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rooster
I have a weak heart foo Goat....In love with that album I even love''Can you Hear the music'' damm right I love that to!!!
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Svartmer
I think it´s a great album. I was tvelve when it was released and my sister bought it because it had Angie on it, but it was me who played the whole album until it was completely worn out. It´s both groovy and sad at the same time and has great songs. I´ve always wondered why it´s regarded one of their weakest albums. To me it´s up there with the best of them.
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@Koh Hasebe
This is a photo from Terra Nova Hotel, Jamaica in 1972.
There's Paul Rodgers between Taylor and Charlie.
Does he have any involvement in Jamaican recording?
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Toru A
@Koh Hasebe
This is a photo from Terra Nova Hotel, Jamaica in 1972.
There's Paul Rodgers between Taylor and Charlie.
Does he have any involvement in Jamaican recording?
Toru, are there more unseen pics in that sequence?
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SomeGirlsXXX
Dancing with Mr. D - Awesome. All I can say about GHS is Star Star -- One of the top 2 Stones songs in my humble opinion.
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rooster
I have a weak heart foo Goat....In love with that album I even love''Can you Hear the music'' damm right I love that to!!!
Don't know why, but I just love this track - the way mick sings to the music - um ... is like music to my ears!
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camper88
Looking back, GHS is the first album since Beggars without an epic opening song: Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar, and Rocks Off are all songs of the first order for the Stones and for any band. GHS breaks the pattern, with Angie.
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camper88
Looking back, GHS is the first album since Beggars without an epic opening song: Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar, and Rocks Off are all songs of the first order for the Stones and for any band. GHS breaks the pattern, with Angie.
What? That makes zero sense. What sense is that?
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camper88
Looking back, GHS is the first album since Beggars without an epic opening song: Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar, and Rocks Off are all songs of the first order for the Stones and for any band. GHS breaks the pattern, with Angie.
What? That makes zero sense. What sense is that?
What I mean to say (and attempted to go on to say) is that on the previous four albums The Stones open with what are amongst the greatest rock songs ever written and recorded: Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, Brown Sugar, and Rocks Off. For the Stones and for any band, these four songs are are songs of staggering scale.
Arguably, they're as good as the Stones or anybody gets at opening an album.
Angie isn't that. That's not to say (as I said) that Angie's a bad song--it's not a bad song, but it doesn't bear up to these others. Clearly that's only my opinion, but that's the sense that I was trying to make.
As a related point, I'd say that an important strength of the previous four albums comes from the order of the songs. For example, closing LiB with anything other than YCAGWYW seems impossible. Similarly, closing Sticky Fingers with Moonlight Mile just seems right. I'd say similar things about song order within BB and Exile, Part of this view comes from repeated listening and forming expectations, but part of it comes from what appears to be a really clear sense of the album's arc or narrative. My point is that I don't get the same sense of a narrative arc on GHS. For example, Winter (son of Moonlight Mile) could have closed the album (or side) just as well or better than Can You Hear the Music. Overall, I find GHS to have less urgency or drive, and part of that comes from song order as much as it does the actual songs themselves. Again, only my opinion.