― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Wednesday, 7 May 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
"Mixed Emotions" kicks "Love is Strong"s ass
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
Anyway, the guitars are really buzzy and dirty, and I like the wheezy backing vox.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 21:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link
And if that was 78, than I'll go with She's So Cold.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 8 May 2003 00:53 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 8 May 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 9 May 2003 09:30 (twenty years ago) link
― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Friday, 9 May 2003 12:50 (twenty years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyhow, "Start Me Up."
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
OPO Rolling Stones: One Hit To The Body -- kornrulez6969 (TCBein...), August 24th, 2005 2:00 PM.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link
also "Thru and Thru" is just awesome.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Hunter, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― bh, Friday, 21 October 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
"Saint Of Me" is awesome. Keef's fills are just filthy. But it's 1997. Yup, it's been all downhill for these guys since Bridges To Babylon...
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 21 October 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
'Undercover of the Night' has just pushed the period I'd consider classic Stones out beyond 1978 for the first time. The world is suddenly alive with new possibilities, a bit like when the bridges became unblocked in Vice City.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 30 July 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait till you get to the brilliance of Dirty Work.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"Start Me Up" becomes my very obvious and boring pic here, but the era has also seen other good cuts. Most notably the singles from the ""Steel Wheels" album.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/DirtyworkRS.jpg/200px-DirtyworkRS.jpgthat sleeve isn't a good start
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
"Start Me Up" is clearly a Stones classic.― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, May 7, 2003 8:01 PM (6 years ago)Apart from my (pretty obvious) choice...― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, May 8, 2003 12:08 AM (6 years ago)"Start Me Up" becomes my very obvious and boring pic here...― Geir Hongro, Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:16 PM (5 minutes ago)
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 30 July 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Good on Earl for recognizing "It Must Be Hell".
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 July 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
'Sparks Will Fly'
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 14 July 2018 23:12 (five years ago) link
If I was to choose one album of theirs from the post-Some Girls period, then I'd choose A Bigger Bang just over Tattoo You.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 15 July 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
I'm listening to Steel Wheels now (after running thru most of the other '70s & '80s albums). It's good! I bought the tape when it came out, but haven't heard the album in the intervening 30 yrs. (I don't recall what 13-yr-old me thought of the line, "I'm horny as a hog").
These are quality songs; the band sounds tight & focused; the production and songwriting are big and "commercial" in a pleasing, late-'80s way...
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
A goddamn lot of filler. The singles and "Slipping Away" and mayyyyybe "Terrifying," where they get a solid groove going in the outro.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
"Almost Hear You Sigh" has some cool chord changes.
I thought it would be kinda embarrassing "suburban dads jamming in the rec room" rock, and I guess to a degree it is, but these songs are tight and hard, with solid riffs and playing that's "pro-level" without sounding too faceless & slick
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
Some nicely "sensitive" moments, too -- like "Never Hear You Sigh" and "Slipping Away"
(I concede that "Continental Drift" and "Break the Spell" are filler)
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Thursday, 24 October 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
Still making my way thru their catalog... I didn't realize these guys' songs could be so cartoonish/horny/corny!
The lyrix of earlier songs like "Some Girls" and "Little T&A" seem to represent a sort of, er, "sexist" nadir... happily, by the time you get to Voodoo Lounge, Mick is more good-naturedly kicking off the album with:
Your love is strong, and you're so sweetYou make me hard, you make me weak
...and a few tracks later:
Ooh, I wanna f@#$ your sweet a$$
!!!!
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
TS: "She's So Cold" vs. "She Was Hot"
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
"Waiting on a Friend" by a mile― James Blount (James Blount)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 25 November 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
That's a great song, but even it has dodgy lyrics... "Bros before (literal) Ho's!"
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
(I'm not trying to "cancel" the Stones, btw -- I just didn't realize their lyrics were frequently so ridiculous)
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Monday, 25 November 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
right now i'm vibing to WINTER
― brimstead, Monday, 25 November 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
LOL OOPS WRONG STONES THREAD
xxxp I think it is deliberately perverse to read the lyric of WoaF as "bros before hos"
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 25 November 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
Wanting to fuck a sweet ass is not sexist.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
what if the ass were Jagger's?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:03 (four years ago) link
Yeah that’s not sexist, just horny/corny!
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
(There are a few different categories at work here, sorry I didn’t make that more clear)
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
(“Dirty Work”)
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
for some loser for some jerkfor some dumbassyeah
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
There’s a noticeable dropoff at Bridges to Babylon (including to Mick’s voice, but I know that happens)... do that and A Bigger Bang have their fans?Anyway, I’m pleased to discover how good they remained on record, into the ‘90s (and beyond?). Tattoo You is the only post-‘78 album that I love all the way through — but man, you could put together one hell of a 2CD comp of choice cuts from the others.
― FODMAP of the reef (morrisp), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
I haven't kept up with / saw no reason to keep up with post-'78 Stones, but I listened to A Bigger Bang a couple of times and was extremely surprised at how decent it was. With past Stones records, when the singles were rolled out (with the requisite hype), I just thought, meh, more dull-ass Stones shit; if "Harlem Shuffle" or "Has Anybody Seen My Baby?" is the lead single, there's little hope for anything great lurking elsewhere on the record. But "Rough Justice" and "Streets of Love" are...good. Very good, even.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Like a lot of Classic Rockers, the Stones had problems with CD Bloat. There's decent vinyl-length albums hidden in much of their later work.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 26 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
Really good piece!: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-rolling-stones-tattoo-you/
― Soy Bean False Chicken (morrisp), Monday, 2 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
wow, "Heaven" might be a contender here, thank u shuffle play
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Saturday, 1 January 2022 06:33 (two years ago) link