QuoteStrawberriesBlueberries There were already some positive remarks about Mick's singing at the O2 shows in posts of several threads. But I thought it would be interesting to collect them in an extra thread and a little more in detail, especially as he has often been criticized by fans for bad vocal efforts in recent years. Personally I liked many of Mick's vocal performances or singl
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Quotedrbryant Revolver is the Beatles' best album; but for some reason nearly 50 years down the road, "Doncha Bother Me" sounds better to me than anything from Revolver (or Sgt. Pepper for that matter) Yes, i see where you're coming from. Stylistically, the Stones brought something very different to what the Beatles could offer, and 'Doncha Bother Me' is a perfect
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QuoteHavo Two of the TOP-Albums in 1966. My fav. stones-Album so far is stil Aftermath. I know, I know--many of you will say, that was Pop-music! Yeah--thats right.--but on high Level! same is Revolver from the Fab 4 . best beatles-album ever in their short carriere. I dont think that anybody of you will disagree!!?? 1966 is arguably the top year in popular music history. Not perhaps i
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QuoteStonesTod QuoteErik_Snow Way better than I imagined a couple of weeks ago, when reading they rehearsed it, this is a very fine version i've always suspected they could handle lightweight fare like this...similar to they way they did as tears go by...i mean if amateur guitarists like me can do it justice, you'd think a couple of professionals could, right? Way way better than t
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'Rock And A Hard Place' for me, visually, and musically.
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Quotedrbryant I thought the guitars sounded pretty good, but Mick was having a little trouble staying on key last night. Nevertheless, nice to hear this little gem. I'm not sure about that. Surprisingly Jagger sounds little different to how he did in the sixties here. The backing is pretty good too. From what i've heard on several tracks, the Stones are playing a little more conscien
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Quotewinter Quotekevinkamphuis Here's my MULTICAM video of Midnight Rambler (I edited out the 2 bum notes in the first solo Great job. In the pit, the guitar balance is a little better and you hear the rhythm underpinnings a bit more. Having MT so up in the P.A. mix was really the house engineer's problem, not Taylor's. He only asked to have the stage monitors on his side
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Quotecarlorossi Quote71Tele Some great comments here. No doubt some people still prefer the safe Vegas-era Stones and are uncomfortable with Taylor's performance. Does he overplay at times? Yes. Is he a bit ragged in places? Yes. Was he nervous? Possibly. Did he want to make a statement? Definitely! Agree with your take, sort of. MR was one of the few songs that they've managed to NO
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QuoteCineplexed As a big MT fan, Its a dream to hear and see him on stage with them. But to be fair , he's rusty at best, as one might expect. Wish his played more regularly with them, he'd be a monster. Yes, Cineplexed, rusty at best is pretty much what i thought of Taylor's performance, although Taylor's contribution did still give the Stones that edge which has been pre
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When did the Stones become simply a thrashing band without any real musical sensitivity or subtelty? These new songs are dire in the extreme, and represent just how much the group have regressed, even from the days of STEEL WHEELS and VOODOO LOUNGE. Even 'Mixed Emotions' sounds like it's bordering on masterpiece standard compared with these songs. 'Doom And Gloom' and �
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Yes Dandelion, 'Miss You', 'Beast Of Burden', 'Before They Make Me Run', 'Far Away Eyes' and 'Some Girls' are not punk songs stylistically, but the point i was trying to make is that they do share in common with punk the desire to strip the sound back to basics, which i'm not sure the Stones would have done necessarily at that time if punk ha
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quoteshortfatfanny QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteMore Hot Rocks QuoteGlammy I don't hate that era but it doesn't do much for me either. I'm one of the 2-3 people who thinks that the Some Girls album is totally overrated. With the exception of Beast of Burden there is not one song on it that I really like. And even that song sounds better by Bette. You'
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QuoteNoCode0680 I don't hate, or even dislike the '78 era Stones, but they aren't my favorite. I've just never been able to really get into Some Girls. I like it, but it's not the landmark album to me that it is to so many. A lot of the music is very simple. Sure Keith and Ronnie add some flourishes and make them a little more technical, but many of the songs are at t
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A LOUD LOAD OF NOTHING. Really not very good!
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QuoteDoxa Edward, I suppose I agree with you for Dylan being artistically a bit above the Stones during the time frame, at laest if we look at the highlights. Yeah, INFIDELS is a bit uneven album, but it has some high-class songs, such as "Joker Man", "Sweatheart Like You", and "Licence To Kill" (and teh best song not even made the album...), which will not shame one
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Doxa, even between the period 1983-97 i believe Bob to be way ahead of the Stones. INFIDELS and OH MERCY, for me, are considerably more satisfying than anything the Stones released in that period (even if there are the odd mediocre moments as well), although the real lows within Bob's studio and live performances were pretty dire, too. Part of the strength within Bob's artistry is very
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QuoteDoxa QuoteBraincapers Quote24FPS When you get down to it, it's just A Series Of Dreams. Funnily, I became a HUGE Stones and a Dylan fan around the same time - early 80's - and it has been interesting to follow the adventures of two of my biggest musical heroes through the years ever since. I think from 1983 to 1997 it was rather tight between the two, but with TIME OUT OF MIN
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QuoteRoss Edward, you are so dead on! Although I may like TOOM more than that, I also thought the real rebirth and true return to form came with Love & Theft. The songs on TOOM are brilliant, but I find Lanois's production a hindrance (as I did on Oh, Mercy). The songs were good enough to cut through, but I think a more conventional approach without the atmospheric "distortion&qu
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Quotekeefriffhard4life Quote24FPS I think these last few Dylan albums will be looked at in the future and they'll be trying to untangle them. I think there are some brilliant moments. Maybe none of them are Sergeant Pepper, but they're certainly interesting. And isn't that the point of this thread? Dylan's current, ongoing work is head and shoulders above anything the Stones h
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QuoteDoxa ? I think Jagger is the key factor here: I think he somehow resists the fact what a phenomenal blues singer and interpreter he naturally is. And when he very rarely lets himself to do 'just blues', he just does it from his instincts, and just lets himself to go. I think "Blue" is another example of that, and I think of those performances in SNL, "Presidentia
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Keith sounds like he was making the lyrics up as he went along with not much prior preparation, mumbling whatever popped into his head in the heat of the moment. I admire him, of course, for not taking the more artificially adopted late Jagger vocal route, in his attempt to inject a little more sincerity into his approach, but that's a very small compensation for this extremely poor effort.
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I don't think of 'Roll On John' as being weak, windmelody. I find it quite touching, and in a not too blatantly soft way, either. Bob is great at making observations, which prove so touching, without going the whole hog of becoming over sentimental and gushing. In fact i don't hear anything weak on TEMPEST, although of course some songs do tend to create more of an impression
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Quote71Tele Quotestonesdan60 There's something paradoxical about Dylan since Time Out of Mind. It's almost like he's a different person than the guy who gave us the "Dylan classics." But there's a compelling artistry there for me despite a total change in his approach to lyric writing. It's more straightforward now, not so much enigmatic symbolism and imagery.
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Quotestonesdan60 There's something paradoxical about Dylan since Time Out of Mind. It's almost like he's a different person than the guy who gave us the "Dylan classics." But there's a compelling artistry there for me despite a total change in his approach to lyric writing. It's more straightforward now, not so much enigmatic symbolism and imagery. But it'
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Quotestupidguy2 Quotewindmelody Billie Holiday was unique, while amy Winehouse did two good albums with a strong producer. I respect her and I would have wished her a longer life, but calling her a unique figure in the music of the last decades is strange. She's the best female singer/artist of this generation. JUst because she's modern, doesn't mean she can't be classic. Th
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I'm not so sure about that, Justin. I tend to think of 'Baby Break It Down' as pretty mediocre whether that's relating to the song in its original form as found on the album, or this alternative bootleg version. Yes, it does remind me of Keith's solo work, and i think ultimately it finds Keith pretty much coasting, in terms of his guitar playing. The song really doesn
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QuoteDoxa I comment a bit to Edward's point here since it made wonder that there is something I can not agree with. I am not that happy with the comparison to IT's ONLY ROCK'N'ROLL because I know that connotation but can't really put "Let Me Go" referring there. I think The 'Pathe Marconi' Stones did not get there until UNDERCOVER which, I think, is
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'Let Me Go' is a very mediocre Stones track in my opinion. True, Jagger's vocals were still pretty good at this point, where he hadn't quite lost his sense of perspective, which would happen towards the mid eighties. The Stones were still young enough and vital enough in terms of potential, but somewhere along the line their inspiration had started to wane considerably. '
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QuoteStoneage Just to stir it up a bit. Every good album needs a hit song. SMU does the trick on TY. Without SMU TY would have been a mediocre album. No, i wouldn't quite agree that TATTOO YOU would have been a mediocre album without the inclusion of 'Start Me Up', yet i don't quite see it as a masterpiece either, and as much as i believe Doxa as always makes some extremely
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I don't consider 'Slave' to be a great Stones song in a more conventional sense, because really it is much more of a groove type song, and not really existing so much in a more traditional melodic sense. However, it does work well within the context of the TATTOO YOU album, and just like pretty much all the other tracks from the album, the song is remarkably well conceived in terms
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