Advantages: Great rocking tracks Disadvantages: A couple of bland ballds
This is a highly credible effort from one of rock's ultimate icons. It has many modern overtones as well as some classic sounding tracks. Blues, funk, rock, ballad - there's a little bit of everything here.
Instrumentally, the band play far better on studio records than they do live. This may be typical of most bands, but the Stones do sound strikingly different live to their studio efforts.
The album opens with the cleverly-worded "Rough Justice", ... ...upon a time I was your little rooster, now am I just one of your cocks".
The plodding protest "It Won't Take Long" is equally balls in its lyric but is a steady hard rocker in pace.
"Rain Fall Down" is a modern funk departure while "Back Of My Hand" is classic Stones blues.
"Driving Too Fast" is a modern-sounding fresh, summer-like rocker and is my personal highlight of the album.
I'm not keen on "This Place Is Empty" (sung by Keith) and "Laugh, ...
TomGreen 17.02.2008
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