I bought it and listened to it a few times and had forgotten it until this summer, when I played it mostly in my convertible under the sun.

And I like it very much. Here are my favorite ones.

old habits
golden globe award as you know it, a nice song, great guitar.

Blind leading the blind
great vocal work

NY hustle
of course for the harmonica

wicked time
great Joss Stone singing and duet with Nadirah Seid And Mick behind ! brilliant groovy tune. I likethat, when Mick is in backing vocals like on Carly Simon’s “You're so vain”. Real presence.

Lonely without you
great too ! I love the duet male/female. A nice idea.

Darkness of your love
It could have been Bernard Fowler singing. Very r'nb song, great horns section.

Standing in the rain
Could be a Ry Cooder one ! excellent harmonica again.

Couting the days
Superb piano.

Alfie
Wouah Joss Stone ! fantastic. And Mick just on backing here and there.
Could have been a single !

This soundtrack album suffers of the movie itself ! (original one was made in 66 with Caine – music by Sonny Rollins). it was not successful enough to shed a light on this album. Too bad.

Thanks for posting!
I´ve been real lazy with this stuff. Last Sunday the movie was broadcasted here in Finnish television, and YES, those songs (I heard them first time!) were really good, groovy..

Immedeatlly I ordered the soundtrack, should become in the end of this week!

Put out Lonely Without You around christmas and Mick gets his first No. 1.

Bought it the day it was released...Play for it friends who come over and they all say how much they enjoy it...
but it probably sold only 10,000 copies..if that. severely underated disc..

I haven't listened to this in quite awhile . thanks for the reminder .

I can't praise "Old Habits Die Hard" enough unless we're talking the fake duet version. "The Blind Leading the Blind" is pretty good, but I prefer the acoustic version by leaps and bounds. "Let's Make It Up" sounded like standard late-period Jagger filler. Not horrible, but nothing to get excited over. "Lonely Without You" was terribly derivative. I would have preferred a cover of "Merry Christmas, Baby." The instrumental tracks were okay, but not on par with "Deep Down Under" or "Stomp." Much of Jagger's work this decade leaves me to believe part of him wants to sit down and make a quiet introspective album with just acoustic guitar, some harmonica, and Matt Clifford on piano. I'm all for the idea myself. I would prefer it to attempts to build a big production and add celebrity guests, etc. No reason to whore good songs up when the guy can still sing his heart out on stuff like "Nothing But the Wheel" and even his brother's "DJ Blues."

the songs I heard from it were ok, respectable but very predictable, once you heard the opening bars. I haven't heard the songs in months but feel like I don't need to put them on to grasp what they were about. very "adult contemporary."

I think "Let's Make It Up" is a great track. If i were to go to a Jagger solo show in the winter, maybe at Radio City or something, this would be a great track to do live.

It is quite good...won some awards as I recall.

Rocky Dijon Wrote:
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Much of Jagger's work this decade
> leaves me to believe part of him wants to sit down
> and make a quiet introspective album with just
> acoustic guitar, some harmonica, and Matt Clifford
> on piano. I'm all for the idea myself.

This is exactly what Mick said in an interview I have in 93 if I remember.
Dave Stewart (!) had suggested at the time to make an accoustic album. It's been a long wait but Alfie was partly accoustic and has a relaxed attitude.

A solid work!!! and great to hear Blind leading the blind which was talked about for year and even offed up to santanna for his duets album

FYI: Just saw this week's BEST BUY store ad....

$4.99 for the Alfie dvd......if I remember correctly the "extras" include
a mini documentary of Mick and Dave Stewart writing & recording....and music
videos.


IORR............but I like it!

Hey MainOffender, I never heard the bit about "The Blind Leading the Blind" being offered to Santana. Do you have any more info? "Lucky Day" on GITD always reminded me a bit of "Smooth" and the whole Rob Thomas collaboration on "Visions of Paradise" and "Disease" at that time seems to add up.