 New Release Round-up: Forge Your Own SlitsBy
Rick Sawyer
This week, we feature a batch of reissues and new albums that hone in on the groove, hearty listening for early winter that will keep you warm at night.  Blown Away by a “Landslide”By
MYKE
“I took my love. Took it down,” she began softly. I couldn’t make sense of all the words she was singing, but her lusty voice just cascaded over every note. The experience was almost spiritual; everything else faded away.  Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 5-1)By
JBev
For all of the band’s celebrated guest performances, “Start Me Up” really benefits from the absence of any guests. It’s just the four instrumentalists bumping and grinding off one another for a truly explosive recording. 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. 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. Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 45-41)By
JBev
This track off Steel Wheels comes at you hard and leaves subtlety behind. It’s as if the Stones wanted to remind everyone that, even though they were getting along, they also weren’t exactly touchy-feely. “Hold On To Your Hat” takes a sledgehammer to that notion. Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (The Index)By
JBev
The countdown has begun! On the JamsBio exclusive, Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output, one intrepid fan dares to rank the Rolling Stones’ album cuts from the decadent decade of the 1980’s and give his reasons why in a worst-to-first countdown. Check back each day for the next five songs on the list, prepare to hit the message boards to defend your favorites, and follow the countdown all the way to Number 1.  No Retreat, No Surrender: The Ultimate Springsteen Countdown (Songs 10-6)By
JBev
The Ragamuffin Gunner. Jimmy The Saint. Bronx’s best apostle. Upon a glance at these names, you might expect one of Springsteen’s ramshackle, benevolent tales of harmless spirits in the night. Instead, in “Lost In The Flood,” you get Bruce’s version of “Desolation Row,” a place from which few escape and ever fewer emerge unscathed. |
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