Rolling Stones' "Emotional Rescue" - C or D?

Chuck Eddy to thread!

I was actually thinking about starting a thread called "Lines in songs that should get applause in concerts," because every time I hear the line "I was dreaming last night..." (the point where Mick reverts to his normal voice too), I have to resist the urge to put my hands together and applaud. It's a great moment.

Title track is funny, fun bit of meh

"She's So Cold" still kills. I first heard that bassline in 1980; it haunts me to this day.

"Send It To Me" and "Where The Boys Go" - rock solid, and either one would have helped Black and Blue tremendously.

"Indian Girl" - what to make of this, hm? Bizarre third-world fantasia prefiguring the worst conceits of Under Cover. And then the payoff, which if anyone shouldn't be able to get away with, it's Mick Jagger: "Lesson number one/That you learn while you're young:/Life just goes on and on, getting harder, and harder." And wouldnchaknowitfoax... he makes it sound like the truth of the world.

"Down In The Hole" - the sleeper. Ignore it at your peril.

"All About You" - The Keef ballad. Yay!

Oh - and it's too late to check and see now, but I hope this thread's just about the SONG, not the LP.

Now that's just willfully stupid.

"Better than Some Girls" is all I needed to hear. I always felt that album was overrated. I'll grab this fast.

And, of course, to put it in perspective, it was THE STONES and naturally none of it touches the epic quality of something like "Street Fighting Man" or "Gimme Shelter."

As for 'Emotional Rescue,' has anyone mentioned "Let Me Go"? "Maybe I'll become a playboy, hang around in gay bars, and mooooove to the West Side of town."

http://stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1333

And dude, Alfred, while I understand most of that piece there are SO instrumental concessions to the marketplace on this album. Those drums? It's not that it wasn't calculated to win, it's that it didn't win.

(then again, if you listen to "Undercover," Jagger's ideal of vulnerability is to make breakfast-table remarks about Latin Americans and to make us notice the hot cum dripping on the girl's thighs. The real Ying Yang Twin.)

Jagger's "Wandering Spirit" seems more, er, "authentic" (a word I use with caution around Mr D).

If for some reason you ever need to reference that year again, just use that photograph.

Example:
Ronald Reagan was elected in http://www.sympathyforthedevils.com/studiopathe_mick79.JPG, defeating Jimmy Carter by 440 votes...

Anyway, this song is all about Mick--I'm torn between his falsetto and his spoken word breakdown ("I will be your knight in shiiiining aaahhhhhhmooorrrrr") being the highlight of the song. Utterly fantastic.

OVER YOU!!!

Y'know, reading that Stylus piece on Dirty Work does make me want to check it out again but Alfred, do you really think the record has the "most venomous guitar sound of the Stones’ career"? Thems are some strong, strong words. I'm not sure it can be more venemous than "Stray Cat Blues" with that piercing ending.

"Summer Romance," bitches.

played the hell out of this album the past week, so great. jagger in esp great form.

great record. i still think it's better than all that boring shit they did after Exile and before Some Girls

there's so many bands that cops moves from the earlier peak stones periods - that initial run when they were brian's band and then beggars thru exile - i wish there were more bands that just blatantly ripped off that some girls thru tattoo you run. maybe you have to have been the stones for fifteen years to pull it off.

Dud. Their weakest '70s record, and a huge dip in quality in comparison to the albums immediately before and after.

i wish there were more bands that just blatantly ripped off that some girls thru tattoo you run. maybe you have to have been the stones for fifteen years to pull it off.

love Rob Sheffield's name for this 1978-1983 period: the Mall Rat Years

i wish there were more bands that just blatantly ripped off that some girls thru tattoo you run

^cosign

Knight in shining awmaw

Uvilbemine

I fucking love "Summer Romance."

love "send it to me" so much, especially the extended version on youtube. anyone know where that was released?

ysi(to me)?

she can be ROO-MAY-NIAANN

Classique

I haven't listened to the album in forever but, the amazing title track aside, I remember being particularly amused by that one song that sounded like it belonged on the soundtrack to one of those Spring Break-style T&A comedies from the era.

Probably "Summer Romance" or "Where The Boys Go"--both of which, incidentally, are titled like 80s T&A teen comedies.

Yeah, "Where The Boys Go" is the one.

Love the snare sound on the title track

XP Seems like a blown opportunity for a movie...Mick as the head of the camp...Ronnie as the groundskeeper...Bill as the cook caught in a compromising position with a 17 year old...Charlie as the area constable...Keith as the guy who buys the kids beer...Randall Klieser directs.

Haha

Or

Keith as lord of the manor
Charlie as his irascible uncle
Bill the head butler
Ronnie as the head cook
Mick as the Kato Kaelin

Christmas special is the house getting cut off from the outside world for a month by a snow storm, Kubrick directs

Yeah, skip directly from Some Girls to Tattoo You, folks. Nothing to hear here.

^^^ you're mad.

If you love "When the Wip Comes Down" and "Respectable" and the way Chris Kimsey mixed them, then this album is bliss.

*Whip

Redd i Wip

tattoo you is boring

It isn't horrible, but it is probably overrated.

they should have done more disco

^^^ agreed

'Down in a Hole' is a real good, raw and unique in subject matter.

he comes across as a super creep

^^^ you're mad.

If you love "When the Wip Comes Down" and "Respectable" and the way Chris Kimsey mixed them, then this album is bliss.

SOLD

ha don't know where that super creep fragment came from. darn zing! how embarrassing

now i remember, i was starting to talk shit about jimmy page in another thread but changed my mind

tattoo you is boring

― j., Sunday, April 2, 2017 12:41 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It isn't horrible, but it is probably overrated.

― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Sunday, April 2, 2017 2:25 AM (fourteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whoawhoawhoa!!

'Start Me Up'! 'Hang Fire'! 'Little T&A'! 'Slave'! 'Heaven'! 'Waiting on a Friend'!

I like some of those songs, and I probably owe the album a fresh listen (it's been quite a few years), but I don't think it is good enough to justify its rep of the last good Stones record.

The last good Stones albums were Dirty Work and A Bigger Bang, so don't worry!

Yeah, the last good Stones album was A Bigger Bang!

(before that it was Tattoo You, though.)

I've listened to five Stones albums today, and this is the first "bad" one, IMO

"All About You," "Dance (pt 1)," and the title track are OK (I'm not big on that disco bassline in rock songs, but that's my problem). But most of the others are.... not good

It's unexpected b/c the two albums that flank it in their discography are very strong

noooo i love this one

I can't get with anyone who doesn't love "Summer Romance," which should've been a top five single. The three-guitar attack, CHarlie's drumming, Jagger's insolent delivery -- man. "Let Me Go" and "Where the Boys Go" almost as good.

Sorry!

I'd classify ER as "good to great album with terrible lead single."

honestly the only thing on here i don't care for is "Down in a Hole"

like "Indian Girl" is kind of terrible but damn it it hasn't grown on me over the years.

"Indian Girl," "Down in the Hole," and the title track are the duds, yeah.

*damn if it hasn't

xpost

nah I fuck w the title track

"youwillbemineyouwillbemineyouwillmemineallmine"

ch-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ah-ah-ah-ah-g-a-h-h-h-h-h

re Indian Girl if it wasn't for Jagge's smarm and the dumb lyrics this would sound great on Dylan's PG & BTK soundtrack (which i love too btw)

Played the title cut for my wife and she said, "Mick Jagger is one of the last people you should call if you need emotional rescue."

Lol

true also he probably charges an exorbitant fee

i wish there were more bands that just blatantly ripped off that some girls thru tattoo you run. maybe you have to have been the stones for fifteen years to pull it off.

otm