I'm listening to Voodoo Lounge. 1994. Great album and an even better tour.

Some things stand out on this:

Charlie is recorded very well. He sounds incredible.

Keith's solo on You Got Me Rocking is one of his best.

His playing on Thru and Thru is unlike what he did before. It's completely different and instantly just like him.

I like Darryl's grooves. I thought he was a good addition to the band in the studio and on the stage.

Sticky Fingers Live.

The Rolling Stones Live in Exotic "Honolulu" on vinyl.

Sticky Fingers live

Some songs from Dirty work (seems I'm the only one who likes this album)

Emotional rescue (this one is complete underrated in comparison to sg & ty)

And if you didn't figure it out - I'm a fan of Dirty Work as well.

Sticky Fingers NEW. Exile, Keep Your Motor Running(otherwise known as The Lost Live Album, Philly, and Houston, 1972), Sonic Barbeque,(Jean Claude Memorial, Europe, Mostly Essen,1973), and Ladies & Gents, Baby Don't Do That, an updated version of the Ladies & Gent's sountrack. I'm doing an old fashioned audio cassette run of the best of 71, to 73, OCD. It's a hoorible affliction LOL.

Gimme Shelter wrote on Jul 7^th, 2015 at 9:29pm:

Oh yeah! Forgot that. Very impressed. Wonderful restoration. I've long had a couple of boots,(DVD, video), but this is superb. I didn't really expect much, but I've been more than impressed. Checked out ordering the three disc Sticky, 200 quid!!!!!! Get fucked! Australia??? What a backwater. No wonder it's at the arsehole end of the planet, perfectly placed geographically to receive the the title of Rectus Pacificus. They didn't explore it in 1770, they stuck a probe up the coastlines looking for polyps. " No polyps Guv'" "OK!" Let's turn it into a penal colony.' It was felons who came here and it's still in the genes. Robbing it's people like there's no tomorrow.

200 quid! You must be 'aving a laugh! I didn't buy any of those deluxe Exile, Grrrr, or Charlie is My Darling box sets. Not because I couldn't, but because they were so damned over priced. Just out of curiosity; where have all the Brits on the board gone. And God! How I miss Sir Stonesalot. He had such an encyclopaedic, and eclectic knowledge of US, Brit' and even Australian music. Any American who listened to Died Pretty was on the ball, well and truly. We used to have some great online jousting, hilarious! Wherever you are my online American jousting friend, I sincerely hope things are well for you and yours. I sure do miss ya. 

WaiteringOnAFiend wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 12:57am:

What's your fucking gripe shit for brains?

I just pulled out Love You Live after many years yesterday.  Man, is side 4 a letdown after side 3.  Every time I listen to it, I try to figure out what Jagger says right before Starfucker without success.  Sounds like "nisbit."

I understand why people dislike much of Love You Live, it's definitely a Stones fan's album. It was the third album I, ummm acquired. Still have my original 1977 vinyl copy. Sounds as good today as it did then.

I used to buy the records, then record them straight away and only listen to the tapes, that's why my vinyl still exists today. I just purchased a new turntable to integrate into my existing system, wow! Was I surprised, as the turntable was a very good one. Ya gotta turn 'em up of course, but fuck the neighbours, neighbours,neighbours, neighbours, NEIGHBOURS, yes I got neighbours, doin' my head in--- all the fucking time.

Always wondering with this kind of posts..... doesn't anyone play the first albums from the early sixties anymore? Of course the late sixties till the mid seventies was their best period, but still I play the old ones on a regular basis. I love those early albums dearly, but many of you don't seem to care about them. They are rarely mentioned in this kind of posts. Or am I wrong??

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 6^th, 2015 at 7:16pm:


I'm a witness, we heard and sang it at PA's car

gypsymofo60 wrote on Jul 8^th, 2015 at 10:56pm:

He's short of breath. he says; THIS IS IT![/quoteSorry, I was wrong. It's, "LISTEN."

I've been listening to disc one of the Singles Years and Goat's Head Soup.

What is never mentioned around here are the SACD releases that came out roughly 10-12 years ago. I bought a SACD player just for them and it was the best audio investment I've ever made.

The Best of Mick Jagger and SuperHeavy 
I know I like His Voice.
Please don't leave Me Don't you Go.....

Oh I almost forgot. I wasn't that impressed. Now Blu-Ray is supposed to reproduce what an SACD player produced. Nah! Bullshit! Got ripped. Take Keith's attitude. It's alesson learnt. Much like Quadrophonic in the 70s, a quick death. Dat tape anyone? Now they really were the pants.

Earlier: Sticky Fingers
Now: Some Girls

If you listen carefully, Let it Bleed and especially Sticky Fingers are the blueprints for nearly every 1-disc sized Stones album made thereafter, as far as song sequencing goes.  Exception would be the fast side/slow side Tattoo You, something you couldn't repeat in the CD age.

Me, I'm listening to B2B a lot, but I've decided that my favorite Stones is Goats Head Soup, and I say it's my favorite album of all albums just to piss off the haters.  This leaves out a lot of contenders, like Astral Weeks and Joy Division's Closer, and Exile, but its worth it to revive GHS's reputation, which is better than imagined at the release time.  It was also the first current Stones studio album I got as a pre-teen (I already had Hot Rocks and Ya-Ya's).

I remember the great Xmas when I unwrapped Hot Rocks, and how my grandma pitched a fit when my mom bought me Ya-Ya's with two tits on the cover.  (For her sins, she had to hear that album endlessly, at full blast.)  I remember that Al Green's "Call Me" was on the radio when "Angie" broke and I got GHS.  I remember wanting Exile the summer it broke, but somehow not buying it until after I first saw the Stones in 1975, which was the first thing I did after the show.  By that time I had a shitpot of other Stones, and really loved More Hot Rocks.  Then came my bootleg phase....

How about a Stones Album Memories thread?

andrews27 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am:

Nice post.

And I think Goats Head, along with IORR and Black and Blue, are as strong as the Big Four (BB, LIB, SF and EOMS). So there.

And oddly enough, in Roy Carr's "Illustrated History" book from '76, in his review of GHS he compared it to Al Green saying (roughly) "aside from Al Green, GHS has the deepest grooves in pop music today".

andrews27 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am:
I don't know if GHS is my absolute favourite, but it's right up there amongst my fav's. It's so highly underrated it's ridiculous. What a record! As for a Stones memories thread, st real memory concerns a Friday evening in 1964, I was 3,(believe it or not), I was playing on the floor with some of my Gran's ornaments; sadly she passed away this week aged 2 weeks off 101. Suddenly there was this huge fuss.

Comments like "corrr, 'ave a look at that gob!" " Oh! Gawd! That's revolting!" "That shouldn't be on TV." My father- "Oi Mum, Come an' 'ave a look at this." My Mother and Gran were cooking in the kitchen.

My Gran went nuts. "OH NO!...They're horrible, horrid I tell you. Dirty, scruffy, lay-abouts." The commotion grabbed my attention, I'd heard of and seen the Stones before, and thought to myself, 'Oh! It's just the Stones.But from that moment on; although I would not start buying their records for years to come I was hooked. Whenever they were on TV I'd be glued to the screen, fascinated by their attitude, and image.

I've also been listening to Paris 1970,(although the sound quality is not great on that.) And the fabulous Get Yer Leed's Lungs Out. The sound quality on that is the business.

It's amazing that in 1971 they could get a boot to sound as good as Leeds. It is definitely one of my favourite boots pre 1978. Following another recent thread concerning the lack of talk about the early LPs, I think we are all in agreement that for their time and place they were top notch. I think only The Beatles early albums surpassed them, and then only production wise, and those fabulous harmonies between Lennon &$ McCartney.

Or maybe deep down we feel those very early LPs are now a bit dated. Of course we would never admit such sacrilege. As great an album such as AFTERMATH was, apart from a couple of real gems like UNDER MY THUMB, I often feel that around the early 80s it, and certain other LPs of that period often felt the same, dated.

This is why I like Their Satanic Majesties so much. It sort of defies, or transcends it's time. I know a lot of people hate it, and I can understand why, but as a one off, experiment, not to be repeated, or followed up, I think it stands up pretty well. Much better than BETWEEN THE BUTTONS (UK version.) Anyway as far as I am concerned, damn the critics, the jaded writers of the NME, Melody Maker, Rolling Stone, etc. Starting with JJF all the way through to SOME GIRLS, 10 YEARS EVRYTHING THEY DID was either good, or just brilliant. I never listen to just one STONES album at a time, I listen to them  in eras, like 68 to 71, and so on.

I usually listen the boys on random,
but my main ones are
sticky
exile
voodoo

And of course rarities,
I have the limited edition where
they photoshopped Bill out of the picture....

andrews27 wrote on Jul 24^th, 2015 at 8:28am:

Yeah! The versions of Leeds, March 1971, or 'GET YOUR LEEDS LUNGS OUT' are all missing the first two tracks you mentioned. That intro does give the LP a disjointed feel at first. But then it seems to just take off. Magic! Maybe there's a better boot somewhere which retained the the proper intro, but I've never come across one yet.

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 28^th, 2015 at 11:11pm:

Probably THE most underrated song they ever wrote and recorded. I love that song too. GHS is a brilliant LP. I think in Britain it was released just as this mythological love for Exile was beginning, and it got lost in the emergence of Glam rock, Bowie, Bolan, Elton, Slade, Sweet. I remember buying it on vinyl in 78, a few months before Some Girls was Released, I just couldn't stop playing it. But here we were inundated with the (what I refer to as the masked copies), The bet you keep your pussy clean line was deliberately distorted.

The programme editor wouldn't allow us to play Star Star on our FM Rock Features radio show. Imagine distorting the pussy line when the the phrase starfucker, starfucker goes on and on throughout the entire song. Baffled me.

But yes GHS without doubt is a greatly underrated LP, and Winter is such a magical track. With Wild Horses, Let It Loose, and Moonlight Mile it is without doubt one of their real tear-jerkers. You have very good taste.

Thanks to a very helpful person, I am now listening to the Raleigh Zip Code show.

Paranoid Android wrote on Jul 29^th, 2015 at 6:19am:

Well I actually joined the asylum as you say, way back in 2001. Just haven't had time to keep up until now. Thanks for link man and best wishes. Mofo

I feel the opposite on all counts regarding Ronnie.  I loved his Faces work and guitar on Rod Stewart's early, best LPs.  His own records have been spotty but full of memorable highlights that I wouldn't part with.

If he doesn't challenge them enough, it's because they resist challenge, and I think that's been a downer for him over the years.  Still, he's made many uncredited contributions to their songwriting.  I can't imagine any guitarist lasting longer with them - certainly not the American options they tried on Black and Blue.  And Ronnie's longevity may be an uncredited part of the longevity of the Stones: every lost guitarist would have been an opportunity to break up or go on hiatus.