Red Mosquito

liebzz wrote:Voodoo Lounge - I will start off by saying despite what I remember being negative reactions to this album when it came out, this is a good album that’s really just about 20 minutes too long. In fact, if they did take the weakest 20 mins off this album it would have been their best since Tattoo You. I enjoyed from Love Is Strong straight through I Go Wild. Add in Blinded By Rainbows, Baby Break It Down, and Mean Disposition and there you have an excellent album. Granted it’s nowhere near what they were in the 70s but that’s really an impossible bar to reach.

liebzz wrote:Steel Wheels - while this album is a tremendous improvement over the prior two, I would say I enjoyed about 2/3 of it while some seemed to suffer from the same 80s decisions that mired the prior two. The entire first half to me was mostly fantastic, except for Blinded by Love, which I wasn’t feeling. But it was nice to hear the Stones, much more seemingly playing all together, busting out Sad Sad Sad and Hold On To Your Hat. The second half was not as strong, though the one song that had a lot of that weird 80s tinny artificial elements but still sounded great was Continental Drift. Break the Spell was also fantastic. In the end, this was a good effort where they clearly lived as more of a unit than they did for most of the 80s...on to the 90s next.

liebzz wrote:Bridges to Babylon - I think for the most part this album is much in line with Voodoo Lounge stylistically. There’s some interesting highlights throughout, including Gunface (stones grunge?), Out of Control, and Saint of Me. Might As Well Get Juiced sounds like one of the songs where they tried to get weird in the 80s, except I think it is done to much greater effect here - they finally got that right. There’s also plenty of good rock songs on here as well. I end up feeling that the main single off this album might be one of the real low points in Anybody Seen My Baby? which has that weird rap near the end that kind of tanks the song. Another solid effort though nothing approaching their heyday.

VinylGuy wrote:

liebzz wrote:Bridges to Babylon - I think for the most part this album is much in line with Voodoo Lounge stylistically. There’s some interesting highlights throughout, including Gunface (stones grunge?), Out of Control, and Saint of Me. Might As Well Get Juiced sounds like one of the songs where they tried to get weird in the 80s, except I think it is done to much greater effect here - they finally got that right. There’s also plenty of good rock songs on here as well. I end up feeling that the main single off this album might be one of the real low points in Anybody Seen My Baby? which has that weird rap near the end that kind of tanks the song. Another solid effort though nothing approaching their heyday.

Another personal favorite. I was so exited when they released it, it was an event. And i saw them twice on that tour, one of those shows with Bob Dylan as an opener. He later joined them for Like A Rolling Stone. Historic.

I love most of the album, but my favorites are Anybody seen my baby (god, that groove), Flip The Switch, Already Over me, Saint Of me, Might as well..,Too Tight.

A mention to Keith´s songs here...they are just the best. The three of them are masterpieces.

liebzz wrote:I am going to listen to a b-sides album I skipped later today. Flowers. Then I will have completed this journey and will give some larger thoughts.

oasisfan35 wrote:

liebzz wrote:I am going to listen to a b-sides album I skipped later today. Flowers. Then I will have completed this journey and will give some larger thoughts.

If you come across Metamorphosis I'd suggest it, almost as an oddity.