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Summary: Another boring cd from a boring band !
Comment: I have tried to listen to the Rolling Stones many times but the result is always the same, I just don't like their music. I don't understand why they are so big with so limited talent. Mick Jagger is not a signer, this band should consider themself very lucky to have been in the fisrt band in the history of Rock'n'Roll because I am sure they would never have such success if their career started in the 70's when there were many more bands to choose from.
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Summary: They're rocking again
Comment: This is the best Stones album since TATTOO YOU. It is much, much better than STEEL WHEELS was, there is a wider range of material and it is better. It seems like on their latest couple of albums they were going through the motions. This one is not that way. Especially songs like "Sparks Will Fly" really kick [...], there is no filler involved. Mind you, the Stones are now past the age of "Brown Sugar" and "Rocks Off." They are no longer in their prime, but for a bunch of aging icons this really does the job. ENJOY!
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Summary: Hey, Get Some Ears
Comment: The Rolling Stones need ears. The unissued outtakes and alternate takes of these cuts are all superior, every one (same is true for "Steel Wheels"). Mostly it's a matter of Richards' guitar work being mixed way down in favor of Jagger's vocals. Strange and even fascinating odd sonic experiments are mixed down into mush. Either they work on it so hard they don't hear it any more, or Jagger's ego is the trump card on the take choices. Maybe a few decades from now the best takes will be issued and this will be tossed. An OK album as issued; brilliant if the best takes had been chosen, if not on the level of "Exile". I hate George Martin's stereo mixes of the Beatles (as opposed to their own mono choices) but it's a crime the Stones didn't have a George Martin in the 70s and 80s. Don Was on "Stripped" (an excellent overlooked album) showed what could happen if they did.
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Summary: In Retrospect, Almost A Return To Form
Comment: Middled-aged Rock Stars, much less ordinary folk, can never be young men again, no matter how much we and they wish it. Sensibilities change and mature, and one can only express what one's feelings at that moment. For this, "Voodoo Lounge" may ultimately be the Stones equivalent of Dylan's "Time Out Of Mind," a rocking yet rootsy take on aging and the horrors of the modern world.
Take it out of the context of it 1994 release date, when it was obscured by the height of Grunge, it comes off as very listenable indeed.
Mick was quoted at the time as being upset with producer Don Was for trying to make it too much like "Exile," but what could be wrong with aiming at that album's expermentalism and eclecticism?
"Love Is Strong" and "You Got Me Rocking" are two juggernaut singles, the latter having particularly good literary lyrics by Mick. "Sparks Will Fly" is just about up there with them, but it's on the ballads that dominate the album where the band really shines, in a way reminescent of the ballad-heavy "Tattoo You."
"New Faces" is like "Lady Jane" revisited, Mick singing over dulcimers and harpsichords of a young buck, the man he used to identify with well, out to steal his girl, as comforting a song in lean times as "Waiting On A Friend."
"The Worst," beautiful Keith ballad with lovely Irish fiddle and Ronnie's lightest slide work yet.
"Moon Is Up," another lovelorn ballad, with Charlie's haunting echoing drums (recorded in a stairwell) and Ronnie's spidery pedal steel,
heightining the midnight ambience.
"Out Of Tears," (don't the Stones do great with songs that start with "Out of..."?) a nice, slightly repetitive ballad, with some of Mick's best singing until the "Alfie" soundtrack (check it out, it's good!)
"Brand New Car" and "Suck On The Jugular" (Despite great horns on the former and hip-hop drumming on the latter) are tired sexual predator
come-ons, and the only letdowns on the record.
"Sweethearts Together," at first treacly saccharine, grows in charm with every listen. A rare return to Mick and Keith harmonies on a Freddy Fenderesque Tejano waltz, with accordians that would charm the ghost of Brian Jones.
"Blinded By Rainbows," about the tunnel-vision of political martyrs and the destruction in their wake, might be Mick's best, most heartfelt song in ten years either direction. Nice choruses.
"Baby Break It Down" cops the lick from Kool & The Gang's "Celebrate"
and makes a nice, gritty groove - 'Does one or the other of us have to be the boss' - great Mick relationship line.
"Thru and Thru." Screw its use on that celebration of psychopaths, "The Sopranos," and just enjoy a slow-building, almost Dire Straits love song from Keith. Lisa Fischer comes through well.
It will never be "Sticky Fingers," but "Voodoo" gets better as we all get closer to the rocking chair.
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Summary: this cd rocks
Comment: great songs a couple from the movie the replacements
love it
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