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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #25 - May 12^th, 2015 at 4:50pm

Emotional Rescue is utter rubbish. It's a throw together. The poor man's Some Girls. A piss poor follow up to Miss You, faux cockney accents on songs like Where the Boys go. Ughh! "Ill be down the pub I'll be playing pool and drinking." And; " I'm playing football there's nothin' on the tele'" An album that shows the attitude "Let's just use the left over Paris stuff we left off Some Girls."Let's face it, weren't those who went out and bought it in 1980 really fucking disappointed? Compared to Pete Townsend's 'Empty Glass', released at about the same time; 'Empty Glass leaves Emotional Rescue for dead. When Tattoo You was released in August '81, I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Everything about Emotional Rescue is awful, their worst album cover ever, the attempt to reproduce a 'Some Girls' clone, 'She's so Hot', 'Indian Girl' shit! That is bollocks. 'Send it to me'. It goes on and on. I think some people only see it in light of retrospect, nostalgia. Nah, it was crap in 1980, and it's still crap but, Dirty Work is worse by far.

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #27 - May 13^th, 2015 at 12:09pm

gypsymofo60 wrote on May 12^th, 2015 at 4:50pm:

Emotional Rescue is utter rubbish. It's a throw together. The poor man's Some Girls. A piss poor follow up to Miss You, faux cockney accents on songs like Where the Boys go. Ughh! "Ill be down the pub I'll be playing pool and drinking." And; " I'm playing football there's nothin' on the tele'" An album that shows the attitude "Let's just use the left over Paris stuff we left off Some Girls."Let's face it, weren't those who went out and bought it in 1980 really fucking disappointed? Compared to Pete Townsend's 'Empty Glass', released at about the same time; 'Empty Glass leaves Emotional Rescue for dead. When Tattoo You was released in August '81, I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Everything about Emotional Rescue is awful, their worst album cover ever, the attempt to reproduce a 'Some Girls' clone, 'She's so Hot', 'Indian Girl' shit! That is bollocks. 'Send it to me'. It goes on and on. I think some people only see it in light of retrospect, nostalgia. Nah, it was crap in 1980, and it's still crap but, Dirty Work is worse by far.

I bought ER and Empty Glass in 1980 and I enjoyed them both equally...probably played ER twice as much tho. So, NO, I was not disappointed at all.

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #28 - May 13^th, 2015 at 1:04pm

Well I have listened to Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Exile [Sticky things make me feel bad], and I have to decide if Emotional Rescue -the whole album- is good or not.

It's a great party album.

It's not "bluesy," it's not "edgy," but the opening minutes of this thing makes me wanna shake the thing with some hot negrita in Brazil.

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #29 - May 13^th, 2015 at 4:51pm

job wrote on May 13^th, 2015 at 12:09pm:

gypsymofo60 wrote on May 12^th, 2015 at 4:50pm:

Emotional Rescue is utter rubbish. It's a throw together. The poor man's Some Girls. A piss poor follow up to Miss You, faux cockney accents on songs like Where the Boys go. Ughh! "Ill be down the pub I'll be playing pool and drinking." And; " I'm playing football there's nothin' on the tele'" An album that shows the attitude "Let's just use the left over Paris stuff we left off Some Girls."Let's face it, weren't those who went out and bought it in 1980 really fucking disappointed? Compared to Pete Townsend's 'Empty Glass', released at about the same time; 'Empty Glass leaves Emotional Rescue for dead. When Tattoo You was released in August '81, I breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Everything about Emotional Rescue is awful, their worst album cover ever, the attempt to reproduce a 'Some Girls' clone, 'She's so Hot', 'Indian Girl' shit! That is bollocks. 'Send it to me'. It goes on and on. I think some people only see it in light of retrospect, nostalgia. Nah, it was crap in 1980, and it's still crap but, Dirty Work is worse by far.

I bought ER and Empty Glass in 1980 and I enjoyed them both equally...probably played ER twice as much tho. So, NO, I was not disappointed at all.

[b]Totally off subject I know but 1980 was a crap year for rock anyway. Empty Glass is one of my favourite lps though, Uncle Pete's best solo effort by far. But my real fav' of 1980 was The Jam's 'Sound Affects'. Still EmoRes or, anything for that matter has to be better than Hazy Fantazy's 'Battle Hymns For Children'. Worst album ever made.

Oh! And speaking of 1980, how could I forget the debut LP from INXS. I predicted they'd be big but, even I was surprised at their global success. Oh! Micheal, such a sad and pointless way to exit stage left. Why do rock stars always choke,(pardon the pun) I really didn't mean to do that. at around the same age? Can you really get so world weary so young?

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #30 - May 13^th, 2015 at 10:41pm

Well...if we are goinfgto fully hijack this thread AND we are going to talk 1980...

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1980

A FUCKING MONUMENTAL YEAR for music!!!

Adam and The Ants
Split Enz
Police
Clash
TalkingHeads
PiL
X
Ramones
Rockpile
Pschedelic Furs
Patti Smith
Cure
Devo
Specials
Squeeze
B-52s
Gary Numan

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #34 - May 14^th, 2015 at 7:30pm

Paranoid Android wrote on May 13^th, 2015 at 10:41pm:

Well...if we are goinfgto fully hijack this thread AND we are going to talk 1980...

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1980

A FUCKING MONUMENTAL YEAR for music!!!

Adam and The Ants
Split Enz
Police
Clash
TalkingHeads
PiL
X
Ramones
Rockpile
Pschedelic Furs
Patti Smith
Cure
Devo
Specials
Squeeze
B-52s
Gary Numan

Agreed. And to add :

Scary Monsters (one of my top 10 albums ever)
The River
Sandinista ('London Calling' was Dec '79)
Dirty Mind

Patti Smith had quit by 1980 though. No albums between 1979 and 1988.

A final great year for rock n roll before all those awful synth bands took over the mainstream - even though it ended badly with Lennon being shot.

Unfortunately some legendary acts like the Stones, Neil Young and Dylan all released what were by their standards sub-par albums, though.

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #35 - May 14^th, 2015 at 8:29pm

Gazza wrote on May 14^th, 2015 at 7:30pm:

Paranoid Android wrote on May 13^th, 2015 at 10:41pm:

Well...if we are goinfgto fully hijack this thread AND we are going to talk 1980...

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1980

A FUCKING MONUMENTAL YEAR for music!!!

Adam and The Ants
Split Enz
Police
Clash
TalkingHeads
PiL
X
Ramones
Rockpile
Pschedelic Furs
Patti Smith
Cure
Devo
Specials
Squeeze
B-52s
Gary Numan

Agreed. And to add :

Scary Monsters (one of my top 10 albums ever)
The River
Sandinista ('London Calling' was Dec '79)
Dirty Mind

Patti Smith had quit by 1980 though. No albums between 1979 and 1988.

A final great year for rock n roll before all those awful synth bands took over the mainstream - even though it ended badly with Lennon being shot.

Unfortunately some legendary acts like the Stones, Neil Young and Dylan all released what were by their standards sub-par albums, though.

still some great music in those records.
also enjoy

empty glass
gabriel "melt"
doc at the radar station
grace and danger
remain in light

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #36 - May 16^th, 2015 at 7:33pm

Bridges to Babylon was an excellent record. A total turn from Voodoo Lounge (<which in the end I liked better ...but still).

Bridges was a colder, darker, personal album. Odd, in how it twisted in how it runs. A very different type of album from them but still had quality songs and some interesting, tricky production techniques all through.

The one song keeping it still categorized as a Stones album is "Too Tight". This one late in the album made it to the point where BTB while different and off the beating path a bit for them, could still be labled as a Rolling Stones album. If Too Tight would not of been included ...it may of been just a tad too much in another direction, or tooooo different all together. It gave it Juuuuuust enough to not be 110% too much the other way.

Low Down is a great track. Naturally, Anybody Seen My Baby was an R & B influenced great song.

Album exists at slowed pace. Nothing real fast or happy. No You got Me Rockings ... No Sparks Will Fly here in this one. Keiths two ending songs that run together make it very interesting in the closing. This album doesn't rock .. it just exists. It grinds, at times burns ... but doesn't rock like Voodoo Lounge or a Bigger Bang.

Mick was right ... Voodoo Lounge 2 would of been sort of stupid and it would not of worked.

BTB is ... mmmmmm.. "complex" but in an intriguing way. It also is an album that ages real well.

**As one revisits it today or years later you realize more how quality and credible it actually was / is. While I do favor Voodoo Lounge .. BTB was darn strong ... just in another direction entirely... which kept The Stones from repeating themselves, and relevant.

Bridges To Babylon while very different and tricky at times, is a credible, strong Rolling Stones album that has it's own end spot on the shelf... (as well ...it has Gazza's strong stamp of approval lol ... seems as though he was /is really impressed with this one)

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Re: Bridges To Babylon...Revisited
Reply #37 - May 19^th, 2015 at 4:59pm

job wrote on May 14^th, 2015 at 11:19am:

1980 was awesome for music. I've always said that 1984 was the apex of society. Everything has gone downhill since then.

Absolutely. A great year and, as you say in not so many words, a pivotal point in modern cultural society. Then maybe I'm just a tad nostalgic where '84 is concerned. But, lo and behold no Stones album. Strange days indeed.

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Reply #38 - May 20^th, 2015 at 2:06am

Gazza wrote on May 14^th, 2015 at 7:30pm:

Paranoid Android wrote on May 13^th, 2015 at 10:41pm:

Well...if we are goinfgto fully hijack this thread AND we are going to talk 1980...

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1980

A FUCKING MONUMENTAL YEAR for music!!!

Adam and The Ants
Split Enz
Police
Clash
TalkingHeads
PiL
X
Ramones
Rockpile
Pschedelic Furs
Patti Smith
Cure
Devo
Specials
Squeeze
B-52s
Gary Numan

Agreed. And to add :

Scary Monsters (one of my top 10 albums ever)
The River
Sandinista ('London Calling' was Dec '79)
Dirty Mind

Patti Smith had quit by 1980 though. No albums between 1979 and 1988.

A final great year for rock n roll before all those awful synth bands took over the mainstream - even though it ended badly with Lennon being shot.

Unfortunately some legendary acts like the Stones, Neil Young and Dylan all released what were by their standards sub-par albums, though.

Isn't that when Patti Smith fell off stage and had to retire? Or was it because she married 'Sonic'? Wave's one of her better albums anyway. More music and less, what did Jagger call it, Intellectual posing? All that Rimbaud rubbish.

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