This is the album ABB should've been. It's a classic.
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A classic. The last true ROLLING STONES album. A unity and purpose to it that each album after it lacks.
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Thanks for these!!!
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Bump for my initial post. This show is 2 days away. Gonna be a good one if you're in the Vancouver area. BTW, as far as the current debate here... The best thing that could happen is that the STONES end their reign of the year-plus long tours and do more concentrated shows in clusters. The festivals, etc... That's better than no shows at all. Charlie will NEVER actually quit the band i
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I posted a thread near the beginning of this tour about Mick and his 'c'mons' before every change and I was lambasted for not digging the 'live' vibe of the band. It has nothing to do with that. YOu can tell, Mick is terrified (rightly so) that Keith, Ronnie and Charlie are not gonna go to the bridge or chorus or whatever. It detracts from the songs. A well placed ad lib
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Hey everybody. I've been posting here as a massive Stonesfan for the last year or so, and now I wanna introduce what it is I actually do. My name is Marq DeSouza, a veteran singer/songwriter based in Vancouver, Canada. My new album (& 4th) has just been released this month and I'm hoping for big things from it. Everybody at this site is very knowledgable and fans of music, so
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Typical of Stones 'new' songs since the mid eighties. Everyone says "classic!". They play them on whatever the current tour is, then never, or rarely again. They know they're not high quality.
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He's the most consistantly good songwriter around these days. His last 4 or 5 albums have all been topnotch. Highly recommended. He blends all the styles together. Very American with soul, blues, rock, acoustic folk. I only discovered him a few years back and I'm so glad I did.
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We are blessed for sure. However, Mick has made it clear that he wants to be judged not as an oldies act, but a contemporary living, breathing act. By that token, we still have to call bullshit when we see it and a bad performance is still bad. No one can come close to the bar they've set. That's their greatest triumph and curse. Long live the Stones.
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FLIP THE SWITCH is much better as a song and performance than the rockers on ABB. It has crisper sounding classic Charlie drums, a bit funkier bass that still cooks, guitarists in a rejuvenated prime, and far more interesting layering of vocals.
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READ THIS, finally someone defending them in print...
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I honestly don't get them at all.
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Was it just me, or was Macca increbly lame and embarassing. I like him, but it was so pandering. He sucked.
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best STONES album since EXILE. best 2 songs... Don't Tear Me Up Hang On To Me Tonight
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This song could've evolved into something great had they worked on it.
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People aren't use to hearing a real band play, with the human touch that entails. Most TV performances are backed up with tapes and a gloss of overproduction.
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This was a live performance and you can't jump around like Mick does and 'sing' like Pavorotti. He was putting out up there and it was raw and real rock n' roll. Listen to boots from 1972-1981, it's all shouting at the expense of the vocal. He's learned to strike a balance between the two now. I think people are so used to the glossy, crappy overproduced, tape backed
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MAIN OFFENDER has its moments, especially the underrated HATE IT WHEN YOU LEAVE, but TIC blows it out of the water.
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posted in the other thread, but here it is... I was so nervous before it started. I feared the worst, but all worries were dashed. OK, we all knew what songs they were gonna play, but they kicked ass. Keith looked like the coolest mutha of all time up there. Charlie was rocking hard and playing so deceptively simple, that it's hard to understand how anyone playing so effortlessly could be
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I was so nervous before it started. I feared the worst, but all worries were dashed. OK, we all knew what songs they were gonna play, but they kicked ass. Keith looked like the coolest mutha of all time up there. Charlie was rocking hard and playing so deceptively simple, that it's hard to understand how anyone playing so effortlessly could be so good. Ronnie was engaged and Mick knew what w
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I think the LICKS tour would've been good to go out with. Great tour with lots of rarities, a celebration of the greatest band ever. Instead, they had to cash in one last time and leave a bad taste in alot of true fans mouths. Corporate greed taken to its furthest. Boring, uninspired clock-punching. The Juliard press conference was the first time I'd ever watched them and thought, "
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Th most underated warhorse.
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The LICKS tour was WAY better. There was a sense of excitement and celebration about it, they challenged themselves, most importantly THEY ROCKED. This tour feels like going through the motions, one last cash grab. I'll still be there though, but it makes me sad.
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ANyone have any live versions of this they could possibly post? Thanks in advance if you do!!! Tremendous song.
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They asked Keith about this, and he had said something about the engineer/mixers playing alittle joke dropping that in there. Pretty funny. They should drop the JUDAS! shout into the next Dylan live album.
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AS TEARS GO BY is the song and performance of the tour (so far). Nice to hear the boys on acoustics and Mick really singing.
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LET ME DOWN... by far. It fulfills Keith's long held wish to "make this thing grow up". A complex, nuanced song both musically and lyrically that still has that spark and swagger.
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He nailed the unfortunate truth.
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I could never understand why they didn't open with this. It has the signature classic opening riff (Keith should do it) and the perfect lyrical hook to get things going. Wierd how it was second in 1981 and now.
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