Star Star - 2009 Remaster

One in advance: the new 2009 Stones remasters sound really something more sophisticated than the '94 edition (with which I could even live well) - amazing what everything is still rauszuholen from the tapes. On the other hand the songs are now even more compressed than previously, which may be okay when driving or at the gym, but at the expense of dynamics. A matter of taste. In this edition Star Star falls on, that seems to have taken me from the US bands. I had always read by a censored for the US LP version, and the "John Wayne" in the line "I'm makin 'bets That You gonn' get John Wayne before he dies" is easy, but especially the line was "I bet you keep your pu ** y clean" audibly distorted (what the focus, of course, the more draws on this line) - CD-premiere!

Their status as tax evaders, the Stones had performed for the '71 recording of "Exile on Main St" to France and end '72, for "Goat's Head Soup", the last produced by Jimmy Miller Stones album (and the last for a long time on the horn sections were a fixture), to Jamaica. On the back complaint that the quality of Stones songs would slowly, Keith admitted later that it was also hard to write good songs when the song writing partner (unlike in the sixties) spend most of the year in another country ,

For years I felt the sound of the album as a bit musty and some songs as easily unfinished; over time has "Goat's Head Soup" but undergo a ripening process with me and has been growing. Example of this is Keith's very personal coming down again, I once took rather long-winded, little text and a lot of idle; now I think it's very atmospheric and enjoy every second, especially Bobby Keys' saxophone passages.

Winter is another atmospheric Stones ballad that unfolds really over time. The funky, slightly psychedelic Can you hear the music I could have also easily imagine on "Their Satanic Majesties".

Sympathy for the Devil was disturbing and threatening and have Mick and Keith in the late sixties really interested in the occult, Dancing with Mr. D. looks more of like a pose, like a tired, somewhat static imitation; more than a cheaper shocker with glam rock chic is not come out despite cries from the background here. (. Worked live better) Perhaps needed the Stones an explanation for the album title; "Goat head soup '(on the accompanying photo disgusting accordingly illustrated) to have something to do with a practice in Jamaica voodoo ritual.

100 years ago consists of two parts and has fire, even when the song is finished before it has even properly; Mick Taylor gets here, as on the whole album, pleasing a lot of leeway. Mick Jagger seems the line "Do not you think it's sometimes wise not to grow old" to have decades later chosen as the motto for life.

Angie, one of the most successful Stones Singles (UK no. 2, US No. 1) I love, since I first heard it on the radio. I can understand if people find it tacky; I would benevolently as "Edelkitsch" call - perhaps because Mick Jagger makes me feel that he for a change, with real feeling about a real person singing here (if it was Angela Bowie is another matter). Lenny Kravitz noted quite correctly that Mick has before or since sung with such intonation. When listening closely you can hear him singing along on the left channel in the background to Keith's acoustic guitar. (Since "Stripped" playing the Stones live at a forty-five minute streamlined version.)

The B-side of Angie, Silver Train, will probably remember that the Stones and Blue Rock can not much happens; This time they could get out of the three chords a little more. Johnny Winter has it done better. Hide your Love sounds a little as if the Stones Jagger a piano demo subsequently underlaid with band accompaniment; I like the rumbling charm.

The other single was Heartbreaker, which (despite the little pseudo-social-critical text) thanks Billy Preston keys work (which also gets a lot of leeway on this album, as well as Nicky Hopkins on piano) creates a gloomy atmosphere. On bootlegs from the seventies it sounds more exciting than on the album; Today's Live versions are too tame (see for example "Four Flicks" DVD.)

The feel-good Boogie Star Star, with his drawn through the stereo channel Chuck Berry intro and the winking text about groupies, I will always love. The necessary humor to release the song under its original title Starfucker, then missing the record company as well as the stations to play it on the radio. Jagger commented on the text later, that was precisely what he experiences, and above it could also just write well.

Through The Lonely Nights, an outtake from these sessions was released a year later as a B-side of It's only rock and roll, and is now to be found on "Rarities 1971-2003".

On the cover design, I always found a pity that the Stones meant having to use Mick Jagger's face as the sole figurehead; after all, is (like again later on "Tattoo You") displayed and the band in the middle of the hinged cover Keith (including its the dilapidated teeth) on the back. It is worthwhile to give the album some time to get to know. According to Bill Wyman (in "Rolling With The Stones"), it should even be in the viertbestverkaufte Stones catalog! Personally, I like it better than "Exile on Main Street", even though I am so probably quite alone.