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>the Stones didn't become funky on record till after the 1972

"Jiving Sister Fanny" sounds pretty funky to me.

It's a boogie, albeit played a bit more funky. It's not a funky rhythm.

Very cool, very tight, but nearly metronomish. I will copyright that word later.

Marx Brothers/Rolling Stones

Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera/
Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street

At the Circus/Goats Head Soup

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Marx Brothers/Rolling Stones

Mick- Groucho

Keith- Chico

Charlie - Harpo

Bill- Zeppo

Mick T- Gummo?

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Marx Brothers/Rolling Stones

Mick- Groucho

Keith- Chico

Charlie - Harpo

Bill- Zeppo

Mick T- Gummo?

Ronnie is Margaret Dumont?

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If you feel that MM, CYHMK and JSF are funky......go buy Mother ship Connection NOW! I might also suggest befriending a black person or two....I LOVE JSF, but that is just about as straightforward, 4/4 Rock and Roll as it gets. Listen to what Ronnie brought to Black and Blue and onward. A wah pedal doesn't make you funky. Listen to the Jimi Hendrix Experience V/S Band of Gypsies, it's clear.

Actually, everyone should just go buy mothership connection, regardless of whether they think jsf is funky :-)

The quality of the filler on Ghs was always a turn off for me. It's the first alb where the stones started to consciously pretend to be the stones rather than just being themselves. I've always put it and emotional rescue in the category of albums I listen to only because I'm a huge stones fan and not because they are great albums in their own right.

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Marx Brothers/Rolling Stones

Mick- Groucho

Keith- Chico

Charlie - Harpo

Bill- Zeppo

Mick T- Gummo?

Ronnie is Margaret Dumont?

LOL!

Gotta love Margaret's interaction with Groucho. Here is their final appearance together, filmed for television eight days before her death!

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"silver train might be the worst song ever"

your kidding, silver train with a you-tube video from 1973 of the stones on stage is a classic.

one of the most underrated songs ever.

Glad to see the misspelling of a commonly meant word wasn't just a fad.

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Toru A

Keith Richards 1972 Kingston, Jamaica
photograph taken by Koh Hasebe

Hmmm...I thought that was from the early 1972, in Los Angeles, taken by Jim Marshall....
I still think so.

It is!

Well documented EXILE overdub sessions.

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If you feel that MM, CYHMK and JSF are funky......go buy Mother ship Connection NOW! I might also suggest befriending a black person or two....I LOVE JSF, but that is just about as straightforward, 4/4 Rock and Roll as it gets. Listen to what Ronnie brought to Black and Blue and onward. A wah pedal doesn't make you funky. Listen to the Jimi Hendrix Experience V/S Band of Gypsies, it's clear.

Actually, everyone should just go buy mothership connection, regardless of whether they think jsf is funky :-)

The quality of the filler on Ghs was always a turn off for me. It's the first alb where the stones started to consciously pretend to be the stones rather than just being themselves. I've always put it and emotional rescue in the category of albums I listen to only because I'm a huge stones fan and not because they are great albums in their own right.

Good analysis..... I like the rockers, but Angie is Angie, and I feel that Winter is too long and goes nowhere, CYHTM could have said what it was saying in about 1:30....DWMD is cool, dark. Heartbreaker, HYL and 100YA aren't classics. My faces are the clones, SF and ST.....and a very good Keith song.

Coming down again is a great tune!

Stuck my tongue in someone else's pie.

Whenever I hear this album I get images of sun and snow because I got it on Christmas day 1973, it was sunny and there was snow on the ground (doesn't happen very often on Christmas day in the UK).

This is always a winter album for me (of course it has a track called winter as well).

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Whenever I hear this album I get images of sun and snow because I got it on Christmas day 1973, it was sunny and there was snow on the ground (doesn't happen very often on Christmas day in the UK).

This is always a winter album for me (of course it has a track called winter as well).

it's always august 14 at around 2:30 p.m. when i listen to this album.

Dancing With Mr D is a good LP opener. It sets the tone for the LP - murky, funky, hazy and... a daze.

GHS is a summer album for me - took my newly-bought CD on holiday to Cornwall and played it non-stop on the car stereo for a week, so it brings images of sand and waves and surfers.

Coming Down Again
Angie
Can You Hear The Music

Those are my favourites from GHS.

HIDE YOUR LOVE - Killer Taylor all over it....

I bought this album when I was in the eighth grade back in 1973. I still like most of it. Though, 100 Years Ago still plods along. I even like Can't You Here The Music now. Back then,ugh. I remember playing Star Star a little lower in volume and the cardboard poster drove good ole' Ma crazy along with Alice Cooper's poster from the Killer LP. Ah, yes the good old days.

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Whenever I hear this album I get images of sun and snow because I got it on Christmas day 1973, it was sunny and there was snow on the ground (doesn't happen very often on Christmas day in the UK).

This is always a winter album for me (of course it has a track called winter as well).

it's always august 14 at around 2:30 p.m. when i listen to this album.

I admire your precision.

Lester bangs summed up goats head soup best.

When I first played GHS I was immensely disappointed. After falling in love with Exile, I thought this was a poor follow up. For me there just wasn't enough rock on the album. However, after many years have passed, this to me is another classic album. Lots of different kinds of music on here, a variety that few of today's artists could duplicate and manage to make it listenable. Coming Down Again is one of my all time favorites, Winter is beautiful, and I can never get tired of hearing Star Star.

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Coming Down Again
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Can You Hear The Music

Those are my favourites from GHS.

Surprised... we usually seem to agree sonically. I used to really dig Can you hear the music, but one day...I dunno, it became boring? Guess I need to revisit.

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Angie
Can You Hear The Music

Those are my favourites from GHS.

Surprised... we usually seem to agree sonically. I used to really dig Can you hear the music, but one day...I dunno, it became boring? Guess I need to revisit.

Yeah, it goes in waves, I guess. I used to enjoy Heartbreaker and 100 Years Ago, but I grew tired of them rather quickly. I'm also having a beef with the straight-forward rhythm guitar on Star Star. Silver Train leaves me cold - same with Dancing With Mr. D.

However, Can You Hear The Music really grew on me: The sound, the mystique and Taylor's double guitar-theme make the song for me + the use of different instruments, making it a little Brian-esque.

Angie is just perfection, one of those few perfect recordings.

Coming Down Again is the best track on the album, imo - the song represents the best thing with this album; it's vibe, melancholy and murkiness.

When I've listen to an album several hundred times, new favourites tend to pop up. But it's been like this for a while with GHS for me.

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However, Can You Hear The Music really grew on me: The sound, the mystique and Taylor's double guitar-theme make the song for me + the use of different instruments, making it a little Brian-esque.

Ever since first hearing the album, Can You Hear The Music stood out, I'm a big fan of that one. We're in the minority



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Can You Hear The Music is excellent. I don't get how people don't like it.

If they'd just left Angie off of the album... and put Through The Lonely Nights on instead...

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Can You Hear The Music is excellent. I don't get how people don't like it.

If they'd just left Angie off of the album... and put Through The Lonely Nights on instead...

i don't get how ppl don't like angie. everybody doesn't get at least one thing about this album. the average number of things ppl don't get about this album is 3.2

I think Star Star is the weakest song on GHS. It's foreshadowing Some Girls.

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I think Star Star is the weakest song on GHS. It's foreshadowing Some Girls.

I'm with you, lyrics aside, it's some basic Keith/Berry guitar thing he can do in five minutes. Kind of what IORR's intro got turned into live.

Interesting cover of 100 Years Ago, featuring Dap Kings guitarist Binky Griptite and Inyang Bassey:

speaking of the great binky and the dapppers...i heard sharon jones is quite ill.