Posted on 05/20/2010 11:01:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
A LESSER-KNOWN version of the Rolling Stones’ “Loving Cup,” found on the bonus disc of the new reissue of the band’s 1972 album, “Exile on Main St.,” seems to me the best thing the Stones ever did...
...the recordings ...stretched from 1969 to 1972, across the making of two other excellent and, to me, superior records — “Let It Bleed” and “Sticky Fingers.”
...Mr. Richards contributed little to the extra tracks on the bonus disc and distrusted altering even the outtakes and unused tracks... “I didn’t want to interfere with the Bible.”
“My job was to enforce the no-fiddling rule,” he told me. “I didn’t want to play around with it at all. It’s all analog, and of course the remixing involved a change to digital, but otherwise, if anybody came up with a bright idea, I said no.”
...(Jagger) put new vocals on four of the bonus tracks: “Plundered My Soul,” “Following the River,” “Dancing in the Light” and “Pass the Wine.” In “Plundered” — after some newly tracked guitar in the opening by Mr. Taylor — you hear a 66-year-old voice singing recent lyrics: an aging aristocrat describing a younger man’s appetites, over what appears to be the Stones sounding worn and wracked in their 20s...
The strange thing is that “Plundered My Soul” is very good: the most soulful and energetic Stones track I can think of in almost 30 years. Until recently, the Stones have been reluctant to release their unheard archives. Perhaps that’s because they’re so good at putting old scraps into new patchworks — the then-three-year-old songs retooled in 1972 for “Exile,” the then-nine-year-old songs (“Tops” and “Waiting on a Friend”) given new vocals and new life in 1981 on “Tattoo You.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
RnR PING
Rolling Stones - Plundered My Soul (official Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6KA4QILUc&feature=fvw
Also sound sample here
over what appears to be the Stones sounding worn and wracked in their 20s...
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Wouldn’t the phrase ‘torn and frayed’ have worked well instead of worn and wracked?
I’m a frayed knot.
Yes! It would’ve worked mucho ( in honor of el presidente’s address to congress) better.
Listened to half of it. Sounds just like Tumbling Dice to me. Just not as good. No big surprise there, I guess.
I’m listening to it right now. Finally, I’m getting around to it.
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