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I have to admit i am not a big fan of black and blue. Though i consider it the best ever recorded Stones album, it's just not very good (IMHO). No real "stones" songs apart from the quite woeful "Crazy mama". Some shining lights like Hey Negrita for me, but it just doesnt sit right to my ears. Needs 1 or 2 more songs, and rockers at that. Hot Stuff is fucking boring. Cherry oh baby just drags. Memory motel has awesome drum sounds, but goes on and on and on and stops and starts and fool to cry has those dreadful robot strings and melody is GAY!!!!!! Everyone goes on about hand of fate, and i guess its more of what i wanted, but i just dont dig the song that much.
"Rehearsing guitar players" was Keith's answer to what the album meant. A re-released version with some killer outtakes would maybe change my mind.
But i LOVE the album cover!!
GHS i like very much though i think the original murky recording was trying to out exile exile. Apart from can you hear the music (and maybe hide your love), a great album.
IORR is my fave of the 3. A very brave album at that time. Totally into black music & funk whereas everyone else was amping up the distortion and having double neck guitars and singing about trolls and wizards and beasties. A diverse album with Taylor & Preston really more or less taking over (good and bad for some people i guess). Jagger's accents are all over the shop and the songs have a great diversity. It's as far away from that horrid "California" sound as you can get, and thank bloody Yahweh for that! Its more Sly & the family stone than rolling stones in many ways. yes, i think it was a bold album for them in an era like that. Yanks had mellow shit, Poms (and Aussies) had glam. Pretty hard balancing act for a world wide act to straddle. Kudo's to them for going blacker than they ever had. funky, fun, motown - i love it!
But i can understand teen white middle class kids in Adidas Romes and white t-shirts tiring of them and going for 20 minute drums solos. Of course, us convicts had Angus & co. And Skyhooks. And Mobbsy's fave, Sherbet.
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The mid '70s albums (Read 877 times)
