do we like rolling stone's black and blue

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today i discovered "crazy mama " and i know" fool to cry" is really good so what about the rest of the album ?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000000W5D/002-4675878-1746406?v=glance&n=5174

― retrogurl, Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:20 (twenty years ago)

"Memory Motel" is one of my favorite Stones album tracks of ever.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 19 January 2006 06:45 (twenty years ago)

"Hot Stuff" is cool. It's no "Miss You," but my god, "Miss You" is . . . "Miss You."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

Great album cover, too. You could speculate endlessly on who's the most fucked up.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:27 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000W5D.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:28 (twenty years ago)

I bet Mick himself wishes Eddie Levert had sung "Fool to Cry."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's a bunch of guys tore up from the floor up.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:29 (twenty years ago)

My favorite band ever, if it needs saying.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:30 (twenty years ago)

retrogurl, also check "If You Really Wanna Be My Friend" on "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 19 January 2006 07:31 (twenty years ago)

I think I prefer the back cover, there's only so much of Mick I can take.

http://www.rollingstones.com/bin/galImg/siteFiles/02509024b11b.jpg

Incidentally wasn't this supposed to have some other cover? I've seen ads for it with a woman tied up and with poorly applied make-up on (black and blue geddit? haha...the hilarity...), wasn't this gonna be the cover?

I prefer the (studio) albums either side of it more funnily enough...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:14 (twenty years ago)

i adore this record.

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:34 (twenty years ago)

This is actually my favourite Stones album. It gets overlooked so frequently that it has come to feel like "my" album. The whole feel of it works for me: the laidback loucheness, the amiable laziness, the feeling that they must have had a ball making it, the funk and New Orleans influences, and the general sense of slightly over-ripe decadence.

Best tracks: Memory Motel, Hand Of Fate, Fool To Cry, Hot Stuff.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

If you play guitar and are into the open-G tuning, the riff on 'Hand of Fate' is great to play.

― def zep (calstars), Thursday, 19 January 2006 12:58 (twenty years ago)

the laidback loucheness, the amiable laziness, the feeling that they must have had a ball making it, the funk and New Orleans influences, and the general sense of slightly over-ripe decadence.

otm and very well said.

― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 January 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

This and Dirty Work are their most underrated albums.

"Hand of Fate" and "Crazy Mama" are two of the best Stones throwaways EVA, which means they're two of the best songs ever. The sounds Keith extracts from his guitar, the melody line, how Mick's voice becomes in essence another rhythm guitar, how Charlie holds it together -- this si the essence of the Stones

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:34 (twenty years ago)

"Hey Negrita" is a killer latin funk number (lyrics are kinda tasteless, though -- then again, this is the Stones). Way better than "Hot Stuff," in my opionion. That guitar riff (Ron, not Keith, according to the All Music Guide) is a monster.

Well, no one else has, so I'll chime in for "Melody." Yes, it's a bit silly and atypical for the Stones, but I like it anyway. And "Hand of Fate" is a killer.

"Hot Stuff" sounds underworked. As in, if the band had spent even five more minutes on the song before hitting "record," it might have been miles better. At least the Stones were being influenced by mid-70's James Brown, which probably wasn't true of most rock bands at the time.

― James, Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:43 (twenty years ago)

It sounds like a work in progress. Even though I like it, it's neck-and-neck with GHS as my least favorite of their 70's output.

The cover is completely great though.

― Will (will), Thursday, 19 January 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, classic.

The same guy played lead guitar on "Hand of Fate" as on the Wailers' "Concrete Jungle," one Wayne Perkins, I believe.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.keno.org/stones_images/stones_banned_ad.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Oh God, that dreadful press ad; I can still remember the shit-storm that caused. The whole perception of sexist imagery in rock was on the turn in 1976.

FUN FACT: "Hot Stuff" is Jade Jagger's favourite Stones track!

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 19 January 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

that cover reminds me of "smell the glove" !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 19 January 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

great record.

The outro to "CRazy Mama", that sparkly rising guitar figure: freakin awesome.

And yeah the whole record sounds half-baked (in all senses) and that's part of the attraction.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

um, let me ask the other dude who lives in my head. the answer is no, we don't like it.

― 6335, Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

"Memory Motel" is fabulous: Mick and Keith both playing clumsy keyboards and harmonizing like they got the stray cat blues.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

i never understood the memory motel love, it's so draggy

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 19 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Great slacker album ,from when they were still young enough to be cool,and drugged up enough to have those loose grooves, memory hotel classic ballard ,crazy mumma ,and I do love melody too. All these albums are well worth getting except perhaps goats head soup .

― Maida Moore, Friday, 20 January 2006 09:35 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

Love this record too.

― dollar eye twinkling (admrl), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

" All these albums are well worth getting except perhaps goats head soup "

Crazy talk!

― dollar eye twinkling (admrl), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:10 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

Melodee... melodee...

It wash her shecond nayyym!

― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Saturday, 14 June 2014 02:52 (twelve years ago)

good record.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 14 June 2014 03:20 (twelve years ago)

one of their most self-consciously eclectic, i think.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 14 June 2014 03:20 (twelve years ago)

she's got a mi ai ind of her own, and she uses it mighty fine

― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 14 June 2014 05:56 (twelve years ago)

"Hand of Fate" and "Crazy Mama" are two of the best Stones throwaways EVA

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto),

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 June 2014 12:34 (twelve years ago)

'Hate Of Fate' rules.

― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Saturday, 14 June 2014 12:38 (twelve years ago)

*Hand, rather.

― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Saturday, 14 June 2014 12:38 (twelve years ago)

I definitely think Black and Blue is a superior record to It's Only Rock'n'Roll, even if the latter does have the title track, 'If You Can't Rock Me' and 'Time Waits For No One', all of which I love.

― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Saturday, 14 June 2014 12:40 (twelve years ago)

GHS and IOR&R are drags. This one isn't great either but the good songs are good-er.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 14 June 2014 12:42 (twelve years ago)

Aw, I love Goats Head Soup!

― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Saturday, 14 June 2014 12:51 (twelve years ago)

HAHT STAAAAAAHFF!!!! eehhhhhhhh...

a sed schtick it up

― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Sunday, 15 June 2014 20:49 (twelve years ago)

This was my least favourite Stones record as a kid, but hearing it again today for the first time in about 20 years, I'm stunned to discover just how much I let my dislike of "Fool to Cry" colour my feelings towards the rest of the album. It still feels minor, but the highs are damn high: the spiraling guitar licks on "Crazy Mama," Keith's vocal on "Memory Motel," the Funkadelic-aping bounce of "Hot Stuff," the almost improvisational looseness of "Cherry Oh Baby"...

― Funk autocorrect (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 June 2014 01:14 (eleven years ago)

i think minor but pretty damn good is the simplest and best way to put it. there's nothing epochal about it but it's a good, diverse groove record.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 09:20 (eleven years ago)

kind of like dirty work, actually.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 09:20 (eleven years ago)

Dirty Work is the better record.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 11:05 (eleven years ago)

Really? Haven't listened to either in ages

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 18 June 2014 20:34 (eleven years ago)

But you have been reading ilx, so you should have known he would say that.

― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:37 (eleven years ago)

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZagKPePd6x4/0.jpg

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 23:46 (eleven years ago)

Sorry

― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:29 (eleven years ago)

For what?

Underrated album: Rolling Stones' "Dirty Work"

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:35 (eleven years ago)

Was apologizing to curmudgeon, I think.

― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 June 2014 00:46 (eleven years ago)

Thanks, I think. Still have to listen to those two albums again

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:13 (eleven years ago)

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