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Good Time Women
(Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)

Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Unit, Stargroves, Newbury, Berkshire, UK & Olympic Sound Studios, London, UK, March - May & October 17 - 31, 1970

Mick Jagger - vocals, harmonica, handclaps
Keith Richards - electric guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
Bill Wyman - bass
Mick Taylor - electric guitar
Nicky Hopkins - piano

Hey, yeah, you got me riding on a big fault line
Yes, it's down a bumpy road
I said: Now, now, honey, you don't need money
And you know you got it easy at home
Yeah, we're gonna get down to Fort Line
We're gonna steam it out a railroad line
I said: Now, now, honey, get down honey
Good time women don't keep you waiting around

Yeah, we could land in New York City
With whiskey and feel mighty fine
Now, I brought downers and a rosé
And a bottle of dry white wine
Yes, you got me dizzy, yes, you got me silly
And you know you're gonna die with your wife
But baby, baby, red light women, they don't leave you, yeah

Yeah, you got me waiting on a big fault line
Yeah, you're gonna feel all right
I said: Baby, honey, you know it's gonna be all right
Yeah, you got me dizzy and you got me filthy
We're going down, gas up your wife
I said: Baby, baby, a red light women likes to party
The red light women sure likes to party
The red light woman, please don't party all night
Alright, you got me crying now, ah, you got me crying now, yeah
Hey, you got me crying, yes, you like to party all night
Yes, they like to party all night, yes, they like to party all night, honey
All night, night, night, night, night, night, night, night, night, night, night, night…

Produced by Jimmy Miller

First released on:
The Rolling Stones - “Exile On Main Street” 2CD
(Universal 273 429-5) UK, May 14, 2010

This is a great one, i really love it! It´s kind of tumbling dice on speed, going dead flowers! Until the official release it was one of my top-3 bootleg songs!

Wonder if the person who wrote the lyrics (above) had to make guesses for a couple of the lines.....? Think there's a couple of "hum hum hum" places within that song.....Jagger didn't have the lyrics finished when recording it
One of the best songs on the Exile bonus CD - impossible to dislike Good Time Women. though they made the right decision when re-writing it into "Tumbling Dice"

Totally agree Erik Snow, I play it alot.Good rockin number.

Erik, it's possible to dislike Good Time Women. Never liked it on bootleg and for me it's the only low down on the bonus disc. To each it's own ;-)

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Erik, it's possible to dislike Good Time Women. Never liked it on bootleg and for me it's the only low down on the bonus disc. To each it's own ;-)

...so it IS possible...! ha ha
My comment above was somewhat childish I reckon; like saying "it is impossible to dislike pancakes"
But anyway - I didn't mean that it's "definately one of the best RS songs".....'cos it isn't, I just think that it's such an innocent, happy and swinging number - that it's "easy to like"......just like pancakes. Cheers Silkcut



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2010-06-21 12:18 by Erik_Snow.

EEErrrrrr dunno Erik... Not mad on toooooo much pancake ...





ROCKMAN

>> such an innocent, happy and swinging number <<

yeah it is a charmer for sure, besides being fascinating as a glimpse of the creative process

It's ok. The alternate All Down The Line is way worse, imo.

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DandelionPowderman
It's ok. The alternate All Down The Line is way worse, imo.

Which one of the two, DP?

I second Erik (once again). It's a pancake song, though not by Max Factor.

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DandelionPowderman
The alternate All Down The Line is way worse, imo.

You love Following The River, and don't like the alternate ADTL, quite coherent...

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EEErrrrrr dunno Erik... Not mad on toooooo much pancake ...

Not if you have enough blueberries, Rock !

i love this song. i blast the volume every time i play at home .it's fun to hear the orgin of tumbling dice .

Just a lap in the run becoming Tumbling imo. Quite nice demo though.

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for a special thrill, i once listened to this song WHILE eating pancakes...omg...

Yeah, sounds like it's not quite there yet as a song, never liked the harp in the intro very much. I wouldn't have cared if this was left off the second disc. I skip this in the car (plus I've known it on boots for 15-20 years at least)

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Nice tune and groove. The only ting i dislike is the never-ending guitar soloing at the end.........headache

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DandelionPowderman
The alternate All Down The Line is way worse, imo.

You love Following The River, and don't like the alternate ADTL, quite coherent...

I don't like the Stones playing lifeless boogie like on the alternate take of ADTL. And, yeah I must confess, I'm a sucker for good ballads

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mitch

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DandelionPowderman
The alternate All Down The Line is way worse, imo.

You love Following The River, and don't like the alternate ADTL, quite coherent...

I don't like the Stones playing lifeless boogie like on the alternate take of ADTL. And, yeah I must confess, I'm a sucker for good ballads

Lifeless boogie? Good ballad?
Damn, we certainly don't talk about the same tracks!...

Listen to the grit'n'swing of the original studio version, and then put on the alternate take.

I can understand people finding Following The River a bit cheesy, but the first half of the song is, imo, excellent. Nicky's piano, Mick's vocals and the feel of the song. Then Mick stretches it a bit over the top...

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DandelionPowderman
Listen to the grit'n'swing of the original studio version, and then put on the alternate take.

If the final song is a cutted diamond, the alternate is the raw gem.
Drafts are sometimes more instructive than final work. It may be the case here.
Everything is already in this track (in different order and crude form). This version goes to the essential, no useless embellishment.
This version is the sketch before the final painting and is everything but lifeless.

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I can understand people finding Following The River a bit cheesy, but the first half of the song is, imo, excellent. Nicky's piano, Mick's vocals and the feel of the song. Then Mick stretches it a bit over the top...

FTR is only an "embellishment" try around a quite pretty but not unforgettable old piano piece.
Jagger is still an amazing vocalist but this is just caricatural.
Everything in this track is fake and/or exagerated and sterile.
This is lifeless.

Never really liked this outtake, sorry. Just feels too unfinished, too tentative, for me to enjoy it. A very unremarkable piece that was definitely improved upon as they worked on it some more.

Drew

Interesting as a work in progress, but doesn't hold a candle to the finished Tumbling Dice.

Why people complain about how this track is "unfinished" and whatever is hilarious. You don't like it, fine, but it's more of a treat than anything - to be able to, as in to be allowed, listen to how Tumbling Dice started is nothing to cut down - it's NOT a finished song, it is what it is - a motherfucking demo.