Fucking Sway though
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 August 2021 03:02 (two years ago) link
dead flowers is one of the greatest songs ever. the country twang is ridiculously fake, but "you know i could never be alone" is heartbreakingly real.
― treeship., Sunday, 29 August 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
I love it, definitely the best of "Nick Jagger's Great Adventures in Fake Southern Accents"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 August 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
I'm in the minority but I like the Santana part of Can't You Hear Me Knocking!
It's great!
― Taliban! (PBKR), Sunday, 29 August 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
BOBBY KEYS!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 29 August 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link
IN MAH RAGGED.COMP-AH-NEE
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 August 2021 03:46 (two years ago) link
the whole album for me is “barefoot at midnight, drinking coffee mugs of red wine & smoking cigarettes” & pulling it apart track by track def bums me out more than a little its not just songs, its a ~mood~
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 August 2021 05:24 (two years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, August 28, 2021 10:01 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
i’m pretty sure you’re not in the minority here!
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Sunday, 29 August 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Mick Taylor rules.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 August 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link
I especially like when Prince borrowed it or did something similar in “I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.”
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 August 2021 12:09 (two years ago) link
Incredible contrast to the bouncy New Wave regular part.
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 August 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
Maybe he heard it once before that famous stage-booing incident.
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 August 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link
i sort of live for that little blown note in the can't you hear me knockin' guitar solo. which he then makes up for by doubling down on the phrase and turning it into something good. kudos for them leaving that in.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 29 August 2021 13:43 (two years ago) link
"Knockin'" was a highlight of the last time I saw them. Iirc Ron had recently stopped drinking again, and he was sharper and more alive than he'd been in years. He took the solo, and he absolutely nailed it.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 August 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
Someone should've written a song called "He Recently Stopped Drinking (Again)" for George Jones.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 August 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Sounds a wee bit more like a Gary Stewart song, but yeah.
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 August 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
the Knockin solo is a good one to learn if you’re a beginner player. Tasty, restrained, full of pretty standard hot licks
― calstars, Sunday, 29 August 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
Sway sounds like it was recorded at about 10 am after a quick breakfast of toast, OJ, and coke
― calstars, Sunday, 29 August 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 August 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
ha for real, it’s an ultimate hangover song yeah?
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 August 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
That rhythm guitar pounds away at ya
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 August 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
hard to think of a more perfect "songwriter tells you who they are" lyric than
Ain't flinging tears out on the dusty groundFor all my friends out on the burial groundCan't stand the feeling getting so brought down
One of the things I find honestly pretty relatable about Jagger in this era is the way he's so clearly upset by the way his friends keep getting addicted to heroin and/or dying, but he's also someone with limited emotional bandwidth for dealing with this shit so at a certain point it stops registering as grief and just comes across as irritation.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 30 August 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
that is SO well ptu
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 August 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
"put" too
Brown Sugar is such a jam, but I've always had some trouble with the lyrics, and recently playing/singing it with some friends we kind of had this simultaneous realization that we just did not feel good at all belting out stuff like "sold in a market down in New Orleans." And I think it's kind of dead for me now, unfortunately.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 30 August 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
xp good insight, lily
― treeship., Monday, 30 August 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
You see that ambivalence too in something like "Heartbreaker", too, Jagger's outraged but there's a coldness about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 30 August 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
well ptu is the new grebt
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
Writing a song about police brutality and child drug addicts and then titling it "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo"; mixed messaging.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
"ACAB ACAB ACAB" doesn't sing as well.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
Dead FlowersMoonlight MileSwayCan't You Hear Me KnockingWild HorsesI Got The BluesBrown SugarBitchSister MorphineYou Gotta Move
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N0A2b7nbdMLive Hot Bitch I guess Keith played lead on this track
― calstars, Saturday, 4 September 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link
morphine and wild horses are the two I’d probably toss. like I get why WH is a hit and central to RS “lore” (or whatever—Gram, etc) but yeah, those two I skip past. I’d add I Got the Blues to that list but I saw em do it live in ‘99 and it was pretty cool.
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 4 September 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
Bitch is the most Memphis shit
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 4 September 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
like ‘02 Jack Oblivian doing a session at ‘68 Stax
― caddy lac brougham? (will), Saturday, 4 September 2021 02:39 (two years ago) link
Can't You Hear Me Knocking is one of Charlie's true moments of absolute drumming genius. The one-bar-late change is absolute godhead, and nobody knew when do to it like Charlie knew.
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Saturday, 4 September 2021 04:11 (two years ago) link
That Bitch live clip, wow. What a fucking band
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 September 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
Yeah, makes me not rmde at the "Greatest R&R Band" stuff.
― Taliban! (PBKR), Saturday, 4 September 2021 10:49 (two years ago) link
the only reason to skip wild horses is bc you already know it completely in your bones.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 10 September 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
it was randomly playing on shuffle the night we drove home after my father in law passed away three years ago & now i cry every time i hear it
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 September 2021 04:33 (two years ago) link
;_;
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 10 September 2021 04:35 (two years ago) link
sorry for bringing you down VG
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 10 September 2021 04:41 (two years ago) link
not at all!honestly, in a weird way, I kind of like that it made me connect with the song differently?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 September 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
played at my friend's funeral so same vibes here
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 10 September 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
the scene in gimme shelter where they are in the studio listening to the playback of wild horses is all-time. song rules and I pity people who have heard it too much to enjoy it.
― Taliban! (PBKR), Friday, 10 September 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
Wild Horses has associations with death for me as well. It came on the radio right after I found out a friend of mine died in an accident. It tears a hole in me ever since.
― peace, man, Friday, 10 September 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
They played Nashville last night, so for the 'Internet Vote' song the ballot was limited to Country-style tracks, and interestingly "Dead Flowers" beat "Wild Horses".
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 October 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
On record, I prefer "Wild Horses," but I think "Dead Flowers" usually is the better one for them to perform live.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 10 October 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
Lately I have been listening to Sticky Fingers and realizing how little I know it as an actual album. It's such a weird mix of great songs I've heard a million times, great songs I don't hear enough, and songs I never need to hear again that it's very rare for me to just put it on and let it play. But I listened to the first half a while back and now I'm kind of obsessed with the sequencing that puts Wild Horses right after Brown Sugar and Sway and right before Can't You Hear Me Knocking.
Like, you start out with two songs that are intentionally noisy and opaque and messy; Jagger slurring his lines on Brown Sugar, howling on Sway; there's that sense that you often get with Stones songs of the signal just barely making it through the noise. Sway, in particular, feels like it's very much about that, just this scream of frustration at the messiness of life & the persistence of shit coming down on you that you have to care about.
Set against that, what I notice most about "Wild Horses" is how clear it is, and how careful. Each moment in the song, whether it's the musical accompaniment or a line of verse, has a little island of quiet around it, as if Jagger is waiting to make sure you've got the message before he goes on. There's a feeling of handling something fragile, a feeling of going line by line through a compact between two people, a feeling of emotion held in check - even in the final verse, every word is clear and deliberate. It all adds up to a sense - and I can't believe I'm saying this of Jagger, but it's what I get from the song - of "this isn't about me."
And then you get to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," and the noise closes in again. And the more I listen to the songs in that order, the more striking the sheer amount of silence in "Wild Horses" seems. Stones songs of this era often seem to me, like I said, to be the signal trying to make it through the noise. And I love that about them. But "Wild Horses," in this sequence, comes off to me as something different: Jagger holding off the noise for just long enough to say something he needs to say.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 22 January 2023 03:37 (one year ago) link
Do you hear the same "quiet" in "Moonlight Mile"? Or "Sister Morphine" for that matter?
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link