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Name: Keno
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Subject: IORR + B&B = 2 new ratings
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Time: 3:22:35 PM
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First, somewhere in this post are 2 new mini Stones album reviews, really…. It just takes a while for me to get there….
Last night, well this morning really, I had another one of those nights where I just can't sleep for more than 4 hours. They say those of us who sleep for only 4 to 5 hours a night will not live as long as those who sleep 7 to 8 hours a night. Then again my mother lived to be 92 and was the same way as myself when it came to sleeping, 5 hours a night on average she would tell me was all she ever needed. But then she would tell me to get at least 7 hours sleep a night anyway. But this wanting to stay up all night runs in my family. My now 18 year old grandson has to catch the school bus at 7am, and I have to pretty much force him to get to bed on school nights by midnight or he's stay up to 4am every night if I didn't. Yeah, it runs in the family, as his mom was the same way until she married a morning person 11 years ago and now does as he does and gets to bed early.
So anyway, I got to bed early last night, well early for me, around 2am... and I was totally awake and ready to start a new day at 6am, before the sun had rose and around the time I usually end my day. After the kid left for school I decided to take a morning walk, but it was only in the teens out and that didn't last too long. Got hungry by the time I got back home, so at 10am I made dinner. Yeah, dinner, ever have dinner for breakfast? Well dinner is normally my first meal of the day, but just not at 10am, since I usually have it sometime after noon and no later than mid-afternoon. Yet that at least is a healthy thing, as the same people who say sleeping 4 hour or less a night leads to a shorter life, will tell you it's best to eat your main meal of the day around noon or so and to eat light before bedtime. So maybe that evens things out a bit for me? Well actually I don't really care, I've always been different in this way and that's who I am - and I'll never change - nor want to change and be like a normal person. But still, having dinner at 10am is even unusual for me; I never wake up hungry like that.
So by 11am I found I still had the entire day ahead of me, so what should this retired man do? Then I remembered - I still got 12 Stones albums to re-rate again, why not do that. So I did.
It's Only Rock n Roll was up next, and I decided to rate it along with the LP that followed it, Black n Blue. So I got to finish up the MT era and then start on the Ronnie years. As I noted here last week when I re-rated EOMS, for me (just like for you), listening to the Stones is never hard work at all, it’s a great way to start off your work day indeed.
For IORR, well what a pleasure, it sounded better than ever to me and its rating reflected all of that, rising now into the top 10, at spot number 8 on my Stones album list, now scoring a rating of 8.41! This LP is very much an even album for sure, MT’s last was great indeed, and you just miss his great guitar after listening to a song like “Short and Curles”, even if he did play on that one more like how Keith plays and not as bluesy as he can get (but I miss that coming from him in the Stones sound).
One new song today also finally made it into the “10 rating club” (there are 68 such Stones songs on my Stones “10” list now), that being “Till the Next Goodbye”. It was at a 9.0 the last time I rated it (2005) and I almost gave it a 10 back then. But this song always reminded me of this girl I knew for a while in my teens named Kathy. No, she wasn’t a hooker from Louisiana that I met on 42 Street, as that gal in the song was, but Kathy was a whore from Florida who’s goal when moving into the NY neighborhood I grew up in on Long Island, was to fuck every teen guy in the neighborhood. This was the early ’70s, and thanks to the Baby Boomers coming of age, there were a lot of us teen guys to go around. I was somewhere in the middle of the pack with her, well more like in the top third. She was good enough looking, too, and she was open about how much she loved sex and guys. Today this kind of gal is the last thing I would want to spend the night with, or even get near to, but when I was 17, damn, if she was willing to spread her wings, then that was fine with me! Anyway, this Stones song totally reminds me of Kathy, it was the way all of the guys treated her, she looked a treat just like that gal in the song, and she was – good enough for a one night stand, anyway, maybe 2 if you had nobody else. So yes, that song brings back those kinds of memoirs of my youth and gives me a warm feeling, and wondering whatever happened to Kathy?
But several songs on IORR rose higher up for me after spinning it today; I hadn’t played the LP in ages and it always sounds so much better to me when I go that long hearing an old LP of theirs. Yet that didn’t happen when Black n Blue came on next. Well okay, it did get a higher rating too, but not by much, coming in at 6.81, and it didn’t rise any in the standings, still down by the bottom of the back in 20th place. B&B is yet another Stones album I don’t play too often – in fact, I don’t play it at all. I’m pretty sure the last time I played it was in 2005 when I last rated it. Since I have no plans to ever re-rate the Stones albums again after this third and final time comes and goes, well, does that mean I’ll never play this album again? Maybe, but I realized today while it spun, that it was better than I remembered, so changes are no, I will play it again one day for sure. But then again, if I wait another 13 years, as was the case here, I’d be in my mid to late 70s by then, so maybe I better not wait that long before the next time comes around? Other than Dirty Work, there isn’t a Stones album that I ever want to totally stop playing. Yet none of the albums from the late ‘70s up to Steel Wheels grabs me, either, and no, I just don’t play those albums. I mean, why play SW when you can play SF? Or BB? Or any of their other albums made between B&B and up until B2B came out? The only Stones LP in that time frame that I still play is VL, and that’s it for me. Yet I still play all of the ‘60s and other ‘70s LPs often, and I play the last 4 released other albums – other than B2B, which is the only modern day Stones LP that I never cared for – or play. Again, why play B2B when you got IORR? For that matter, why play B&B when I got IORR? Both of them were heavy on the funk, no question, but I dig the funk heard on IORR over the funk on B&B, too.
I also noticed today that “Cheery O Baby” on B&B is nothing but a poor remake of “Luxury” from IORR, and it took playing those 2 albums back to back today to see that is a fact.
Oh well, so there’s a new mini review of those 2 LPs. Hell, it’s almost 3pm here now, and it’s warmed up to 42 degrees outside, so I think I’ll go out on another walk and not freeze this time. Oh, if you want to see my newest ratings, since I didn’t link to them last week when I wrote about this, so let me here: http://www.keno.org/AlbumsRate.htm. You can click on whatever you want once you get there, or nothing at all for that matter, whatever Ronnie!
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