Goats head soup

"Her ved et genhør i forbindelse med genudgivelsen må man (...) konstatere, at der faktisk er flere fine skæringer på det lidt oversete album. 'Angie' er ganske vist eneste sang fra pladen, som har opnået klassikerstatus - men også '100 Years Ago', 'Silver Train' og ikke mindst balladen 'Winter' er stærke indspark fra et band, som stadig lyder vitale og vedkommende".

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"The Stones' 11th studio effort was by no means a terrible album - after all, they still benefited from Mick Taylor's lead guitar skills and a few singles-but GHS paled in comparison to the works preceding it. In comparison to some weaker sets the UK rockers from later in their extensive career, it holds up pretty well. Still, the ten tracks, heavy on ballads that comprise a third of the selections, seemed if not languid, then at least lacking the band's dangerous edge".

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"In 1973, Goats Head Soup marked the end of the Stones' imperial era, capturing them as they transitioned from the World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band to just a really good one".

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"The Rolling Stones' eleventh studio album has long been seen as an acquired taste, plain fare compared to its immaculate predecessors: 1972's Exile On Main St. and 1971's Sticky Fingers. However, while it's easy to see Goats Head Soup (its title inspired by a Jamaican aphrodisiac, apparently) as a missed opportunity - the band had decamped to Dynamic Sounds Studios in Kingston in late 1972, enthused by the possibilities of fusing rock with reggae - it retains a gritty charm of its own".

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"Goats Head Soup didn't - and still doesn't - sound like what one would have expected from the Stones after Exile ... But after ten years of recording, touring and the accompanying excess, the Stones sound burnt out, regretful, melancholic, even at times vulnerable - in other words like human beings, not invincible rock gods. How many times has that happened with them? Not many, which lends the best parts of Goats Head Soup a mesmerizing mood all its own. Adding to the album's legacy, let's not forget that "Waiting on a Friend" was born during the making of this record".

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"In 1973, Goats Head Soup marked the end of the Stones' imperial era, capturing them as they transitioned from the World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band to just a really good one ... If these Goats Heads Soup rarities betray the album's indecisive, scatterbrained origins, the reissue's third disc-an oft-bootlegged but greatly enhanced recording of a Brussels show from October '73-finds the Stones still very much at the top of their game as a live act. In sharp contrast to the rough `n' tough 1970 live set, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, the Brussels concert sounds like it could've been recorded earlier this year-and that says as much about the pristine remastering job as how well it captures the Stones' mid-'70s transformation ...".

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"The Rolling Stones' eleventh studio album has long been seen as an acquired taste, plain fare compared to its immaculate predecessors: 1972's Exile On Main St. and 1971's Sticky Fingers. However, while it's easy to see Goats Head Soup (its title inspired by a Jamaican aphrodisiac, apparently) as a missed opportunity - the band had decamped to Dynamic Sounds Studios in Kingston in late 1972, enthused by the possibilities of fusing rock with reggae - it retains a gritty charm of its own".

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"Goats Head Soup didn't - and still doesn't - sound like what one would have expected from the Stones after Exile ... But after ten years of recording, touring and the accompanying excess, the Stones sound burnt out, regretful, melancholic, even at times vulnerable - in other words like human beings, not invincible rock gods. How many times has that happened with them? Not many, which lends the best parts of Goats Head Soup a mesmerizing mood all its own. Adding to the album's legacy, let's not forget that "Waiting on a Friend" was born during the making of this record".

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"In 1973, Goats Head Soup marked the end of the Stones' imperial era, capturing them as they transitioned from the World's Greatest Rock'n'Roll Band to just a really good one".

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"Her ved et genhør i forbindelse med genudgivelsen må man (...) konstatere, at der faktisk er flere fine skæringer på det lidt oversete album. 'Angie' er ganske vist eneste sang fra pladen, som har opnået klassikerstatus - men også '100 Years Ago', 'Silver Train' og ikke mindst balladen 'Winter' er stærke indspark fra et band, som stadig lyder vitale og vedkommende".

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"The Stones' 11th studio effort was by no means a terrible album - after all, they still benefited from Mick Taylor's lead guitar skills and a few singles-but GHS paled in comparison to the works preceding it. In comparison to some weaker sets the UK rockers from later in their extensive career, it holds up pretty well. Still, the ten tracks, heavy on ballads that comprise a third of the selections, seemed if not languid, then at least lacking the band's dangerous edge".

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