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The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue Audio CD

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The Rolling Stones Band: The Rolling Stones
Title: Black and Blue
Rating:
Release Date: 2009-05-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Hot Stuff 2: Hand of Fate 3: Cherry Oh Baby 4: Memory Motel 5: Hey Negrita 6: Melody 7: Fool to Cry 8: Crazy Mama

Vibrant and Fresh
I decided to buy the remastered release and was pleasantly surprised at how great it sounds. I haven't listened to Black and Blue in ages, in fact I misplaced my original recording of it. The music has a vibrant and fresh quality that I just don't remember from the original.

The longer jams and musical exploration of genres are fitting, and make this recording a unique treasure in the Stones catalog.

I'm happy to have rediscovered this gem!

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An Underrated Stones Album
What you get here is perhaps The Rolling Stones' most musically diverse album. Often dismissed as just a "guitar auditions album," Black and Blue is infact an overlooked gem. There's disco rock in "Hot Stuff," funk in "Hey Negrita," Exile on Main Street style rock in "Hand of Fate" and "Crazy Mama," reggae in "Cherry Oh Baby," Wild Horses/Angie type ballads in "Memory Motel" and "Fool to Cry" and jazz in "Melody" - a territory that The Rolling Stones would not return to until Steel Wheels with the song "Terrifying. "

Overall, Black and Blue is a Stones album not to be ignored and forgotten. I highly recommend this one as it sounds better than ever. The only problem is that there's only 8 songs. "Slave" and "Worried About You" were left off and eventually got remixed and put on the Tattoo You album in 1981. .


The Rolling Stones Aging Well (Alright, Just Okay)
Still, it is interesting to listen once again to the guys when they were at the height of their musical powers (and as high, most of the time, as Georgia pines). Hey, in 2009 no one, including this reviewer, NEEDS to comment on the fact that The Rolling Stones, pound for pound, have over forty plus years earned their place as the number one band in the rock `n' roll pantheon. This album from the tail end of their most creative period , moreover, unlike let us say Bob Dylan who has produced more creative work for longer, is the `golden era" of the Stone Age. The album, however, is a little uneven in spots reflecting, I think, a certain exhaustion of material that they could call their totally their own unless the time when they owned a big chunk of rock 'n'roll in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The age of a more sedate music (at least technically) was approaching and I think there was some confusion about whether to embrace it or "spoof" it. Still "Cry Baby" and "Memory Motel" (the stick outs here along with "Fool To Cry" make any Stones "greatest hits" list. Right?
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vastly underrated and remaster rocks
remarkable guitar work all the way through with many musical guests. black and blue is vastly under rated. . . . . . . . . a winner!!! the remaster really brings the guitars up in the mix.


Stones sounded different w/o Taylor
It is more pop and less bluesy and hard rock, The Stones never were the same after Taylor left, nevertheless this was a good effort and with the remastered version sounds a lot better than the previous version. This is a whole new direction for the Stones with Taylor gone. You won't regret getting it.


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