i am just listening to this album for the first time, and i have to say it is pretty damn good. i'm not sure what i was expecting, but it seems everyone always says the stones run from beggar's banquet to exile on main street was their peak. this album can hang with those.

I love it and made my original Listmania. That was a mistake though because I do actually like other albums by the Stones a lot more. I was going thru a Goats Head Soup phase at the time, but still love that album.

i've got mixed feelings about this one, but 100 Years Ago remains one of my top 10 Stones songs. When I first got to college I would listen to that song every morning on my walk to my first class and it still makes me think of freakishly cold Pittsburgh mornings.

at the same time this album has the fewest standout tracks for me, and you can totally hear Keef at his druggy worst. Sure, Mick Taylor was there, but not in any real sense.

Outside of Dancin With Mr. D and Angie, I think this album is incredible. As Cotton mentioned, 100 Years Ago is the tops; Doo Doo Doo is the theme song for driving very fast, very fucked up at night and suddenly turning your headlights off; Silver Train, Starfucker, yeah man, eat a handful of pills and go to town.

If mine were opposable, I'd give it two thumbs up.

a fun, drugged out trip. haven't played it in ages. need to.

played it daily while going to work at a shitty job in 1989. it got me through.

I've been listening to alot of Stones recently but don't own Goat's Head Soup, although, I have heard it and thought it was pretty good.

Steve

very solid.
very solid indeed.

after typing that first post last night i stopped to think about this album and how much beef Charlie Watts' drums seem to heft on this album. Not to take away from anything he'd done previous, but it's definitely more of a muscular rock sound as opposed to the jazzy-blues sound he usually goes for. I'm not sure if this is due to Jimmy Miller losing it or what, but I never really noticed that aspect of this album before. Just thinking out loud, really.

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Word, and Keef is ALL OVER this album. The guitars are everywhere and in various textures. Crunchy and murky.

I think he was really holding things together at this point when Jagger was really embracing his rock stardom and before he became a the world's greatest heroin junkie in the upcoming years.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this album, because it was a later purchase for me, and all of the reviews available basically said it was a monumental piece of shit let down compared to the magnum opus of Exile on Main St. Bloor and Cotton got i t basically right. In my mind all of the even tracks are fucking awesome, and most of the odd are near terrible. Bloor can say what he wants, buts Angie, with the whispers, is one of the most monged out songs ever recorded. Not a fave at first, but I came around to love it. Heartbreaker is indeed a fine soundtrack for nefarious deeds, and Starfucker remains uber lecherous and still a song that'll still get them arrested for playing.

For many this represents the start of the ending for the classic Stones period. (You can argue Brian's death trul was, but whatever) But I think heraing it now, you kind of see how hard it would be for anyone to keep up their record, especially after the 68-72 period, and the fact this is still enjoyable, and they didn't decide to "move in a different artistic direction" is a testament to what they've always been about.

i always felt like this was Keith's bottom rung. Well, this and the next one, anyway. But yeah, he probably just sat around with his kid in his lap smacked out of his gourd doing the overdubs. Crunchy is def. the appropriate word there.

"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" is my favorite Stones song (right up there with "Bitch"), largely on the basis of Charlie Watts' kick-ass rat-a-tat-tat drumming which so perfectly serves as the gunfire depicted in the song. Also, I can't ever get enough of Mick singing, "The PO-lice in New York City..." He got all Meldrick and shit. It's one of the grittiest rock songs ever recorded.