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| kmc |
For all the "fans" of keith's ballads, here's a scary thought. Rob Thomas said in an early June Rolling Stone Mag interview that his bride walked down the aisle to "Nearness of You" - sung by none other! |
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| jb |
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kmc wrote:
For all the "fans" of keith's ballads, here's a scary thought. Rob Thomas said in an early June Rolling Stone Mag interview that his bride walked down the aisle to "Nearness of You" - sung by none other!
Pathetic.. we are about to get another Ballad!!! or 2!!! |
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| Mr Jimmy |
Bring on the rockers! I'll settle for a reggae-ish tune but please NO ballads! |
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| texile |
i love keith's tortured vocals..... ala all about you...... |
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| JaggerLips |
I love "Thief in the Night"
Best song from Keith in the last 15 years has got to be Thru and Thru, just love everything about that song and CHARLIE!!!!!
Really hits you in the chest if you play it loud and that initial 2 beats of the drum.
FREAKING LOVE THAT SONG! |
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| texile |
i remember in fort worth, he introduced all about you and we fucking combusted in joy and rapture......everyone around us just sat there like the half-ass music fans they were - most went for a beer...
that always breaks my fucking heart - keith is so heartfelt with his love songs and they WALK AWAY.
i'm looking for slipping away this time - his best song after happy. |
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| Soldatti |
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Mr Jimmy wrote:
Bring on the rockers! I'll settle for a reggae-ish tune but please NO ballads!
Too late, we will get at least other Keith ballad on the new record. |
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| kath |
i just watched the club show of 4 flicks, and "nearness of you" just touches my heart. he is so "from the depths of my soul" when he sings that one.
sigh..... |
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| voodoopug |
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JaggerLips wrote:
I love "Thief in the Night"
Best song from Keith in the last 15 years has got to be Thru and Thru, just love everything about that song and CHARLIE!!!!!
Really hits you in the chest if you play it loud and that initial 2 beats of the drum.
FREAKING LOVE THAT SONG!
one of the best songs performed during licks and one of my all time favorite keef tunes...good call jaggerlips |
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| corgi37 |
It's time for the bloke to rock out a bit.
Though. Thru & thru was awesome in Melbourne in Feb 2003. To my eternal hatred, its looks like there wont be a Feb 2005.
Stupid boring old farts. |
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| voodoopug |
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corgi37 wrote:
It's time for the bloke to rock out a bit.
Though. Thru & thru was awesome in Melbourne in Feb 2003. To my eternal hatred, its looks like there wont be a Feb 2005.
Stupid boring old farts.
corgi remains the king! |
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| PeerQueer |
Keith's ballads have been the best Stones material in the last 15 years. Slipping Away, Thru and Thru, Thief in the Night, etc. --- very solid songs that hold up very well. You will see those numbers being replayed over and over by films, television series, for years to come. They have character - just like Keith.
I understand the desire for the boys to rock, but they ain't boys and haven't been for a very loooong time. Keith's tunes are graceful and mature works of art. (Well, some of them anyway -- he's laid a few eggs as well)
I dig 'em. Watching Keith sing Slipping Away live was so profound because, unlike so many recent live versions of the Warhorse tunes, where Jagger is doing clever parodies of those tunes in his performances, Keith is delivering a sincere tune with a sincere message. It is slipping away, for Keith, for The Stones, for all of us. That song tips the hat to that fact and he conveys it with such genuine feeling that other performers simply cannot muster, particularly his own contemporaries. It actually reminds me of footage I have of Elvis singing Unchained Melody six weeks before his death. He put a whole new twist on those simple lyrics with that performance, reached way down deep, and the visual is stunning - a true mirror to impending mortality, art at its best.
That's what Keith's ballads do for me. And to anyone who doesn't get it...fuck off. |
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| glencar |
I predict "Losing My Touch" will be done every show this tour. |
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| texile |
quote:
PeerQueer wrote:
Keith's ballads have been the best Stones material in the last 15 years. Slipping Away, Thru and Thru, Thief in the Night, etc. --- very solid songs that hold up very well. You will see those numbers being replayed over and over by films, television series, for years to come. They have character - just like Keith.
I understand the desire for the boys to rock, but they ain't boys and haven't been for a very loooong time. Keith's tunes are graceful and mature works of art. (Well, some of them anyway -- he's laid a few eggs as well)
I dig 'em. Watching Keith sing Slipping Away live was so profound because, unlike so many recent live versions of
the Warhorse tunes, where Jagger is doing clever parodies of those tunes in his performances, Keith is delivering a sincere tune with a sincere message. It is slipping away, for Keith, for The Stones, for all of us. That song tips the hat to that fact and he conveys it with such genuine feeling that other performers simply cannot muster, particularly his own contemporaries. It actually reminds me of footage I have of Elvis singing Unchained Melody six weeks before his death. He put a whole new twist on those simple lyrics with that performance, reached way down deep, and the visual is stunning - a true mirror to impending mortality, art at its best.
That's what Keith's ballads do for me. And to anyone who doesn't get it...fuck off.
that was beautiful pq - keith never loses that purity, whereas jagger can fake it - and he's lousy at it. |
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| Bruno Stone |
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PeerQueer wrote:
Watching Keith sing Slipping Away live was so profound because, unlike so many recent live versions of the Warhorse tunes, where Jagger is doing clever parodies of those tunes in his performances, Keith is delivering a sincere tune with a sincere message. It is slipping away, for Keith, for The Stones, for all of us. That song tips the hat to that fact and he conveys it with such genuine feeling that other performers simply cannot muster, particularly his own contemporaries. It actually reminds me of footage I have of Elvis singing Unchained Melody six weeks before his death. He put a whole new twist on those simple lyrics with that performance, reached way down deep, and the visual is stunning - a true mirror to impending mortality, art at its best.
Is the Elvis footage one in which he's playing UM in the piano and there's a guy holding the mic for him? If is, I saw it too. Realy beautiful. He was very fat and pale, near the end, but he realy "rises" in it. |
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| Moonisup |
NOY was great live,
his best ballad of the last years was how can I stop |
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| gimmekeef |
For me the most amazing keith ballad was done with Willie Nelson..."We Had It All"..I have an mp3 and play it constantly...truly touching...but I would love another Before They Make Me Run on the new album! |
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| glencar |
Isn't that on the last Willie & Friends CD? |
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| PeerQueer |
Yes - that is the Elvis footage I speak of. You're right, you can see it in his eyes, the guy is flat out tired of living, and yet, he nails that number, kicks the ass out of that tune, and the smile he gives to the guy holding the mike is so gentle, boyish, sincere, and humble, for just a too brief moment, Elvis is alive again, while at the same time, knowing full well the moment is already passed him by and there likely won't be another.
Jagger runs from that moment, is trying to put it off for as long as possible, and doing a hell of a job at it I might add. The guy is a physical freak of nature.
Keith accepts that impending moment, is in fact living it right now, sharing that knowledge with us in the very ballads some complain of. Instead of denying nature, Keith shrugs, lights up a smoke, and invites it in for a drink and mellow conversation.
Both the Glimmer Twins understand that the one thing they each agree upon is that the performance is what keeps the clock ticking - far longer than it would otherwise, and somehow the rest of us who love their music share in some kind of communal fight against that fucking reaper that comes for each us sooner or later. And no-one, no-one, has done it as well, for as long, as The Rolling Stones, and every time they roll out another tour, another shout against mortality, we too feel more alive than we would otherwise. And at the end, we hope against better reason, that the boys won't make this time our last time to share in that experience.
And that's why we love them, right? |
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| Soldatti |
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Moonisup wrote:
NOY was great live,
his best ballad of the last years was how can I stop
Well, he did 4 songs in 8 years and 3 were ballads.
The best in the last 10 years or so is The Worst, IMO. |
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| T&A |
i'm a sucker for Keith's ballads - they sure beat the shit out of his lame rockers on recent albums (Can't Be Seen comes to mind). Funny how opinions differ - Thru & Thru I consider one of the worst Stones songs ever. Can't listen to it. |
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| Soldatti |
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T&A wrote:
i'm a sucker for Keith's ballads - they sure beat the shit out of his lame rockers on recent albums (Can't Be Seen comes to mind).
LOL, recent albums and we are talking about 1989!
All is relative with the Stones. |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
If it's going to be a ballad like "The Worst" please give us 5!! |
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| Soldatti |
The Worst is the best because it's short and not a boring 6 minutes jam of three chords. |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
and has a deep deep feeling I love it, I really do |
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| texile |
you reminded me peer queer - of that segment of elvis on tour, when the tired king was warming up with some old southern gospel songs...transcendent.
in spite of it all - the king never traded in his soul for fame - he was pure until the end, bloated - but pure. |
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| gimmekeef |
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glencar wrote:
Isn't that on the last Willie & Friends CD?
Yes, Glencar it is..I downloaded it from ITunes...Play it a lot....Just beautiful..I live in Georgia and the opening lines about the Georgia pines just sets the mood.When I croak they can play that at my wake..LOUD! |
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| Saint Sway |
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PeerQueer wrote:
Keith sing Slipping Away live was so profound because, unlike so many recent live versions of the Warhorse tunes, where Jagger is doing clever parodies of those tunes in his performances, Keith is delivering a sincere tune with a sincere message. It is slipping away, for Keith, for The Stones, for all of us. That song tips the hat to that fact and he conveys it with such genuine feeling that other performers simply cannot muster, particularly his own contemporaries. It actually reminds me of footage I have of Elvis singing Unchained Melody six weeks before his death. He put a whole new twist on those simple lyrics with that performance, reached way down deep, and the visual is stunning - a true mirror to impending mortality, art at its best.
thats one of the most articulate and well written observations I think I may of ever read here
well done |
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| jb |
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Saint Sway wrote:
thats one of the most articulate and well written observations I think I may of ever read here
well done
I think the song is lame....like Keith's playing. |
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| gimmekeef |
Or your posts..... |
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