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Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 5:36 pm
by Mister Freeze
Terrible song.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 5:58 pm
by Bono Nettencourt
Nope.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 6:06 pm
by NeonKnite
Love it.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 6:20 pm
by DangerZone
Excellent song

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 6:26 pm
by Mister Freeze
Garbage. Use Your Illusion levels of self-indulgence.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:04 pm
by dmbrocker
It's a good one, though "She's So Cold" is the best song from that album.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:13 pm
by 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.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:15 pm
by Bono Nettencourt
dmbrocker wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 7:04 pm It's a good one, though "She's So Cold" is the best song from that album.
Also true.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2024 8:57 pm
by Hellsinkey
The title track is meh, there's some good tracks on the record like Let Me Go and She's So Cold though.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:10 am
by 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.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:21 am
by CrankerBait
whammybar wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:10 am 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.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 10:15 am
by HoldenSSV

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 10:23 am
by SeniorGrande
Its no Leo Sayer "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 10:28 am
by Turner Coates
Mister Freeze wrote: Wed Aug 28, 2024 5:36 pm Terrible song.
Jagger heard some Prince recordings before Prince became a big deal.
Emotional Rescue is Jagger trying to beat him to the punch.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:15 pm
by Bono Nettencourt
Or, he was just remaking Miss You.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:26 pm
by exitflagger
I guess if "Miss You" has any vague whiff of disco-ness, it must be "terrible" too. :roll:

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 4:26 pm
by Bono Nettencourt
Turrible, even.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2024 4:59 pm
by Grendel
whammybar wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:10 am 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

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:33 am
by 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.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:40 am
by Bono Nettencourt
RaceFan3 wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:33 am 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.

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:15 am
by RaceFan3
Bono Nettencourt wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:40 am
RaceFan3 wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:33 am 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 :D

Re: Rolling Stones - "Emotional Rescue"

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:30 am
by CrankerBait
Bono Nettencourt wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:40 am
RaceFan3 wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 4:33 am 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.