Reviews (page 14 of 14)
2.5
i just can't with this
There are some good rocking tracks on this. There are some interminably long and boring tracks in this (looking at you Can't You Hear Me Knocking?) album. Has it stood the test of time? Kinda. Is it way past its best? Also yes. Is it good for four or five stars? Even three? No.
Man this album was boring. Had 1 catchy good track. The rest was just a bunch of mono bluesy crap
Hate Micky Jagger's voice. Can't you hear me knocking I will say is the business.
thought i'd vibe with this more than i ended up doing
eeeeh
Meh. Wish the Stones could do an album without completely out of touch lyrics for once.
Not a big stones fan and this album is nothing special
Have never been a big listener of the Stones and still don't really understand how they've made a multi-decade career out of playing different versions of 4 or 5 songs... The hits are still hits, 'Brown Suger'and 'Wild Horses', but sound best suited to being blasted out by a wedding DJ at 11pm after the father of the bride and his mates have got on the sauce and are wanting a good ol' sing-song.
I saw a Stones tribute recently a
Giving it a 2 ⭐️⭐️ out of 5. Not making it into my top 100 albums. Songs I might listen to again - Can’t you hear me knocking (enjoyed the guitar solo and The Doors vibe). But not a massive Rolling Stones fan (although Paint it Black is a brilliant song)
Okej, but not impressed.
Love the melancholic vibe of Wild Horses, would have left the rest of the songs on the cutting room floor (yes even Brown Sugar). Why does the Rolling Stones music always sound so perv-y.
Couple tracks with cool sound, nothing that really grabbed me.
A highly flawed album with redeemable qualities. I'll go through it song by song. Brown Sugar - They are really walking the tightrope here between celebrating rape and slavery, and simply commenting on it. The diehard fans might side with the latter argument, but I fail to see it. A shameful, tone-deaf song that sounds annoying even without the controversial subject matter. (-2) Sway - Straddles a middle ground of mediocrity, a commercially produced, radio friendly amalgamation that can't decide if it wants to go full on soulful blues, or full on edgy hard rock, so does a bit of both half assed, though finishes with a very nice crescendo. (±0) Wild Horses - A very pretty ballad. Nice guitar work. (+1) Can't You Hear Me Knocking - A lively tune about what sounds like a drug addict trying to break into someone's house. Would be a forgettable song on it's own, but the saxophone and guitar solos that follow make it easily the high point of the album. Not a coincidence that it's also the longest stretch we have without hearing Jagger's voice. (+1) You Gotta Move - Mick Jagger is back attempting a molasses paced traditional gospel blues number. Not the worst thing we'll hear today, but not exactly memorable. Props for crediting the original author *cough* Led Zeppelin *cough*. (±0) Bitch - The brass backing on this track is fantastic and lively enough to make this worth listening to, despite Mick Jagger's struggles to stay in tune. Harmonies are annoying. (+1) I Got the Blues - Slower numbers seem to suit Jagger much better. Nice horn flourishes. Organ solo was dope. (+1) Sister Morphine - Once again Jagger proves that laid-back numbers are more up his alley. Beautiful guitar playing, overall an atmospheric song. (+1) Dead Flowers - Thought the album was over, and YouTube auto-play algorithm shifted me onto some generic country. Nope, still the Stones. The worst of them in fact. Fake southern drawls, out of tune harmonies and uninspired crooning. (-1) Moonlight Mile - Shoulda ended the album with Sister Morphine. (±0) Final tally +2
I feel almost guilty that I don't actively like the Stones but they just don't provoke a reaction in me. This is a decent enough album, solid work and clearly skilled but I'm left feeling very meh by them. Longevity is their biggest selling point imo, and I kind of think everyone who's covered their stuff has done it better? :D Wild Horses was good but not something I'd mark out as must-listen.
Was expecting this to be better.
Always good to be reminded just how revolutionary the Stones were at the practice of taking the culture of black artists (mainly blues), watering it down, and presenting it to an eager *white* audience.
Not a fan
For some reason, this has popped up a second time. Here is a copy paste of my previous review.... A couple of great singles (and Moonlight Mile, which is a tune), but otherwise a lot of boring, coke addled, sludgy, half arsed blues. There really aren't that many great Stones albums. I feel like they were much more a singles band. (Obviously Let It Bleed is an exception to this)
Not sure this is their best album, really, but enjoyable nevertheless
Never was a HUGE Stones fan, so 2.5 stars.
Just cant get into the rollong stones. I thiught they would be more cool and more British. Theres a country song in here. It wasn't a good one.
20% of decent songs, like in all the Stones discog
A couple of great singles (and Moonlight Mile, which is a tune), but otherwise a lot of boring, coke addled, sludgy, half arsed blues. There really aren't that many great Stones albums. I feel like they were much more a singles band. (Obviously Let It Bleed is an exception to this)
I do not like this band. This album did not change my mind.
I have a strange relationshp with the Stones. I dislike a lot of their stuff, then occasionally there's one track that's so great you can forgive the rest of it. None of those tracks are on this album, unfortunately. Jagger's voice becomes annoying quickly, I think I'd like the band more with a different voice.
Too country for me. // Favs: Bitch Score: Decent 2
another nice rock album, nothing special for me and sounded pretty monotone
Sounds kinda yee-yee. Don't like it too much so far. Can't you hear me knocking i lowkey good tho.
all these old albums are pretty mid
false
The blues are alive and kickin in this rock album. This doesn't resonate a whole lot with me, might be an era thing.
very country sounding. not exactly the kind of classic rock album I like
Overall, a fine album. The songs we all know are okay, and the ones that don't have an orchestra just seem like middling rock, with a delta blues song just lifted from it's spiritual roots. Sway is the best song on it, for the mixing and orchestration.
Bis auf ihre Gassenhauer (s. 'Forty Licks') hab ich es ja nicht so mit den Stones, da macht diese Scheibe keine Ausnahme. Eine Stones-Platte ist eine Stones-Platte ist eine Stones-Platte…
I loved let it bleed so much and think some of these songs are amazing, but as an album it's just not there
2.5
Just don't get this
More country sounding than I thought. A bit tamer than I thought from rolling stones. Couple of the first songs were good but the rest bit dull
Astrologically evil, as the retards say.
Ich war nie Fan der Stones, wenn jemand im Forum über die älteste klingende Musik schrieb, die die älteste Band die es gibt neu veröffentlicht hat und dazu meint, dass sie so frisch klingen wie noch nie, dann hab ich mehr ungläubig geschmunzelt. Jetzt höre ich hier ein Album der Band als sie noch nicht alt waren, sondern der heiße Scheiß und ich komme nicht umhin nicht zu verstehen warum sie das waren? Waren sie es weil sie geschmacklose Texte schrieben und zu Nummer 1 Hits machten oder wegen des Sex Appeals auf der Bühne. Keinen Plan, hier solls ja auch um das Album gehen. Aber auch das langweilt mich enorm, es klingt im gegensatz zu vielen anderen alten Alben die ich hier schon gehört habe unglaublich outdated. Gibt mir wirklich ganz ganz wenig. Außer vielleicht Wild Horses, das ist ganz schön.
1. zugar - 2 2. zuuay - 1 3. horzez - 2 4. hear - 1 5. move - 1 6. bitch - 2 7. bluez - 2 8. zizter - 2 9. dead - 1 10. mile - 1
Not the best stones album
sweaty
Why is he trying to show off his peen
buns also he got his dih in the album no
N/A
I did not like this ablum and i discovered that i am a rolling stones hater. Bc why do they feel so comfortable talking ab balck ppl like that ???? And idc ab the release date (i'm super happy that i've discovered this bc now i know i dislike them). I wish i could rate it a 0/5.
thought I wouldn’t like this. I was wrong I hated it
The Rolling stones are a bunch of pedophiles
This project has taught me that I genuinely hate the Rolling Stones. You Gotta Move is actually offensive.
Rolling Stones once again giving me the ick with Brown Sugar. Yikes. No recovering from that, and it was boring from there. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.
Misogyny, racism, and ephebophilia all wrapped up in one song. And that's just the opening. Yippee. There are so many songs in the classic rock sphere that also relish these subjects and wow, is it exhausting to not be a white man in this world. Brown Sugar aside, I've never been a fan of the Rolling Stones. I don't like their sound and the artificiality of it all. Mick Jagger's voice grates on me. Wild Horses would be a lovely song if someone else sang it. Can't You Hear Me Knocking is amazing until Mick opens his mouth. I guess I am not the target audience for this. I get that it's beloved and considered iconic, classic, etc. Some things are best left in the past. Nice sock, dude.
Excellent, just what I needed on a filthy December Monday having fought through the traffic to do my menial office job for about half of what I should be paid... An album made by millionaires jacked up on Class As sitting around in their mansions writing half-arsed songs about their cocaine addictions... Whoopy-do. The Stones should have disbanded at the same time as The Beatles and saved us all from having to listen to this dreck.
I had never taken the time to listen to a full Roll8ng Stones album but now that I have, I understand a lot of the criticism I've had throughout the years. The more listen, the more generic it sounds. This album feels like a bunch pieces from better, more knowledgeable musicians thrown together by people who just want to sound "bluesy". I am incredibly bored. The lyrics are also uninteresting... Wild horses was almost 2 minutes of the same loop. Like they ran out of ideas. It goes from terrible white guy country to empty blues/jazz. Singer can't sing for shit Oh no, "I got the blues" is terrible
Not really my vibe
1.5
I really, really hate their music.
This classic ain't for me
1 star for the weird fucking lyrics on brown sugar.
“Wild Horses”: yes Rest of the album: no Album cover and title: god no
Brown Sugar is so bad oh my god what was Mick Jagger thinking 😭😭😭 I like the rolling stones but this album was hitting for me bro
I don't like the Rolling Stones, I couldn't get into this album. There are a few songs that are a little overplayed in addition to just not my thing.
didn't vibe with it
OK, I'm not a Stones fan and probably never will be. But this record is supposed to be their best, oh my God. Aside from the fact that it's aged really badly—you only have to imagine Brown Sugar in front of your eyes and ears; almost every song sounds the same to me, and equally bad. I was always a Brian Jones fan, but unfortunately he's no longer with us, dead and buried. Now Mick and Keith are alone, well, almost. There's nothing innovative anymore, but that was to be expected. An absolute highlight for me is "You Gotta Move." I could puke. "Sister Morphine" is also completely out of date, and finally, "Moonlight Mile," man, I hate the "strings." And then the cover, where "little Mick" gets a hint of himself. Bad Boys, maybe they should have let it all hang out, or gone bananas. Stupid album, stupid band. Zero stars, or rather, one.
That's gross.
hate it
brown sugar- what the fuck. an annoying mix of appropriated honky tonk, rock & roll, and southern US history from a millionaire born in kent. sway- mick jagger has a really grating voice. when we talk about word chewing we should include him in that group. wild horses- a song that admits its about nothing i dont care enough to continue
FTRS
BOOOOOOO I HATE ROLLIG STPOE
I just don't like the rolling stones. I gave each song a quick listen and found them dull.
Odio a los stones
bleh the album cover is one of the grossest that has to be out there. I still think ‘Paint It, Black’ is the only good rolling stone song but Moonlit Mile was now absolutely terrible.
Honestly could not understand the words for majority of the album. The instrument section was good but nothing to keep my attention without lyrics
I wish this app would stop making me listen to the Stones. It sounds like a drunk sing-along to songs nobody knows. What in the fuck is "You Gotta Move"?!
does anybody really think that this album is even remotely listenable? there is literally nothing redeeming about this snooze fest. bored me to death.
I don't like Mick Jagger's voice, the lyrics, or the music.
God no. Never understood why people love The Stones so much. This record didn't change my mind.
weird motherfuckers
Fuggin rolling stones man
Didn’t like it and was boring
Meh
Getting a little tired of The Rolling Stones in this list. Not a fan.
Why is the drummer in the back hallway
Absolutely not
Dad rocks sucksx
::reads "Brown Sugar" lyrics hahahaha fuck these culture vultures and fuck their song about raping slaves
Not a fan.
What I can say about this album is that I listened to an album. That’s it. The fact that it took me so long to focus and listen to it attentively is proof enough that I didn’t like it very much. I can appreciate it deals with some controversial topics that must have been not very talked about at the time, taboo. But is the first song straight up racist/sexist? It doesn’t make a difference anyways because I didn’t like it, so I won’t be listening to it. There was a song is particular that made me feel relieved when the singing stopped and the instrumental melodies began — like thank god. I liked I Got The Blues, the latter part of Sister Morphine, Can’t You Hear Me Knocking. Oh god, I really don’t like country. Is this rock or country? The very country ones I don’t like with the weird singing that almost sounds off key because of how squeaky it is. The lyrics of the last song, Moonlight Mile, are kinda good but the sleazy was ruins it for me.
this album can be tortured
Awful.
Shite
Gähn und würg.
Can’t believe this album came out 50 yrs ago. It brings back lots of memories. His voice is a little too wobbly for me. But a few of these songs I remember hearing out of the massive speakers that blared through the ski lodge and lined the slopes of Toggenburg in upstate NY in my teens.