Keith's harmonies on that were A+
I love him.
I'm kinda mad at myself for not voting for Dead Flowers now. WHOSE DUMB IDEA WAS IT TO ONLY VOTE FOR 20 SONGS.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
saxophone mullet keeps fucking me up. not the playing, which is fine, just the hair.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
WHOSE DUMB IDEA WAS IT TO ONLY VOTE FOR 20 SONGS.
yeah, for this poll, just 20 songs seems criminal. would have been much satisfied w 40. my top 40 is unfwable.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
saxophone mullet = Bobby Keys = bow down
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know this, as if he needed to be awesomer (from Keys wikipedia entry) Other recordings made by Keys was the baritone saxophone on Elvis Presley's "Return to Sender", and on John Lennon's first American solo #1 single hit (and the only US #1 in Lennon's lifetime) "Whatever Gets You thru the Night".
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
xp lol, i shoulda guessed. know his playing, but not his growth.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
could you ask for a better 'selective discography'?
The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Goats Head Soup, Emotional Rescue, Stripped Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen George Harrison: All Things Must Pass John Lennon: Some Time in New York City, Walls and Bridges, Rock 'n' Roll Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap, Live at the Hollywood Palladium Ringo Starr: Ringo, Goodnight Vienna Ronnie Wood: 1234, Gimme Some Neck, Mahoney's Last Stand B.B. King: B. B. King in London Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand Carly Simon: No Secrets, Hotcakes Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll Delaney, Bonnie & Friends: On Tour with Eric Clapton Donovan: Cosmic Wheels Dr. John: The Sun, Moon & Herbs Eric Clapton: Eric Clapton Faces: Long Player Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson, Son of Schmilsson, Pussy Cats, Duit on Mon Dei Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon Humble Pie: Rock On Joe Ely: Lord of the Highway John Hiatt: Beneath This Gruff Exterior Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle Keith Moon: Two Sides of the Moon Leo Sayer: Endless Flight Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping John Lennon and Paul McCartney: A Toot and a Snore in '74 John Lennon: Whatever Gets You thru the Night Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On (deluxe edition) Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions Yoko Ono: Fly Jim Carroll: Catholic Boy
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago) link
"midnight rambler" guitar solo is BADASS, but whoever's in charge of video editing here needs to be taken out back behind the shed and instructed in the proper way to be
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
Jim Carroll: Catholic Boy
you could not ask for a better "selective selective discography"
but HOLY FUCK, bow down, etc.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
agreed about the video editing. they do it a couple of times during key awesome jamouts and it's like raaagggh wtf are you doing
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
Doesn't Start Me Up automatically place on the most hated list? I was in high school when it came out. It was a defining song - if you loved it, you couldn't be a real Stones fan. For years we laughed when the DJ said he was going to play some classic Stones and put on Start Me Up. Too plastic and shiny. The riff was an cheap high when we knew they were capable of Brown Sugar. And the lyrics. After absorbing the murk of Live With Me, Shattered and Stray Cat Blues, Start Me Up just seemed like a joke. Guess I better send in my hated songs ballot.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
i was 14 & jr. high, thus not properly schooled in the ways of the HS world. i dug "start me up" and still feel a faded echo of the initial attraction, despite the shinyness, despite years of hideous flogging abuse by bill gates and his corpse buddies.
plus VG otm, that hyde park "bitch" fucking RIPS
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:21 (twelve years ago) link
<3<3<3 "brown CHOOGAH"
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
mick fucking taylor, ftr
that may be the best version of "brown sugar" i've ever heard
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 06:25 (twelve years ago) link
"Dead Flowers" was high on my ballot. Overall, Sticky Fingers is my least favourite of the Hopkins/Taylor four-album run, but it produced two of my top five. (The other being the most obvious one.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
Will rep for Sister Morphine and Moonlight Mile
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:21 (twelve years ago) link
Sticky Fingers is not among my favorites but Brown Sugar and Moonlight Mile are the biggest songs ever
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
Contenderizer had a good post last night on the comedy-poll thread delineating the difference between Taxi Driver and Tarantino's films in terms of comedy and tone. (I was being a little disingenuous when I asked where the line should be drawn; I think I was trying to force someone to articulate clearly the difference.) I'd draw the same distinction between "Far Away Eyes" and "Dead Flowers." "Far Away Eyes" is just straight laughs for me--it's a nice song, and I like it, but its appeal begins and ends with the broad parody. Jagger slips into the same voice on "Dead Flowers" (less broad, which is one advantage), but I consider it a much darker, more vivid song. Even though I know that "I'll be in my basement room/with a needle and a spoon/and another girl to the pain away" is, in itself, a bit of a caricature of the Rolling Stones' image circa 1971, the line, and the whole song, actually does encapsulate why they seemed so mysterious and grown-up to me when I discovered them around that time.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed. Jagger's injection of humor into "Dead Flowers" makes it more moving
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
Jagger may have been taking the piss out of Gram Parsons a bit, too; supposedly, he was acutely jealous of Parsons' friendship with Keith.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
The "so I ran 20 red lights in your honor, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord" line makes me laugh every time
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
Unexpectedly fallen in love with ... Dance (pt I) from Emotional Rescue
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
KEEFWHATCHOOWHATCHOO DOIN
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
Was listening to Sticky Fingers in the car on the way into work this morning - 'Dead Flowers' really is a perfect singing at the top of your lungs song.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
also vv easy and fun to play
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Made a couple of last minute changes and sent my ballot. The deed is done!
― Whiney Houson (WmC), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Unexpectedly fallen in love with ... Dance (pt I) from Emotional Rescue"
Try listening to Led Zep's "Trampled Under Foot" while watching an episode of Welcome Back Kotter. Same thing! (Guess what song made my most hated list?)
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Trampled Underfoot was exactly what I was thinking. There are a few other yacht rock type influences buried in there too though, it's a smoother listen than Zep.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Dance has an awesome groove but a) the vocals sound like they were recorded via a sewer drain across the street from the studio and b) Kieth's voice is a little, 'yeesh'.
It's not quite right. But almost great.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
The vocals are awesome! I love that kind of slurry shoutalong. I cannot imagine hearing it in a club though - was supposedly a big dance hit at the time.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
could you ask for a better 'selective discography'?...Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap
Love this record so much. I still say it's by far the best Stones record of the 80s. The caliber of guest musicians is ridiculous: Bobby Keys, sure, but also Mick Taylor...and Johnnie Johnson! Maceo Parker! Bootsy Collins! Sarah Dash!
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
i love "dead flowers" and am starting to feel like a bozo for leaving it off my ballot. i couldn't get it out of my head as i fell asleep last night, and VG otm: it's one of the best "sing along at the top of your lungs" songs ever, fake haccent and all. i mean, i'm sure it'll do just fine w/o my vote cuz you people seem p sharp, but i'm nevertheless experiencing a twinge of voter's regret.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
need to hear talk is cheap, i guess. never have.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
Jagger slips into the same voice on "Dead Flowers" (less broad, which is one advantage), but I consider it a much darker, more vivid song. Even though I know that "I'll be in my basement room/with a needle and a spoon/and another girl to the pain away" is, in itself, a bit of a caricature of the Rolling Stones' image circa 1971, the line, and the whole song, actually does encapsulate why they seemed so mysterious and grown-up to me when I discovered them around that time.
just gonna come out and say it - this will be my #1 and is really the only ballot entry I'm certain of. I like to envision it as a song Jagger is singing to his future self.
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Did you ever see the Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Horrible isn't it? ... oh no, don't saw off me leg, don't saw off me arm
This is awesome!
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
It's only been mentioned once so far, but for me this stands alongside "I Am Waiting" as their prettiest song ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkm1efUhGJ4
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
The lyrics, not so much LOL
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
one of the their best but pretty is a wrong word.
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost Tarfumes otm: Talk is Cheap is great! Love it. Took me a while to get used to Keith's singing just bc the sound is still kinda Stones and you're waiting for Mick, but once you get over that, damn it's good stuff.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
re "backstreet girl": a sad & bitter little song, but undeniably lovely
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
was there a single from Talk is Cheap? i think i remember liking it when it came out.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
Take It So Hard was the single
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
xp At the time, I preferred Keith's singing to Mick's. But that was mainly because Mick had just put out those two crappy solo records ("Let's Work" was on MTV far more frequently than it had any right to be, which is to say, more than once), and the way he sang "competition" in "Winning Ugly" made me think, that guy there, if he doesn't stop it, man...
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
I hadn't even thought about the lyrics--the music is so perfect for me, I don't think I've ever given them a thought.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
the way he sang "competition" in "Winning Ugly" made me think, that guy there, if he doesn't stop it, man...
haha we won't agree will we?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda wish Keith had done an earlier solo album, because his voice was so much brighter...by the time Talk is Cheap came around he's sounding a little more ragged than I'd like.
but I still love him.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
xp I actually like that song now, but some of Jagger's 80s vocal quirks make me cringe.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Where's the Hyde Park "Bitch" youtube?
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
scroll up; it's the whole show
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link