Yes… It's Only Rock 'n Roll (but we like it!)

No "super deluxe box? Come on!!

Released Octobre 18, 1974. The last album with Mick Taylor as a member. First album produced by Mick and Keith; first time they are referred as “The Glimmer Twins”.

First Ronnie Wood contribution, IORR (the song) appeared on the album as “Inspiration by Ronnie Wood”, the single was released on Mick’s birthday July 26, 1974. The original version was composed by Ronnie, recorded at his home, The Wick, with Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Kenney Jones, December 1973.

Here this version:

https://youtu.be/_fY0U4rlhFE?feature=shared

(Note: According to Nico Zentgraf, Willie Weeks bass and Stu piano parts were overdubbed later).

https://www.rocksoff.org/headers2024/j4-iorr-50th.jpg
50 years ago today! Lick to listen © Guy Peellaert

I feel that between GHS and Black and Blue, IORR always seems to be a bit forgotten and underrated...for a while I didn't even have a clue it was an actual album idk why ;D :-X

I really love Till the Next Goodbye and Time Waits For No One and I like this video:

https://youtu.be/WETzhm0N9G8?feature=shared

If exile is the party and goats head is the hangover… then it’s only rock and roll is the hair of the dog!

...and the drummer thinks he is DY-NO-MITE!!

Thinking of you Revy!!

https://rocksoff.org/cgi-bin/messageboard/YaBB.pl?action=print;num=1612444010


"Rock critic Lester Bangs disparaged the album in The Village Voice, much like Goats Head Soup, saying, "The Stones have become oblique in their old age, which is just another word for perverse except that perverse is the corniest concept extant as they realized at inception... Soup was friendly and safe. I want the edge and this album doesn't reassure me that I'll get it, what a curious situation to be stuck in, but maybe that's the beauty of the Stones, hah, hah, kid? This album is false. Numb. But it cuts like a dull blade. Are they doing the cutting, or are we?"

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Only_Rock_%27n_Roll

Pdog wrote on Oct 18^th, 2024 at 6:17am:

If exile is the party and goats head is the hangover… then it’s only rock and roll is the hair of the dog!

GRAND SLAMMIN', HAT TRICKIN' posting there folks!!

Pdog wrote on Oct 18^th, 2024 at 6:17am:

If exile is the party and goats head is the hangover… then it’s only rock and roll is the hair of the dog!

LOL, got to confess I checked "urban dictionary" to get the joke! "hair of the dog that bit you"

;D ;D ;D ;D

and "Black and Blue" is??? Ready for another party

BTW, just listened the whole album, loud, my original LP! What a great album, so many memories, good old times

https://rocksoff.org/h9-stuwallet.JPG

retrospectively....another great album from the Stones that I can listen to back and forth and not get bored.....love it

Where is the deluxe version

Travesty this doesn’t get a deluxe release

mojoman wrote on Oct 19^th, 2024 at 11:37pm:

Travesty this doesn’t get a deluxe release

Agreed .......who does their  release program? Awful job