just thought i'd sneak one in but give it a somewhat prolonged closing date. Best Stones reggae song

My two favourites are:

Cherry Oh Baby - something about Charlie's stiffness and difficulty in relaxing that makes the space in this one sharper, thus the dynamics more interesting somehow
Feel On Baby - psychedelic Stones trojan horse. Love the electronic drums crashing onto the live beat, general amorphous almost A.R. Kane-ish feel, squiggly atmospheric harmonica as a blurry object in the mirage
I also really like Too Rude and don't think it's embarrassing at all. The worst is Luxury because of Mick's cod-JA accent when he sings the title.

I suppose there's also Living in a Ghost Town but I forgot about it completely

I love the Stones, but I really don't like any of these songs.

forgive Everything's/Everything Is mincing

"Feel On Baby", with no particular enthusiasm.

"Send it to Me" ... there's an extended version out there that is fantastic.

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You missed "Slave"!

"hey negrita" and not even close

^^ this

It's funny (sad, really, when you think about it) that "Waiting On a Friend" is the first song that comes to my mind when I think of "Stones reggae" (even though it is about as far from reggae as you can get) because Peter Tosh is in that video.

“Waiting on a friend” was first recorded in Jamaica iirc. I don’t hear reggae at all in that one but it does sound tropical.

I've never thought of Slave as reggae but I do hear it. Waiting on a Friend is a sort of Latin rhythm, no?

LOL i had never heard their cover of "Cherry" ... dismal

it's like a scientifically engineered opposite of a groove

Yeah, I think I mentioned on the Stones thread that it's like Keith described reggae to Charlie once, and then gave him one attempt to approximate the description.

That's sort of why it works for me. Charlie has little idea what he's doing so it ends up being this jerky minimalist stop-start version with these big drum punctuations. Idk I like it.

I went with "Luxury." I'm not a fan of the album - there's at best a good three or four-song EP buried among the dreck - but I agree with Greil Marcus that it's a highlight:

It comes on as if the Stones are trying to cash in on reggae—the pose—but by the time it’s halfway done what it really sounds like is a reggae band playing like Stones. The chords that seemed copped in the first minute are magical by the third—there isn’t a group in the world that can play like this.

The fake accent Mick begins with dissolves, and you hear a man singing. His outrage and resentment (he’s a poor Jamaican working seven days a week in an oil refinery), so contrived in the first verse, is completely real by the time he’s through with you (he’s a hard-working rock star but his wife is bleeding him dry). “All the rum I want to drink it,” he yells—“I’ve got responsibilities!” And how could you argue with that?

When I first moved to NYC I was paying my dues with a grossly underpaid job that was at times brazenly illegal. (A friend who came in after I left was asked to train an unpaid intern to do some of the work so that the owners, who own a fucking brownstone not far from Barclays Center, only had to hire my friend on a part-time basis - they refused and was promptly fired.) As it became clear that I really had to bail and find a better job, I used to play "Luxury" as commiseration.

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