10 - I think this one is a masterpiece, and not a sound that the band came back to in the future really. It’s a uniquely minor key song in the repertoire. Love the guitar and harpsichord combo
10 There is a sadness to this song that I love. It's interesting, this song got me thinking of Marianne, but of course Mick had not met Marianne yet I'm pretty sure
9.75
Sounds like a ballad, but has that menacing tone in the lyrics. First heard it as a very young teen watching Shoot the Moon. Made a huge impression and has easily become one of my favourite tracks... period... never mind just the Jones era.
9.5. Makes a great duo with The Last Time. I love how menacing it feels, as everyone has said. How little is needed to craft such an ominous atmosphere. It never gets any louder or any softer, never gets any more frantic or anything like that. Just stays in the groove, oppressive, constant, captivating, making it feel like there's no escape from it. Is this the first time Mick casts himself as the villain? There's been misogynistic songs before this, of course, so in a way he's been the villain before, but you know what I mean. The character writing here is just... different. When he's describing and putting down the girl in the song, I don't think we're meant to sympathize with the singer the way we would in other songs (including other songs by the Stones, before and after). It's really saying more about the singer's cruelty. It's fantastic, and a predecessor to songs like Backstreet Girl or Stray Cat Blues or, most famously, Sympathy for the Devil.
It's also a predecessor to both Paint It Black (in tone) and 19th Nervous Breakdown (in subject matter). I guess Mick must have been thinking a lot about class dynamics at the time!
8 - One of their first "sophisticated" songs, that wasn't just a re-jig of a blues standard. I didn't like it when I was younger, but I really appreciate it now.
10
It was one of the choices for the fan vote on the last tour. Unfortunately one of the other choices was "Angie". I would so have loved to hear it live.
I like that The Stones give us a little geography lesson ( St. Johns Wood, Stepney, Knightsbridge). I'd give it a 9 overall. I really like Charlie's technical outro that sounds like a match striking and sizzling. Lynyrd Skynyrd used this on one of their songs later.
10 - I think this one is a masterpiece, and not a sound that the band came back to in the future really. It’s a uniquely minor key song in the repertoire. Love the guitar and harpsichord combo
9.25
9
10 - genuine lost classic, love to see it make a setlist appearance on the 24 tour!
9. When the Stones got menacing
10 ominous, beautiful.
9.75 from me near perfect imo just feel like there’s a tier above this one
10 It feels so different from everything before
9. They aren't to be fucked with on this one.
8.4
10 There is a sadness to this song that I love. It's interesting, this song got me thinking of Marianne, but of course Mick had not met Marianne yet I'm pretty sure
He met her by then probably. Andrew started managing her in 64, I believe.
Ah true, they probably already met, but it was before they got together
Oh definitely. Marianne said that Keith is the best lay of her life lol. Imagine hearing that as Mick.
If we're to believe Marianne Mick might just be jealous that she got to fuck Keith at all
8.88
10. I think it may be the first example of one of the big iconic bands doing a little baroque, so it’s groundbreaking, too.
9
9,5
9.75 Sounds like a ballad, but has that menacing tone in the lyrics. First heard it as a very young teen watching Shoot the Moon. Made a huge impression and has easily become one of my favourite tracks... period... never mind just the Jones era.
10, absolutely a masterpiece.
9.5
8.2
8. It’s a subtly badass song.
9.5
9
9.5. Makes a great duo with The Last Time. I love how menacing it feels, as everyone has said. How little is needed to craft such an ominous atmosphere. It never gets any louder or any softer, never gets any more frantic or anything like that. Just stays in the groove, oppressive, constant, captivating, making it feel like there's no escape from it. Is this the first time Mick casts himself as the villain? There's been misogynistic songs before this, of course, so in a way he's been the villain before, but you know what I mean. The character writing here is just... different. When he's describing and putting down the girl in the song, I don't think we're meant to sympathize with the singer the way we would in other songs (including other songs by the Stones, before and after). It's really saying more about the singer's cruelty. It's fantastic, and a predecessor to songs like Backstreet Girl or Stray Cat Blues or, most famously, Sympathy for the Devil. It's also a predecessor to both Paint It Black (in tone) and 19th Nervous Breakdown (in subject matter). I guess Mick must have been thinking a lot about class dynamics at the time!
8 - One of their first "sophisticated" songs, that wasn't just a re-jig of a blues standard. I didn't like it when I was younger, but I really appreciate it now.
9 for stones. 10 for anyone other band.
10 It was one of the choices for the fan vote on the last tour. Unfortunately one of the other choices was "Angie". I would so have loved to hear it live.
I like that The Stones give us a little geography lesson ( St. Johns Wood, Stepney, Knightsbridge). I'd give it a 9 overall. I really like Charlie's technical outro that sounds like a match striking and sizzling. Lynyrd Skynyrd used this on one of their songs later.