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Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones · Barber Cuts: Beats and Bars

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Welcome to Barbara Cuts, Beats and Bars.
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We're a father and daughter music podcast that slices into
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some of the greatest albums, one cut at a time.
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With no industry ties or formal training, just a shared love of
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music, we explore albums across genres, rating favorites and
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skips while digging into what makes each one iconic.
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I bring the beats. And I bring the bars and
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together we deliver real talk and fresh takes from both sides
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of the sound. Hey, I'm Riley.
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And I'm Todd and welcome to this week's episode of Barbara Cuts.
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We are talking about Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones,
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released in December of 1969. So one of our more older albums.
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So let's get straight into it. Riley, what are your least
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favorite 2? OK, one of my least favorites is
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Live With Me. So.
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Live With Me has some of the similar like country vibes that
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other parts of the 1000 did, but very aggressively.
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To me it was between for my second least favorite it was
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between Live With Me and Love in Vain.
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And then the more I listened to it the more I liked Love and
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Vain because it had for the same reason they both had that like
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country twing to it that I'm I'm typically not a fan of, but Love
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and Vain does it slowly and almost I don't know that that
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works better. To me it's more of a novelty to
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get like a slow and like weird sounding song with country than
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it is to like do a more harsh 1. Yeah, so this 1 ended up beating
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out Love and Vain for worse. And you know Love and Love and
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Vain is a Blues song cover of art.
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Are you playing music? I am.
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OK, I was like, where's that coming from?
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Love and Vain is a cover. I was like, oh, I'm I'm not
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playing, so sorry. Love and Vain is a cover of a
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Robert Johnson Blues song. And you know, it's it's got some
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good lyrics in there. And but since it's least
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favorite, I don't want to steal too much of that.
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But to live with me was one of mine.
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And the other one was You got the silver.
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And for me it was really just the vocals.
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So this was this was the one where Keith Richards was the one
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that was singing instead of Mick Jagger, you know, And I like the
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music feel to it. The slide guitars were nice.
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Like it, it was good. It's just vocally it was just a
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little bit off to me. So those were my 2.
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I didn't say my other least favorite.
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Oh, I thought you said live with me and.
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No first, second least favorite. Sorry not It was between those
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Love and Baby became like a middle tier.
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My least favorite given what I was just saying and that's why I
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kept playing the song. I was lost.
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My bad. We haven't been here in a bit.
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We're refreshing ourselves as we go.
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My other least favorite, which goes along with everything we've
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said. And and the fact that we don't
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ever play music for our least favorites, which that caught me
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off guard too. Do we not?
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No, we don't. But you want to start something
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new, That's fine. Let's just start all the music.
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My other least favorite country honk.
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Repeat everything I said but times it by 10.
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I mean it literally says Honky Tonk in the name.
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Can't really do that that often and I like the song.
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Hard to do that for Riley Barber if you really commit to the
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country. Personally hard for me to like
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it and the the voice is just very in it and I just this is
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just not my favorite song and that's that.
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All right, so favourites. So yes, I had a three run of
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favourites. I'll start with my there is one
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that was like a standout favorite of mine and then two
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that like in my mind went together as like a pair.
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They're not. You know, this is where you do
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play the music. Yes, but they go as a pair.
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The first one unfortunately is You got the silver now I happen.
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I mean, everyone here knows I like Neutral Milk Hotel.
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I've talked about them all the time, so obviously I have an
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affinity towards weird voices. OK, like Neutral Mole Hotel is
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not a normal voice. Neither is like group Love or
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Bright Eyes for that matter. Like bands that are foundational
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to my liking of music also got weird voices.
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I got something for it and you got the silver.
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I like how it kind of builds and is slower and well, not builds,
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stays steady actually, but it does like get a little bit more
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uppity. But for the most part it stays
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pretty steady. I liked it.
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I like the consistency and following that one as like the
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second tune. I really did like Monkey Man.
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What a fun song. What a fun song.
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Monkey Man's beginning specifically, which you can kind
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of hear just now, but also the song in total is one of the ones
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that I think is the most. If you play this today, it would
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be very easy to convince me that the song just came out.
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Like. The the way it sounds is very
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modern and just very impressive. How much it stands up the test
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of time. You can barely tell it was, you
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know, made in the 60s. It sounds current, but just a
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fun song. I really liked it.
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And yeah, but my absolute favorite, the stand out, stand
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out in a lot of ways, was Midnight Rambler.
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Boy, do I love this song. I love this song.
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It is a long song, yeah, don't get me wrong, but I really like
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it. It still has the, like,
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instrumental countryside of things, but that's also just
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Blues, which I do like. But is it like Jagger?
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The singer. Yeah, yeah.
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He branches away from that thick like country voice and has this
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more like rock'n'roll voice in this song, which I love when
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that happens. But this song does build over
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time and I just I love like here it is building in a different
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part. Like if you Click to any part of
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the song I feel like it sounds like a different song except for
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the like almost train horn sound that goes on in the background
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and I just and it gets quiet. Yeah.
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And then it'll start to like build again.
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True. I just really like the song.
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I like the building, I like the back and forth with the speed, I
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like the playing around with it. I like the mixing of genres that
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are very apparent in this song. Just like this part where he
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gets a little more screamy. I just really like the song.
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I think it's very good, well put together song.
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Very good. So my favorites, one of them is
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in fact Midnight Rambler. And.
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I think that you know, you all the reasons there that you're
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talking about it for liking it are all musical, which a lot of
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times you're like, oh, the lyrics really were good on this
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one. I think subliminal, subliminal.
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Normally you knew what this was about.
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Do you know what this is about? I'll be honest.
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It's a loose biography of the Boston Strangler.
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I was going to say, is it a murder song?
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Because that. So again, it's a murder song, so
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you know, they're really drawn to them with your weird genre of
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music, so, you know. Yeah, I didn't process that
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until I just looked at it and it said he don't give you a hoot of
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warning. And I was like, ah man, I liked
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another murder song. Subliminally you you you got to
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a murder song but yet you tried to play it off like you like the
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the music quotes there for our non.
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Well, that makes it even better. The like timing it makes it even
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better. You know, Keith Richard called
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it a Blues opera was a quote of his.
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And again, the, you know, I'll play some of the parts there as
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well, but you know, the oops. So it's, it's got that bluesy
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part that that you were talking about.
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And, and this kind of goes for a couple of minutes and, and
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they're chatting about it, the midnight midnight Rambler.
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And then the make sure that this comes through the in about two
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minutes, I want to say is, is where it does.
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And then the beat, like so now the lyrics are gone, but the
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beats starts to speed up a little bit.
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And, and it has this best I can tell, like a, a slow build up to
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where then it becomes steady. So it's not like a fast change,
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but it's a slow change. And then in the middle there's
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this. Don't you do that?
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Don't you do that? And so now you got the drums
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going a little bit more of the harmonica, which is Jagger's
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playing the harmonica. And, and through this, it's
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almost like the guitar and the harmonica are talking back and
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forth with each other. So there's another part then
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right before the full minute mark.
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It's slow, right? And so now you get the lyrics to
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come back. So now to your point, sounds
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like a completely different song, but yet the same song, you
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know. And again, I think the lyrics
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are about the kick start here again with a crack of the crack
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of the drum. And now from from that moment
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on, there it is. The song starts to build back
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again. And so by the time it gets to
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the end, you get the the guitar coming back, the drums coming
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back slowly. It's like it builds back to all
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of this and the final back to the bluesy guitar heavy way that
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it started at the very beginning.
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And so it's nice you get this full gamut of of music and and
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to your point, yeah, I really, really enjoyed this song.
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And then my other one, which kind of works nicely because
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you, you talked about how you, you like, you got the silver and
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then monkey man, the other one. No, it's not one.
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It's not either of those. It's the last one.
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That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted because it
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was about to be a four run song for Riley and I was like, I'll
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leave the last one out with hopes that I know my dad well
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enough that he picks this song as one of his favorites.
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And and so it was between, it was between this and Gimme
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shelter like. Great opening song too.
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Is is like and and and there's a little bit of disappointment
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that it wasn't one of our favorites, but I'm OK with that
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because Gimme shelter has got tons of people that listen to it
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and know that song. So that's OK.
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But these others don't get except for this one.
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These others don't get the probably the just deserve that
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they, but I mean it's got an iconic opening, so you can't
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always get what you want. So this beautiful choir, the
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London Bach choir and you come off a monkey man, you come off
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of midnight Rambler, hard, bluesy.
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You go into you got the Silver, which is slower but yet a
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different, harsher voice. Monkey Man again, faster.
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That song ends and you get this just gorgeous, beautiful choir
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and it's very, very formal. So the contrast of all the music
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really that's that's come before it.
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Then you get the acoustic guitar, the choir saying first
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verse. Jagger really repeats the same
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verse with just the acoustic guitar.
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You can Fast forward around a minute and get a little bit more
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instruments. And then right before I'm going
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to Fast forward to the two-minute mark, the rest of the
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band kicks in. And then now we got a fun song.
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So we go from this, the rally Jamin on YouTube.
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So we go from this stark contrast of this formality of
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this choir singing and beauty and then fight.
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They're just having fun and stomping and doing.
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It feels like a jam set. Yeah, it does, you know, And you
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know, it's also nice because toward the end, the choir comes
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back, but they're in a backing vocal mode almost all of.
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A sudden It's gospel, Yeah. You know, and and you have at
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the very end. So if I find it toward the end,
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you get the seriousness of the choir, the playfulness of the
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Stones singing, which are really, let's see, heavy lyrics.
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And here they are. You can't always get what you
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want, but if you try sometime, you just might find just my
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phone that you get what you need.
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And if you really think about it and pause, those are really
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heavy lyrics. So we kind of switched a little
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bit. You had a song that you like for
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music. I got a song that I did like for
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the music, but those lyrics just are really heavy.
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But yeah, the song, especially in this part, is so fun.
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I mean. Now you got some.
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Piano jamming like they're just and and you almost get lost in
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the music while you're dealing with under there some some
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pretty heavy, heavy lyrics. So those were my favorite too.
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Midnight Rambler. You can't always get what you
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want. You hear it in that one and
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didn't give me shelter at which I did.
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I am so glad that I guessed. I was like certain.
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We don't talk about this. So that's why I'm so excited.
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I was like certain that I was like, OK, if I know my dad at
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all, this will be one of his favorites.
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So I'll just let him talk about it and I'll talk about the other
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three. But give me shelter in this one.
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You give me shelter is when I hear it on the most and you hear
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it a little bit on the harmonies and you can't always get to you.
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It sounds like a female voice and I don't know who that is,
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but that they're I don't know who that is, but they're the
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reason I'm saying this. Their voices sound incredible
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together. They should have kept her on.
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I loved those parts. I'm not usually like, oh, I love
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harmonies or I love like I I'm really not usually a female
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singer person, unfortunately. I wish I I was.
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I like the again, weird froggy voices that only weird men can
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produce but like they sound incredible together and I loved
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anytime I got to hear kind of that the female part to the
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song. Yeah, and, and I don't know, I,
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I think at the end of that song, it's not a female, it's the
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choir. I know at the end it's the
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choir. Gimme Shelter was the one that I
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was like positive. Gimme Shelter was Gimme Shelter
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is definitely. But I'm thinking the part that
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I'm talking about is when you were talking about like the rest
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of the band kicks in when they they have like everyone singing
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or like harmonies built on top of each other singing and one of
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them sounds very feminine if it's not a woman.
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Could be. But I really like it.
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Very good. All right, So why, why should
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people go listen to this album? OK, I'm going to say something
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that poor Sean, I may break his little heart.
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The Rolling Stones is The Beatles, but like, they did it
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right, Sean who is. Rich, Charles.
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Yes, Charles, it's been a day. Now you're going to double break
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his heart. I'm going to double break his
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heart. First of all, not Sean Charles.
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Rolling Stones has Beatle Beatles but they did it better,
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OK. Oh wow, you're.
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Going. You're going to have lots of
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people potentially come in for you.
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No, but OK, hear me out. OK.
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The the they had like their own like tension of the times.
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Like they, they were kind of like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but
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in the 90s, like they both dealt, but in the 60s they dealt
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with each other. But they would say like little
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snarky comments back and forth. But overall, nobody cared except
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for fans. I don't know.
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I think the reason that Rolling Stones, in my opinion, is
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slightly more up there is because I think they're way more
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authentic to who they are. The Beatles, like, they wear
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this like kind of rebellious pop group, but they put together
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like a very polished, like, look and sound a lot of the times.
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And then every once in a while would throw in like a little
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rambunctious tune to like really mess with people.
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Rolling Stones did not do that. They never acted like uptight
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about any of it. They seemed to recognize.
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The fondness of music and the power of music as like a form of
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rebellion. And also I think they better
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like with Love and Vain, I think you said was a cover song.
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I think they stayed a little bit more true, especially in this
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album, to the roots that they were coming from with like the
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Blues and rock'n'roll and blending all of that.
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I think you hear that a lot more and for me, I like liking that
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side of music. I very much enjoy it.
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But I am I was saying that to be controversial.
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I am a bluesy rock fan personally.
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Yes, I was saying that to be more controversial.
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Obviously The Beatles are great and known for what they're known
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for, but they sure don't have a magazine that rates all music.
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You know, you're talking about, you're talking about The
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Beatles. This album reached number one on
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the UK Albums Chart and in doing so, knocked aside.
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Abbey Road is, is who they knocked out again.
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I'll be at temporary because Abbey Road came back and then
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came back to #1 but again to, to knockout.
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And you know, you to your point, you, you say Abbey Road and
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probably most people, especially anybody that likes music, would
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go that's the that's The Beatles.
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If you say, OK, let it bleed, a lot of people aren't going to
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know that is The Rolling Stones it that the album is not near as
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iconic as an Abbey Road is. But again, and when you go in
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and you look at the songs and then you start to listen to the
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songs, you're like, OK, I know that one.
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I know that one. I like that one.
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That's a good one. That's a.
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Good one. That's a good one, so.
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It it and I think. Underappreciated album I would
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say. Yes, and but I mean to Rolling
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Stones credit, I mean everyone knows them from the magazine
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like so there's a good listen. There's a good reason to go
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listen to it is people just hear Rolling Stones and think it's
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only a magazine. But there's also a band named
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Rolling Stones, which is a different thing.
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This is. True, but so if you're going to
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combine them, go listen to the other one.
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But also the the logo itself is very Everyone knows The Rolling
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Stones as well, just maybe not their.
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Outcomes. Yeah, true.
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I mean, they've, they've, they've got, they've got some
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very good ones that come up right after this one that they,
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that they are known for that the people would say, but you know,
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this is a, a musical, you know, I called it a musical melting
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pot in my notes. It's, it's got Blues, country,
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gospel, rock, really all mixed together.
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They've got some songs that are very driving upbeat.
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They've got some that are slower and so, you know, as the next
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song comes on, you really don't know what you're going to get
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with the next song. You know, a lot of times with
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some of the albums we we've listened to, you were like,
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every song sounds the same or very, very similar.
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This was definitely not the case with with with this one because
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there were quite a bit that were different, you know, and then
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one of the other things is this is in The Rolling Stones career
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a, a, a bridge album as, as it were, you know, from the 60s.
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Brian Jones used a little history history.
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Brian Jones was the actual founder and leader of of the
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group, but had problems with heavy drug use and Jagger and
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Keith Richards really started writing more and more songs,
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which pushed Jones more and more away.
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And in the middle of this album, Jones was replaced by Mick
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Taylor, you know, But he only appeared on 2 albums.
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Jones real 2 songs. Jones really only appeared on 2
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songs. So most of the guitar work on
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this album was done by Keith Richards.
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So this album just really shows how good of a guitarist he
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really is, but then also gives and shows a little bit of that
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edge of where they kept going into the 70s with with a lot of
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their their songs. Just a really good album and and
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really bookended by to a great opening song, a great closing
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song, you know, and the songs in between.
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So yeah. But I mean, with Rolling Stones
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also, yes, this album specifically is great, but in in
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general, I mean, boy did they produce music.
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They they have so much music and a silly thing that ultimately
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doesn't matter that much but still is impressive.
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When you look at their most popular songs on Spotify, at
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least the top five are off of different albums for the most
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part like or if not all of them are off the different albums,
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which is like very impressive. Usually you have like a cult
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classic favorite album that most of your topless 2 songs are from
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there. And for them and most people who
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really like a band really only like two or three albums of
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theirs. And then it starts to people
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think go wayward or something like that.
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So for people to consistently like their music is a very
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impressive thing. And, and the, and the fact that
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they're still touring still, as far as I know, still putting out
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music, like that's kind of crazy.
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Yeah, they've been doing it for a little bit.
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Yeah, they have. Yeah, they have.
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So all right, best any anything else about why people should
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listen to it before we get into best beats and bars?
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Go to beats and bars. Let's do it, Riley.
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What's the best lyric from the album?
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Now here's where we can get really funny is I was talking
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about beats and you were talking about bars while talking about
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favorite songs. What if we just switch?
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And my favorite lyric is what you were noting about and what I
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was talking about becomes your favorite beat Because verbatim I
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was going to say that's kind of a basic lyric from this album.
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Like Dutt stands out that it's going to be the best out lyric.
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So I'm so glad that you said it is.
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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime,
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you'll find you get what you need.
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What an incredible lyric. It's such a great lyric.
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And it applies to so many different situations because you
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can say it like in the sense of like, oh, this really is what I
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needed in like a good way. Like I'm happier about this.
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And then you can also say like, oh, I try to get everything I
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want. And I got humbled and I guess
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that's what I needed. And I'm not happy about it.
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Like it goes both ways. It goes every way you can think
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of. And also, that's just such a
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life lesson. It's like, yeah, some things are
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going to go funky, but if you look back, you might realize
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that it went funky in the exact way it needed to for everything
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to work out in the long run. And I just, it's such a tough
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lesson, but and a really hard one to usually word actually.
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So it was fun to hear it and be like, Oh yeah, that's what it
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is. Yeah, and so simple too.
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Like it's such a simple lyric, but yet so profound in what it
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says. And and cliche.
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How many times do people say like, Oh yeah, I want this or I
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want that. And then the comeback is this
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lit like, well, you can't always get what you want or you don't
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always get what you want. But I also love that it does not
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just say you can't always get what you want.
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It says if you try like it, it doesn't just say like give up
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like it. It does kind of encourage you
29:34
like try, you'll get what you need.
29:37
Maybe not exactly what you want, but you ought to try.
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And I I love that it also doesn't go completely like
29:47
anarchy, where it just like no one cares, you're not going to
29:50
get what you want, so you might as well just give up.
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Like it, it gives like an alternative.
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And I just, I love that line and love the songs.
29:59
That helps. But yeah.
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So it's your favorite beat Midnight, No.
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No, although it you know it, it is up there and plenty of
30:12
choices as we've talked about. You got, you know, 'cause I, I
30:15
like surprises and I think you do too.
30:18
There's tons of speed ups and slowdowns that you're not
30:21
expecting the choir that you just played, not really
30:26
expecting that. Where it where it comes in the
30:30
harmonica again from Midnight Ramblers.
30:33
Good. But it's funny, I'm actually
30:38
going with a voice and it's not Keith Richards.
30:43
It is your mystery voice in question.
30:46
It is Mary Clayton from Jimmy Shelter because.
30:52
That's hilarious. Yes.
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But I I did bring that up. You did, and I didn't say
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anything because I knew I had this.
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She is an American gospel singer.
31:04
She's done a ton of backing vocals and whatnot, but here she
31:09
shines in in this verse, you know of Give Me Shelter and it
31:16
is right around, Let me get the volume right on my end.
31:22
It's riding around the 241 mark. And so just a little bit, I'm
31:28
going to let it play because as the song's gone and then you
31:33
hear her come in, man is her voice powerful.
31:38
They the story goes, she came in around 1:00 in the morning to do
31:42
this. And after a couple takes, listen
31:45
on the third voice when she says rape and murder, her voice
31:51
cracks and you'll hear somebody in the background go just how
31:57
impressive it is, you know, and and it's so good.
32:08
Let's see. So when I get so here we go a
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little bit before so you can get the lead in.
32:16
All right, here she comes. So very good.
32:53
So that's that's my best little beat musical portion of it.
32:59
And again, I'll I'll hopefully it'll come through in the
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recording. But it's in the rape murder and
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in the second syllable of murder is where voice kind of crackles
33:09
a little bit and you'll hear that little whoo of somebody in
33:12
the background that that I guess was just listening to and they
33:15
kept it all in. So she also is is in on the
33:19
choruses in the same spot, but that that particular verse or or
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section is, is all her. And man, it's fantastic.
33:29
It it it reminded me of the lady from Pink Floyd, dark side of
33:34
the moon, where you just get this voice that comes out of
33:39
nowhere and it's just so powerful.
33:41
It's like, oh, wow, that's good. I get chills listening to it.
33:45
Then one thing. That's my best, best beat
33:48
musical. Part One thing a female vocalist
33:52
always gets right is gospel. Yeah, always.
33:59
There's there's been some good ones, hadn't it?
34:01
Yep. So speaking, do do we have an
34:06
Aretha? I mean that would be the one
34:08
that comes to my mind. Do we have a Aretha on our on
34:12
our list? I don't know.
34:15
I would I would assume. I would assume.
34:20
Anyway, so all right, well, ratings, do you want me to
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start? Because you're you're off camera
34:30
looking at something else. I'm looking at the poster to see
34:33
if there is a reason. Franklin.
34:37
I guess you'll just have to keep listening to find out.
34:40
This is true. One thing I can't promise, one
34:43
thing I can't promise right now is we do have the Spice Girls.
34:46
So whether or not you consider that your gospel, maybe.
34:49
Yeah, we have gospel. We may not have Aretha Franklin,
34:52
but we have the Spice Girls. And you know what?
34:56
That's that's sometimes what you get with music.
34:59
That's just what you got to accept is.
35:02
Can't. Can't always get what you want.
35:05
But is it what we need? I don't know.
35:07
Anyway, rankings, I think this album is like a 9 1/2.
35:15
Objectively, it's just because I don't like the the like country
35:19
song, but that's also because I don't exactly think that the
35:24
voice on that song and the voice on the songs I was talking about
35:27
is like very country heavy. And I don't think that that fits
35:31
with the rest of the album as much.
35:33
That's a very more Blues rock sound.
35:37
So it just sounds out of place. I'm not just saying that because
35:39
I dislike country. If it was a country album, I
35:41
can't just say objectively it's a bad album.
35:43
I know that personally I would rate it a nine.
35:48
I I have discovered I am a Rolling Stones fan.
35:52
There you go. I really like The Rolling
35:54
Stones, I like the sound, I think there is something
35:58
nostalgic to it. And also with how fried of a
36:02
range not only this album is, but their discography.
36:06
I mean I think everyone can find a Rolling Stones song they
36:10
really like first of all because of how different all of it
36:12
sounds. And the I could probably put
36:14
their whole playlist on shuffle and not get tired of it because
36:18
it all sounds so different. And there have been albums that
36:21
I really like such as like ACDC and Metallica are the two that
36:24
come to mind. But I I could not listen to them
36:27
straight for two weeks. I would go insane because all it
36:30
just sounds so similar. And that works for them.
36:34
But I think Rolling Stones makes every genre work for them, which
36:39
is a very impressive feat, and I really enjoyed it a lot more
36:43
than I knew I would. Yeah, well, this this is going
36:47
to make for boring because I'm a nine personal rating 9 1/2
36:51
objective. But yeah, I agree.
36:57
It's it's I'm a I'm a Rolling Stones fan as well.
37:01
And so it is. It was fun listening to it.
37:07
All right, Songs of the week. So songs leak.
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I'm back. I'm back at my roots, I'm back
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at my lyric roots and depending on who you ask, weird voice
37:20
roots. So this song is called, That's
37:26
Louder Than I Meant for It to Be, Love Song from a Dog by
37:33
Shovels and Rope and Gregory Allen Isikoff.
37:37
I don't know if that's how you pronounce it, but you can kind
37:40
of hear that froggy voice that I'm talking about, Sumi.
37:45
But this song is incredible. The first time we listen to it
37:49
and the first time anyone listens to it, I don't think
37:51
they'll fully understand it. Here's a female voice coming in
37:55
beautiful harmony, but it is called Love Song from a Dog
38:00
because it's talking about this kind of like unrelenting love
38:04
for a person. And the lyrics are stunning.
38:09
Like one of the lyrics is loving you was just like being born,
38:12
like I never knew a life before. And then the chorus that's
38:18
playing behind me is one word and I'll come running and I'll
38:24
like essentially like you're telling your dog to come.
38:27
And it's this whole thing that's just, it's so good because
38:31
people always talk about like the love of a dog and then to
38:35
kind of talk like a love song from a dog.
38:39
And it sounds incredible. But it's just this chorus is so
38:46
heartwarming. I mean, it just said running
38:49
like a color blind love sick fool running like it's something
38:52
I was born to do. Like it's just a beautiful song
38:56
and lyrically so impressive and changes everything simply from
39:02
the title being love song from a dog.
39:04
Like that sounds so silly. And then you listen to it and
39:07
you're like, Oh my gosh, like it is that is this is it.
39:12
And the part that I love, love, love about this song
39:17
specifically too, is there's a part towards the end of the song
39:26
where it kind of gets a little faster right before the three
39:32
minute mark. And then I'll see if they here
39:37
it comes. OK, It's not at this part.
39:46
Never mind. I don't know the song.
39:48
Here it is. They howl but like it sounds.
39:55
Like howling? Yes, because it's a love song
39:58
from a dog. You don't understand how deep
40:00
this song goes to me. And it kind of ends the song
40:03
with them. Like howling at this moon like
40:06
it. Every time the time this one
40:10
comes on, I'm reminded of how impressive it is.
40:13
To write a love song like that, like genuinely such an
40:17
impressive feat. Go listen to it and go really
40:20
listen to it from like that perspective of oh, the love of
40:23
dog is unmatched. Like really listen to the lyrics
40:26
of what it's saying in the chorus and the beginning.
40:29
It's just a beautiful song and so kind of light hearted with
40:36
the way they portray a very deep feeling so.
40:40
Yeah, especially when you when you find a dog like that and,
40:43
and again, we've we've got brother Barbara, Bubby and Lila.
40:50
Like you just see that in the way that she looks at him and
40:55
does all that. Like you just see that.
40:58
So it's, it's just, it's neat. Yeah.
41:02
Especially when it when a dog and an owner are really, really
41:05
attached. That is something special, all
41:12
right. Anything else?
41:14
That's all. Because mine is funny because I
41:21
did not know what one of your least favorite songs was going
41:26
to be. So to preface my song of the
41:30
week after replay one, no, it was your least favorite song,
41:36
right? Country Hulk.
41:40
No. So we want to make sure that
41:44
people know this and can hear it because my song of the week is
41:54
actually the one that everybody knows because you hear the
42:04
cowbell. Do you hear the cowbell?
42:07
So this is the one that was on the radio.
42:10
It was not off an album guitar and it has a Memphis line in it
42:18
very at the very first a gin soap bar room queen in Memphis.
42:29
This is some of the lyrics are a little bit different, but this
42:35
is the same song but with The Rolling Stones.
42:38
Lousy rock to it. And it's so much better.
42:42
It is, it is. I mean it.
42:45
It's. It's so much better.
42:47
Yeah, it's the Honky Tonk. Women is the name of the song.
42:53
There you go. The album would be a 10 if this
42:55
was the version. So, you know, and but again, it
43:02
it it's funny, it was it was released turned down just a
43:05
little bit. It was released as a as a stand
43:07
alone song in July of 69. So the album came out in
43:12
December of 69. So this song came out four
43:16
months before the album. But country honk, the one that
43:21
you don't like that is on the album was the original one that
43:26
they recorded. Like that was the original song,
43:31
but this one is more electric, more bluesy.
43:36
It's got a great again, an iconic A cowbell.
43:39
If you listen to the very beginning, a cowbell kind of cow
43:42
in and this this is just how different the 2 are.
43:49
This single version of the song was inducted into the Grammy
43:53
Hall of Fame. And yet country honk.
43:59
I'm not sure how many people even recognize that that song
44:02
exists, other than probably true Rolling Stones fans and the,
44:10
the, the city. You know, this one says Memphis
44:12
at the very beginning. The country honk is Jackson, Ms.
44:16
at the very beginning. But for the most part, the the
44:19
lyrics are a little bit different, but it's, it's this,
44:23
it's the same song. This is my yellow ledbetter.
44:30
This is my yellow blood. Better now.
44:32
So again, Honky tonk Women by The Rolling Stones and it even
44:38
is a a justification for you that you knew something was off
44:44
with the song. I knew.
44:46
I knew it Had you? Had you heard the song before?
44:49
No, if anyone told me, if anyone was going to complain, that's
44:52
like, oh, really doesn't like country.
44:53
That's why she said objectively it was bad.
44:56
Listen to this. Listen to this and tell me that
44:59
I was wrong, that objectively the country voice and the Howard
45:03
Country was a wrong choice for that song.
45:07
Yeah. I feel vindicated.
45:09
I, I, I I do have to agree on that one, but but anyway, all
45:13
right, so next album, I guess that's where we are.
45:21
Yeah, next album is the Where is it The MIS Education of Lauryn
45:28
Hill. Oh, it's quite different.
45:31
Yes. All right, the MIS education of
45:34
Lauryn Hill. Yes.
45:37
A lot of people my age will know Lauryn Hill from The Fugees.
45:43
I don't even know that man name. Ha ha, that's why I said my age.
45:47
So yeah, so I'm excited. So yeah, Killing Me Softly was
45:56
the song, and I think that's a cover, but.
45:59
That's I know the like, something flat.
46:03
I know that song. Killing me softly.
46:07
I think I might know, like it's like a Whitney Houston cover or
46:10
something. That's that's The Fugees.
46:20
I see. Yes, I, I know.
46:22
Roberta Flax 1. Yeah, yeah.
46:26
Someone I. Like all right, so the MIS
46:29
education of Lauryn Hill. Yes.
46:33
By Lauryn Hill. Lauryn Hill.
46:36
Yes, all. Right, so we got that one on
46:39
deck and then also go listen to Let It Bleed by The Rolling
46:45
Stones. Some love song from a dog and
46:51
honky tonk women. Those are our songs for the
46:53
week. Also, go check us out on
46:56
Instagram, YouTube if you want to watch the video side of this
47:01
over there and see Riley break it down a couple times if you
47:06
want to do that. Other than that, I'm Todd.
47:11
I'm Riley, and this was another episode of Barbara Katz.