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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm with Flower. It's a decent record, but highly overrated. "Shattered," "When the Whip Comes Down," the title track... Has some solid stuff on it. But it also has "Beast of Burden," the worst song they ever did. And "Miss You" feels like it ought to move me, but never does ("Shattered" is the better disco tune).
"Let it Bleed" still holds up as the best overall record. A perfect little slice of hell, flooded with infectious hooks. And if "Gimme Shelter" doesn't hold all the resonance today that it held when it was released, you're in a cave on Mars.
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Actually, I was suggesting the record was UNDER-rated because it was written off as a weak disco album when it actually had some real rockers on it. But I'm with you on the song-by-song. Some Girls as a song did not hit me when I was younger, but I love it now. Shattered I always loved. Respectable and Whip Comes Down are good, sleazy rock. I agree on Beast of Burden. I cannot stand that song. And Miss You always left me cold. All that falsetto crooning turned me off. I don't like Just My Imagination either. So it was never my favorite album or even close, but too many just dismissed the album as a throw-away fluke, or even the Beginning of the End for the Stones. Yeah, it's no Let it Bleed, but when it rocks, it rocks harder than a lot of other shit out there at the time.
