Rolling Stones - Shine a Light - O.S.T. (Dlx) (Ocrd)
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Free Music Review: Longtime Fan
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best live material I have heard from the band since Get Yer Ya Yas Out!Free Music Review: Shine A Light: Original Soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
It's the Greatest Rock and Roll band in history. Of course it's a great albun!Free Music Review: Great acompaniant for film
Hit: 4 Stars
With the exception of one song, the movie is much better. There are some less well known jewels which I love. True hardcore fans will love it. Some of the highlights on Disc One-All Down The Line is great. When Mick sings about the whistle blowing, "hear it for a thousand miles", Ronnie wale's on a lead that can be heard for a thousand miles. Just My Imagination(which the Stones have completely stolen away forever from the Temptations). After Mick's surprise expletive the song totally explodes and in the film you actually see it move to a higher level. Champagne&Reefer is a great song that loses some of it's intimacy without the benefit of actually seeing not only Keith and Buddy dueling but also Ronnie on third guitar and Mick on harmonica competing for attention on stage. All four legends standing toe to toe tearing the house down. You Got The Silver transfers well to CD with Ronnie and Blondie doing great. I wish Keith would have done one off of "Wheels" or "Bridges" for his other solo spot, which I believe are a better showcase of his great songwriting talent than the chosen "Connection". Regrettably the anger in Mick's face when they burst on stage and while singing Jumping Jack Flash and the look on the rest of the bands faces(We've still got something to prove)just doesn't transfer to CD. On the CD, She Was Hot sounds so-so. But in the film you can see Mick and Mr. Fowler pointing back and forth at each other during the song. And whatever you do, don't forget Ms.Fischer dancing with Mick. With everything bouncing up and down and everything bouncing in the right place during this song makes it come alive on screen.
Disc Two-The Intro where we hear Scorsese say "We cannot burn Mick Jagger, very simple" is pretty funny, especially when after Brown Sugar we hear Mick complain that the lights "are burning up my a--".
Live With Me is by far and away the best song on the CD, but it doesn't come off like that in the film. I saw the film five times and it seems as if the sound is actually cut back in the film when this song begins. Also the choppy cut away shots totally shut this song down. On the inner sleeve of my old copy of Let It Bleed it states "This record should be played Loud". Take that advice for this song. This song should be played loud. Very loud. Extremely loud. In fact, as loud as you can stand it. As loud as your speakers can stand it. Since "Ya-Ya's" the Stones have been famous for their "Magical Mixing Techniques" and they have apparently worked their magic on the film version of this song. For whatever reason, the CD version totally blows the film version clear out of the water. There's a bass lick right after Ms. Aguilera belts out "The butler has a place for her behind the pantry door"(which she sings like she may have been there a few times herself)that is not even audible in the film at all. It's obvious some editing has taken place here. Everyone on stage in this song seems to kick it up a few notches. I my opinion, this would be an excellent choice for a single but the band doesn't always release its strongest songs for singles. This one song justifies the purchase. After the performance of this song Start Me Up is kind of a let down, but the band come back to life for what in the film is the encore. Brown Sugar and Satisfaction are very good versions. If fact almost at the end of Satisfaction it sounds as if Charlie is about to take the song onto a new level and keep playing but it turns out to be a classy way to end a classic. The last four tracks or "Bonus Tracks" seem to have been added as an afterthought. O'yea, we don't have the name of the movie anywhere in the movie. We better put in Shine a Light. The last four songs are good but lose something without the benefit of being able to put a visual to them. I hate to say this but I like the album cut of Shine a Light better than this one. Hopefully the performance of these songs will be included in the "Extras" on the DVD.
Mick has done some creative re-writing of some of the lyrics. The line about black girls in Some Girls has been removed. Which, while I don't particularly like the re-editing of some of my favorite classic songs, I must say I would have been uncomfortable explaining this line to my fourteen and thirteen year old niece and nephew. Changing the line about taking the "receiver off the hook" to "turn the hole damn thing off" was clever since allot of phones don't have receiver's anymore. Instead of some girls leaving a "lethal dose" they now leave "a little dose". The preacher in Faraway Eyes now asks for twenty dollars instead of ten. Inflation I guess. During this song Keith messes up the lyrics and tries to play it off but someone in the audience busts him on it and you can see in the film and hear on the CD, he laughs about it and tells the person to "shut up", but in a good natured way. Over all I love the Stones so I love this CD. As I said "Live With Me" is worth the purchase price everything else is extra. Why they didn't play up this song more is beyond me. I mean, why have Jack White on the cover of Rolling Stone and interview with him? The best you can say about his duet is that he didn't blow it. It wasn't bad overall but Christina's performance puts him to shame. I don't even like Christina Aguilera's kind of music. I've never purchased any of her music. A couldn't name one song she has ever done. For me she was always in the category of "famous for being famous". After listening to the CD version of this song I have a new respect for her talent. A must have if you've seen the film.
Free Music Review: SHINING A LIGHT ON THE OLD GODS
Hit: 4 Stars
The Stones release another live album in a series of live albums that a few are real Gems (Get yer ya-yas out!, Still Life and Live Licks). Shine a Light is another one of those gems. Despite this movie and album many just state tho' that the Stones are dinosaurs...they've been doin' it since Kennedy and no longer "popular". We know that. There may be some legitimate facts in those criticisms. But what many don't know is that there are a bunch of critics who just love to slam whatever this band does.
I am not talking about the people who just aren't into the Stones. I understand that not all of us share the same tastes. Some people like Jazz others hip hop and so on. However there is a group (you can find them here on Amazon and even reviewing this album) who seek to slam the Stones any chance they get. 'They haven't done anything (good) since `67 or 'Exile on Main Street'' so on and so forth. To those persons I just again ask as I have asked in my other reviews concerning the Stones...why do you even bother? You're not fans and apparently if you were you haven't been since, oh, `67?!
The Stones have contributed immensely to music/rock genre. However since 1984 when Springsteen released the last great real rock and roll album 'Born in the USA'...rock and roll has left the center of attention of the commercial interests. Music changes, tastes change and thus rap/hip hop/pop (today's pop) and other music forms have dominated the supposed 'media' attention...the Stones are now grand fathers and possibly even great grand fathers...Jagger still moves and is in great shape but he isn't 38 or 28 or 18. He doesn't run and jump like he used to. He's pushing 68 and they haven't released an amazingly popular album since say `81...but what band of the 60s/70s has? McCartney's last studio album from what I've read was a major snooze. When Steely Dan won best album at the Grammys several years ago, many in the audience (the youth of that year) quietly mumbled, no doubt commented 'who is that?' and barely applauded when it was announced on the televised Grammy show Steely Dan had one the nomination. Same goes for Herby Hancock this last year.
This is just life folks...people get older, get old die, and time moves on...Tastes change. Didn't the Stones grow up to parents who listened to Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby plus all the famous (probably since gone) old acts native to England? The Stones grow up listening to them no doubt but set them aside and eventually embraced something newer. And speaking of Frank Sinatra, his last glory days were the sixties...did he stop recording or performing? no. Was Sinatra in `88 the same as Sinatra in 56? No. Yet he was the chairman he could still belt them out and was much appreciated even by those who didn't find Sinatra their cup of tee.
If the Stones are not your cup of tee, fine. They are nonetheless the chairmen of Rock. True, the Stones aren't the Beatles who made records containing 14 songs, 10 of which were gems and the other 4 "throwaway" songs" were still brilliant (an amazing body of work no doubt unparalleled to this day). However the Beatles were a phenomenon. The Stones are just a band who plays fun rock and roll and got rich & famous doing it. So what? The Stones did many albums and had great singles come from those albums. However as in this album there are some songs the Stones wrote and recorded that aren't well known or well known 'singles', (like Loving Cup) which are nonetheless 'true gems'. I disagree with some reviews here that state that Jack White killed the song. White is young, held a good sustain on his voice....Jagger can't (or won't out of selfishness or laziness) hit the high notes anymore....it's a fact...but that fact doesn't kill Jagger's greatness. That's what makes this band special. They're fallible, they're music, they're rock and roll, tho' they're old they embod(ied) youth, and I agree, they're an acquired taste. They don't need to be slammed just appreciated.
I am no Stones apologist. The last album in my opinion was a mess. It was an excuse to go on the road (something they love artistically and financially (what's wrong with that??)). They do need to come back with some new rock and rock/blues stuff. This album's gems beg the question "when's the next new/great album coming out?". Those gems are Live with me, Start me up, She was hot, All down the line, Loving Cup, Some Girls, Faraway Eyes, You got the silver, & Champagne and Reefer. Keep listening Rock on.
Free Music Review: Reasons to...or not to...buy this CD
Hit: 4 Stars
PROS - Straight to the point:
Very simple. If you are any kind of Stones fan you will know that NEVER ONCE released live...and great...versions (if we're excluding soundboard bootlegs and radio broadcasts, but not legit live DVD releases) of unlikely songs ALONE are WELL worth the full price (especially when you can get the deluxe 2 CD version...22 tracks of music...for only $13.99 at BestBuy):
'She Was Hot'
'Loving Cup' (marred by White's vocal, otherwise great)
'As Tears Go By'
'Undercover of the Night' *
'Some Girls'
'Faraway Eyes'
'Champagne and Reefer'
'You Got the Silver' (worth the price of the CD by itself)
CONS - Too strong a word:
All the rest (including 'Connection', which is rendered more energetically by the Winos on 1988's Hollywood Bowl live CD) have all made appearances elsewhere and...in every case except maybe 'Just My Imagination'...in superior performance. That is not to say they aren't good here, and certainly not that they aren't worth hearing/having, just that they are better elsewhere.
Jagger once asked (in a 1968 interview) why anyone would bother listening to the Stones do 'I'm a King Bee' when you can hear Slim Harpo doing it. Similarly...and worst on this CD for me...why would anyone listen to this version of JJ Flash when the 'Get Yer Ya Yas'... hell even the 'Flashpoint'...versions exist?). Tumbling Dice, Sympathy, Start Me Up, Brown Sugar and Satisfaction have been so regularly included that they are positively mind numbing for the fan. But a new or casual Stones fan will associate their first experience of those warhorses with the last tour, making the CD a more appealing 'souvenir' to them than the (to them) treasured obscurities like 'She Was Hot' and 'You Got the Silver' etc.. Fair enough.
The only innumerably recycled tune (4 times now, NOT including DVDs) that I never get bored of is 'Live with Me', but Jagger's cunning alignment of his aging corporation with the most popular current artists (Guns and Roses in '89, Dave Matthews in '97, Amy Winehouse in '07 etc.) by sharing a stage with them does not excuse the silly wailing that Aguilera ruins this classic riff song with. Fortunately that practice has also brought the likes of Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Taj Mahal on to the Stone's stage, them on to the stage of their own heroes Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry, and even half the Stones in to a hyper-blues studio session with Howling Wolf back in the early seventies.
CONCLUSION?
Despite all this it's as well worth buying as any other live Stones album except 'Ya Yas', and more than most...especially at $13.99. If you do not own the more expensive 'Four Flicks' or 'Biggest Bang' live DVD sets (as good sound as any CD) then 'Shine a Light' is all the more a NO BRAINER, and check out the 'Live Licks' 2 CD as well (underrated / tons of rarities/first time releases).
Again I would have forked out the full $21.99 only for the live version of 'You Got the Silver'...or any two of the other beautifully rendered gems listed above.
* TIP: you can pick up 'Undercover of the Night' from the first of the two Beacon Theatre performances that this CD came from, which was excluded from even the deluxe CD, on ITunes.