It's a pretty great record.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
It's one of those unique popular Classic Rock albums that didn't get run into the ground by radio.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
True. "Tumbling Dice" accounts for 80% of airplay, "Happy" for the other 20%. I've never heard a single other song on the radio.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:32 (five years ago) link
I still need a physical copy of the mid 90s Virgin reissue, which to my ears remains the best sounding version.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
I owned it on cassette for many years, and it sounded wonderful, especially in the car.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
Tom Waits, in an interview i read from the late 80s this week, said he quite fancied doing a cover of I Just Want To See His Face.
― piscesx, Saturday, March 3, 2018
that song and production invented Rain Dogs.
I owned it on 8-Track for a while...
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link
It's a good record indeed, but I'd still reach for Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Goats Head Soup, Some Girls and even Tattoo You over it.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
I’m always thrown by “Rocks Off” when the horns come in... like, where were the horn players hiding in this grungy cave? lol
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link
Their most consistent album
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:57 (five years ago) link
Minus Let It Bleed maybe
I suppose I don't have much time for 'Casino Boogie', 'Turd on the Run' and 'I Just Want to See His Face', but everything else is good to great. I don't know why I don't feel like digging it out more often.
The entrance of the horns on 'Rocks Off' is such a great moment.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
So many good things in "Casino Boogie": the slide, the epicene Keef harmonies, Charlie on the hi-hat for the outro, "Judge and jury/walkin' hand in hand."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
and the best bobby keys sax solo
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:08 (five years ago) link
You can tell the Decca era was over. Somehow I don't think they would have allowed 'em to put "Kissing cunt in Cannes" in the lyrics, let alone the direct references to cocaine, morphine, needles and spoons on Sticky Fingers ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
there was a song on sticky fingers called 'sister morphine'
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
That's exactly what I mean.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 01:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I dunno. I think its inconsistency is very much of a piece with other classic "inconsistent" albums, from the White Album to Sandinista!, where the (relative) ups and downs are more than the sum of their parts. It's also maybe a reason why it's less overexposed, since it's not some monolithic slab of radio staples but more of a mysterious beast that evinces more surprises with every listen. And I don't mean inconsistent as in some stuff is better than others, more that sonically it's kind of all over the place.
Sticky Fingers, fwiw, is probably the most consistent, imo. Of the classic albums of the era, I'd say Beggars Banquet is the most inconsistent.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
It’s gonna be the death of maaay
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 09:00 (five years ago) link
this is maybe my favourite record when i'm listening to it, everything about it screams to me. it's funny how Pussy Galore's version, which is fine, is no more scabrous, inspired, fucked up, story of yr life than the original. the *sound* of the thing, that thick, trebly reverie. tbh this shd've been the end of rock music.
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
Agreed. It's consistent in the way a whirlwind of scum feels consistent when you're caught up in it.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 10:38 (five years ago) link
The way "All Down the Line" seems to summarize everything that's already happened, then up the momentum.
I think about this description a lot
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
Speaking of which, I've been meaning to go though their entire discography in chronological order for a while now. I might as well get around to it.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 11:45 (five years ago) link
The demos for this album are so great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJcDdLB_DLs
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
Side 4 feels different, sonically. It demurks a bit, sounds like an encore or a victory lap. I like that, now, but there were times when i felt like "Let It Loose" should be the climax.
(It is, sort of.)
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:30 (five years ago) link
i love side 3 so much, everything falls apart and more
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
come on, shine a light is the real climax.
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
Xp Yeah, 3 is an epic of its own
Don't get me wrong i love the whole album and listening again this morning there's something about the way the clouds part on 4 that's great but
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link
Side 2 > Side 4 > Side 3 > Side 1.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
i'd switch side 3 and 4, but otherwise, i can agree with that ranking
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
3 > 2 > 4 > 1 for me.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
1 is brilliant, this is crazy talk
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
On ILM tbf
I mean in reality it's closer to 1 = 2 = 3 = 4.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
That's more like it.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:02 (five years ago) link
Well, yeag
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
YEAH
Aet hierarchies are bollocks, twist my arm it's 1-3-2-4 but
― The Gapes of Wrath (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
Don't matter where you areEverybody's gonna need a ventilator
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
3>4>2>1
Just Want to See His Face > Let It Loose is my favorite 8 minutes by them.
― The Mod Who Banned Liberty Valance (WmC), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
absolutely agree
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 April 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
i love the end of "all down the line." best fade ever, mick trying to scream the song back into existence.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 23:50 (five years ago) link
and "loving cup," man, still a mystery how it gets from point a to point b. there's a point early on where keith's rhythm anticipates the horn charts. i think that's the key.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 17 April 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
I think the key to the whole thing is the breakdown in Rocks Off, when it goes from a huge horny riff monster into this strange amorphous druggy off-kilter psychedelic thing. A tip off.Another oddity: Charlie is not playing drums on either of the best known radio songs!Also something I just got: is the album title a drug reference?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
That's my favourite part of 'Rocks Off' - I love the sheer sickness of Jagger's croaky vocal. You can still hear the drumming buried very quietly in the mix.
The general narrative goes that the Stones were crap at psychedelia and stopped being psychedelic after Their Satantic Majesties' Request, but I personally love The Stones' take on psychedelia and they nodded to that area of their sound every now and then. 'Can You Hear the Music?' on Goats Head Soup is another one.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 00:29 (five years ago) link
There's something hinky happening in there, in "Rocks Off," because while the drums quietly play along in 4/4 I think the guitar goes into something like 6/8 against it. Gives it that queasy vibe.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
Charlie is not playing drums on either of the best known radio songs!
Charlie is on the first part of "Tumbling Dice". Jimmy Miller stepped in for the coda.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 April 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 7:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one of those rare stopped clock turrican posts
― budo jeru, Thursday, 18 April 2019 04:52 (five years ago) link
I'm not sure I need to listen to more Stones at this point but my favourite album by them and the only one I would still want to listen to is Exile.Especially on a hot summer holidays evening !There are some great extra tracks on the deluxe version of the album (I made myself a playlist with these : "Exile on... Backstreet" !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 18 April 2019 09:02 (five years ago) link