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| morocco |
I'm having trouble with the falsetto part. Is Jagger imitating a woman? Is this a good song or just a throwaway? |
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| 100 Years Ago |
as with most Stones country tunes, the music is an authentic take on the genre (great mandolin work) but Mick plays it off tongue in cheek with a gag vocal, very funny song |
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| Jair Motta |
Yep, love the lyrics too, Mick sounds a genuine north american. BTW, Stones sounds more american than any other band, including the real americans...Don�t ask me if this is good or bad, to me they are the best 
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| Turner |
i dig that song a lot a real classic |
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| steel driving hammer |
It's today that's the day of the plunGe
Oh the gal I'm to marry is a bOOOw-legged sow
I've been soakin' up drAnk like a sponGe!
Great song. Should be done live on the B Stage, mistakes and all...
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| throbby |
I love that tune. I had it played at my brother's wedding, much to the displeasure of his bride. |
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| nankerphelge |
Always like this one, but being "down in Virginia" myself now, it holds a special place!
A couple of years ago Virginia was looking for a new state jingle -- you know "I love NY" type thing.
I suggested Sweet Virginia
The "Come on, come on down" part woulda been great.
The "Got to scrape the shit right off your shoes" though was more appropriate!!
This state has some strange genetic experiments goin on in the hills!!!
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| BILL PERKS |
IT'S PROBABLY THE ONE SONG I WISH THEY WOULD PLAY LIVE MORE THAN ANY OTHER
WOULD LOVE TO SEE AN ACOUSTIC SET ALA 69
1-DEAR DOCTOR
2-TILL THE NEXT GOODBYE
3-PLAY WITH FIRE
OR ANY OTHER SCENARIO WITH CHUCK NOWHERE IN SIGHT |
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| Martini |
I love �Dear Doctor� and �Far Away Eyes� as well. The Stones have been masterful at pushing country music toward parody but never quite getting there. There is always an ironic sense of �are they being serious� which is complicated by the fact that they play the songs tremendously well. There is an air of authenticity in their country songs that is not undermined, but undercut to the very slightest degree. I�ve never heard anyone else really accomplish this, actually.
I would love for the Stones to record a country album. It would be bizarre but actually pretty good, I think. Maybe they could play the Grand Ole Opry.
Or maybe I just need to quit drinking this evening and go to bed.
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| woodywoodpecker |
great little number, and it is very funny Mick playin the practical joker LOL |
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| morocco |
I think what makes the Stones' country songs so special is their juxtapostition with harder rock. For example, Dead Flowers with Brown Sugar.
What great albums. What a great band. |
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| sirfito |
I love Dear Doctor too.
Best,
Fito |
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| T&A |
Love DD - and a song that has come tantalizingly close to making the cut this tour. I know they rehearsed it at the Orpheum the day before the show along with Parachute Woman, which wound up in the selist as a (to date) one-off performance. |
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| Monkey Woman |
Sure I like it! The tongue-in-cheek vocals coupled with the powerful countryish sound and weird, elaborated lyrics, make for a cooler than cool Stones tune. As Ian from Timeisonourside.com said in one of his essays:
"the irony [in the attitude of the Stones toward American music] does not come off as a disparagement, but more as an additional, enriching dimension of the music. So that the Stones' music can be both fully-engaging, reaching the ecstatic emotional heights of the best blues and R&B, while also engaging a certain distance in the mind. This duality, I feel, has continued to characterize the Stones' music until the present."
http://www.timeisonourside.com/ecstasy.html |
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| morocco |
Thanks for that rich quote, monkeywoman. Dear Doctor is playing on my computer right now. I love the classic late 60's Mick/Keith harmonies.
The country guitar sounds lush on this song, too. |
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| JaggaRichards |
Best line in DD?
"I been soaking up drink like a sponge" |
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