For a second I thought you were joking. There really is a new single?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)
Nah, this is from....like....
Voodoo Lounge or one of the later records.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)
It has been out for a few years. All I can remember is the weak chorus.
― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)
I thought this song was obviously derivative of their earlier hits, and not nearly as enjoyable, but far from an embarrassment in itself.
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)
"Jerkin' Back & Forth" = Brilliant
"You Got Me Rockin'" = Tepid.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)
I mean, really, are any contemporary Rolling Stones songs actually *offensively bad* as opposed to just being in the shadow of better, similar tunes? I find this totally listenable even if I do shed a tear for the wit that Mick Jagger has largely abandoned of late.
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)
It wasn't offensively bad, but I don't know if I would call it listenable. It was okay in a beer-commercial-backround-music sort of way, but I can't imagine ever listening to it on the radio.
― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)
I thought "Out of Control" on
Bridges to Babylon was pretty great. For what it's worth, I
loved certain tracks on
Emotional Rescue and
Undercover.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Goddamn it, You Got Me Rockin may be the simplest song ever written, but its fucking great...
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 17 July 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Yeah, it is great. There is nothing wrong with fucking "You Got Me Rocking". I've listened to
Steel Wheels and
Voodoo Lounge much more than
Dirty Work or
Undercover.
DW was their nadir, and as much as I enjoy
Undercover there's just no range of emotion there, it's almost uniformly the Stones at their ugliest.
Anyway, The Stones seem to like "You Got Me Rocking" too; it's featured prominently in their last three tours. I saw 'em three times last year and I think twice they slotted it in 2nd. It's a nice rocker that works well at the beginning of a set. One thing about them is they continue to mix in 80's and 90's stuff, and say what you will about them but they've never been purely about playing the hits; last tour I saw 'em play "YGMR", "Slippin' Away", "Undercover", the new "Don't Stop". They may have played others as I know they mixed up the setlist pretty much every night. Anyway, that's a solid quarter or so of the set culled from the mid-80's and later.
They got much better with Steel Wheels and into the nineties. Itwas like they had developed a taste for the studio again, for working together, generating new songs and revisiting some older sonic ideas, rather than just hehashing late-70's jams. The five-years-off between albums working method appears to be a good thing for them.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 July 2003 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)