| November 3rd, 2004 11:22 PM |
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| Soldatti |
The Rolling Stones
Live Licks (US Version)
Originally released: 2004
EMI Recorded Music
I once asked guitarist Keith Richards why most Rolling Stones live records are such a drag, never as hot and vivid as the shows I've seen. Even the best of the lot, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, was punched up with overdubs. "You gotta be there," he said with that pirate's laugh. "When you know you're recording, you can always guarantee that the Stones will not deliver." This two-disc spawn from their 2002-03 tour breaks that jinx. You may not need this if you own last year's set of full-show DVDs, Four Flicks, but Live Licks is the Stones' first live album since Ya-Ya's to earn a spot next to my best soundboard and broadcast boots. One good reason: a bright, hard mix that nails the Stones' matured vigor onstage, even in the warhorses packed on Disc One.
Richards' droning Telecaster clang opens "Street Fighting Man" like swordplay, and Mick Jagger sings the chorus at the top of his range with astounding strength. Charlie Watts pushes the beat in "It's Only Rock n' Roll" with pinpoint impatience; Ron Wood's lap-steel screams turn up the barn-dance delirium in "Happy." Twelve more good reasons: the covers and rarely aired album tracks on Disc Two. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" was a highlight of every fortieth-anniversary show I saw -- Watts peppering Richards' tumbling riff with gunfire rimshots; Jagger blowing sharp, modal harp. And "Worried About You," a forgotten slice of R&B melodrama from Tattoo You, driven to tears here by Wood's chugging guitar and Jagger's heated falsetto vocal, proves that the Stones, under the lights and at this advanced date, can still improve on even their best studio work.
DAVID FRICKE
(Posted Nov 25, 2004)
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/6570193/therollingstones?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=triple1 |
| November 3rd, 2004 11:31 PM |
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| Soldatti |
Sorry Bob, I didn't see your post. |
| November 4th, 2004 08:17 AM |
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| Jair |
Well, after give 5 stars to Goddess in The Doorway, what we can expect from RS magazine?
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| November 4th, 2004 09:48 AM |
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| Monkey Woman |
They also have some nice things to say about the Alfie soundtrack, of course 
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The only touch of Caine's brutal sexiness is in the thrilling songs by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart that should win Sir Mick his first Oscar.
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/_/id/6153317?
Another talk of Oscars for Mick... Will the second time work? |
| November 4th, 2004 10:35 AM |
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| Saint Sway |
quote:
Jair wrote:
Well, after give 5 stars to Goddess in The Doorway, what we can expect from RS magazine?
maybe this is their way of telling us that "Live Licks" falls a full star short of ever being considered as good of an album as the legendary "Goddess in the Doorway"
then again, no Stones album will ever quite live up to the majestic tracks that Jagger laid down on Goddess |
| November 4th, 2004 11:28 AM |
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| jb |
quote:
Jair wrote:
Well, after give 5 stars to Goddess in The Doorway, what we can expect from RS magazine?
lol |
| November 4th, 2004 08:46 PM |
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| Soldatti |
quote:
Jair wrote:
Well, after give 5 stars to Goddess in The Doorway, what we can expect from RS magazine?
A 6 starts for the next Mick's solo album? |
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