Wow, in a defiant turn against the tide, Target's exclusive edition of the CD earns its exclusivity by including a redemption code for a VINYL copy of the O.G. album 'to be delivered to your own door'.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 11 June 2015 23:46 (eight years ago) link
oh my god this album is so good.
so, i dunno. maybe something like:
SwayMoonlight MileWild Horses*BitchDead FlowersCan’t You Hear Me KnockingBrown SugarYou Gotta MoveI Got the BluesSister Morphine
*i might prefer gram parsons’s version, actually, but you can’t fuck with this
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 12 June 2015 00:39 (eight years ago) link
alt version of Dead Flowers upthread is interesting. Guitars are out of tune and vocals are flat, and Jagger's southern affectations are more conspicuous and excruciating than ever, but somehow this still rules
― Wimmels, Friday, 12 June 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
Wild HorsesCan't You Hear Me KnockingDead FlowersSwayMoonlight MileBrown SugarBitchSister MorphineYou Gotta MoveI Got The Blues
Rolling Stones 1968-1972 is the most unfuckwithable run in music history
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 June 2015 15:58 (eight years ago) link
SwayMoonlight MileBrown SugarDead FlowersCan't You Hear Me KnockingWild HorsesBitchYou Gotta MoveI Got the BluesSister Morphine
Ha, same top two and bottom three as amateurist's
― bunny slopes, Friday, 12 June 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
I love the stones and have no problem with hyperboles but even without going very far from their times and genre, Stevie Wonder's 72-76 is arguably even more unfuckwithable !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 12 June 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
Music does not get better.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 12 June 2015 22:02 (eight years ago) link
it just gets sick and dies
― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 June 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
Or in the Stones case, it just gets weaker
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 12 June 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
SwayMoonlight MileWild HorsesDead FlowersCant You Hear Me KnockingBitchBrown SugarSister MorphineI Got The BluesYou Gotta Move
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 June 2015 23:35 (eight years ago) link
wanted to just list Sway over and over tbh
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 June 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
i mean all the songs are great but Sway
jesus
any of these:moonlight milecan't you hear me knockingsway
followed by this:you gotta move
then any of these:wild horsesbrown sugardead flowers
then these:i got the bluesbitchsister morphine
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 12 June 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
bitch is a jam tho! the horns slay me
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 June 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
they're all jams! my bottom three, anybody's bottom three, slay most other band's careers.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 12 June 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
This is the first time in a long time that I've put on a deluxe reissue and been just blown away by the album itself, to the point where I've put off listening to the bonus stuff. Usually it's the other way around.
Can't You Hear Me Knocking at the top, Wild Horses at the bottom only because I've heard it too many times. And yeah, at the moment I'm thinking this might be the best rock and roll album ever made.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 13 June 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
three least favorite: blues, morphine, wild horses
― big fat rascal (will), Saturday, 13 June 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link
substitute "...Knocking" and yeah
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 June 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link
i dig knocking! replace which one?
― big fat rascal (will), Saturday, 13 June 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
Replace "Knocking' with "Sway."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 June 2015 01:54 (eight years ago) link
replace everything with sway
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 June 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
I wish the outtakes on the new edition were better. It seems they put the best versions on the original album. (Imagine that!)
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
wild horses just gets me, i've heard it so many times but it's so beautiful - harmony chorus cannot be fucked with
also ~keef~ high harmony <3
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
you can hear Keith's voice clearly on the outtake of Brown Sugar with Clapton. Probably the best moments of the track.
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
spoilers man, i'm still stuck on disc 1 lol
keef on any harmony pretty much gives me life though, love him
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
fuck
i got the blues would be a top 3 song on another album but SF is such a monster it ends up second last on my list
how can that be
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 02:35 (eight years ago) link
also i just redeemed for my vinyl sticky fingers
i have no working turntable rn but hey
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
salivate like a Pavlov dog
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 June 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link
proposal: a group time travel excursion back to the roundhouse 71
i want to see them in concert once in my life but i also want to go back and see them like this
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
Veg, have you ever seen Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones? Obviously not the same experience, but it's the same lineup (Stones + Hopkins, Keys & Price) live in a big hall in Texas on the Exile tour. Very cool.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 June 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
i have!! <3 it
i want to go there too
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 04:19 (eight years ago) link
This is due soon. Seems a bit on the short side (the CD is an e.p. fer fuck sakes), but hey more live '71 Stones.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 June 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
i've watched some youtubes clips of this show, fierce as fuckcan't wait to see the whole thing
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
i think wild horses is maybe the only stones song that's ever made me tear up. not every time i hear it or anything, but it's definitely kind of an anomaly in their catalog.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 13 June 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
mick's delivery sells it so hard. even the acoustic version on the bonus disc made me think, like...there could be zero music & i think it would still get me
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 June 2015 05:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah that is def one of his all-time greatest vocal performances. i don't think any other singer in the world could put it across quite the way mick does.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 13 June 2015 06:02 (eight years ago) link
The account about how they cut it in True Adventures of... is--like the rest of the book--amazing. Richards pulling the chorus out and Jagger adding lyrics on the last day in Muscle Shoals simply because they had the time and inclination to cut "one more song"...Jim Dickinson being drafted to play piano because simply he was there, and then being mad about having to settle for a tack piano because the house grand wasn't in tune with the band.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 13 June 2015 06:37 (eight years ago) link
If I remember correctly, Keith doesn't play on "sway", does he ?Nowadays, my favourite track would be "knocking" or "dead flowers" but "Brown sugar" and "horses" are still amazing!The only one I never liked is "you gotta move".
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 13 June 2015 08:12 (eight years ago) link
I think Keith plays on Sway. It's him in open G tuning and Taylor in standard tuning. You can tell Keith's part by the way he plays the root chord, F, way up on the 10th fret. Taylor adds the sus2 on the Bb when Jagger sings "Fiiiind."
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2015 11:05 (eight years ago) link
The song features a bottleneck slide guitar solo towards the middle of the song and a dramatic outro solo performed by Taylor. Rhythm guitar performed by Jagger was his first electric guitar performance on an album. The strings on the piece were arranged by Paul Buckmaster, who also worked on other songs from Sticky Fingers. Richards added his backing vocals but provided no guitar to the track
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 June 2015 11:39 (eight years ago) link
Oh wow! I stand corrected.
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
It's an insular little advance, but Keith learning the open G tuning (from Ry Cooder, right?) was like the apple falling on Newton. So much of the greatness of this Stones run is due directly to open G (and the songs, of course). As a guitarist, there is little less fun than tuning into G and learning, like, 20 Stones tunes that are stupidly easy, but only in that tuning (and sometimes with a capo, too). I can only wonder what it was like at the time, or even in the '80s, when you were an aspiring guitarist trying to learn these not terribly difficult songs, and wondering why you never sound like Keith. "Jumpin Jack Flash," for example, as recorded, is maybe ... open E? Regardless, it's a mess of guitars and tunings, which is why even the Stones never played it the way the way they recorded it.
Hey, since we're talking about this era in general, too, anyone else notice a connection between "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and the Velvet Underground. Was Mick tuned in to the VU? Because it's a song about copping drugs that uses essentially the same repeating chords as "Heroin," iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:10 (eight years ago) link
To this day, like in that Rolling Stone interview re "Moonlight Mile" published a couple weeks ago, Jagger sounds uncharacteristically wistful about the Taylor years. Note this response in 1995:
What about the contribution of Mick Taylor to the band in these years?
A: I think he had a big contribution. He made it very musical. He was a very fluent, melodic player, which we never had, and we don't have now. Neither Keith nor [Ronnie Wood] plays that kind of style. It was very good for me working with him. Charlie and I were talking about this the other day, because we could sit down – I could sit down – with Mick Taylor, and he would play very fluid lines against my vocals. He was exciting, and he was very pretty, and it gave me something to follow, to bang off. Some people think that's the best version of the band that existed.
What do you think?
A: They're all interesting periods. They're all different. I obviously can't say if I think Mick Taylor was the best, because it sort of trashes the period the band is in now.
He can't bring himself to admit his true feelings, although, also out of character, he admits that Taylor wrote the music for "Moonlight Mile" (and got no credit).
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:18 (eight years ago) link
Yes. It was actually Stray Cat Blues that was a nick off Heroin, though.
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:19 (eight years ago) link
xp Josh
Same '95 interview:
A: We made records with just Mick Taylor, which are very good and everyone loves, where Keith wasn't there for whatever reasons.
Which ones?
A: People don't know that Keith wasn't there making it. All the stuff like "Moonlight Mile," "Sway." These tracks are a bit obscure, but they are liked by people that like the Rolling Stones. It's me and [Mick] playing off each other – another feeling completely, because he's following my vocal lines and then extemporizing on them during the solos.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:21 (eight years ago) link
SwayMoonlight MileWild HorsesBitchCan't You Hear Me KnockingSister MorphineBrown SugarYou Gotta MoveDead FlowersI Got the Blues
My favourite Stones album, without a doubt.
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
Took me forever to recognize "Dead Flowers" as a drug reference. Ever passive aggressive, interesting to note the number of Jagger lyrics this era calling out folks for heroin use. "You Can't Always Get What You Want," "Dead Flowers" (mocking Gram Parsons?), "Monkey Man" ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
Taylor wrote Midnight Mile too? Now I know that one is in open G, which would point to Keith. On the other hand it is very melodic, which would point to Taylor...dang
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2015 14:58 (eight years ago) link
"Sway" has the best drumming on any Stones song. Which is to say, some of the best drumming on any song.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 13 June 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
i love that stuff too but i disagree
― treeship., Monday, 23 January 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
idk they got pretty swishy with the rock-disco stuff later in the decade. I wish they'd recorded an album's worth of "Let Me Go" and "When the Whip Comes Down"s.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 January 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
"am i rough enough?"
― treeship., Monday, 23 January 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
"Waiting on a Friend" was their last great song.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 January 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
Best four-album run in rock history, hands down.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 January 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
frankly they peaked with she's a rainbow / 2000 light years
I'm glad you're speaking out with such frankness, but, as much as I love "She's a Rainbow," that strikes me as absurd.
― clemenza, Monday, 23 January 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
rootsy bluesy manly rut
One of the things that makes Beggars Banquet my choice for best Stones album is that they retained a lot of the psychedelic haze that was soon cleared away by Mick Taylor, saxophones, and the whole barroom ambience.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
stripped is good, imo
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Monday, 23 January 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
their best disco is dance part 2 (if I was a dancer)