2B? Now
> the thread is going "out of control!" I keep
> seeing all of these b2b threads; I'm "always
> suffering!"

Stick around, you will find out there are only about ten original Stones threads, they just keep getting slightly reworded and posted over and over. But that's ok, not everybody was here the last time this came up, or they might not have read it if they were.

Bridges is indeed an album that grows on you over time and holds up well to repeated listenings. I love the experimentation on it on tracks like Juiced and Gunface. The only songs on Bridges I don't care for are Already Over Me and Always Suffering, the rest are fantastic.

actually all threads are covers to mask what are essentially only 3 subjects discussed on this board:

RW/MT
Setlists
Dylan


somehow, it always comes back home to one of these.

Even the "show us your picture" thread was a carefully coded detailed analysis of why Dylan's never ending tour is not really never ending because it will, in fact, end some day.

nikkibong,
didn't we we have a tread like this...?
"we had it all"
outtake, keith singing .
the truth is stranger than fiction.