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Most underrated Stones songs are Yesterday's Papers and Connection, both from Between the Buttons.
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Heston wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 7:15pm
Most underrated Stones songs are Yesterday's Papers and Connection, both from Between the Buttons.
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.
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Heston wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 7:15pm
Most underrated Stones songs are Yesterday's Papers and Connection, both from Between the Buttons.
Both really great songs.
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Sparky wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 7:46pm
Heston wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 7:15pm
Most underrated Stones songs are Yesterday's Papers and Connection, both from Between the Buttons.
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.
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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Sparky wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 8:19pm
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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Agreed. This is a really good track.

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Sparky wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 8:19pm
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.
If You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
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WestwayKid wrote:
27 Aug 2021, 12:51pm
Sparky wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 8:19pm
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.
If You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
when Mick had his heart surgery I kept singing "I got one heart and it hurts like hell"
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tepista wrote:
27 Aug 2021, 1:41pm
WestwayKid wrote:
27 Aug 2021, 12:51pm
Sparky wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 8:19pm
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.
If You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
when Mick had his heart surgery I kept singing "I got one heart and it hurts like hell"
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tepista wrote:
27 Aug 2021, 1:41pm
WestwayKid wrote:
27 Aug 2021, 12:51pm
Sparky wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 8:19pm
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.
If You Can't Rock Me is another underrated track from that LP.
when Mick had his heart surgery I kept singing "I got one heart and it hurts like hell"
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.
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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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Heston wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 7:15pm
Most underrated Stones songs are Yesterday's Papers and Connection, both from Between the Buttons.
"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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iso74 wrote:
30 Aug 2021, 6:21pm
Heston wrote:
26 Aug 2021, 7:15pm
Most underrated Stones songs are Yesterday's Papers and Connection, both from Between the Buttons.
"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.
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!!

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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