![]() This gives the effect that the concert audience is behind the home listener. įlashpoint was recorded using binaural recording. According to Chris Jagger, some of the backing vocals were re-recorded and Ron Wood added guitar to three tracks afterwards. 1 UK hit single in 1964, featured here with special guest Eric Clapton on guitar. Īlthough the live selections are mostly familiar hits mixed in with new tracks from Steel Wheels, Flashpoint also includes lesser-known songs like " Factory Girl" from 1968's Beggars Banquet and " Little Red Rooster", originally a No. The latter was described as a "basically a dance-track" by Chris Jagger, and a remix 12" would be released of it later that year. Recorded across North America, Europe and Japan, Flashpoint is also the first Rolling Stones release of the 1990s and, unlike previous live sets, includes two new studio tracks: " Highwire" and "Sex Drive" the former was released as a single earlier in 1991 and was a comment on the Gulf War. The tour and the two studio tracks recorded for Flashpoint were the last for bassist and long-time member Bill Wyman as a Rolling Stone. Steel Wheels Live, released in 2020, is another release from the tour, with a complete 1989 concert and a selection of live rarities. The album was recorded in 19 on the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour and released in 1991. The album was compiled by Chris Kimsey with the assistance of Chris Potter. (It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs.Flashpoint is a live album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, their first live album by the group since 1982's Still Life. Miss a Certain Song? Follow me on Twitter: Certain Songs DatabaseĪ filterable, searchable & sortable somewhat up to date database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. “Undercover of the Night” live in NYC, 2006 “Undercover of the Night” live in Atlantic City, 1989 “Undercover of the Night” Official Alt Video That said, “Undercover of The Night” still made it up to #9 on the Billboard charts, which is a pretty good showing for a band now pushing 20. The chorus, which changes every single time, is usually followed by a guitar solo - probably Ronnie - which is sometimes echoed by Mick and sometimes not. I should point out that always heard that lyric as “curl up baby / curl up tight”, and I’m trusting that internet that it’s really “cuddle.” Either way, if nothing else about this song is prime Stones, the interplay between Mick’s vocals and Keith’s guitar (unless it’s Ronnie) is thrilling and visceral. So the saving grace of “Undercover of the Night” was its chorus, which alternated Mick’s vocals and guitar licks in a crashing cascading call-and-response. But perhaps it wore me down through sheer ubiquity, or perhaps if it had been the only song like this, I would have been fine.įrom what I can tell, “Undercover of the Night” is a political song - certainly the video led me to believe that - but I really didn’t pay attention to the verses, which were clanking and juttering in their rhythms to the point where I’m not sure if either Charlie or Bill played on the song. ![]() Which is ironic, given that “Undercover of the Night” had a lot of the bad production techniques I seem to remember marred the full album: electronic drums, extraneous keyboards, bad dance rhythms. With one exception: the lead single “Undercover of the Night.” ![]() While 1983 Jim had a lot of musical opinions that 2021 Jim now scoffs at, I trust his judgement on this record: it’s a complete piece of shit. Then, in 1983, it all went to shit, when they released Undercover, an album that not only did I not like, I fucking hated.Īs a matter of fact, I hated it so much, I didn’t even bother revisiting it for this project: the only one of their records I did that with. For two decades, The Rolling Stones got away with exploiting the tension between Mick Jagger’s restless desire for staying right on top of the trends and Keith Richards’ equally restless desire to find new nuances in the traditional.
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