I popped this album in and liked it immediately. 100 Years Ago and Heartbreaker hit me immediately as cool tunes that can't be missing from any die hard Stones fan. They rock pretty hard, especially the latter, and even casual fans will love them. Of course, Angie has been one of their classic ballads since the album was released, and for good reason. It's a nice well written heartfelt song. Silver Train is a nice tune played with an Allman Brother's cool Southern sound. Hide Your Love is a bluesy piano driven song, with a cool guitar solo. Winter is a nice ballad that shows that the Stones can write a ballad that isn't a love song. Can You Hear The Music is an eerie tune that keeps you listening. They end the album strong with Star Star, a Chuck Berry-like tune that rocks with it's bluesy guitar driven chorus. Is this up there with their best albums? No. But it just shows a different side of the Stones that make them one of the best bands ever. If another band had come out with this, it'd probably be their best album. With the Stones, the bar is set so high that it can't compete with the likes of Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street. But who cares? It's still an excellent album with a good song selection. I've read reviews that cut this album down, saying that this foretells the Stones demise. What do they know? This just shows how a group grows and their songwriting changes. It's not bad, it's just different. They just go in a little different direction on this album, and they give you Goats Head Soup, which by the way has a lot of good songwriting and tasteful licks, Heartbreaker being a great example of this. Goats Head Soup is the soup that eats like a meal (Sorry for the corny theft from Chunky Soup, but it's fitting given the title of the album).Read full review
I passed on these a few decades ago, but I read recently that these were the best remasters, and I prefer it to the new one, so I grabbed it.
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