I would love to hear Keith sing Soul Survivor at the next concert, if there is one.
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My 2 vinyl records produce good music but All Down the Line is a different story. There is a loud hissing in the background, as if the needle is about to go (but it is a fairly new needle). It seems to be playing at a slightly slower speed than the original. Also, the big booming bass by Bill Plummer or Bill Wyman is not there. This thick bass in the first thirty seconds of the original is one of
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If you want to see some really wild action, then attend a home game for the Volunteers, LSU, or Florida. These people get dangerous and nasty. Another way to have a bash is to attend a GOP fundraiser sponsored by Michael Steele. I don't usually get into lesbian leather and lace action, but I will observe anything at least once. Oh well, at least one person still thinks the Stones at their
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I just picked up the newspaper and read this article about Lindsay Lohan, whose life is apparently worsening because of her involvement with drugs. He goes on to say: ...many concerts were simply drug and alcohol-fueled-free-for-alls, and it's still that way today. As a young reporter, I remember being stationed in the medical tent at a Rolling Stones concert in 1979. Hundreds of young peopl
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What about Following the River. I enjoy it more with each listen. It is sad and soothing at the same time.
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I just bought EOMS and am enjoying it immensely, especially the new songs. It is disgusting, though, that some fans have elevated this album to such a high level that criticism of it is not even slightly tolerated. To criticize EOMS now is tantamount to criticizing Jesus for having hair too long or for not having cured more lepers. My problem with EOMS is that some of the lyrics are infantile
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You can count on this. He will be back, and he will attend the next live concert, and he will have a great time. And he will complain that it is too Vegas. If you are really serious about no longer following the Stones, just do it and don't tell everyone about it. Just do it.
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Whenever I think of great lyrics, I think of The Nearness of You by Hoagy Carmichael and Ned Washington. Keith sang this beautiful song, and played a guitar solo, on the Forty Licks tour: It's not the pale moon that excites me That thrills and delights me Oh no It's just the nearness of you It isn't your sweet conversation That brings this sensation Oh no It's just t
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ThankGod, No need to be rude. I simply pointed out, in a funny way, that the lyrics for Plundered My Soul were childish and amateurish. Jagger is a very bright man. You and I know he can do better than that, and he has in fact written some very good lyrics for some of his songs. PMS is not one of them. Why don't you explain the situation with Sweet Black Angel. Some fans don't rea
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I have always liked this song. The last 45 seconds or so are very memorable.
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Mick Jagger must have consulted this book frequently when he wrote Plundered My Soul, as I have never heard so many overused phrases in my life. I like the melody, the harmonizing, and the ethusiasm and emotion he brings to the song, but the lyrics are terrible and laughable. I counted at least ten overused phrases: Resting on my laurels Yard off my pace I smell rubber Pretty lips were seal
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The album version is much, much better. This sounds like an early draft for the original. When the Stones recorded it on EOMS, they finally settled on the correct version, probably after many attempts to get it right. This version sucks.
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A few years ago I heard this song for the first time on tne radio and was able to identify it as a Stones song. My wife was impressed. The first ten seconds, before Jagger begins singing, is pure Stones. It is impossible to put it into words, but I knew after the first ten seconds it was the Stones. No doubt about it.
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Many of you have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Stones, their music, and their lives. Some of you are musicians who may play many Stones songs at your gigs. But can you honestly say you could recognize a brand new Stones song, after having heard only a few opening chords(not hearing Jagger's distinctive voice)? I believe I could do so with 100% accuracy. If you think you could do it, say s
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This is a song written by Don Raye in 1940, and it has been covered by Chuck Berry and other artists. The Rolling Stones covered it on their album, The Rolling Stones, Now! The Stones version rocks out big time. Mick's singing is perfect, and the enunciation is great (not that breathless quality he had in the seventies). More than anything else, Keith's guitar work is just unbelievable.
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I do not always pay that much attention to who composes the Stones songs, although I probably should. Anyway, I always assumed that some other artist wrote these two songs: What a Shame-it sounded like a 1940's blues song that the Stones had decided to cover, and Good Times, Bad times-I just assumed it was written by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, or some other great black artist fr
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I shook hands very briefly with Matthew McConnaughey (spelling).
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Red wine.
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Listen to the first thirty seconds of the bass part of All Down the Line, and you will really appreciate the contribution of Bill. He gets this song going in gear from the very beginning and never lets up. It is awesome. Beelyboy, you are so right. I wish I were a musician so I could use the right words to describe this sensation I get when Bill rips into this wonderful song.
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The original is much, much better. I hope the new Exile is not just a rehash of very fine songs. Plundered is excellent, though.
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Gazza, I have been reading iorr.org for at least seven years before I began to contribute. I have heard many fans recommend that the Stones hang it up because of their age. My theorizing is a reaction to many threads about senility, arthritis, wrinkles, and much, much more. I do not remember the names of these fans but I have read so many of them that I finally felt compelled to respond. T
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Sixty years old is the new fifty. Fifty is the new 40. 40 is the new thirty. I don't think too much of age. The fact that some iorr.org fans have talked about the ages of the Stones to me proves that some are overly concerned about age. I think the members of iorr.org that are 25 or so think little of the ages of the Stones. Once again, this is only a theory. I just like the music and ho
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I have a theory about Stones fans who continuously fret about the advanced ages of the Stones. It is not a pretty theory. I believe that the fans who hope the Stones will not tour again, or who complain that the Stones must be totally exhausted by touring, or who state that the level of playing has dropped off greatly due to age, are themselves very concerned with their own physical ailments.
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The Stones must have thought long and hard about which songs to include and exclude on Exile. If you had been the record producer, which Exile song might you have deleted in favor of Plundered My Soul? I suppose album continuity and song preference would be at least two factors to consider. I would have omitted Just Want To See His Face. I never liked that one particularly. I would have made P
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Just think of something that will piss off the most people, and you will have a hit. I have at least ten great threads. I still think the Stones should remove the N word from the song on EOMS called Sweet Black Angel. See what I mean.
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I love the new Stones song, Plundered My Soul. But I suddenly realized what I do not like about PMS. Mick Taylor's guitar work, as usual, is excellent, but at the same time it is too loud, incessant, overwhelming, and intrusive. It detracts from Jagger and the self harmonizing, the rhythm machine of Watts and Wyman, Keith's playing, and the piano. In fact, Taylor has been too assertive
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Great post, Mathjis, but you never did indicate if you really care for the song!
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I like it a lot. I have listened to it ten times in a row. It just seems to get better at each listen. Who is singing with Jagger?
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My favorite from the very early period was Heart of Stone. The Richards' solo is very good. This is a close second. jagger is talking it up, the guitar solo is great, and Mick plays the harmonica on it.
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What very early Stones song, written by Jagger and Richards, impressed you the most? Which song or songs made you think that this group was a cut above the ordinary and was possibly destined to be be The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World? We should choose from 11 songs from their first 3 albums: Now I've Got a Witness Little by Little Tell Me Empty Heart Good Times, Bad Times
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