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Originally Posted by Janszoon
The songs I know off this album never seemed all that different from stuff they had done in the past to tell you the truth. I could see "Beast of Burden" for example having been written ten years earlier easily.
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The songs, maybe not, although there's nothing there to match You Can't Always Get What You Want or Moonlight Mile or Can't You Hear Me Knockin' or even All Down The Line. The sound, though, and the performances, in particular, seem like they're faking it.
I realize they weren't "old" at the time, but they were certainly past their peak and, with Mick Taylor's departure, lost a lot of their edge.
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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I think it's a bit unfair to say The Stones went punk.
Keith Richards said he liked the directness of punk & tried to incorporate that into some of his own writing, he didn't even like punk just the attitude of it.
If your going to knock them for something do it for the bloody awful cod reggae they did on the Black & Blue album.
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Black and Blue just seems too...obvious.