ugh I hate Black and Blue. I can't get with it at all.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah! It's Only Another Bad Mid Seventies Stones Album is far worse
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Oh yeah, I forgot there are a few normal songs on Metamorphosis--I was thinking all it had on it was those weird Phil Spector-ish covers. My mistake. Black and Blue on the other hand is a very good record. If you're gonna pick on 70s Stones, try Only Rock and Roll...that's a true stinker!
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
defend something actually indefensible, like Black and Blue
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, March 30, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKH9enYiFIU
qed
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
The only song I don't like at all on BnB is Melody
The thing I love about Keef is he's always down for a chat. Even if he's been asked the same question a thousand times, he gives a new rambly answer. He loves to tell a story. And he doesn't take himself terribly seriously, which makes me like him all the more.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I thought we all agreed that "Hand of Fate," "Crazy Mama," and "Memory Motel" were good songs.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Crazy Mama's not all that, but the other two are terrific
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Is there anyone out there but me who likes Fool to Cry?
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Hand of Fate reminds me a little of Bruce, it's not HORRIBLE....but every song on that album, they sound like they're dead inside. Everything's sorta flat, and kinda bored sounding to me. Like, ugh let's just get this over with, throwing out a steak to the barking dogs kinda thing.
Maybe it's just me.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'm the first person to HATE being called darling/sweetheart etc and I hate it when old aging rockstars do it to female interviewers but Keef might be the only person on earth who can do that to Terry Gross and get a pleasant, happy laugh in response. Which proves there is a world of difference between Gene Simmons and Keef.
when Keef calls you "darlin" you hear his affection and he's actually listening you ("No one's ever divorced ME!" he once cracked). When it's Gene Simmons calling you "darling" he wants you to notice that none of that women's lib crap made a fuck's worth of difference on his dick size.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i just barely cut "Memory Motel" from my ballot
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
'I Don't Know Why' is fantastic btw. I'd never've found it without that tipoff - lord knows how much stuff I'll never hear.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
I do but it's one of those outliers like "Undercover of the Night" -- they never approached that sound again, y'know?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
ooh
when I said every song I meant every song except Fool To Cry
my brain thinks it's from a different album bc I like that one
(hides)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
btw I've been in love for years with Mick and Keef's terrible keyboard work on "Memory Motel." It makes the song.
Fool To Cry was a very late cut for me, sad to see it go.
― grandavis, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost eisbaer otm. Gene uses those epithets as some kind of weapon to get a reaction. Keef's affection always seems legit.
I would like Keef to call me darlin.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
i know people of taste who really dig "fool to cry." i'm not one of them but.
would take "worried about you" over "fool to cry" or "memory motel" without hesitation.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I Don't Know Why was written by Stevie Wonder, correct? Or did he just cover it too? Anyway, if you know Stevie Wonder's version, I prefer it to the Stones' (xp)Yeah, that's true about Fool to Cry--sort of a one off, but I like it alot
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
'I Don't Know Why' was what they were recording on the night Brian Jones died, it says here.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgwj6HZ04po
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, it's a Stevie Wonder tune. I love Stevie's version (it was way up on my Stevie ballot), and I'm glad I heard it first. But the Stones version has more drama. And it has Mick Taylor.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
no, i fucking love that song. better than "hand of fate" even. was the last thing i cut from my ballot :.......(
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
i love Stones R&B covers, wanted to vote for "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" and "Just My Imagination" but it seemed simpler and wiser to stick with originals
― Eisbaerg Slim (some dude), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
btw Undercover is not a fab album but "All the Way Down" is a good tune
― Euler, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I voted for Fool To Cry. Placed it pretty low, but it's such a lovely melody.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
TOO MUCH TOO MUCH BLOOD
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
spoken word part is hilarious & the video is all time for sure
― Euler, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.schlockmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA-tmblood-RS-01.jpg
NEVER FORGET
I was going to say I placed "Memory Motel" at the bottom of my ballot but I haven't submitted it yet.
"Memory Motel" is so strong that even the version with Dave Matthews in 1998 has Keith in great voice (the crowd goes apeshit too).
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
xpost eeegah
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
There are so many gems on these late albums though. If I ever host a dinner party I'm going to put my ballot on a CD to confuse guests - there'll be this amazing soundtrack that sounds like the Stones tearing through Stones classics, but nobody's ever heard any of them.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, March 30, 2012 1:14 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you should post a few tubes, IK, like other posters who've been trying to proselytize for the underappreciated (!voteforchildofthemoonnow!). i say this cuz i don't really know the post-undercover stuff at all at all. i only know that i don't like any of the later singles and have had no luck listening to random tracks.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Try this one, contenderizer. It's not major but I love its groove:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVEGu776Og
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2pkO-CBiyA
it would feel perverse to vote for "Continental Drift" but I dig it lots
― Euler, Friday, 30 March 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
this is a REALLY killer ballad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50YVcEZM68
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Laugh I Nearly Died is pretty good, I really liked Bigger Bang a lot.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
and you can find most of these albums for a couple cents on Amazon.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqbmgsuHcYY
This is pretty great imo - as good as anything hair metal was putting out at the time. That sounds like a backhanded compliment, but it's not, except maybe insofar as you should be able to spot the Stones in Bruce, but not the other way round.
It was a single, but a totally failed one. I'm deliberately not posting the video btw.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
surprised how many people saying how sucky IOR'n'R is...i only slightly disagree but GHS is greater suck!
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
One Hit to the Body --- god I forgot about that. I remember digging that one as a kid.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
thanks, all (but don't let that stop you from posting more). will check these when i get home. "one hit" didn't do much for me at the time, but maybe i'll like it more now.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
GHS is brilliant, or at least half of it is, though i don't expect any of you to understand
[lights clove cigarette]
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
GHS is really good. Angie, Winter AND Star Star on there. I mean, come on.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7r0SBb14SQ
I'm generally not a fan of Keith songs, but this one is very charming
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
(I'm assuming it's a Keith number, but possibly Jagger smoked a pound of Tarmac before stepping up to the mic)
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
Dirty Work has "One Hit," "Hold Back," "Winning Ugly," and my favorite Keef ballad, "Sleep Tonight."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
it is, Ismael.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
why is "doot doot (heartbreaker)" so bad and hated? all-time for the keyboard work alone.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
I love it, personally, it's such a groove. I pissed myself laughing when I found a live bootleg where Mick introduces it, talking really fast, as 'this one's called ... Doo-Doo-Doo Doo-Doo'
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 30 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link