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
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), 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
Exile is my favourite, though I've never listened to any Stones album beyond Goat's Head Soup, an album that does not thrill me too much tbh. I'm not much of a Stones fan, I suppose.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2019 09:27 (five years ago) link
You're not missing much, but Some Girls is really good, and some tracks on Tattoo You and Bridges to Babylon and stuff are good, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 April 2019 11:52 (five years ago) link
not to mention Out of Our Heads, Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed....
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
.. I did say after Goat's Head Soup.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:01 (five years ago) link
I know, but too often we -- I include myself -- forget they had an exemplary pop career before 1971.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:02 (five years ago) link
after 1971 you need Some Girls and Emotional Rescue, maybe Tattoo You, definitely Dirty Work.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:03 (five years ago) link
I don't forget any of that stuff, simply because I was familiar with the '60s Decca singles long before I heard Sticky Fingers or Exile on Main St. in full, but I agree that it often feels that American rock critics bizarrely overlook a lot of the Stones' 1963-1967 work.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
dirty work?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
After '73, you need Some Girls, Tattoo You, and a compilation of selected highlights from the other albums (bar Emotional Rescue, which has none) from 1974-1980.
The Stones were pretty much done after Tattoo You, but A Bigger Bang is a worthy late career record.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
Dirty Work is a much better record than its reputation or its horrendous sleeve would have you believe, but it's still nowhere near prime Stones.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
I've heard it, it's ok
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 April 2019 12:29 (five years ago) link
bar Emotional Rescue, which has none)
"Summer Romance," "Let Me Go," "Dance Pt. 1," "All About You," and "Where the Boys Go" beg to differ. All would've fit in beautifully on SG, most benefit from Jagger on third guitar.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
Why isn’t it called “Exile on High Street”? Dudes are British...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 18 April 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
Well, they were exiled from Britain when they were making the record
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
Exile on Rue Principale
― pplains, Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
"Exile on the High Street", to be properly Britishes.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
They were too rebellious to pay taxes is it!
― commercial showing hitler munching cookies and chanting "I love Rasha" (calzino), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
almost unthikable that the stones would use an american idiom right enough
― Boris Bronfentrinker of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
There's also a cultural appropriation issue (among many others) imo.These guys wouldn't survive 5min in today's context !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
Sorry that is just how i feel
― After Cease to Brexist (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 April 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link