I've always LOVED this collection,"Worried About You" stole my heart right away and I find I play it alot in my car on long trips. I never loved Start Me Up, I really prefered Heaven and Black Limosine. One highlight from the last tour was the Radio City show when I finally got to hear Worried About You, and what a magnificant version it was! Hey, off topic here but why couldn't I log in from home this morning? I'm at work now and had no trouble posting? Hope I don't get assigned a new password!

right...nothing but the vinyl
...the real feeling

something the cd will never have, never!

>> There's been all kinds of great stuff since '81 or '83 or whenever. It goes largely unrecognized ...
Sure there's filler on the latter-day albums, but the best stuff shows off the Stones in very interesting and creative ways ...
The Stones' audience is just old and conservative and basically uninterested in welcoming new music into the pantheon ...
Status is conferred on rock'n roll records by airplay and by the way those records wind up being used by the people ... <<

wow - thank you for posting these very worthy insights, Rev Robert W!
sorry to chop it up like that for brevity's sake - really i'd happily re-post your whole statement
on about 11 different current threads that it seems directly relevant to.

i'd debate whether age is the reason for the crotchety conservatism you're observing in the Stones' audience -
maybe because i'm an antique myself, it looks to me like the culprits are tiredness and fearfulness,
not age. yeah, a lot of people grow more weary & fearful with age, but not everybody, and the opposite happens too;
and on the fan boards, at least, chronic weary fearfulness doesn't appear to be a specialty of the older fans.

in any case, weariness & fearfulness are of course real far from what the music is for.

"their energy is incredible, and it gives everybody courage for years and years and years."
- Giorgio Gomelsky



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2007-03-14 23:02 by with sssoul.

It was their last big album, if you ask me.

with sssoul Wrote:
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> >> There's been all kinds of great stuff since '81
> or '83 or whenever. It goes largely unrecognized
> ...
> Sure there's filler on the latter-day albums, but
> the best stuff shows off the Stones in very
> interesting and creative ways ...
> The Stones' audience is just old and conservative
> and basically uninterested in welcoming new music
> into the pantheon ...
> Status is conferred on rock'n roll records by
> airplay and by the way those records wind up being
> used by the people ... <<
>
> wow - thank you for posting these very worthy
> insights, Rev Robert W!
> sorry to chop it up like that for brevity's sake -
> really i'd happily re-post your whole statement
> on about 11 different current threads that it
> seems directly relevant to.
>
> i'd debate whether age is the reason for the
> crotchety conservatism you're observing in the
> Stones' audience -
> maybe because i'm an antique myself, it looks to
> me like the culprits are tiredness and
> fearfulness,
> not age. yeah, a lot of people grow more weary &
> fearful with age, but not everybody, and the
> opposite happens too;
> and on the fan boards, at least, chronic weary
> fearfulness doesn't appear to be a specialty of
> the older fans.
>
> in any case, weariness & anxiety are of course
> real far from what the music is for.
>
> "their energy is incredible, and it gives
> everybody courage for years and years and years."
> - Giorgio Gomelsky


Hey, if they put out a great album, I'm all over it! They just HAVEN'T in a looooooong time.

don't fret, james - there's a lot of wonderful stuff there, whether you're hearing it or not.

meanwhile ... feel like telling us about the music that does groove you,
in the same kind of loving detail as you put into describing what you don't like?
i bet that would feel really good

I dig Tattoo You but think the production sound is not consistent, of course due to the sources of the recordings. Don't really like the "clangy" drum sound on side one (especially Neighbors)--the beginning of "'80s" production.

But still this is the last essential Stones album--everything after only for die hards (like me).

In the sweet old country where I come from
Nobody ever works
Yeah nothing gets done


HANG FIRE!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this song! How can you bash it?? It was my #2 song on my dream stones setlist sandwiched between One Hit as the opener and Too Tight. That is a 1-2-3 knock-out combo!!

VoodooLounge13 Wrote:
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> In the sweet old country where I come from
> Nobody ever works
> Yeah nothing gets done
>
>
> HANG FIRE!
>
> I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this song! How can you bash
> it??

they're demented . . . i love it, too . . .

ryanpow Wrote:
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> big fan of tatoo you here, but one reason why I
> like some girls better is becuase tatoo you was
> from songs recorded over a wide span of recording
> sessions with differnent musicians and personel.
> Some girls was all done at Pathe in a short span
> of time, it has a much more continuity and
> immdeiate feel to it IMO.


I think that if you do not know - as I did not for many years - that TY is made up almost of "left-overs" - you could not hear it ;-)