You’re not ‘hardcore’ until you’ve explored Keith and Gram’s relationship and of course ‘cosmic American music.’ He wrote some beautiful songs and sang them from an aching heart. I cried the first time I heard ‘Brass Buttons’ but that wasn’t just his plaintive voice that was the Jack Daniels at 40,000 feet. The cabin attendant really should’ve cut me off…but I digress. I was scheduled to
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LOL. Maybe he is trolling but your hyperbolic praise of Jagger’s ‘Say You Will’ and anything Taylor-related makes you the last person on this forum who should be calling him on it. Besides, he has a point when he says Emotional Rescue is the more ‘fun’ album as many of the songs on LIB are dark and heavy thanks to the messiah complex Jagger had at the time. I personally can’t get through the a
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Dare I say the chorus to Scarlet is more infectious than a roomful of corona patients? It is superior to anything on Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges to Babylon, A Bigger Bang as well as Living in a Ghost Town. If you’re immune to Scarlet, what, pray tell, are you holding out for? Short of more time travel to the seventies, they can’t top this.
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I have no intention of purchasing any of the deluxe money grabs but let me just say Ron Wood could stake his claim as one of rock’s truly great musicians on the strength of his outrageously brilliant bass line in the title track. It’s like he’s coaxing powerful yet mellifluous farts from a mule. Would love to hear Emotional Rescue in all its kitschy glory once the show gets back on the road. T
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Familiar yet subversive, profane and funny, Starskunker crashes GHS like an unwanted drunken guest. It’s brilliant self-parody…not a high degree of difficulty involved perhaps but a flawlessly executed cawk rock ditty, criminally underappreciated, but ultimately it skunks up the entire album. Or rather it simply doesn’t belong. It’s a shame they couldn’t have released it as just a single.
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QuoteThePaleRider You couldn't really dance to Miss You or Emotional Rescue in a 'classic' disco. Those songs never started a run to the dance floor... I once threw out my back dancing to the bass line in Emotional Rescue. Seriously considered suing Ronnie. She’s So Cold on the other hand IS a number that would’ve had the kids running to the dance floor but the DJs never believed
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I can see why they left it off the post Exile 70s albums but if instead of Scarlet we were hearing Silver Train for the first time or Hide Your Love etc. I’d say the same thing. Although it seems to have been a Keef and Jimmy project, the lyrics and vocal delivery paint a perfect portrait of the mid-seventies Jagger - ‘Scarlett, why you wearing my heart, on your sleeve, where it ain’t suppose
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Quotedcba QuoteSwayed1967 voila – it becomes a classic album opener (Mr. D could’ve been dumped in the bog where he belonged). I think Mr.D works fine as an opener because he heralds perfectly the 'Goats Head Soup' album : a slow, atmospheric, misty, non-flamboyant album. Putting CC at the beginning of Ghs would be quite misleading. You make an interesting point although I’m skep
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Regardless of how one feels about his solo material, he delivered a powerhouse performance at Live Aid. In my estimation, this and Altamont are the only times he achieved madness. Am I right? (It could be argued that Keith achieved madness far more frequently – his own performance at Live Aid would certainly seem to qualify – but in his case there’s nothing really transcending about his performan
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Quote24FPS Listened to Criss Cross the other night. It definitely sounds like it's from the time, but doesn't go anywhere. I get the feeling this isn't going to be on the same level as the Exile and Some Girls reissues. It baffles the hell out of me that someone can be a member of this forum for over ten years, contribute several thousand posts, and only now be listening to Criss
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My body trembled with orgasmic joy the first time I heard the ‘Life was so Beautiful’ line. I wasn’t expecting Mick to suddenly soar like that… Without doubt this is the most relevant release by the Stones in almost 40 years. Even NHK, Japan’s national broadcasting organization, made LIAGT their lead story over the weekend. The song is supremely topical to be sure – no matter what radio station y
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Why was Keith playing a guitar when a turnip would've sufficed? He most certainly didn't 'spice' anything up. And when his back-up vocals are the highlight of his performance there's something off. Having said that, Mick and Ronnie gave us everything we wanted. I don't think it's a coincidence though that with Keith absent this version of YCAGWYW sounds l
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QuoteBliss I thought Keith's voice was beautiful on Suspicious - strong, tender...even sexy. And the lyrics just knocked me out - reflecting love but also extreme anger, addiction to pain. Same themes already explored and more powerfully expressed in 'All About You' when Keith could still sing and before he started recycling his own songs. (Seriously, parts of the melody l
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Quotematxil QuoteSwayed1967 Quotematxil "Suspicious" and "Illusion" are the absolute highlights of the album. I desperately wanted to like CH but it really sounds like a spent old man rearranging old riffs/melodies. Like with Suspicious – it’s not bad, it starts to draw me in - even though Keith can hardly sing anymore (if you can even call that singing – more like a guy on
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Quotematxil "Suspicious" and "Illusion" are the absolute highlights of the album. I desperately wanted to like CH but it really sounds like a spent old man rearranging old riffs/melodies. Like with Suspicious – it’s not bad, it starts to draw me in - even though Keith can hardly sing anymore (if you can even call that singing – more like a guy on a respirator straining to ma
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‘Get off the fence now You’re creasing your butt Life is a party Let’s get out and strut. Yeah’ Jagger writing songs for the junkyard again, one of his favorite pastimes since 1985. You can blame Keith’s drug use, Mick’s jet setting, the Glimmer Twin’s increasingly fractious relationship, Taylor’s departure, Chuck etc. for the band’s steady decline since the mid 80s but the main and simple
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Quotelem motlow More people die in car accidents each year worldwide than this virus will ever kill. We used to have this thing called bravery- stop shitting yourselves every time something scary happens. What have we here? Lem the brave internet warrior admonishing the masses…yet again. And as usual, you come off as a blustering fool. But I’m not going to explain why your car accident anal
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Quotekeefmick For those of you fans actually living in Japan, my wife and I have a scheduled trip for a vacation to visit Japan starting March 27. What is the current situation like, would you postpone the trip if you were us? Thanks. I live in Tokyo – besides hoarding toilet paper there’s not much sense of panic here and on the plus side the trains and restaurants etc. aren’t as crowded as usu
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Quotefrankotero If I may interject I'd like to say Sticky Fingers is in my opinion the bigger masterpiece. However I've always wondered why GHS is not more talked about because I too feel it's a masterpiece. Happy to hear it's getting some attention with a new release. Hope there are some exciting extras. Perhaps I’m quibbling but up to now I don’t recall anyone referring to
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You can tell Mick really cared about this project by the ungodly amount of makeup he wore in the Just Another Night video. (And I just adore the campy way he sings 'And I never thought you'd keep our rendezvous' - only Mick could get away with that.) The cover of the album, where he’s lazing on a bed in his undershirt, belies the relentless pace Mick maintains for most of th
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Mick is the consummate performer which explains why anyone (with the exception of the OP) who has ever been to a Stones concert leaves with an endorphin rush. The Stones put on a great show and the fans do the rest by pretending the music is mighty mighty fine…when it really isn’t. The Stones suck live, mainly because Jagger can’t sing but the guitarists are also guilty of plundering the soul of
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Can I Get A Witness? Sweet Virginia I Don't Know Why As Tears Go By Start Me Up Prodigal Son Sway Hard Woman Child Of The Moon Jiving Sister Fanny Quotenorthof49 QuoteDGA35 Quotenorthof49 QuoteDGA35 Hey Northof49, where abouts do you live? I'm assuming somewhere in Canada? Your assumption is correct DG. I am in good old Cowtown which unfortunately has become a bit of
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The friendliest, most likeable song on IORR. (TWFNO is a brilliant but just a little too cold and snobby for its own good.) A nice ass and good lyrics are what I value most and this song has neither but for once the lyrics don’t seem to particularly matter. Those guitars give me the cleanest shave.
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Hundreds of years from now people will still be eating cake and watching Columbo but they won’t be listening to Let It Bleed. No, wait a minute, that can't be right! Hundreds of years from now people will still be eating cake, watching silent movies, listening to Let It Bleed, driving Peugeots and playing Space Invaders. Nothing to fear, my child, nothing will change for ever and ever.
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Besides ‘Waiting on Keith’ side 2 of TY is no better than either side of Goat’s Head – overall TY is way overrated. But Keith is a bum singer so while TIC will always be the best solo effort by a Stone (it baffles the hell out of me that so many people gush over Wandering Spirit - I tend to think they have low IQs) it’s hard to understand why this thread was started. Having said that, if one
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In Osaka Japan, it’s perfectly legal to have sex with underage girls as long as you’re truly in love with them. If you’re banging them just for the sexual gratification though, that’s a different story. You might be arrested…but of course you probably won’t because the legal criteria for what constitutes ‘a true loving relationship’ is a bit hazy. So as long as you don’t pay them or rape them, Mi
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QuoteMathijs Quotepaulspendel Hi Mathijs, why don't you call me and tell me in person why everything I write is bollocks? 06 518 44 396. I already did tell you why its all bollocks. Mathijs Mathijs, perhaps you misunderstand. Paul is asking you to meet him in order to test his theory (Paul is a man of many theories…) that you would display a lot more politesse if faced with the prosp
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QuoteChris Fountain A song that competes is Luxury!! One of the best rock songs ever created and goes under the radar. Not even played in concert ( need fact checking). Yeah, it’s a rockin’ good tune. Damian Marley has said he’s willing to sing it if the Stones want to include it in the setlist for the coming tour. Fingers crossed. The songwriting on IORR is every bit as good as on EOMS b
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QuoteIanBillen It's like someone building ten houses over ten years and taking the material leftover from those ten houses and building a new one over about four months or more .. Ya can't say the last / 11 th house took Ten years and four months ... (the last house only took four months). I come to IORR for the powerful analogies. This one, however, I fear is flawed. Unlike cr
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I like the scene where Mick/Turner greedily smokes a joint in the bathtub. It’s a great performance but I’m not sure Mick’s doing any more acting than usual – it’s just Mick being Mick for the cameras. But that’s basically what the role calls for so it was good casting…In fact, I can’t imagine getting through this film once let alone the dozen or so times I’ve watched it if Mick weren’t in it.
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