Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup - is it underrated because it came after Exile?

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That's a lot of Elton John to love, actually.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 April 2022 01:48 (two years ago) link

It’s pretty good, particular Side B.

Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 April 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link

xp Except for a few big omissions, I thought To Be Continued was an excellent box set and somewhat underrated - it's almost a perfect Elton John collection, and that's four CD's packed to the brim. Sounds modest compared to the gargantuan sets released now, but for a consistently top shelf career retrospective, four CD's is a lot.

birdistheword, Saturday, 9 April 2022 02:39 (two years ago) link

I just realized I misread "That's" as "There's" hah...yes, guilty as charged!

birdistheword, Saturday, 9 April 2022 02:40 (two years ago) link

Is Wake of the Flood considered a disappointment?

The release fared better on the pop charts than their previous studio album (1970's American Beauty), reaching No. 18.[7]

ass time permits (morrisp), Saturday, 9 April 2022 02:56 (two years ago) link

it's worth it for "winter" & "coming down again" & most of the rest is ok.
lots of people (critics, anyway) say "listen to the music" & "dancing with mr d" are rotten, right? i like both those. "angie" is very bad tho, turn off the radio time.

the coming of prince kajagoogoo (doo rag), Saturday, 9 April 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link

When the guitar riff first appears by itself in the opening of "Dancing with Mr. D," it's pretty awesome. The lyrics get a lot flak, but they were kind of hard to make out - I didn't even know what Jagger was singing until I read a lyric sheet.

"Winter" is pretty nice - I think Glyn Johns loves that track more than anything else on the album - and Billy Preston is especially good on "Coming Down Again."

birdistheword, Saturday, 9 April 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link

Been digging on this cover. It's such a stomper. Sorry back to the soup...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvYrN6sxaA

Heartbreaker is some legit 70s funk. Maybe it's the lyrics but you know that Jagger was trying to get Superfly as f on that tune. It sounds like it should be in some lost NY exploitation crime movie with Robert Blake and Roy Schieder. It would be the theme to the 70s @ Satriale's

earlnash, Sunday, 10 April 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link

Roy Schieder as a young uncle Junior. That would kick ass.

earlnash, Sunday, 10 April 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link

Billy Preston is especially good on "Coming Down Again."

...so good he steals the credit from Nicky Hopkins!

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:24 (two years ago) link

Jesus, I mixed it up with "100 Years Ago" (which ALSO has Hopkins, but I'm thinking specifically of Preston on the clavinet).

birdistheword, Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

HIDIN IN A CORNER IN NU YORK SITTY
LOOKIN DOWN A 44 IN WEST VIRGINNY

ꙮ (map), Sunday, 17 March 2024 21:07 (one month ago) link

"Winter" is a jam.

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 March 2024 21:55 (one month ago) link

Sometimes I wanna wrap my coat around ya

brimstead, Monday, 18 March 2024 00:58 (one month ago) link

other times I worry you'll stain it

poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 March 2024 00:59 (one month ago) link

"Winter" is a jam.


like “sway” and “moonlight mile,” a Jagger/Taylor joint. what might have been…

poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Sunday, 31 March 2024 23:47 (three weeks ago) link

I don’t hear the half magic in “winter” that I do in the other two

calstars, Monday, 1 April 2024 00:05 (three weeks ago) link


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