Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

[Mister Freeze]

Terrible song.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Nope.

[NeonKnite]

Love it.

[DangerZone]

Excellent song

[Mister Freeze]

Garbage. Use Your Illusion levels of self-indulgence.

[dmbrocker]

It's a good one, though "She's So Cold" is the best song from that album.

[exitflagger]

I have always found that song funny as hell and I don't really care whether it's intentional or not. A fun song that I associate with carefree times.

[Bono Nettencourt]

It's a good one, though "She's So Cold" is the best song from that album.

Also true.

[Hellsinkey]

The title track is meh, there's some good tracks on the record like Let Me Go and She's So Cold though.

[whammybar]

Emotional Rescue is just a disco song because the radio was full of it at the time. Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall is the same sellout.

[CrankerBait]

Emotional Rescue is just a disco song because the radio was full of it at the time. Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall is the same sellout.

Yes and no. Jagger wrote and mostly arranged "Emotional Rescue" from the outset to be a hit, disco-style single. His falsetto parts were supposed to be copying or paying tribute to Marvin Gaye.
"Another Brick in the Wall" came from a Roger Waters demo with no hint of disco influence. It was producer Bob Ezrin who apparently encouraged David Gilmour to help turn it into something funkier. It was also Ezrin's idea to add a second verse, the one with the children's choir singing, which repeated the lyrics in the first verse, so that with the guitar solo it would be long enough to release as a single. Even then, neither Waters nor Gilmour saw it has having any single potential, nor were they apparently all that interested in it being a single as long as the overall concept of The Wall remained intact.

[HoldenSSV]

Worst. Video. Ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3r0z3_oig

[SeniorGrande]

Its no Leo Sayer "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"

[Turner Coates]

Terrible song.

Jagger heard some Prince recordings before Prince became a big deal.
Emotional Rescue is Jagger trying to beat him to the punch.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Or, he was just remaking Miss You.

[exitflagger]

I guess if "Miss You" has any vague whiff of disco-ness, it must be "terrible" too.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Turrible, even.

[Grendel]

Emotional Rescue is just a disco song because the radio was full of it at the time. Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall is the same sellout.

Nope

[RaceFan3]

Weird song, kind of a weird album too. They were going for that disco/dancey shit which really didn't work IMHO. Dance (Part 1)? The fuck is that about? Wyman cranking some uber-funky bassline and a bunch of horns? I mean, I get playing different stuff and branching out but that song always seemed goofy to me. Maybe that was the point.

She's So Cold is a great (and still kind of underappreciated) song. The rest? Meh.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Weird song, kind of a weird album too. They were going for that disco/dancey shit which really didn't work IMHO. Dance (Part 1)? The fuck is that about? Woody cranking some uber-funky bassline and a bunch of horns?

FTFY. He played bass on the title cut too.

[RaceFan3]

Weird song, kind of a weird album too. They were going for that disco/dancey shit which really didn't work IMHO. Dance (Part 1)? The fuck is that about? Woody cranking some uber-funky bassline and a bunch of horns?

FTFY. He played bass on the title cut too.

Well, shit. Didn't know that. Or if I did, I'd forgotten. That explains a lot. Though both tunes are still a little goofy to me

[CrankerBait]

Weird song, kind of a weird album too. They were going for that disco/dancey shit which really didn't work IMHO. Dance (Part 1)? The fuck is that about? Woody cranking some uber-funky bassline and a bunch of horns?

FTFY. He played bass on the title cut too.

Ron Wood, MIck Taylor or Keith Richards played bass on lots of Stones songs. There are albums where Bill Wyman plays on most of the songs, and others where he's on fewer than half the songs.