The '81 live versions were dreadful.

Can someone post an mp3 of a live version?

And while on the topice, how were "Down The Road Apiece" and "Mona" in '81? I've never heard either.

excellent studio version but the unrehearsed liveversion´wasnt that good.

what about 81/09/25 version of tops or the Boulder one? could somebody post it, pls?

Would Tops have been on GHS or IORR?

according to keno lyric page for this one:

Recorded in November & December of 1972. Released on the album Tattoo You on August 24, 1981

god only knows what treasures are deep in the can somewhere.

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and alla this (from timeisonourside)
between legs of a world tour!:

November 25-30, 1972: The Rolling Stones start recording sessions for Goats Head Soup at Dynamic
Sound Studios in Kingston, Jamaica.

December 6-13, 1972: The Rolling Stones continue recording sessions at Dynamic Sound Studios in
Kingston. The songs started during the Jamaican stay include Angie, Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo,
Through the Lonely Nights, Winter, Coming Down Again, Tops, Short and Curlies and Waiting on a
Friend.

January 27-30, 1973: The Rolling Stones hold more recording sessions in Los Angeles, at Village
Recorders Studios, working on Star Star and Dancing with Mr. D among other tracks.

Tops is a great song, brilliantly produced and mixed. One of the best vocals performances from Jagger ever as well. I've always loved it.

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Amazing - if it had made GHS, it would have been the best track on the mother!

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True, but there would have been this "blank" track on TY....so, perhaps it's for he best the way it turned out....

post tops live 81, not the buffalo's

Remember a couple of years ago when some writer said that there were people who were obsessed with Side 2 of Tattoo You. She was making fun of me (and a whole lot more of ya'll). Great slab o' music.

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It certainly would have made GHS a better album. Mabe they should have dropped "100 Years" ago for it. It's the weakest track on the album IMO.

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not in the version that was recorded for that album, it wouldnt. The backing track (including Taylor's guitar solo) comes from the GHS sessions. The TY version includes overdubs recorded in 1979, which included a new vocal with finished lyrics.

I am with Greenblues about "100 years" being the weakest track on GHS. I know many love this tune; it is not so much a "weak' track I just don't like that kind of track. Too Chelsean...

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



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too 'Welsh'?

WTF??

Oh man, the minute I wrote that I thought "Bad idea!" I think what I meant is that it is sort of a song that IMO is real old wordly sounding. Not bluesy.

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