gypsymofo60
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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.
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