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| Date Reviewed: 06/16/2003 |
- Medgar Evers
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Summary: 2003-06-16 04:24:00 Where to start? "Sway" and "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" were absent on "Hot Rocks" and "Forty Licks", but are nearly up to par with the others. "Wild Horses" may very well be the Stones' best ballad, the intertwining guitars spinning tales of sorrow and regret. And the album's conclusion, "Moonlight Mile"--shivers of cocaine and symphonic orgasms--is simply epic.
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| Date Reviewed: 11/02/2001 |
- ellajedlicka21
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Summary: 2001-11-02 02:47:00 It is the last really good album the Stones released. Brown Sugar is a great starting song for this album.
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| Date Reviewed: 12/29/2007 |
- bLt
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Summary: 2007-12-29 09:17:00 cant you hear me knocking, astonishing. What a beginning lick & eventual transition to... rock jazz? rest of it is a keeper for this stones fan. rock brown sugar/bitch, country twang - something about a cadillac & little suzy, rock jazz, rock ballad- sister morph, love song white horses,
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| Date Reviewed: 09/05/2007 |
- rayrose
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Summary: 2007-09-05 02:41:00 this,exile and tattoo you are the cream of the crop.true rock n roll.fave:moonlight mile
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| Date Reviewed: 06/11/2007 |
- Hseemoore
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Summary: 2007-06-11 10:52:00 Stones at their peak, what else can you say. If not a 5er then go listen to Back for petes sake
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| Date Reviewed: 04/07/2007 |
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Strengths: Muscle Shoals, Ry Cooder & Billy Preston, first 5 tracks(side one on vinyl), birth of "The Tongue."
Weaknesses: "Brown Sugar" released as single, the zipper, rear cover copied Neil Young's "After The Goldrush."
Summary: The bluesy alive atmosphere of the Muscle Shoals environment and their resident players there allowed the Stones to reinject/reawaken/rejuvenate their not-so-latent influences after "Begger's Banquet" & "Let It Bleed." This LP represents as close as we can get to contemplating "wish I'd been there." Upon it's initial release, the LP packaging introduced a new level of sensory imagery on par with today's. I believe this LP represents the first time we laid eyes upon "The Tongue" logo. The zipper, however, has been gouging the rear cover of my "Exile..." LP over the years. One last obscurity: get out the LP version, pull out the inner sleeve, and read producer Jimmy Miller's small-print advice in the lower right-hand corner!! Yet another album "made loud to be played loud!!"
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| Date Reviewed: 03/28/2007 |
- GreggOrange
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Summary: 2007-03-28 03:04:00 One of the best Stones albums of all time. How can you go wrong with "Brown Sugar", "Bitch" and "Sway" all on one album?
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| Date Reviewed: 03/26/2007 |
- oscargamblesfro
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Summary: 2007-03-26 09:20:00 Yeah, I believe they should have hung it up years ago, the last time I saw these ancients on tv, it looked like freaking Mumm-Ra from "The Thundercats" was in the band. I've rated it before, but I'm surprised it's so low on the list. Everyone knows hits like "Brown Sugar" and 'Wild Horses" which, though great, have lost their luster for me since I've known those songs since I was in junior high, and songs like "Can't You Hear Me Knockin,'" and "Bitch" are still FM favorites: but the strength of this great album is in the diversity and the awesome power of the less familiar tracks: "Sway," which had such an exciting intro, "I Got The Blues," ( a strong contender for the best soul inflected tune by a rock band I've ever heard) "Sister Morphine," one of the best songs about drugs in the history of the genre, the amusing "Dead Flowers," which comes across as a kind of simultaneously touching tribute to, and parody of country music, and the ( for me anyway) immortal, Eastern influenced, "Moonlight Mile" which I feel is not only one of the greatest Stones tracks of all time, but one of the greatest rock tunes ever.I'll sound like an old crust, but I just don't believe that records come out with quite as much depth, power, and versatility like this one did anymore...5 stars, and not rounded to 5 either..Arguably the best rock album to come out in 1971.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/27/2005 |
- edt4
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Summary: 2005-10-27 02:58:00 My favorite Stones album, put out during that golden era when they truly qualified as "the greatest rock band ever". This was the pinnacle of their raucous magnificence; everything after this was a depressing descent into commerce-fueled self-parody. "Sway" is an amazingly hard-edged song and "Sister Morphine" is, next to "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground, the most effective anti-drug piece you'll ever hear. As overplayed as it is, "Dead Flowers" contains the kind of joyous f-you lyrics they just don't write anymore and fills me with exuberance every time I hear it. For those of the younger generation who justly consider the Rolling Stones as they're presently constituted to be a joke, check this collection out, or any of the earlier CD's. When they were great, they were the greatest.
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| Date Reviewed: 05/18/2005 |
- kingguiness
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Summary: 2005-05-18 04:32:00 A brilliant rock album and possibly the Stone's best.
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| Date Reviewed: 01/01/2005 |
- lucasboy
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Summary: 2005-01-01 12:47:00 love it! "Brown Sugar" is without a doubt there best song.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/22/2004 |
- Djahuti
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Summary: 2004-10-22 07:48:00 Probably their very best album.Not ONE weak song- and plenty of flavors: from balls out rockin (Brown Sugar,Bitch)to gut wrenching despair (Wild Horses,Sister Morphine),and everything in between.Check out the colossal groove of "Can't you here me Knocking" for a truly great Stones jam.
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| Date Reviewed: 06/09/2003 |
- the transgressors
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Summary: 2003-06-09 01:14:00 A damn close to perfect album, Ry Cooder's guitar additions complimenmt the Stones quite well. Moonlight Mile, Sister Morphine, Wild Horses(started as a lullaby Keith sang to his kid), I've Got The Blues, Sway...I'd have to put this right beside Beggar's Banquet as the best the Stones ever did.
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| Date Reviewed: 10/17/2002 |
- Jason1972
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Summary: 2002-10-17 02:06:00 Good start off song (Brown Sugar). The Stones give us plenty of raunchy blues riffs with this album.
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| Date Reviewed: 03/22/2001 |
- Coyote
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Summary: 2001-03-22 08:54:00 Superb. I love this album. Everytime I hear it I go to my basement room with a needle and a spoon.
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