 Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 10-6)By
JBev
Something about those opening electric piano chords, played by the late, great Billy Preston, lets us know that we’re in for a classic Stones’ weeper.  Tortoise Beacons of AncestorshipBy
Dryw Keltz
Tortoise is one of those bands that has always floated just outside the realm of my musical fishbowl. I have seen their CDs in record stores for years now, I have read reviews of their music, seen their releases advertised, and yet I never dug in. Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 15-11)By
JBev
Dusted off after nearly 9 years on the shelf, “Tops” found its way onto Tattoo You and left fans wondering just what took the Stones so long to unveil it.  Annette Peacock’s Avant-R&BBy
Rick Sawyer
If jazz needed a Patti Smith, a frank and alluring wordsmith with an abiding love of rock and roll, it found one in Annette Peacock. Throughout the sixties and seventies, Peacock fused free jazz with rock, electronic music and poetry, developing an idiosyncratic artistic language that has rarely garnered the attention it deserved. Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 20-16)By
JBev
You can see how this old soul chestnut would appeal to the Stones as cover material. You’ve got a sumptuous groove and lyrics which lay on the sexual innuendo thick. I’m sure most casual fans assumed upon hearing it in 1986 that it was a Jagger/Richards original. At age 14, I know I did. Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 25-21)By
JBev
It blazes along at breakneck speed propelled by Charlie Watts’ unerringly brilliant drumming and the twin-guitar attack of Ronnie and Keith, and then “Summer Romance” is gone in a flash, much like a fleeting summer affair.  The Pink Floyd of Nature and Other Kooky CrittersBy
Mark Peters
Because of the awesomeness, oddness, classic-ness, concept-albumness, and drugginess of their music, Pink Floyd are a reliable comparison maker. Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 30-26)By
JBev
Although it was released on Tattoo You, “Slave” is more like the lost track from 1975’s Black And Blue. |
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