Goat Head Soup- The Rolling Stones
Rock.
This is the kind of album that finds you singing along to most songs without remembering their name or even noticing it. But once you listen carefully, you realize how good some of them are. Now, "Coming down again" is a beautiful, though unremarkable, ballad and "Silver train" offers not much more than a good old fuzzy rock. In "Can you hear the music", the raw, disharmonious and annoying vocals and what sounds like Native American or traditional Asian instruments (perhaps a pan flute...?) construct a voodoo-ish, very melancholic, almost powerful, Old South atmosphere. And, as usual with the Stones, even the worst songs are pure musical pieces. Nothing's wrong with "100 years ago" and "Winter" except they pale in comparison with the proper good "Dancing with mr. d.;" the bluesy and much underrated "Hide your love;" the catchy "Doo doo doo doo doo," the easy "Star star" and, obviously, "Angie." On the whole and without much effort, it ends up a pretty melancholic work of uneven quality. Still, after several listenings, "Angie" will become one of the least interesting songs, which proves that Goat Head Soup should have been a pearl ; some of its parts just shine brighter than others.
Should I even...?
Well, it's only rock...but the really good kind! The instrumental one, the kind that, if you were to remove all lyrics, would still get you going.
For the blues of "Melody" and "Fool to cry" alone, you should love this album! "Hand of fate," "Hot stuff," "Crazy mama," and their cover of "Cherry oh baby" are next in line. Pearl
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