yes, love Moonlight Mile, but my favourite from Sticky Fingers is still Sister Morphine. My favourite of all time though is Gimme Shelter, the opening bars still make me shiver with joy- and Let It Bleed had the best ever album cover too - that cake!
Singer's sincerity, or not, has always been a mystery to me. The trouble is that such a lot of bollocks is said about so-called 'soul' that I really don't know what people mean by it anymore, especially these days where what seems like hyped up pseudo emotional performance brings tears to peoples eyes.
Cheers
Tim
On 20 Nov 2014, at 17:58, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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> And, yes, it’s the Stones, up to & including Exile, that I love. When I hear, as Sheila says, a classic Doors song I ‘know’ it & maybe s she said ‘sing along,’ but then go on. The best Stones songs are deep in my (un)conscious. What that means I don’t know, but one aspect has to do with not the sincerity of the singer (or even the writer) but of the lyrics themselves. My still favourite Stones song (not well known) is Moonlight Mile, where lyric, music,performance mesh perfectly.
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> Nowadays I listen to a lot of the omen singer/songwriters. And then, for perfection in a small space, so much of the late JJ Cale, as one example. Oh I could go on, & this ties in to my other conversation with Lawrence: I don’t so much choose one singer or band over some others, but individual songs & performances I return to…
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