Dead Boys had a few interesting songs with basic good riffs, for instance: (They also did a not-so-good cover of good old Stones' "Tell Me" ) And I still like "Anarchy in the UK" and "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols. But most of punk was pretty useless.
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The earlier posted link to the live version didn't work for me, but I found this one: The original album version never worked for me. The live version starts out sort of interesting, but then, after the second verse loses it, but at least it hints at the possibility that if they would have worked the song a bit more (say, another 4 or 5 years or so), it might have become better. The basi
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Quote1969Fan QuoteDoxa I didn't expect this track to come, but a nice surprise! I have always taken the decision to include Berry numbers to their set list in 1978 as a some kind of signal to punk direction of the very idea what rock and roll initially and originally and really is if people really are going back to essentials, as many punk acts thought they were doing. But at the same tim
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Quotestonehearted ... This tells us that, despite Lennon's "odd looking little head", the general public favors Beatles over Stones. Always has, always will. ... Well, I think most people, here or anywhere, already know that. That's hardly the point. The way to judge the Stones is not about how many #1 records they have had. I am sure Madonna had more #1 records than Ca
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QuoteKoen That's not going to happen, Jimmy Miller died 20 years ago. Ah...
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Lock Mick and Keith up in the kitchen and don't let them out until they have got at least 5 songs they are both happy about. If they come out alive and well, lock the entire band up in a faraway place in the south of France or an island in the Pacific, for at least 6 months and force them to play those 5 songs plus anything else that comes up for hours on end, day after day. Record everythin
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Criss Cross Mind is fantastic. Curiously, I just had that song on my mind all day (even though I haven't listened to it for a while). Strange how some Stones songs, "simple" as they may be, can be so effective and strong. If the rest of "remaining material" from that era is equally good, then surely an album made of that would be better than any album with new songs wou
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Actually, here an example of someone who is playing all the notes of Keith's solo correctly, and still does not sound like him at all.
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QuoteKet a question to the guitar players here, who in your opinion is the hardest to imitate Taylor,Richards or Wood ? There are two ways of imitating: 1) Actually playing like that person, i.e., coming up with songs, licks, solos just like that person and 2) being able to identically copying a particular piece by that person. I am a mediocre (rhythm) guitar player at best, so I wouldn
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Quote71Tele Exactly. And it's his choice not to play a real piano that is just one of my problems with him... Look, you like his playing, I don't. I think it's competent, but pedestrian. He doesn't put his stamp on anything. Any decent pianist could do exactly what he does on the keyboards. I can't say the same about Ian Stewart, Nicky Hopkins, or Billy Preston. Each h
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Midnight Rambler - Brussels Little Queenie - Get Yer YaYa's Out
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QuoteLieB The thing is they were so rock 'n' roll back then even their trainwrecks sounded cool and it became part of the Stones. It's still part of the Stones to sound sloppy, but when you're sounding sloppy with two backup singers, a brass section and Chuck Leavell it's not so cool anymore... Spot on!
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The best: Like a Thief in the Night Little T&A Slipping Away Happy You Got The Silver Sleep Tonight The worst: Wanna Hold You Infamy This place is empty Loosing my touch Can't be Seen The worst ( ) You Don't Have To Mean It
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Great song, the instruments and the vocals. And the funny thing is, it's just a straightforward 12 bar blues, nothing new chord-wise. But the Stones are able to make it sound spooky, dark and dangerous. The strenght of the Stones is how they can even make a 12 bar blues sound different and original (even now).
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QuoteDoxa But had the Stones chance at all in the 80's? That is, whatever they had done, wouldn't have make it? I don't know. I tend to think that the tricks of the day started to be so far from their own roots in blues that it was impossible for these old dogs to learn them (Keith seemingly was more aware of that, Mick not so much). Perhaps that was a good thing. - Doxa I
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QuoteWitness As one who happens to like very much some of the, originally, indie music from the '80s and early '90s, for instance the Pixies, what I have heard from Sonic Youth, or music from bands of the shoegazer scene, the point is not so good to me. (From reasons outside music, I completely stopped following that or other scene after the early '90s). [....] For who e
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Coming to think of it, if they want to be more contemporary, maybe they should listen a bit more to Frank Black. Although I suppose he falls into the "indie / post-punk" category, he is an interesting songwriter and his solo-albums (especially with the Catholics) are really fresh and fun to listen to (e.g. Pistolero or Dogs in the Sand).
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A terrible terrible song. One of their worst. I guess they tried to imitate the lousy new-wave/grunge/indie type of rubbish rock we've been hearing since the eighties. (Lame chord progressions, lame rhythm, dull guitar sound, weak melodies). It sort of confirms my theory that one of the reasons why the Stones haven't really made any great record after Tattoo You is because there is no
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Great song. I like this live version too:
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"Tie You Up" is a great candidate as "most underrated (Stones) song". Other are: "Ain't No Use For Crying" or "Anyway You Look At It" or "I Am Waiting".
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Thanks!
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I loved WA I. I haven't found WA 2 in the shops anywhere. Is it similar or very different? What are the main differences?
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotematxil Well, I don't like it. The riff is third-rate, there is no groove, there is no melody, no special sound or chord-changes or anything. It reminds me of the worst songs on Dirty Work: just Mick Jagger screaming some gibberish over a background of grungy guitars without any kind of special lick of riff. And the lyrics..., I guess it's some tongue-in-ch
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Well, I don't like it. The riff is third-rate, there is no groove, there is no melody, no special sound or chord-changes or anything. It reminds me of the worst songs on Dirty Work: just Mick Jagger screaming some gibberish over a background of grungy guitars without any kind of special lick of riff. And the lyrics..., I guess it's some tongue-in-cheek comment on the girl in the Abu G
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I didn't know Criss Cross man, great song. (And great to still discovering new songs from my favourite band). I am also impressed by the 1973 Waiting on a Friend version. I didn't know that in 1973 they already recorded the instruments exactly as they would end up later on Tattoo You (right?). About Goats Head Soup... I found out about the Stones a few years before Dirty Work came
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A perfect example of why the Stones are the best rhythm and blues band ever.
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Great song, great lyrics. I always loved the riff in the outro. The Stones must have loved it too, since they more or less re-used it a number of times (e.g. Must Be Hell, Between A Rock And A Hard Place)
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I think "Sleep Tonight" and "One hit" are the only songs of "Dirty Work" worth listening too. Some late-night boozy ballads of Keith Richards bore me a bit (e.g. Losing My Touch), but this one I like, there is enough of a song in it, melody changes and unexpected chord changes to make it interesting and the atmosphere works. I don't really see the link with Tom
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Quote71Tele Between the Button is another one that mystifies me as a choice for anyone's "worst" list. Great pop songwriting, adventurous arrangements, lots of Keith singing. There are so many more "worse" albums one can choose. They're so obviously trying to sound like the Beatles, that's just cringeworthy. I have nothing against pop as long as it's not
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QuoteBlueranger Maybe 'Between The Buttons' and 'Satanic' aren't their strongest albums, but they were from a time when every sound they made was important for rock and roll. By the time they reached It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, they weren't important anymore. They were an institution and have been ever since. WITH great albums, mind you, but their prime w
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