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

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.

yes, you could be mine
tonight and every night
I will be your knight in shining armour
coming to your emotional rrrrrrescue

They perfected Charlie's drum sound on those two albums. (I remember Mick & Keef giving the engineer Chris Kimsey buckets of credit.)

Totally. Kimsey also got a great sound out of the three-pronged guitar attack.

there's a fun edit of this by one of the in flagranti dudes; cuts in bits of the piano from 'she's a rainbow' and stuff.

i've still never worked out the accent mick's trying to affect at the end there. i know nothing else from the album other than 'she's so cold'.

Aside from those two dynamite singles, the rest of the disc was pretty unmemorable. Classic music video, too, BTW.

heard the edit for the first time last night--awesome!!

you will be mine, you will be mine, you will be mine all mine ...
you will be mine, you will be mine, you will be mine all mine ...

Jagger could so be Eric Burdon doing that coda - all he needed to do was self-consciously namecheck some revered black performer, something Burdon was wont to do. Like maybe Bob Marley, or Kurtis Blow if he were really on top of things.

love this record! The singles, "Dance pt 1" "Let Me Go" and one of Keith's finest moments ("All About You") are all awesome. Actually, take away the rote blooze "Down in a Hole" and the Indian Girl silliness (which really isn't that bad...) and it's pretty top shelf all around. I'll take it over B&B or GHS any day.

Praise for the In Flagranti edit seconded- here's a zshare if you haven't heard it.

thx!

REVIVE.

Some more love for this album.

Agree that this is better than Some Girls. Loose, fun album with good production that doesn't take itself very seriously.

nice work alex!

And again...http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-rolling-stones-emotional-rescue.html

love this record

good piece marcello.

dance pt 1 rules

And again...http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-rolling-stones-emotional-rescue.html

I like the suggestion in that article that "All About You" is really about Mick: I'd always assumed it was about Anita, or some other girl, but, whomever it's about, it's up there with "You Got The Silver" as Keith's finest ballad with the Stones.

ha I thought that Keith's ballads were all about Mick.

Dance pt. 1 is so fucking great

That moment when the girlie chorus comes in on "Where The Boys Go"=one of the fun-ist and funniest moments in their catalogue.

Also this (re: title track):

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.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Thursday, June 2, 2005 3:18 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. i've always loved this song and that moment in particular. i also love when they doubletrack the falsetto voice with his normal voice. disco stones in general are just great. for a while beast of burden was my favorite song by them, and i am a dude who had exile on main street in his car stereo for an entire summer.

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

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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