Also no one has mentioned the causal enjoyment of "luxury!" make a million for the texan. 20 dollar me. My woman need a new dress. My daughter got to go to school.
― calstars, Friday, 29 September 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
TS: luxury vs Haitian divorce
― calstars, Friday, 29 September 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
'Luxury' is utterly terrible.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 29 September 2017 06:13 (six years ago) link
Goats Head Soup doesn't suck either.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Friday, 29 September 2017 06:15 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
What the fuck? You guys don't like Mick Taylor or something?
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:02 (six years ago) link
Sorry, I hallucinated that BAB won
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, September 29, 2017
I do! A lot! But his last two albums suck.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 September 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
Good to see that the correct choice topped the poll!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 10:50 (six years ago) link
oh thank god.
― campreverb, Saturday, 30 September 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
Goats Head Soup is a fantastic album. There are some hints at a slide toward banality -- some of the forced vulgarity and detachment of "Doo Doo Doo Doo" and "Star Star," which to me for some reason prefigure one of their lowest moments, "Too Much Blood" -- but still. Winter. Angie.
― Treeship, Saturday, 30 September 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KTfqMf2DL._SY355_.jpg
nah, this picture alone is better than anything on Goats Head Soup
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 30 September 2017 16:15 (six years ago) link
No it isn't and stop lying.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
xpost:
'Heartbreaker' and 'Star Star' are two of the best things on the album.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
I really love the album art as well, although I know that I'm in the minority there.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
You a stawfucka stawfucka stawfucka stawfucka staw
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
I thought "Star Star" (and "Short and Curlies," for that matter) were puerile when I was 15.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
I think that these three albums are distinguished by solid performances but a lack of actual songs. The Stones weren't yet at the don't-give-a-shit point of their career--they were still a band coming off of Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St.--but they were clearly exhausted with the process of songwriting, and needed to produce content in order to keep the brand going (and having a reason to tour). So, at best, we get half-baked things like "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" (the song), which actually has a provocative lyrical conceit, and is tightly performed, but which they were obviously in such a hurry to complete that they just slapped the most generically anthemic chorus possible on and called it a song.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
haha i love the chorus of that song but tbh 90% of that is probably the tape-bleeding delivery on the opening IIII KNOW!!!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
I think that these three albums are distinguished by solid performances but a lack of actual songs.
This applies to about half of Black and Blue and It's Only Rock'n'Roll, but there's plenty of "actual songs" on all of these albums.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:44 (six years ago) link
Before Goats Head Soup's release, Mick Jagger advertised it as a RETURN to "songs" following the freewheeling Exile.
― Treeship, Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
Goats Head Soup, which is also actually one of their best albums of the '70s, even if it is a minor step down from the preceding two.
If so then I've been right in my decision to not bother listening to any 70s Stones albums released after it.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
The thing about Exile on Main St. is while it definitely has some stunning all-time moments, about a quarter of the LP isn't all that great.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
Some Girls is worth a listen.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
1/4 of 2 sides is still 1 1/2 albums of juice
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
I can't think of a song on EOMS that wouldn't have improved GHS, though admittedly they would probably have sounded shit if actually recorded at the GHS sessions.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
Aerosmith snagged the vocal delivery of "Casino" and threw it on "uncle salty"
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
I can think of several. Like, 'Hide Your Love' and 'Silver Train' are, to me, the two "lesser" tracks on Goats Head Soup, and stuff like 'Casino Boogie', 'Shake Your Hips', 'I Just Wanna See His Face', 'Sweet Black Angel', 'Turd On The Run' are of the same quality.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
Goats Head Soup doesn't sound shit either, if anything it's far more produced than Exile On Main St. and there's a thickness to the sound that Exile doesn't have.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
Exile is perfect
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
Goats and Only sound like shit. Too much...mid range? But on Black they get some of that treble back, and then Some, which has the crispiest snare ever
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
I disagree. It's a great snapshot of where the Stones were at at the time, but it definitely has its flaws.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
Well it's perfect to me, I can listen to the whole thing through and never once get bored
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
and have a big boner the whole time too
Nah, Goats Head Soup sounds just fine... but while we're on the subject of GHS vs. EOMS, then it's always been a source of amusement that GHS gets slagged for one of the reasons EOMS gets praised. GHS actually has the druggy vibe that people say that EOMS has.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link
... yes, the wrong drugs.
You're right that 'Hide Your Love' and 'Silver Train' are lesser but wrong about everything else. Actually I don't even mind "Silver Train" that much! Honestly though, "Winter" is a great track, "Angie" is a good song that I have no need to ever hear again, and that's about it. I'm not really much of a Stones fan though tbh.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
... GHS makes me less of one.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
I like the sound of GHS. I just don't think that, "Winter" aside, its in support of much.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
So, at best, we get half-baked things like "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" (the song), which actually has a provocative lyrical conceit, and is tightly performed, but which they were obviously in such a hurry to complete that they just slapped the most generically anthemic chorus possible on and called it a song.
Jim Lea from Slade was told by Mick Taylor that IORAR was an attempt to emulate Slade and their big stomping choruses, which makes sense. T.Rex groove + Slade chorus= Stones Glam
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link
"i just wanna see his face" and "sweet black angel" are both understated masterpieces. None of the minor tracks on GHs compare xp
― Treeship, Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link
So, at best, we get half-baked things like "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" (the song), which actually has a provocative lyrical conceit, and is tightly performed, but which they were obviously in such a hurry to complete...
So much so that they replaced Taylor, Wyman, and Watts with Ron Wood, Willie Weeks, and Kenney Jones.
(iirc, Jones told Watts he'd felt weird playing on a Stones song, but Charlie said, "I don't mind. Sounds like me, anyway.")
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
Winter is unimaginative and boring af
― calstars, Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4290/34814383074_e36601ea7f_b.jpg
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
XPS ...and it was recorded during the sessions for ILX meme I've Got My On Album To Do (hence the different lineup).
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
"i just wanna see his face" and "sweet black angel" are both understated masterpieces. None of the minor tracks on GHs compare xp― Treeship, Saturday, September 30, 2017 7:21 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Treeship, Saturday, September 30, 2017 7:21 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LOL!
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
I'm blasting Goats Head Soup right now as it happens... the combination of the wah-wah, the horns and the numerous hooks on 'Heartbreaker' is giving my ears pleasure like you wouldn't believe.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
"I just want to see his face" is a monumental piece of recorded sound, treeship so otm
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:58 (six years ago) link
Heartbreaker is absolutely filthy
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 September 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
Heartbreaker is OK, it's the only song that isn't two minutes too long.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
'I Just Wanna See His Face' is the very definition of filler, and the recording is awful.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Saturday, 30 September 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
I remember the kerfuffle around the ad for Black and Blue that featured a bound young woman who was . . . well, black and blue.
I really dig "Hand of Fate." Some nice, if basic, back and forth by Ron and Keith in that one.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
They took Bill off the cover of Black & Blue for this tee.
Pretty sure they all hated Bill.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link
Making MIck a blond is equally rude
― Josefa, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link