More music that sounds like "Waiting on a Friend" by the Rolling Stones

Can't stop listening to this lately. Own no Rolling Stones albums and never really liked them much.

The actual SOUND of this tune is amazing. It's as good a 7am tune as Xtal.

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Something made me think of this song a few weekends ago. I'm not much of a Stones fan, but it's great.

Is there, like, an album of Brazilian smooth jazz?

Closest I can think right now mood-wise is balearic kind of stuff. Perhaps Studio?

Rubies - Room without a key (studio remix)
Studio - Origin (shake down the river)
Air France - Beach Party
Yves Simon - Au pays des merveilles de Juliet

http://hypem.com/track/632397/Rubies-Room+Without+A+Key+(Version+by+Studio)

http://hypem.com/track/579519/The+Studio-Origin+%28Shake+You+Down+By+The+River%29

http://hypem.com/track/632394/Air+France-Sincerely+Yours%2C+Beach+Party

Alfred to thread.

um, "Under My Thumb" ?

that one's much darker, though.

Hello.

I HEAR TELL of Air France yes, do they have an album? That track is really good. I have the Studio album.

Is the Stones album with this song on it good?

I know "Under My Thumb" and it isn't really like "Waiting On A Friend" is it?

You can go "Ch-ka ch-ka" to both...

you can't go "urrrgh I'm so drunk....what am I doing with my life, ah the sun is out, fuck it" to both

I feel like there's an old Everything But The Girl track that sounds a bit like this

I'm so drunk....
what am I doing with my life?
ah the sun is out,
fuck it,
and I miss you....
like the desert miss the rain..

shudder

try Neil Young's On the Beach or Tonight's the Night for that woozy, late night/early morning dispirited feel--assuming that's what you're looking for.

xxp

cool, thanks! that sums it up yes.

The English Beat, especially the vastly underrated album Wha'ppen.

Having recently received the reissues of the last four Replacements albums, a friend noted that lot of their later ballads have this vibe- "Kiss me on the Bus", "Aching to Be", "Little Mascara", "Merry Go Round"

Weird: I've found myself wondering this same thing many times! I think part of the problem is that when people shoot for this vibe, they always wind up making too much of it, and trying to push it somewhere -- when a lot of what makes this song terrific is the production, which is so crisp and roomy and simple. You can't, you know, strive to be that casual. I have very little love for the Stones, but this is one of a half-dozen or so songs of theirs I think are terrific.

I can think of songs that kinda have this vibe but aren't particularly great and wind up blowing it anyway (Gene's "For the Dead"), and some that approach that sense of roominess from a folkier or jazzier direction (Damon & Naomi's "On the Aventine"), but nothing that catches this combination of crisp, casual, cocky, and gritty ... what makes it particularly hard is that I'll always associate this song with the quality and light of the video for it, which seems to place it perfectly in a certain time and context that I don't think is very retrievable anymore.

Oh and: yes, I was listening to Tim recently and was actually just thinking of Replacements / Westerberg as sometimes getting at this quality.

Yeah there's something so effortless about it, and the video really plays a part. I first heard it on Irish daytime radio and I practically stopped my car, I just remember each different part and verse seeming to make it better and better.

Stuff like Studio is way more stretched and arty than this, which is sort of like a radio track, the ultimate hanging out tune or something. I keep putting this on at the end of nights out in the last few weeks of being unemployed and having too many nights out, and it's just like, me and friends sitting around thinking "yeah that was a fun night."

Also Jagger seems to kind of hold court over the track, even tho it's so lazy and loose. The lyric has that transience thing to it but the music is just so like.....careless. The saxophone is incredible, and layered so amazingly over the guitars and reverbed vocals and stuff.

I forgot about this for about 6 months but it's easily one of my favourites of all time based on a month of non stop play. I've just listened to it 5 or 6 times in a row tonight.

The most moving Stones song of the last 30 years is about man-love.

What makes Jagger's vocal so great is that it relies on the contours of hetero male affection for its force: it's sly, casual, almost lazy, and he almost can't enunciate certain syllables ("Don't need a VIIIRGIN PRIEST-AH!" for years sounded like "don't need a virgin breeze" to me).

"coyote" by joni mitchell has basically the same riff

and is also fantastic

john sebastian - welcome back

also, jeez not everything is balearic, guys

^^board description

oh what about some trash can sinatras? "earlies", "worked a miracle", maybe?

"Coyote" seconded, but it's artier and not as casual as this.

Mendocino - Sir Douglas Quintet

"Angie."

Strange, that "virgin priest" line jumped right out at me first time I heard the song back in '81. (hmm, wonder what that says about me...)

xp to Alfred

I like "Mendocino" now, thanks.

I love that people love this record too.

it's popped up on some threads recently: gerry rafferty's right down the line has some of this quality i think

Just listened to the Stones track again to double check, and I'm going to go with a lot of stuff by Luna circa Penthouse, especially Chinatown. And the sax bit on "Waiting" is very along the lines of Reed's Walk on the Wild Side.

If the Gerry Rafferty does it, don't forget "Baker Street" and "Get It Right Next Time." But those may not actually capture what you're looking for. For other Stones songs, "Angie" seconded along with "Winter" although those are a good bit more longing. As for others from Tatoo You, try "Worried About You", "Tops", or "Heaven" or from Emotional Rescue try "Indian Girl" or "Emotional Rescue."

Luna actually do a version of this song on the "Close Cover Before Striking" EP. It is pretty nice. Nobody's mentioned the Faces yet? I think that they get the drunk, mellow male bonding of this tune pretty consistently.

I've always felt Talking Heads' This Must Be The Place had a similar kind of vibe.

maybe some herb alpert?

i guess rise is a little too disco for this vibe, but rotation?

the Men Without Women LP by Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul (particularly the title track) capture this vibe perfectly...

I went out last night and played the fool
It's different when it's me and you
'Cause the things men without women do
You just don't understand

A bit of Boz Scaggs too.

Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price with Fats Domino

why not just try more country-ish Stones tunes, actually (i.e., "Sweet Virginia", "Wild Horses", "Dead Flowers", "Far Away Eyes", "Dear Doctor", etc.)? Also, '70s country-rock to thread. "Hotel California"?

Oh, and The Gilded Palace of Sin, by the Flying Burrito Bros., is probably the greatest album of this stripe ever made--well, not counting several of Neil Young's somewhat comparable, yet far darker '70s records, natch.

Played "It's Gonna Be Easy" by Doug Sahm then WOAF then Spacemen 3 "Come Down Softly To My Soul" in a set on the radio show last night and they sounded great together. I was thinking that Wire "Used To" would maybe fit in with this vibe, too, but maybe it's just a shade down-er.

The Faces - "Just Another Honky" maybe

"Wild Horses" is an obvious yes, sure, but only on one level; "Wild Horses" doesn't have, umm, groove.

I feel like there absolutely MUST be some Billy Joel from around the same era with this feel, but nothing's leaping to mind.

Ray Davies-Is There Life After Breakfast?

Billy Joel's '70s stuff is much too sappy for this kinda cold-eyed 'feel' overall, i think. maybe something he did in the '80s? Allentown? (i've never heard it myself.)

springsteen stuff from his first two albums? is that not laid-back enough?

Waylon Jennings-I've Always Been Crazy

too '50s r&b; too much breast-beating melodrama--Jagger usually plays it much cooler than that.

xp

Bowie's "Tonight" -- stoned, sad, pop-calypso.

Or the original Iggy Pop version, if you play the 45 on 33 1/3 rpm.

George Michael's "Waiting for the Day"

The B-52's "Ain't It a Shame."

i really hate to say this, but the eagles' "one of these nights" gave me this feeling on the drive into work today.

"Coyote", the opening track on Joni Mitchell's "Hejira" has some of the same guitar sounds. I am not claiming it does really sound much like "Waiting On a Friend" otherwise though.

Is Any Major Dude Will Tell You by Steely Dan the sort of vibe you're going for here?

coney island baby - lou reed
has got this vibe

maybe, maybe not. the whole album has a New York vibe.

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