POO: Rolling Stones post-1978

Anyhow, "Start Me Up."

OPO Rolling Stones: One Hit To The Body
-- kornrulez6969 (TCBein...), August 24th, 2005 2:00 PM.

also "Thru and Thru" is just awesome.

"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...

'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.

Wait till you get to the brilliance of Dirty Work.

"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.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/be/DirtyworkRS.jpg/200px-DirtyworkRS.jpg
that sleeve isn't a good start

"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)

a bit like when the bridges became unblocked in Vice City.

You don't know how often I use this as a metaphor IRL.

(Example: Realizing that Shift+Enter makes a single-space line in my HTML editor.)

Now I know the glow of recognition that public-school types get from citing the classics at one another.

btw I was NOT being sarcastic re Dirty Work.

"Rough Justice"

Noted xp. This is excellent news. The one time I saw the Stones there was tangible audience deflation any time they ventured beyond about 1973. Hopefully now I can slay the memory of seeing Jagger attempt to lead a singalong to 'Saint of Me'.

Really? He said recently that "Saint of Me" is the one of the few modern songs they have to play live because the response is so extraordinary.

I do quite like it, but it did not get much of a response that night. I think it was current at the time, so audiences may be more familiar now.

High Wire. Another great one is Don't Tear Me Up, the Mick Jagger solo song.

That whole album is pretty good.

Oh I think Mixed Emotions is the song I would go with. I remember hearing it on radio ads for the album and thinking that the Rolling Stones were back, but that didn't last very long.

I thought 78 was cheating so I went post-Tattoo You

i proudly(?) present a new award winning spotify playlist

Dirty Work: Best of Post-Tattoo You Rolling Stones

http://open.spotify.com/user/matthelgeson/playlist/6f4mxlNBAf7Qvqp2YawE18

Nice! Coincidental too, for "Slipping Away" finally hit me good last weekend.

haha i wondered what you'd think, i figured i might be light on undercover and dirty work for you

it was funny though, bridges to babylon ended up being the one that held up the worst by a mile, and i thought that was well received at the time

Undercover bores me tbh.

"Wanna Hold You" is my least favorite Keef of the period.

ah i thought that was ok

though in general keith in this whole era really seems to thrive on more gentle ballads

"Sleep Tonight" is my favorite Keith ballad, period.

Here is a track list from a road CDR-74 'Hot Rocks' that I made with tracks from 'Emotional Rescue' through 'Bridges to Babylon'. I thought it flowed pretty well and does show you could make a good long compilation of the Stones records that people think kinda suck.

She's So Cold
Emotional Rescue
Down in the Hole
Undercover of the Night
It Must Be Hell
Too Much Blood
Dirty Work
Sad Sad Sad
Mixed Emotions
Almost Hear You Sigh
Love Is Strong
The Worst
Brand New Car
Out of Control
Saint of Me
How Can I Stop

Couple takeaways:

Some of these later dance production numbers the Stones did work, the incorporated modern production stuff did blend quite well with the Stones grime. (probably Jagger tunes?)

Their most touching music is the ballads or low key tunes. In this stuff Jagger/Richards seems to be trying to catch that old soul vibe. Some of these tunes have had legs as other people have picked them up over the years, which is impressive. (probably Richards tunes? Obviously a few are as Keith sings them too.)

Alfred posted a similar list on his blog recently. stuck it in a spotify playlist - it slays

Yeah, I read that one too. There are other tunes too, they did a few weird kinda 'psych' tunes too on some of the later albums too. You could definitely compile some play lists based upon style a few different ways.

The reunited Allman Brothers did not do all that many studio albums (really only four), but the ones they did are better than you might think. I'm going to work on making a CDR74 of those tunes next.

No "Summer Romance," no cred!

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/you-trying-to-get-an-a-pass-best-rolling-stones-songs-1978-2005/

You could probably toss out one of the rockers on my list and put it back in. I'd probably cut 'Mixed Emotions' to put it in.

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.

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.

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.

Really good piece!: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-rolling-stones-tattoo-you/

wow, "Heaven" might be a contender here, thank u shuffle play