The Rolling Stones song you're thinking about right now thread
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Most underrated Stones songs are Yesterday's Papers and Connection, both from Between the Buttons.
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Connection may be underrated, but in my book the lyrics are so spot on I just love it. All the scrutiny and BS the band had to put up with.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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Both really great songs.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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I love "Connection"
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Dance Little Sister is another one I don't think gets a lot of airplay, but I can listen to it over and over again.
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Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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If You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
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when Mick had his heart surgery I kept singing "I got one heart and it hurts like hell"WestwayKid wrote: ↑27 Aug 2021, 12:51pmIf You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
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tepista wrote: ↑27 Aug 2021, 1:41pmwhen Mick had his heart surgery I kept singing "I got one heart and it hurts like hell"WestwayKid wrote: ↑27 Aug 2021, 12:51pmIf You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
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My humanity
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The end of liberty
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I had forgotten he had heart surgery. I guess we're lucky even 3 of them are still around. Woody just got the throat cancer all clear earlier this year.tepista wrote: ↑27 Aug 2021, 1:41pmwhen Mick had his heart surgery I kept singing "I got one heart and it hurts like hell"WestwayKid wrote: ↑27 Aug 2021, 12:51pmIf You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
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been listening to RS radio on Sirius for about 3 hours today during housework, and a couple hours driving the last couple days. light on 60s, heavy on 70s, which is cool, cuz Underground Garage is the opposite. I've heard Hand of Fate 4x times this week! (if you include last Saturday, when I played Black & Blue before the Charlie news)
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I was going to mention how many times I heard "Memory Motel" this past week, but then "Angie" came on right after
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"Between the Buttons" is one of the most underrated albums full stop! Not least by Mick who thinks Loog Oldham ruined it by swamping it with too many over-dubs. I don't know, I think Loog Oldham winging it in the studio is one of the things that made them so influential, inspiring all those garage bands. I think the second album they did at Chess is too polished, not as good as their first.
Charlie gives it some welly on "Complicated" another great track on it, along with "She Smiled Sweetly". In the early Rock Encyclopedias you used to read that the Stones were a great "singles band" like they didn't come up with great albums like the Beatles. But probably every album up to and including Exile is brilliant, except for "Satanic Majesties". Having said that, after "Exile" I only know the singles.
When Charlie died I thought of his intro to "Get Off My Cloud". I got the single off an Uncle when I was I kid. I thought it was the greatest rock 'n' roll single i'd ever heard. I still do. Pissed me off when I got it on CD and cassette and the drums sounded slower, like batteries dying on a tape recorder. I "Undercover of the Night" was one of the great singles of the 80s. Great guitars, great lyrics, fantastic intro, you can SEE Mick doing the rooster strut.
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Great, underrated middle period track. A Black & Blue leftover, with Wayne Perkins on lead guitar. Video is also fun. Keith looks positively robust following a few years off the heavy stuff.
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Between the Buttons is fantastic from front to back and I think it stands shoulder to shoulder with what the Beatles were doing at the same time. I have heard Mick complain about the muddy sound, but it's not something that has ever bothered me. It was also a great moment for Brian Jones, who played: organ, electric guitar, accordion, recorder, vibraphone, piano, tambourine, harmonica, dulcimer, kazoo, tuba, trombone, and trumpet!!iso74 wrote: ↑30 Aug 2021, 6:21pm"Between the Buttons" is one of the most underrated albums full stop! Not least by Mick who thinks Loog Oldham ruined it by swamping it with too many over-dubs. I don't know, I think Loog Oldham winging it in the studio is one of the things that made them so influential, inspiring all those garage bands. I think the second album they did at Chess is too polished, not as good as their first.
Charlie gives it some welly on "Complicated" another great track on it, along with "She Smiled Sweetly". In the early Rock Encyclopedias you used to read that the Stones were a great "singles band" like they didn't come up with great albums like the Beatles. But probably every album up to and including Exile is brilliant, except for "Satanic Majesties". Having said that, after "Exile" I only know the singles.
When Charlie died I thought of his intro to "Get Off My Cloud". I got the single off an Uncle when I was I kid. I thought it was the greatest rock 'n' roll single i'd ever heard. I still do. Pissed me off when I got it on CD and cassette and the drums sounded slower, like batteries dying on a tape recorder. I "Undercover of the Night" was one of the great singles of the 80s. Great guitars, great lyrics, fantastic intro, you can SEE Mick doing the rooster strut.
I've always wondered how much Oldham was actually producing by that point, however. I've read that even though he's listed as producer on those early records, much of the production work was done by the band and the engineers.
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