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Silver Dagger
Fantastic lyrics too - most probably written by Mick.
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Silver Dagger
Fantastic lyrics too - most probably written by Mick.
Mostly written by Keith - I was trying to find the thread that discussed this
but this was the best I could locate: [www.iorr.org]
Mick said it in some interview, and/or it was mentioned in Life. Someone here will remember.
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Mostly written by Keith - I was trying to find the thread that discussed this
but this was the best I could locate: [www.iorr.org]
Mick said it in some interview, and/or it was mentioned in Life. Someone here will remember.
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Stoneburst
Torn & Frayed was an instant favourite the first time I ever listened to EOMS...
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Stoneburst
Torn & Frayed was an instant favourite the first time I ever listened to EOMS...
Not for me. This is one of those tracks, like Ventilator Blues or Just Wanna See His Face, that I did not like all that much to start. It wasn't until much later, at least a year or so, that I realized how amazing all these tracks were. Once that happened, Exile became an instant favorite of mine and has remained so, ever since ... I'd say about 1981.
It's just a beautifully executed song, from start to finish ... the guitars, drums, mick's vocals, the rhythm. Wow! It's one of the songs that makes Exile so special, similar to Moonlight Mile for Sticky.
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Stoneburst
Torn & Frayed was an instant favourite the first time I ever listened to EOMS...
Not for me. This is one of those tracks, like Ventilator Blues or Just Wanna See His Face, that I did not like all that much to start. It wasn't until much later, at least a year or so, that I realized how amazing all these tracks were. Once that happened, Exile became an instant favorite of mine and has remained so, ever since ... I'd say about 1981.
It's just a beautifully executed song, from start to finish ... the guitars, drums, mick's vocals, the rhythm. Wow! It's one of the songs that makes Exile so special, similar to Moonlight Mile for Sticky.
That's funny - I had it the other way round really in that I gravitated to the country stuff and to Stop Breaking Down/Shine A Light/Soul Survivor right away. If anything, it was the first side that grew slowly on me. At first I thought Rocks Off was a bit clumsy and misjudged, Rip This Joint was overwrought, and Shake Your Hips and Casino Boogie were a bit fillerish. How wrong I was.
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Turner68
it took me probably 6 months before i realized "torn and frayed" really anchored the album in a lot of ways, thematically unifying it.
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whitem8
One of their most beautiful songs. Like much of Exile, it is a journey. A slow paddle through the bayou with a lovely forlorn jaundiced rock star. Shades of green around the cheeks. A skeletal gypsy with a guitar, syringe, and Berber jewelry jangling round his neck. Joe's got that cough, and is always looking for a new doctor to heal his ills. Lovely acoustics punctuated by Charlie's sublime drumming. Just forceful enough to keep the song moving forward and punctuated with expert snare shots to intro in the lovely pedal steel. A perfect snap shot of the life of a rock n roll star on the road. . . so many temptations, so much loss, and so much alienation from humanity. All encapsulated in a perfect alt country ballad of epic proportions. It is no wonder they could never replicate it effectively on stage. It is a mood piece and a biting diary entry that just can't be replicated. It was from the moment. A snapshot. Faded by time and memory and passion. Loose gravel on a road to perdition.