"Dancing" has a good groove, but the daft lyrics ruin the song. The lyrics turn the song into a cheap B-movie about zombies and dripping rotting flesh and graveyards and the like. The song has a deep heavy blues riff. It reminds me of "Ventilator Blues" from "Exile." "Goats Head Soup" would have been better received if Jagger paid more attention to th
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"The great concert promoter?" He wasn't particularly well liked at the end, by the punks and by the Rolling Stones. The punks resented his attempt to monopolize all rock clubs in the Bay Area. His company was called "Bill Graham Presents." In 1980-81, punks used to wear T-shirts that said "Bill Graham Prevents" to protest his narrow-minded monopoly. As for
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I thought the version on "Love You Live" was one of the best live Rolling Stones recordings (and about the only good thing on that record). When "the dogs begin to bark," Kieth's guitar and Woods' guitars start barking. I like how low-key they made it, like a real old Chicago blues song.
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An amazing song in so many ways. I think of it as a one-act play. It's a scary song. A man breaks into an upper-class woman's home and rapes her. The woman is upper-class, we know, because her house has marble halls. It was the last song, at least judging by the credits on "Let It Bleed," in which the five original Stones (and no other musicians) played together. It
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Thanks for sharing this. Love those pictures of Euro-hippies circa 1973. I traveled through Europe that year (I'm from California). Loved those beautiful girls!
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Quotehbwriter i heard him sing this in the back alley behind cbgb once- street corner style, with david johansen - it was incredible - love this song I would love to have been there to hear that.
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I found this in the liner notes of the Mink DeVille compilation Cadillac Walk: The Mink DeVille Collection. It was written by Ben Edmonds, a Capitol Records A&R man. He describes how Mick Jagger dropped by the Hollywood recording studio where Jack Nitzsche was mixing the Mink DeVille song "Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl" (from the band's album Cabretta, recorded in 1977): "Jac
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"In that light, Exile on Main Street is not just another album, a two-month binge for the rack-jobbers and then onto whoever's up next." This is another example of New York @#$%& over-intellectualizing something. Kaye (and Lou Reed) are just college boys who got swept up into rock. Very boring.
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Is this the same Bob Dylan who did an album of Christmas songs? Yes it is! The album was called "Christmas in the Heart," and it was truly, truly awful. The critics loved it of course. Slant Magazine's Jesse Cataldo said "This enjoyable sense of exploration, which prizes levity in a genre that usually amounts to an artistic wasteland, is invaluable. It also proves how mu
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Quotejazzbass For the true crown of Worlds Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Obviously, the Stones are my choice, but one of my good friends argues that Zeppelin deserves the title. I'm asking that you guys help me with some ammo to support my position for this debate. Ask your Led Zepplin-loving friends, "Which band did Spinal Tap model itself after?" Case closed.
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You right-wing nut jobs see a commie hiding behind every bush. The big question to ask about this song and every rock and roll song is: Can you dance to it? In the case of "Gloom & Doom," you can. I suggest paulm that you shake yer ass a bit more and grouse a bit less.
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Ths brings back memories. I bought Television's first album there in 1977 on Bob's recommendation. I didn't care for it, but that album was my entre into this new thing called punk rock. It was an eccentric little record store and God knows we need more eccentric little stores of every kind. We are being taken over by large corporate boxes!
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Let It Loose If You Really Want to Be My Friend
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Louis Armstrong -- Can't imagine 20th Century music without him. He popularized jazz. Muddy Waters -- Can't imagine the Rolling Stones or rock and roll without him. If you listen closely to all rock and roll, he's there in the background.
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Probably I'm coming here late with this song, but I think Bettye Lavette's version of "Salt of the Earth" is amazing. I never though of the title as a gospel song until I heard her version. Check it out:
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Personally, I thought he was at his funkiest with this title, "Outer Space":
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Quotejeff14 Without the likes of Johnny Rotten would we have ever gotten Some Girls? Excellent point. People don't realize it now, but the Rolling Stones were running a little bit scared in 1978 when they made "Some Girls." Songs like "Lies" and "Respectable" on that album were the Stones taking a stab at punk. The punks were nipping at their heels, and the St
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The great Billy Preston died six years ago on June 6. His enormous contribution to the Rolling Stones often goes unheralded, and I'm posting this to remind Stones fans that a couple of the Stones best albums wouldn't be quite as good without Billy Preston. His soulfulness and technical expertise around R&B and gospel music enrinched the Stones' sound greatly. After Mick Tayl
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Any knucklehead president-assassinator fantasy dreamers here?
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What kind of dumb question is that? Let It Bleed Sticky Fingers Exile on Main Street The Golden Age of the Rolling Stones.
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I was there! It used to be my claim to fame, that I was at the last Sex Pistols concert. But then they re-united and toured. Needed the money, I guess. It wasn't so much a concert as a cultural happening. My favorite moment: When Johnny Rotten surveyed the stage for loot people had thrown at him, picked up a few things, and asked the audience, "Why donchya throw your cameras?"
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Mink DeVille: Lipstick Traces
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Mink DeVille: Gunslinger
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I bought that album when it came out without having heard a song from it. I liked the way it looked. I played it so often as a freshman in college my nickname became "Ramone." It was by far the Ramones' greatest album. It was perhaps the only instance of a group's debut album also being its greatest hits album. And you have no idea how refreshing it sounded in 1976 when Pet
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chord changes are the same as "Tops."
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That slow version on is very, very funky. I like it! Can someone please post the entire slow version of "Fingerprint File" somewhere's I can download it. I'd love to have it.
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Wow! I really want to hear this. Does anybody have a link?
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Better late than never...
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What do you know? The song is already on YouTube:
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According to this story about the recently released "Boogie 4 Stu: A Tribute to Ian Stewart," Bill Wyman played on the same track as the Rolling Stones for the first time since 1992 (although his playing was overdubbed). The story is here: "How Ben Waters got the Stones back together with Bill Wyman" In his review of the album, Sterling Whitaker write: Perhaps th
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