I thought the point of Continental Drift was to be intro music to the 89 Tour?

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Chris Fountain
I thought the point of Continental Drift was to be intro music to the 89 Tour?

It was, so what's your point?

Very nice song unreproducible in live situations by a guitar based rock band.

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KeithNacho
Very nice song unreproducible in live situations by a guitar based rock band.

like half of the Beatles catalogue starting 1967.

I strongly disagree. Continental Drift is neat world music and very 'earth day'-ish which reminds me of all those environmental movements. The song is a great concert intro but not a Stones song. It might as well be a Jagger karaoke song..

Where is the rest of the band? Do you actually hear Ronnie, Keith or Charlie in this?

I just hear Jagger, a bunch of Yanni syths and bongos. Its a neat track and well composed, but not The Rolling Stones... Atleast not the version I love!

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I strongly disagree. Continental Drift is neat world music and very 'earth day'-ish which reminds me of all those environmental movements. The song is a great concert intro but not a Stones song. It might as well be a Jagger karaoke song..

Where is the rest of the band? Do you actually hear Ronnie, Keith or Charlie in this?

I just hear Jagger, a bunch of Yanni syths and bongos. Its a neat track and well composed, but not The Rolling Stones... Atleast not the version I love!

Take out the Master Musicians of Joujouka and it's a bland song. It's the Stones playing somewhat wannabe Arabic sounding pop music. Enter the Master Musicians of Joujouka and suddenly it's a whole other thing. And what Rolling Stone magazine and everyone else jumped all over this about was because of and only because of the Master Musicians of Joujouka. Nothing to do with the actual Stones song. Suddenly it's "Oh their mining the vision of Brian Jones!" and such drivel.

As if that mattered.

So the Master Musicians of Joujouka do their thing and then it goes back to the Stones playing. It's not a song to play live regardless - aside from Stones fans and a few people that got past track 7 of STEEL WHEELS nobody knows this song. Even people that went to the tour and heard it a majority of them most likely thought 'what the hell is that?' and had no idea it was from their new LP. So in that sense, yeah, it's cool, that they did it. But one of their best ever? That to me would be something like 2000 Light Years From Home...

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KeithNacho
Very nice song unreproducible in live situations by a guitar based rock band.

like half of the Beatles catalogue starting 1967.

That is the reason i don't consider Beatles as a rock band: i love them, but RS is a completely different thing

one of the best song,some of the stones so called fans are never happy whatever stones do,they are happy putting stones that what makes them happy.

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kish_stoned
one of the best song,some of the stones so called fans are never happy whatever stones do,they are happy putting stones that what makes them happy.

i'm a so-called fan and it gives me the utmost joy not being happy with whatever the stones do.

one of the best song,stones keep on rolling

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kish_stoned
one of the best song,stones keep on rolling

Not since 2007 - and barely at that when the ended.

I love this song. Mick said somewhere that the Stones hadn't done anything experimental (or whatever his word was) in a while, so that's why he wanted to do this song. (Maybe he was thinking of, say, the unrock-n-roll choir on YCAGWYW as the type "different" thing they hadn't done in awhile.)

Anyway, I love how Continental Drift has a sort of Beatles' A Day in the Life build up and a plangent sound.

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kish_stoned
one of the best song,some of the stones so called fans are never happy whatever stones do,they are happy putting stones that what makes them happy.

i'm a so-called fan and it gives me the utmost joy not being happy with whatever the stones do.

I think you can be at least satisfied for not putting in the effort.

Just listened to SW again, a first in many years. This album really hasn't aged very well. I find most songs quite unlistenable, except for Almost hear You Sigh, Break the Spell and especially Slipping Away. But Jagger's barking, the compressed guitar sounds, the synths, it really is too much 80's pop for me, and too much of a Stones concept album.

Mathijs

SW, - One of the albums these days I hardly ever touch . .

Always loved this track. To call it bland is beyond me!!! I think it is one of their better later day tracks by a country mile.



John Nicholls

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john nicholls
Always loved this track. To call it bland is beyond me!!! I think it is one of their better later day tracks by a country mile.



John Nicholls

there are others out there with it...a country mile from the others?

Out of tears!! Another excellent later day track. By a country mile



John Nicholls

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john nicholls
Out of tears!! Another excellent later day track. By a country mile



John Nicholls

how late in the day did you say?

By Stones standards it's late!!



John Nicholls

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john nicholls
Out of tears!! Another excellent later day track. By a country mile



John Nicholls

how late in the day did you say?

quarter to twelve...have to be back from the liquor store by then though.

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john nicholls
Always loved this track. To call it bland is beyond me!!! I think it is one of their better later day tracks by a country mile.



John Nicholls

Obviously you don't have any concept of what a country mile is.

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Title5Take1
I love this song. Mick said somewhere that the Stones hadn't done anything experimental (or whatever his word was) in a while, so that's why he wanted to do this song. (Maybe he was thinking of, say, the unrock-n-roll choir on YCAGWYW as the type "different" thing they hadn't done in awhile.)

That's wonderful. Too bad it's not the Stones doing what's the best part of the song, or as it's implied, 'experimental'. They'd obviously forgot how to be that until Moon Is Up...which is putting it Bud Litely.

"Back To Zero", then "Continental Drift". Number one and two on the worst Stones songs list.

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"Back To Zero", then "Continental Drift". Number one and two on the worst Stones songs list.

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I think you've just provided a bullet proof argument for the use of filters.

I like this song. It's the kind of song that could win 'European Song Contest'.....


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

This would have been a classic if recorded earlier in their careers and it still would have had a chance but for two big failings. First, the production, as everyone has mentioned, is horrible and it sounds like weak 80s sound experiments. Second, for one of the greatest lyricists of all time, the lyrics are not strong enough for the beauty of the music on this track. If it had been produced properly and some more inspiring lyrics, it may have had an outside chance to become a classic even as a latter day effort.

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The Wick
This would have been a classic if recorded earlier in their careers and it still would have had a chance but for two big failings. First, the production, as everyone has mentioned, is horrible and it sounds like weak 80s sound experiments. Second, for one of the greatest lyricists of all time, the lyrics are not strong enough for the beauty of the music on this track. If it had been produced properly and some more inspiring lyrics, it may have had an outside chance to become a classic even as a latter day effort.

Do you know how dangerous love coming at the speed of light is?!

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The Wick
This would have been a classic if recorded earlier in their careers and it still would have had a chance but for two big failings. First, the production, as everyone has mentioned, is horrible and it sounds like weak 80s sound experiments. Second, for one of the greatest lyricists of all time, the lyrics are not strong enough for the beauty of the music on this track. If it had been produced properly and some more inspiring lyrics, it may have had an outside chance to become a classic even as a latter day effort.

Do you know how dangerous love coming at the speed of light is?!

Only if it's as pure as silver or as pure as gold...Mick close to as naff as ever there.

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The Wick
This would have been a classic if recorded earlier in their careers and it still would have had a chance but for two big failings. First, the production, as everyone has mentioned, is horrible and it sounds like weak 80s sound experiments. Second, for one of the greatest lyricists of all time, the lyrics are not strong enough for the beauty of the music on this track. If it had been produced properly and some more inspiring lyrics, it may have had an outside chance to become a classic even as a latter day effort.

Do you know how dangerous love coming at the speed of light is?!

Not as dangerous as permanent retirement coming the same...