yes it's the perfect song to be called SWAY, it has a particular doomy sway to it.
― omar little, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:24 (five years ago) link
first Jagger plays electric rhythm too
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
first time, that is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekJTcELT2E4
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
"It's just that demon life has got you in its sway"
been listening to this record for 10+ years, never realized he was saying that. as a matter of fact i can barely understand anything being sung on "sway" and for me that is part of the appeal, just kind of a weird murky song where they keep saying "got me in its way" for some reason
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
anyway, re: charlie watts
all i want to say is i'll never forgive him for ruining the otherwise awesome ending of "can't you hear me knocking" by hitting that stupid wimpy crash symbol all by himself after everybody else in the band had stopped in unison.
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
i always heard it as" demon wine" and thought that was apt
― glumdalclitch, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
is it "that demon-life" or "that demon, life"― difficult listening hour, Monday, March 5, 2018 9:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― difficult listening hour, Monday, March 5, 2018 9:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(it's canonically the former i know but i adore the ambiguity as sung)
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 18:57 (five years ago) link
I used the Les Paul; Keith doesn't play on that track. Mick Jagger's playing rhythm guitar... (I played the slide part and the solo) at the same time. I put the slide on my little finger so it would still leave the other 3 fingers free to play like they would regularly, and I switched from one to the other. That was played in regular tuning.
- Mick Taylor, 1979
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
i always thought it was demon-lifedemonic life
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
anyway, re: charlie wattsall i want to say is i'll never forgive him for ruining the otherwise awesome ending of "can't you hear me knocking" by hitting that stupid wimpy crash symbol all by himself after everybody else in the band had stopped in unison.― budo jeru, Wednesday, April 24, 2019 6:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― budo jeru, Wednesday, April 24, 2019 6:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh, I can overlook that. His "toddler whacking upside down pans with wooden spoons" approach to drum accents on 'Sway', however...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
cymbal* ha
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
just doublechecked that "sway" has good drums, it does
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
It does! I stayed out of the discussion above but it never fails to surprise me how easily people will dismiss any particular drummer for “ineptitude” or “incompetence”. I have a hard time accepting that a person on a Rolling Stones recording is either of those things. Maybe not your fave but inept? Incompetent? Nah.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
well you have to admit he's no mike portnoy
― j., Thursday, 25 April 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link
I saw some clip of wankers Portney and Paul Gilbert's Beatles cover band, and iirc it was shockingly faithful/tasteful!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2019 00:54 (five years ago) link
i love Charlie’s drumming on Sway, naysayers are crazy imo and Sway is def not a ballad, loose jam Sway is everything l love about this period of the Stones, the loose swagger of the band & Jagger just SELLING the lyrics with this insane delivery that is like, idk, for me it’s like he’s howling at the moon. It’s so cathartic!! Swig straight out of the wine-bottle kinda music. It’s all mood & it’s the BEST.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
otm
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 April 2019 01:58 (five years ago) link
love Nicky Hopkins on Sway, too
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
Jagger just SELLING the lyrics with this insane delivery
otm-- had never connected my love of this song to my dylan superfandom before but i think they're related
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 April 2019 02:40 (five years ago) link
LL's transcription--
"one day i WOKE up to fiiiiiiiiiind/right in the BED next to miiiiiine"
--also a clue
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 25 April 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
CIRCulaaaaar tiiiiiiiiiIIIIIME
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 April 2019 04:55 (five years ago) link
I love that "Sway" has strings...by Paul Buckmaster!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2019 05:46 (five years ago) link
ok then, it doesn't really matter if sway is a ballad or a jam or whatever but i am so much more impressed by the phantastic "can't you hear me knockin'" which definitely is a jam. that killer blues riff which gives me the zz top feel, the amazing saxophone solo, its' jazzy improv vibe, the cool santana guitar sound later on, almost 7 minutes without a second that bores me. it is the best of the early seventies coming together there, just wonderful. i don't really care so much about jagger's singing, somehow i don't hear his voice anymore as it is so ubiquitous as i have heard it so many times. anyone else who prefers knocking to sway?
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 25 April 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
i listed CYHMK above Sway on my list upthread. both are better than great.
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 April 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
anyone else who prefers knocking to sway?
Me, by miles!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 25 April 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link
VG otm Sway is the Stones doing what they do like no one elsethough Moonlight Mile is beautiful and like almost nothing else they did
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 April 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
"Moonlight Mile" is Taylor's loveliest moment on a Stones single, and my favorite use of Buckmaster strings.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 April 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
Sway is the Stones doing what they do like no one else
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 25 April 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
Incidentally, a friend gave me the Joel Selvin Altamont book for my birthday and I'm finally getting around to reading it. It had never even occurred to me how removed the Stones were from the rock scene, particularly in America. By 1969 they hadn't played the U.S. in 3 years and were practically broke (the American tour was explicitly to refill their empty coffers), and they were desperate to sort of break back into America, which culminated in the Altamont disaster. Clearly the band came out the other side intact, but having this album start out the new decade didn't hurt. I wonder what might have been if they followed the '60s and Let It Bleed directly with Exile?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
sway is a great song i am sorry you are having trouble with your hearing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 25 April 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
There are people who don't like Sway? I'd argue that its #2 placement practically makes the album.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:04 (five years ago) link
even if that was true it would not be a sufficient condition to make it a good song. though i think the whole exile on main street double album is where they are really doing their own thing.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, April 25, 2019
really no choice but to FP for this. you'll thank me when you sober up.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
exile’s great and I love it with my whole heart, but it’s the succinctness of Sticky Fingers that appeals to me in my old age
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 26 April 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 26 April 2019 05:07 (five years ago) link
don’t tuomas me lol
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 26 April 2019 05:38 (five years ago) link
in the early days of ilm you could bust balls for challops
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 26 April 2019 05:40 (five years ago) link
weird that some people cannot accept different opinions. in the early days of ilm there used to be that sentence "a frightening consensus is building up". times have changed.
Yup, unfortunately.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 26 April 2019 07:53 (five years ago) link
Anyhow, I re-listened to this album last night and one thing that struck me about 'Sway' this go-round is how superb the bassline is. Wyman really brings home the goods on that one. Love the strings and vocal performance, too. Watts' drumming gets really ropey at times, particularly in the middle section with several fluffed fills and seemingly forgetting what song he's playing at one point.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 26 April 2019 07:57 (five years ago) link
this is funny:
The songs on Sticky Fingers varied from the brilliant to the rather average and forgettable. "Sway," which sways on the border between a lazy midtempo number and a ballad, falls into the latter category,
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 26 April 2019 13:05 (five years ago) link
Cant you hear...Bitch Brown sugar You gotta move Sway
Everything else
― candyman, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
Moonlight mile makes me think they were trying to do a song like Hendrixs may this be love but not matching it.
― candyman, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
"Moonlight Mile" is better than any Hendrix song.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
'Moonlight Mile' is amazing but nah.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
yah
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
I mean, "Can't You Hear Me..." as top of the list is a Stones I don't hear, but it's all good
ANY Hendrix song?
I like a bit of hyperbole, but even comparing it just with ballads, ie angel, drifting, little wing, castles made of sand, nah.
Cant you hear is just low key brilliance. That riff alone.
― candyman, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
Tempted to poll 'Moonlight Mile' vs, say, 'Machine Gun' or '1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)'.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
1983 is better than anything the stones could hope to do.
― candyman, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
Electric ladyland is better than exile. That could be a cool poll.
― candyman, Saturday, 6 March 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link