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RobertJohnson
I know I belong to the minority group, but I think that ABB is a great album, which ranks under the top five of the band. It seems to me a little bit like a piece of heavy Chamber Music, you know, simple music with a hue of the genius of the young band in the beginning of the sixties. Okay, there are two flops (Streets of Love, Sweet Neo Con) but the brilliant Under the Radar and We Don't Wanna Go Home compensate for those both tracks more than enough. Brilliant, too, Back of My Hand, maybe a hint for the next (I hope Blues-focussed) album. Interestingly the last three albums are above the average with the highlight ABB - in fact no equivalent to the live Vegas acts of the last twenty six years.
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MacLaurens
Why does everyone hate so much on Streets Of Love? A think it's a fantastic song and they have done great versions of it live, in Rome for example.
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Wild Slivovitz
Rough Justice - GREAT
Let Me Down Slow - GREAT
It Won't Take Long - GREAT
Rain Fall Down - OK
Streets Of Love - HORRIBLE
Back Of My Hand - GOOD
She Saw Me Coming - OK
Biggest Mistake - OK
This Place Is Empty - OK
Oh No, Not You Again - FILLER (but live @ Juilliard music school sounded really great!)
Dangerous Beauty - FILLER,
Laugh, I Nearly Died - GREAT
Sweet Neo Con - NOT SO GOOD
Look What The Cat Dragged In - USELESS
Driving Too Fast - GOOD
Infamy - FILLER
Replace "Streets Of Love" with "Under The Radar", take away "Oh No Not You Again" and "Dangerous Beauty" and put "We Don't Wanna Go Home" instead, Get rid of "Sweet neoCon", "Look What The Cat Dragged In" and "Infamy", put "Laugh I Nearly Died" as the closer and there you have a great album!
The production also could have been better. Anita Pllenberg stated that she rough mixes she had the chance to hear sounded much better.
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DandelionPowderman
The tracks I still enjoy:
Rough Justice
Let Me Down Slow
Back Of My Hand
She Saw Me Coming
Biggest Mistake
This Place Is Empty
Dangerous Beauty
The rest I grew tired of, or they were pretty bad to begin with. I liked Laugh, I Nearly Died a while. Now I can't listen to it (apart from the big Mick-choir, that's cool).
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DandelionPowderman
The tracks I still enjoy:
Rough Justice
Let Me Down Slow
Back Of My Hand
She Saw Me Coming
Biggest Mistake
This Place Is Empty
Dangerous Beauty
The rest I grew tired of, or they were pretty bad to begin with. I liked Laugh, I Nearly Died a while. Now I can't listen to it (apart from the big Mick-choir, that's cool).
Do you think this is one of their poorest albums? I can't recall you being this critical of any others.
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DandelionPowderman
The tracks I still enjoy:
Rough Justice
Let Me Down Slow
Back Of My Hand
She Saw Me Coming
Biggest Mistake
This Place Is Empty
Dangerous Beauty
The rest I grew tired of, or they were pretty bad to begin with. I liked Laugh, I Nearly Died a while. Now I can't listen to it (apart from the big Mick-choir, that's cool).
Do you think this is one of their poorest albums? I can't recall you being this critical of any others.
7 good songs is quite a lot, isn't it?
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MacLaurens
Why does everyone hate so much on Streets Of Love? ...