 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. Hang Fire: Ranking the Stones ’80s Output (Songs 53-46)By
JBev
We counted down the Stones’ complete 1970’s studio catalog, and now we take on the band’s output during the decadent decade of the 1980’s. This period found the Stones sometimes funky, sometimes fiery, but always fiesty.  No Retreat, No Surrender: The Ultimate Springsteen Countdown (Songs 5-1)By
JBev
I’m asking you now to listen to “Born to Run,” really listen to it once again. Take out a pair of headphones and drink it in all of its multi-tracked glory. Listen to the lyrics, not just as familiar sounds you’ve heard blasting out of your car speakers for so many years, but as words fraught with so much meaning that their writer seems to almost burst while delivering them.  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.  No Retreat, No Surrender: The Ultimate Springsteen Countdown (Songs 15-11)By
JBev
Marriage and children have always been a big part of the American Dream, but Bruce Springsteen subverts that with the title track to his 1980 double album. In “The River,” the interlinked momentous occasions of having child and getting married are boiled down to one terse line that doesn’t even pretend to be romantic: “Then I got married, and man that was all she wrote.”  No Retreat, No Surrender: The Ultimate Springsteen Countdown (Songs 20-16)By
JBev
“The screen door slams/Mary’s dress sways.” It doesn’t get much more iconic than that, does it? Actually you can close your eyes, put your finger down on the lyric sheet of “Thunder Road,” and you’d probably land on a line that has resonated through rock and roll history.  No Retreat, No Surrender: The Ultimate Springsteen Countdown (Songs 25-21)By
JBev
Imagine a song with music by The Left Banke and lyrics by Warren Zevon and you’ll get an idea of the sensibility behind this brilliant Magic track. Has there ever been a production quite so lush that’s been employed in the service of such a psychologically dark song? |
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