After many days of waiting I'm speechless. PMS :-) ("Plundered My Soul") hasn't been even released yet but it's here, safe on my hard disc. 9MB of joy, sweet 320kbps quality and french radio DJ's voice in fading somewhere in the end... Not official, not in a great packaging with lyrics and credits, but - in all of its awesomeness & greatness - now it's mine and only mine ;)
It's glorious, proud & sexy. Slow, groovy... An obvious and instant winner that missed it's time by decades. PMS probably isn't going to be played by mainstream radio stations, nor will it attract the attention of the crowds. A shame, but I don't care as now I get lost listening to it a 237th time ;-)
The single was kicked off a special, deluxe treatment of the classic album, by many fans rated as the best ever, called "Exile On Main Street". Famously recorded in Keith Richards' villa in south France, now it comes with a deluxe disc of outtakes and alternate takes. It's hard to imagine my state after first hearing of it - now I'm only familiar with one song ;)
So, it was recorded as an instrumental sometime in 1971. Keith Richards on a great, steady rhythm guitar reminding me of "Tumbling Dice" rhythm part. It's cachy, slow but rolling. Could have been higher in the mix, though. Then we have a kind of barrelhouse piano by Nick Hopkins... I can pay him the best tribute by saying that's "up to his standards". Rhythm section really sounds like the rest of Exile - kinda muddy & messy, and there lays its greatness. There are also recorded recently background vocals by Lisa Fischer and Cindy Mizelle. I think they're doing great job.
Mick's vocals were recorded in the 2010 or 2009... Also the lyrics were newly written. He sounds great, but a bit out of it - a little too loud, and you can easily hear it's not the 1972 edition of Mick Jagger, but a recent one. PMS sounds catchy due to his work but I understand that not everybody might like it, and it's a shame that he dominates the song now... Don't let that trouble you though :]
I'm wondering if Mick Taylor, the great, great lead guitarist, recorded his parts in 1971 or today. I'd love to hear him reuniting with the band after so many weak days of his solo career... He plays like back in the day. Bright fills and all... He should've take a try on the solo, though.
Can't get it out of my mind :-)
"I thought you wanted my money but you plundered my soul", sings Mick. So did the Rolling Stones :]
PS. I got the song about two hours ago... So this are just my first thoughts. Of course I will write more in the future ;)
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15 April 2010
20 April 2010
The Rolling Stones - Plundered My Soul
Like I noted before, "Plundered My Soul" is a great new single by the Rolling Stones. It came out backed by "All Down the Line", mono single from Exile On Main Street in unedited form. That pairing was a good choice! Now, on 3rd may, we're getting a new single: alternate take of ADTL :) But let's talk PMS for a while.
Lyrics are bad. Obviously a latter-day Jagger in despair... The chorus is mighty, though. Another big fault - where's the solo? Mick Taylor is playing great fills here and there, but the song desperately needs one verse less and a longer solo. I also think that Jagger is pushing too hard but what the hell, I can live with that.
Today while listening on headphones I've heard exactly what Bobby Keys is playing. I've never heard him play rhythm saxophone before! Amazing job. Full credits are as follows: Mick Jagger (voc, gtr, perc), Keith Richards (gtr), Charlie Watts (dr), Bill Wyman (bass), Nicky Hopkins (p), Mick Taylor (gtr), Bobby Keys (sax), Lisa Fischer & Cindy Mizelle (bvoc).
I'm not gonna post a download link anywhere but if you know how to use magnet links, here's one. :) But please also buy it. The Stones' sales are at all-time low!
Lyrics are bad. Obviously a latter-day Jagger in despair... The chorus is mighty, though. Another big fault - where's the solo? Mick Taylor is playing great fills here and there, but the song desperately needs one verse less and a longer solo. I also think that Jagger is pushing too hard but what the hell, I can live with that.
Today while listening on headphones I've heard exactly what Bobby Keys is playing. I've never heard him play rhythm saxophone before! Amazing job. Full credits are as follows: Mick Jagger (voc, gtr, perc), Keith Richards (gtr), Charlie Watts (dr), Bill Wyman (bass), Nicky Hopkins (p), Mick Taylor (gtr), Bobby Keys (sax), Lisa Fischer & Cindy Mizelle (bvoc).
I'm not gonna post a download link anywhere but if you know how to use magnet links, here's one. :) But please also buy it. The Stones' sales are at all-time low!
05 May 2010
The Rolling Stones - All Down the Line
Some more news concerning the release of deluxe edition of Exile On Main Street, possibly the Stones' best album, arrived. The second single after "Plundered My Soul" has just been released. It's an alternate take of "All Down the Line" and it's great, but not astonishingly different from the version we've known for years. Lots of Mick Taylor's guitar work and the general mess make it work really, really good!
It's got that Chuck Berry-esque vibe and is quite long (over 4 minutes) for a rock and roll song. Vocals are clearly not-yet-developed so Jagger shouts random phrases while the band has lots of time and space to jam over easy chords. It's so relaxed you can tell it wasn't going to be released back then. And again, like on "Plundered My Soul", Nicky Hopkins on piano shines and rolls!
Since Amazon UK is giving the single away for free but the rest of the world have to pay and I don't think it's fair, I put up a download link for free. Unfortunately it's been removed by Blogspot -_- Sorry. You can find it easily for yourself though!
It's got that Chuck Berry-esque vibe and is quite long (over 4 minutes) for a rock and roll song. Vocals are clearly not-yet-developed so Jagger shouts random phrases while the band has lots of time and space to jam over easy chords. It's so relaxed you can tell it wasn't going to be released back then. And again, like on "Plundered My Soul", Nicky Hopkins on piano shines and rolls!
Since Amazon UK is giving the single away for free but the rest of the world have to pay and I don't think it's fair, I put up a download link for free. Unfortunately it's been removed by Blogspot -_- Sorry. You can find it easily for yourself though!
22 May 2010
Deluxe Exile: comments
It's great, amazing and gorgeous - of course it is. But as always it's impossible to be 100% positive - the greatest album ever is rereleased with 10 additional bonus tracks (with ADTL single it makes it 11) and they rock, each one of them, but all in all, and compared with well-known 18 Exile songs, they somehow fade. Or maybe I'm not in the mood? That's like another new album and I know I'm going to listen to those ones often.
1. "Pass the Wine (Sophia Loren)" - at first I even didn't like it. Catchy, groovy - maybe. I just wasn't amazed, it wasn't loud enough. But then I read the lyrics (they're good!) and the refrain that goes something like "I'm glad to be alive and kicking, I'm glad to see my heart's still ticking, pass me the wine, boy, let's make some love". And I listened again and now I love everything about this song :) Lyrics, groove, Mick Taylor's fills, horns that rush to the front from time to time, harmonica, the fact that it's quite long for a song like that (almost 5 minutes). Maybe it's Keith that should get his thing louder? Harder? I don't know. Taylor should've jam more in the end and Jagger should let him improvise and stop singing :) Tenor saxophone fills in the end are great, too... In overall, it's a finished song. Well-produced. Prime stuff. Stones at their best, even if it's lacking some hooks. Could be the best song on the disk, but there are even more interesting and unexpected ones.
2. "Plundered My Soul" - discussed before. Weak lyrics and the overall sound is more recent than from 1971. But it's good!
3. "I'm Not Singifying" - I've known this tune before in a version with Keith on great rhythm guitar and loved it! Dirty and mean blues. This version is different, being led by Nicky Hopkins' piano. Oh man I miss Keith's work there! But it's improved, really. Harmonica and horns in the end make the song great for me. Vocals are so-so, Mick Taylor's fills are not that divine and a blues song without a strong solo isn't a good blues song. On the other hand, last minute... Otis would've been proud!
4. "Following the River" - heartbreaking ballad, the kind I don't like. But it's really deep :) Convincing Jagger's vocal, newly recorded of course, but... strings! Strings! Aww come on. Two songs with strings that work for me are this one and "Moonlight Mile", but it's ten times less inspired. "You always saw the best in me" line really blows me though :)
5. "Dancing in the Light" - not a rocker, but close. Up-tempo, positive, happy song. :) Kind of "nanananana na nana": you love to sing it but you never know the words. Most prominent guitarist is Mick Taylor here, Keith's work is somewhere there hidden behind him. One of the best here. Certainly above average Stones level :)
6. "So Divine (Alladin Sane)" - one of my favorites. Awesome lyrics, awesome riff, awesome melody and vocal, and even the lazy solo by Taylor is something I'd love to hear more often from him. The instrumental of this is something that you've got to smoke to, this is far less hypnotizing. "You think your love is so divine / you pour it out like it was heaven-scented wine / You think your love is all I crave / Well, I've got better things to do than be your slave" :)
7. "Loving Cup" - the well-known drunk version with vocals very similar, but overdubbed. Shame. Same great phrasing, though :) Keith's guitar is electric and way more prominent than in the released version. I like it more. Slow and sexy :) It would be the best song on the bonus Exile disk, but it's not - I've already heard that many times! The line "I'm the man who brings you roses when you ain't got none, nothin" always cheers me up :)
8. "Soul Survivor" - another alternate take. Keith sings, this time, and the lyrics are clearly not yet developed - he sings random phrases ("well I just can't fuck it! et cetera!"). Musically it's the same track as the one released before except a little bit of horns added here and there and closing piano parts. So it's a let down. Great we have a Keith track, he sings great, but it's not very interesting one.
9. "Good Time Women" - the only one that was probably untouched. Mick's vocals are from the real Exile Sessions. And we've all heard it before! It's good. Slightly worse than "Tumbling Dice" :)
10. "Title 5" - closing track. Great because it's different. 1:47 of a jam between Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards, going back to the roots of the Stones - it's hard rhythm & blues! You don't hear them play like this at all. :)
And Japanese bonus track to the bonus tracks (^^) and worldwide single not included on the regular album: alternate "All Down the Line". A rocker this disc lacks. :)
2 songs we already heard, 9 new ones but 5 of them with very minor changes. It makes it only 4 songs that are completely new out of 11. Damn it, it's the new Rolling Stones album :)
1. "Pass the Wine (Sophia Loren)" - at first I even didn't like it. Catchy, groovy - maybe. I just wasn't amazed, it wasn't loud enough. But then I read the lyrics (they're good!) and the refrain that goes something like "I'm glad to be alive and kicking, I'm glad to see my heart's still ticking, pass me the wine, boy, let's make some love". And I listened again and now I love everything about this song :) Lyrics, groove, Mick Taylor's fills, horns that rush to the front from time to time, harmonica, the fact that it's quite long for a song like that (almost 5 minutes). Maybe it's Keith that should get his thing louder? Harder? I don't know. Taylor should've jam more in the end and Jagger should let him improvise and stop singing :) Tenor saxophone fills in the end are great, too... In overall, it's a finished song. Well-produced. Prime stuff. Stones at their best, even if it's lacking some hooks. Could be the best song on the disk, but there are even more interesting and unexpected ones.
2. "Plundered My Soul" - discussed before. Weak lyrics and the overall sound is more recent than from 1971. But it's good!
3. "I'm Not Singifying" - I've known this tune before in a version with Keith on great rhythm guitar and loved it! Dirty and mean blues. This version is different, being led by Nicky Hopkins' piano. Oh man I miss Keith's work there! But it's improved, really. Harmonica and horns in the end make the song great for me. Vocals are so-so, Mick Taylor's fills are not that divine and a blues song without a strong solo isn't a good blues song. On the other hand, last minute... Otis would've been proud!
4. "Following the River" - heartbreaking ballad, the kind I don't like. But it's really deep :) Convincing Jagger's vocal, newly recorded of course, but... strings! Strings! Aww come on. Two songs with strings that work for me are this one and "Moonlight Mile", but it's ten times less inspired. "You always saw the best in me" line really blows me though :)
5. "Dancing in the Light" - not a rocker, but close. Up-tempo, positive, happy song. :) Kind of "nanananana na nana": you love to sing it but you never know the words. Most prominent guitarist is Mick Taylor here, Keith's work is somewhere there hidden behind him. One of the best here. Certainly above average Stones level :)
6. "So Divine (Alladin Sane)" - one of my favorites. Awesome lyrics, awesome riff, awesome melody and vocal, and even the lazy solo by Taylor is something I'd love to hear more often from him. The instrumental of this is something that you've got to smoke to, this is far less hypnotizing. "You think your love is so divine / you pour it out like it was heaven-scented wine / You think your love is all I crave / Well, I've got better things to do than be your slave" :)
7. "Loving Cup" - the well-known drunk version with vocals very similar, but overdubbed. Shame. Same great phrasing, though :) Keith's guitar is electric and way more prominent than in the released version. I like it more. Slow and sexy :) It would be the best song on the bonus Exile disk, but it's not - I've already heard that many times! The line "I'm the man who brings you roses when you ain't got none, nothin" always cheers me up :)
8. "Soul Survivor" - another alternate take. Keith sings, this time, and the lyrics are clearly not yet developed - he sings random phrases ("well I just can't fuck it! et cetera!"). Musically it's the same track as the one released before except a little bit of horns added here and there and closing piano parts. So it's a let down. Great we have a Keith track, he sings great, but it's not very interesting one.
9. "Good Time Women" - the only one that was probably untouched. Mick's vocals are from the real Exile Sessions. And we've all heard it before! It's good. Slightly worse than "Tumbling Dice" :)
10. "Title 5" - closing track. Great because it's different. 1:47 of a jam between Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards, going back to the roots of the Stones - it's hard rhythm & blues! You don't hear them play like this at all. :)
And Japanese bonus track to the bonus tracks (^^) and worldwide single not included on the regular album: alternate "All Down the Line". A rocker this disc lacks. :)
2 songs we already heard, 9 new ones but 5 of them with very minor changes. It makes it only 4 songs that are completely new out of 11. Damn it, it's the new Rolling Stones album :)
24 April 2010
May releases I'm waiting for
On 17th May the Rolling Stones release a bonus disc with Exile On Main Street outtakes. We already have one of these on single and "Plundered My Soul" proved it's gonna be hot ;-) Will this be the best Stones album since 1981's Tattoo You? No, probably not, but I don't care, it's like a brand new LP of the Stones screaming and playing the dirtiest rock and roll possible...
Famous Stax Records are releasing 2-CD live album by Otis Redding. I can't wait to pair it with more raw album by Jimi Hendrix called "BBC Sessions" - those two will look so beautiful together! Apart from awful cover, Live On the Sunset Strip will feature biggest-hits by Otis from 1966. Though I prefer his later performances, these ones were truly legendary. Cocaine running through Otis' veins 44 years ago will make it to your next party ;-)
Three weeks to go! Can't damn wait.
Famous Stax Records are releasing 2-CD live album by Otis Redding. I can't wait to pair it with more raw album by Jimi Hendrix called "BBC Sessions" - those two will look so beautiful together! Apart from awful cover, Live On the Sunset Strip will feature biggest-hits by Otis from 1966. Though I prefer his later performances, these ones were truly legendary. Cocaine running through Otis' veins 44 years ago will make it to your next party ;-)
Three weeks to go! Can't damn wait.
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