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by Timothy Getz
January 24, 2013
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Within the larger community of rock aficionados (excuse me while I gag) this album holds an above average reputation, but aside from its jam rock (’Crazy Mama’), cherry reggae and, of course, power ballads, Black and Blue has nothing to offer.
In spite of having one verse too many, ’Memory Motel’ survives on a two keyboard attack and ’Fool to Cry’ on its fade out backbeat, but if this gives you more jollies than the It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll LP, then you are enjoying Black and Blue’s comical cover a little too much
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by Larry Dean Linn
September 10, 2012
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Mick Taylor, who replaced Brian Jones in 1969, left the Stones prior to the recording of what would become Black and Blue, released in 1975.
Panned by critics, it was released when the Stones were unrivaled as a live draw. Their tours had become the stuff of legend and their catalog of quintessential rock music was without peer.Black and Blue was essentially recorded while auditioning for a Taylor replacement. Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Harvey Mandell, Wayne Perkins and Ron Wood were there. Mandell, Perkins and Wood wound up on the record. Each of them cut extraordinary guitar tracks. The sound is still pure Stones though. What good guitarist wouldn’t sound great, backed by the rhythm section of the Greatest Rock and Roll Band - Richards, Wyman and Watts?Upon their initial release, many Stones Albums have fallen short of knocking the sox off some people. Down the road apiece, though, in light of the details about this band that come to be known, Black and Blue is nothing short of a bad ass recording by the band that defines Rock and Roll. I liked it when it was released, and listening to it today, 37 years later, it sounds even better. Listen to Charlie on his high hat at about 3:20 of ’Hand of Fate.’ ’Fool to Cry’ is superb. Ron Wood on ’Hey Negrita.’ Not many bands could pull off a ’Cherry oh Baby’. Great stuff!BLACK AND BLUE
by devilsadvocate
December 4, 2009
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This album was a big disappointment to me when it came out. We had to wait two years after It’s Only Rock ’n Roll and this is all they could come up with?? I think the main problem is that they were busy doing two things at once: finding a replacement for Mick Taylor and recording an album. They should have taken care of the replacement problem first before worrying about the album. Maybe it would have turned out better that way.
The album opens with the Disco Stones doing ’Hot Stuff’. Yikes! Even the Stones had given in to the disco craze! For the first time in their career, they were following the pack instead of leading it.
’Hand of Fate’ is not a bad song, but we’d become accustomed to so, so much better from the Stones. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is downright painful to listen to. Again, the Stones fall in line behind a trend, this time reggae. ’Memory Motel’ is a nice ballad, one of only two songs I really like on this album.
The other song I like is ’Melody’. This piano-driven song would be perfect played live in a smoky bar at 2:00 AM. Maybe that is why Bill covered it with his Rhythm Kings. The maudlin ’Fool to Cry’ doesn’t really work as a ballad. But the song shifts gears at around the 3:50 mark and becomes quite nice for the last minute or so. Unfortunately, it’s too little, too late.
The other two songs, ’Hey Negrita’ and ’Crazy Mama’, are indifferent at best. And where are the fabulous riffs that the band put out apparently so effortlessly on all the previous albums? Black and Blue is a miss. Fortunately, the next album, Some Girls, would be much better.BLACK AND BLUE
By Pablo Diablo ’Freejack’
February 7, 2003
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I was a fan when this album came out. It came out just after I saw them for the first time.New York just declared bankruptcy, Jimmy Carter was in the White House. It was the big American Bicentennial. And the Rebels of Rock were still very bad boys facing a still hostile press, no tv exposure at all, and hanging out with Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, and other black visionary musicians - Billy, Stevie Wonder, and spending time smoking ’nuff ganga down in Jamaica. I was 13, my brothers and I would take turns on buying Stones Albums, we were shocked when our sister bought this one thanks to fool to cry.
This fine album reflects the balance of that world. I don’t even think the Stones themselves think much about this one, as it’s material is not often covered live. If you give it repeated listens it really grows on you. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is a very faithful cover of a Jamaican smash hit and a great song - not a joke, but a song they were hearing and loving.’Melody’ is the song I long to hear right now. Mick and Billy are great together, ther’s alot of honest fun going on here, the vocals feel like one hot take. Billy is the BEST keyboardist . ’Hey Negrita’, that took alot of alcohol to record. ’Crazy Mama’ - as a teenager I loved this one, and ’Hand of Fate’, the testostorockers. ’Hand Of Fate’ is a great guitar solo to play along with - perfect. That’s why I love the Stones, they never just do it by rote. They plug in when they feel it, they play songs and riffs that they really like, and they do it so well that it’s brilliant.
’Fool to ’Cry, and ’Memory Motel’, although damaged for me by Dave Matthews’ subsequent duet, are great for the ladies. And ’Hot Stuff’ is the killer dance track. Sooo cutting edge at the time. When this song was geeting airplay, it was off the hook. This was 70’s vintage Temps and political Motown. Done by Keith on some good H, and Mick on new blow, with all that crazyness - you’ve got to lower the lights and fire up a spliff, or at least have a rum and coke.
This album is one I, and many others didn’t get at first listen, but now it’s on the must have list, which for the Stones is all inclusive.
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By thijs den otter
January 31, 2003
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The major problem of this album is that it contains only eight tracks. This shouldn’t be a big deal if everything’s cool. But with Black and Blue that is not the case. ’Cherry Oh Baby’, well..sucks, even for a joke. And I never liked ’Fool to Cry’ much either. Compare it to some other ballads from the seventies - ’Angie’ or ’Beast of Burden’, and it crumbles. So, there you have it, an album with eight songs with two songs that do not impress me. The rest is good though. ’Memory Motel’ and ’Melody’ are not your average Stones songs, but they really stuck right in my brains. I really love those tracks. ’Hand of Fate’ and ’Crazy Mama’ are classic kick-ass rock songs. Play these at a party and everyone starts jumping. ’Hey Negrita’ is an okay album track. Finally ’Hot Stuff’ is not a my favorite, because it’s a little too slick. It is however nicely performed and that’s why I never skip it.
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By jill lost jack
January 27, 2003
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There is no real reason not to like this album. It has great tracks such as ’Fool to Cry’, (a song even my girlfriend, an adamant Stones hater, thinks is one the greatest tracks of all time). ’Cherry oh Baby’ and ’Hey Negrita’s are just brilliant. Infact there isn’t a song on this album that musically can be considered bad. The problem with this abum is not the music, its that every song sounds bord. These people sound like they’ve had enough of pumping out the same sound for at least ten years. The question I ask of this album is, wer’es the life? Lack of enthusiasm is what killed a lot of otherwise good Stones albums during the 70s, the exemption being Some Girls. It wasn’t really until Steel Wheels that they really regained their magic
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By Locked Away
November 30, 2002
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This is a partial return to form for the Stones, who had faltered badly after their masterpiece Exile On Main Street. Of course its nowhere near as good, but it beats Its Only Rock and Roll, and is possibly better, track for track, than Goats Head Soup. It sees the now thirty-something Stones with their first real attempt to break new ground with forays into white reggae, dance, and the curious but excellent Melody. And although it lacks cohesion, there is a certain creative spirit that binds these eight tracks together and raises it above the mire that marred their previous two albums- it sounds fresher as if the band had regained their belief. ’Hot Stuff’ must have surprised Rolling Stones fans in 1976- it is passable funk rock, but ’Hand of Fate’ is for me one of their best songs. Jagger again sounds convincing, great guitar, and great guest solo. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is a weak spot but at least it sounds clean and rehearsed, while ’Memory Motel’ is arguably their best ever ballad (after ’Wild Horses’). ’Hey Negrita’ suffers from the same lack of punch as ’Cherry Oh Baby’, but ’Melody’ is superb, and ’Fool To Cry’ is another great ballad. Only ’Crazy Mama’ sounds out of place here and would have been better on Some Girls- surely ’Worried About You’ or ’Slave’ which were recorded around the same time would have fitted in better. Overall this stands up, together with Some Girls, Steel Wheels and Tattoo You as their best work post Exile On Main Street.
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By Gary Roberts
September 28, 2002
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Yet another much-derided mid-seventies Stones album which is far better than many of its critics give it credit for. For a start, the freshness of the audio production suggests the beginnings of a new-phase Stones (now with Ron Wood on board, though not heavily-featured on the album). The emphasis is on reggae and a soulful sound, with the repetitive riffing of the opening cut, HOT STUFF, coupled with Mick’s ’black’ phrasings, immediately suggesting a sunny island atmosphere (perfectly evoked by the superb album sleeve photographs). HAND OF FATE, a tale of bar-room rivalry, features some good, chunky guitar work and another powerful Jagger vocal. CHERRY OH BABY, this album’s ’cover’, is pure reggae, with Mick and Keith delivering great harmony vocals, and some good, understated guitar and percussion work. MEMORY MOTEL, opened with Keith’s powerful electric piano phrasing, is a sad tale of lost love and torn emotions, and in my opinion, one of the true mid-seventies Stones classics. Even Jagger manages to sound sincere, and Keith’s ’she got a mind of her own’ vocal contribution, though brief, proves once again how sweet and soulful a singer he can be, despite his sidekick’s occasional piss-takes. Side Two kicks off with the wonderful HEY NEGRITA, the album’s dirtiest and funkiest reggae-inspired track, with more sinewy guitar work, leading on to MELODY, where Billy Preston’s piano dominates. Not classic Stones, but still good. Then we come to FOOL TO CRY, with some more nice electric piano work, a soulful Jagger vocal and plenty of effectively low-key guitar work. The album culminates with the powerful, lyrically violent CRAZY MAMA, whose sound mix is about the muddiest on B&B, and which ends things off energetically, putting lie to the idea that the Stones of 1976 had run out of steam. Mention should be made of that superb rhythm section, Messrs Wyman and Watts, whose playing throughout is characteristically understated, but no less powerful for that. So to sum up, BLACK AND BLUE is a more-than-competent addition to the Stones catalogue, musically adept if not exactly earth-shattering.
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By GB
September 7, 2002
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Goat’s Head Soup, It’s Only Rock n Roll, Black n Blue, Some Girls, and Tattoo You are roughly all of the same quality. GHS boasts a post Exile sound and fabulous Taylor solos - plus Jimmy Miller’s production. It’s my favorite of these latter day albums. IORR had some interesting baritone guitar work all over it, and was a lively album. Then they made BnB.
BnB defines what a transitional album is all about. Unlike Let it Bleed, when they were transitioning with the wind in their sails, this time the tide has long gone out. Although Some Girls would prove livelier, more consistent, and overall better entertainment, than this, in retrospect we can find a lot of things to like about BnB.
’Hot Stuff’. This song sounds good, in the purest sense of the word. Great production. The solo is right on and Keith’s rhythm guitar is perfect. There’s clarity in the mix. Jagger’s a little dull, other than that, it works. ’Hand of Fate’, now this is rock n roll. ’He shot me once but I shot him twice.’ Great solo, great vocal, great rhythm section, great riff. ’Cherry Oh Baby’. Some people just can’t get a joke. This is a joke, it’s a chill out song, like a beach party strum-a-long. ’Memory Motel’. This is the other classic on the album. Seven minutes of dueling electric pianos and singing from Mick and Keith about lost loves and lost dreams.
You can throw the whole second side out. Even ’Hey Negrita’ is expendable. ’Fool to Cry’ suffers from Jagger’s falsetto. ’Crazy Mama’ is too boilerplate. And, last and least, ’Melody’ is the most embarrassing song the Stones ever released. The catcalls between Jagger and Preston are comical. They must have been indebted to Preston to have allowed this song to ever get recorded and released. It is pathetic, from the first note to the last.
Still, the good outweighs the bad, and enough so that this is yet another very good Stones album.
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By David
July 28, 2002
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This album is definitely one of the band’s strangest, and is at least definitely an intriguing listen for Stones fans, even though they might end up disliking much of the material on it. Certainly it’s inconsistent, and many of the songs sound very dated and ’of their time’- for instance, ’Fool To Cry’ may have sounded like a find ballad in 1976, but nowadays it sounds hilariously kitsch, and could easily feature on the soundtrack of the next Austin Powers film. Likewise, ’Hot Stuff’ (what a title!) and ’Memory Motel’ suffer from this, though it doesn’t make them bad songs. The former lazily grooves along with a brilliant funkified riff while Jagger spits out virtually incoherent doggerel about..well, something or other involving Jamaica and New York, while the latter is another strong ballad marred slightly by its length and the presence of two cheesy keyboards almost burying the melody.
Then there’s the weaker, not so ’hot’ stuff. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is probably the worst, being the Stones attempting reggae but sounding hopelessly rigid and affected, as if the rhythm section simply can’t grasp the concept at all. Apparently there’s an outtake of this floating around somewhere which is far superior because the band are quite obviously plastered and as a result are loose enough to play this convincingly. Wouldn’t mind hearing that. Onto Melody, which starts off as an interesting and slightly jazzy piano-led track but quickly runs out of ideas and meanders aimlessly with the same vocal line being repeatedly over and over until some blasting horns thankfully kick in and boot some life into it. ’Crazy Mama’ starts out well but then settles into a generic mid-paced rocker that the band could pump out in their sleep. It’s still quite fun, but doesn’t really hold up to more than a couple of listens.
Then, there’s the best stuff. ’Hand of Fate’ is just great, a rolling mid-tempo rocker like ’Crazy Mama’ but with far more to it, principally some murderous lyrics (’I shot that man, I put him underground! Yes, I did!’) and a sublime guitar solo from Wayne Perkins. ’Hey Negrita’ is the other really good ’un, a stuttering, funky jam with some of the most interesting and oddest guitar work I’ve yet to hear on a Stones track. Plus, it goes on for a long time but doesn’t outstay its welcome, a good trick if you can do it.
So there it is. Three good but dated and slightly camp-sounding tracks, three mediocre to bad ones, and two fantastic. Not a great Stones effort by a long shot, but a brave and interesting attempt that deserves a better reputation. Basically, it’s the band doing what they like and not caring if they fail.
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By the chipper
March 23, 2002
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This is the Stones’ weakest studio album. There are only two legitimate rock’n’roll tunes here, the excellent ’Hand Of Fate’ and the generic ’Crazy Mama’. ’Fool To Cry’ was the hit single, and it’s a pretty enough song, but Stones fans know the story.. Keith used to actually fall asleep on stage when they were doing this live. ’Memory Motel’ is a nostalgic look back at life on the road, with Mick and Keith sharing lead vocals. Like ’Fool To Cry’, it’s an okay number, but the mellow ones aren’t supposed to be the highlights of a Rolling Stones album! As for ’Hot Stuff’, ’Hey Negrita’, and ’Cherry Oh Baby’, there’s a reason why funk and reggae didn’t catch on like rock’n’roll, soul or R and B.. these songs are repetitive, dull and unmelodic, among the worst in the band’s history. Finally, there’s ’Melody’, a pleasant little shuffle of a song, but it’s more of a Billy Preston tune than a Stones song. I heartily recommend that anyone who likes Rock should own the entire Stones’ catalog ( the studio albums, anyway) including Black And Blue, but get all the others first!
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By Luke
March 22, 2002
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I’m not surprised with not so good reviews on this album, simply because it’s not typical Stones album and sound. But, in my opinion it’s fantastic. So deep, full of soul, hot, black and rough. ’Hey Negrita’ is probably the best of Ron Wood with The Stones, ’Hand of Fate’ and ’Crazy Mama’ classic, full-blooded rock-ala Stones, ’Hot Stuff’ absolutely infectious, ’Melody’ is
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by Timothy Getz
January 24, 2013
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Within the larger community of rock aficionados (excuse me while I gag) this album holds an above average reputation, but aside from its jam rock (’Crazy Mama’), cherry reggae and, of course, power ballads, Black and Blue has nothing to offer.
In spite of having one verse too many, ’Memory Motel’ survives on a two keyboard attack and ’Fool to Cry’ on its fade out backbeat, but if this gives you more jollies than the It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll LP, then you are enjoying Black and Blue’s comical cover a little too much
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by Larry Dean Linn
September 10, 2012
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Mick Taylor, who replaced Brian Jones in 1969, left the Stones prior to the recording of what would become Black and Blue, released in 1975.
Panned by critics, it was released when the Stones were unrivaled as a live draw. Their tours had become the stuff of legend and their catalog of quintessential rock music was without peer.Black and Blue was essentially recorded while auditioning for a Taylor replacement. Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Harvey Mandell, Wayne Perkins and Ron Wood were there. Mandell, Perkins and Wood wound up on the record. Each of them cut extraordinary guitar tracks. The sound is still pure Stones though. What good guitarist wouldn’t sound great, backed by the rhythm section of the Greatest Rock and Roll Band - Richards, Wyman and Watts?Upon their initial release, many Stones Albums have fallen short of knocking the sox off some people. Down the road apiece, though, in light of the details about this band that come to be known, Black and Blue is nothing short of a bad ass recording by the band that defines Rock and Roll. I liked it when it was released, and listening to it today, 37 years later, it sounds even better. Listen to Charlie on his high hat at about 3:20 of ’Hand of Fate.’ ’Fool to Cry’ is superb. Ron Wood on ’Hey Negrita.’ Not many bands could pull off a ’Cherry oh Baby’. Great stuff!BLACK AND BLUE
by devilsadvocate
December 4, 2009
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This album was a big disappointment to me when it came out. We had to wait two years after It’s Only Rock ’n Roll and this is all they could come up with?? I think the main problem is that they were busy doing two things at once: finding a replacement for Mick Taylor and recording an album. They should have taken care of the replacement problem first before worrying about the album. Maybe it would have turned out better that way.
The album opens with the Disco Stones doing ’Hot Stuff’. Yikes! Even the Stones had given in to the disco craze! For the first time in their career, they were following the pack instead of leading it.
’Hand of Fate’ is not a bad song, but we’d become accustomed to so, so much better from the Stones. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is downright painful to listen to. Again, the Stones fall in line behind a trend, this time reggae. ’Memory Motel’ is a nice ballad, one of only two songs I really like on this album.
The other song I like is ’Melody’. This piano-driven song would be perfect played live in a smoky bar at 2:00 AM. Maybe that is why Bill covered it with his Rhythm Kings. The maudlin ’Fool to Cry’ doesn’t really work as a ballad. But the song shifts gears at around the 3:50 mark and becomes quite nice for the last minute or so. Unfortunately, it’s too little, too late.
The other two songs, ’Hey Negrita’ and ’Crazy Mama’, are indifferent at best. And where are the fabulous riffs that the band put out apparently so effortlessly on all the previous albums? Black and Blue is a miss. Fortunately, the next album, Some Girls, would be much better.BLACK AND BLUE
By Pablo Diablo ’Freejack’
February 7, 2003
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I was a fan when this album came out. It came out just after I saw them for the first time.New York just declared bankruptcy, Jimmy Carter was in the White House. It was the big American Bicentennial. And the Rebels of Rock were still very bad boys facing a still hostile press, no tv exposure at all, and hanging out with Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, and other black visionary musicians - Billy, Stevie Wonder, and spending time smoking ’nuff ganga down in Jamaica. I was 13, my brothers and I would take turns on buying Stones Albums, we were shocked when our sister bought this one thanks to fool to cry.
This fine album reflects the balance of that world. I don’t even think the Stones themselves think much about this one, as it’s material is not often covered live. If you give it repeated listens it really grows on you. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is a very faithful cover of a Jamaican smash hit and a great song - not a joke, but a song they were hearing and loving.’Melody’ is the song I long to hear right now. Mick and Billy are great together, ther’s alot of honest fun going on here, the vocals feel like one hot take. Billy is the BEST keyboardist . ’Hey Negrita’, that took alot of alcohol to record. ’Crazy Mama’ - as a teenager I loved this one, and ’Hand of Fate’, the testostorockers. ’Hand Of Fate’ is a great guitar solo to play along with - perfect. That’s why I love the Stones, they never just do it by rote. They plug in when they feel it, they play songs and riffs that they really like, and they do it so well that it’s brilliant.
’Fool to ’Cry, and ’Memory Motel’, although damaged for me by Dave Matthews’ subsequent duet, are great for the ladies. And ’Hot Stuff’ is the killer dance track. Sooo cutting edge at the time. When this song was geeting airplay, it was off the hook. This was 70’s vintage Temps and political Motown. Done by Keith on some good H, and Mick on new blow, with all that crazyness - you’ve got to lower the lights and fire up a spliff, or at least have a rum and coke.
This album is one I, and many others didn’t get at first listen, but now it’s on the must have list, which for the Stones is all inclusive.
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By thijs den otter
January 31, 2003
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The major problem of this album is that it contains only eight tracks. This shouldn’t be a big deal if everything’s cool. But with Black and Blue that is not the case. ’Cherry Oh Baby’, well..sucks, even for a joke. And I never liked ’Fool to Cry’ much either. Compare it to some other ballads from the seventies - ’Angie’ or ’Beast of Burden’, and it crumbles. So, there you have it, an album with eight songs with two songs that do not impress me. The rest is good though. ’Memory Motel’ and ’Melody’ are not your average Stones songs, but they really stuck right in my brains. I really love those tracks. ’Hand of Fate’ and ’Crazy Mama’ are classic kick-ass rock songs. Play these at a party and everyone starts jumping. ’Hey Negrita’ is an okay album track. Finally ’Hot Stuff’ is not a my favorite, because it’s a little too slick. It is however nicely performed and that’s why I never skip it.
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By jill lost jack
January 27, 2003
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There is no real reason not to like this album. It has great tracks such as ’Fool to Cry’, (a song even my girlfriend, an adamant Stones hater, thinks is one the greatest tracks of all time). ’Cherry oh Baby’ and ’Hey Negrita’s are just brilliant. Infact there isn’t a song on this album that musically can be considered bad. The problem with this abum is not the music, its that every song sounds bord. These people sound like they’ve had enough of pumping out the same sound for at least ten years. The question I ask of this album is, wer’es the life? Lack of enthusiasm is what killed a lot of otherwise good Stones albums during the 70s, the exemption being Some Girls. It wasn’t really until Steel Wheels that they really regained their magic
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By Locked Away
November 30, 2002
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This is a partial return to form for the Stones, who had faltered badly after their masterpiece Exile On Main Street. Of course its nowhere near as good, but it beats Its Only Rock and Roll, and is possibly better, track for track, than Goats Head Soup. It sees the now thirty-something Stones with their first real attempt to break new ground with forays into white reggae, dance, and the curious but excellent Melody. And although it lacks cohesion, there is a certain creative spirit that binds these eight tracks together and raises it above the mire that marred their previous two albums- it sounds fresher as if the band had regained their belief. ’Hot Stuff’ must have surprised Rolling Stones fans in 1976- it is passable funk rock, but ’Hand of Fate’ is for me one of their best songs. Jagger again sounds convincing, great guitar, and great guest solo. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is a weak spot but at least it sounds clean and rehearsed, while ’Memory Motel’ is arguably their best ever ballad (after ’Wild Horses’). ’Hey Negrita’ suffers from the same lack of punch as ’Cherry Oh Baby’, but ’Melody’ is superb, and ’Fool To Cry’ is another great ballad. Only ’Crazy Mama’ sounds out of place here and would have been better on Some Girls- surely ’Worried About You’ or ’Slave’ which were recorded around the same time would have fitted in better. Overall this stands up, together with Some Girls, Steel Wheels and Tattoo You as their best work post Exile On Main Street.
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By Gary Roberts
September 28, 2002
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Yet another much-derided mid-seventies Stones album which is far better than many of its critics give it credit for. For a start, the freshness of the audio production suggests the beginnings of a new-phase Stones (now with Ron Wood on board, though not heavily-featured on the album). The emphasis is on reggae and a soulful sound, with the repetitive riffing of the opening cut, HOT STUFF, coupled with Mick’s ’black’ phrasings, immediately suggesting a sunny island atmosphere (perfectly evoked by the superb album sleeve photographs). HAND OF FATE, a tale of bar-room rivalry, features some good, chunky guitar work and another powerful Jagger vocal. CHERRY OH BABY, this album’s ’cover’, is pure reggae, with Mick and Keith delivering great harmony vocals, and some good, understated guitar and percussion work. MEMORY MOTEL, opened with Keith’s powerful electric piano phrasing, is a sad tale of lost love and torn emotions, and in my opinion, one of the true mid-seventies Stones classics. Even Jagger manages to sound sincere, and Keith’s ’she got a mind of her own’ vocal contribution, though brief, proves once again how sweet and soulful a singer he can be, despite his sidekick’s occasional piss-takes. Side Two kicks off with the wonderful HEY NEGRITA, the album’s dirtiest and funkiest reggae-inspired track, with more sinewy guitar work, leading on to MELODY, where Billy Preston’s piano dominates. Not classic Stones, but still good. Then we come to FOOL TO CRY, with some more nice electric piano work, a soulful Jagger vocal and plenty of effectively low-key guitar work. The album culminates with the powerful, lyrically violent CRAZY MAMA, whose sound mix is about the muddiest on B&B, and which ends things off energetically, putting lie to the idea that the Stones of 1976 had run out of steam. Mention should be made of that superb rhythm section, Messrs Wyman and Watts, whose playing throughout is characteristically understated, but no less powerful for that. So to sum up, BLACK AND BLUE is a more-than-competent addition to the Stones catalogue, musically adept if not exactly earth-shattering.
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By GB
September 7, 2002
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Goat’s Head Soup, It’s Only Rock n Roll, Black n Blue, Some Girls, and Tattoo You are roughly all of the same quality. GHS boasts a post Exile sound and fabulous Taylor solos - plus Jimmy Miller’s production. It’s my favorite of these latter day albums. IORR had some interesting baritone guitar work all over it, and was a lively album. Then they made BnB.
BnB defines what a transitional album is all about. Unlike Let it Bleed, when they were transitioning with the wind in their sails, this time the tide has long gone out. Although Some Girls would prove livelier, more consistent, and overall better entertainment, than this, in retrospect we can find a lot of things to like about BnB.
’Hot Stuff’. This song sounds good, in the purest sense of the word. Great production. The solo is right on and Keith’s rhythm guitar is perfect. There’s clarity in the mix. Jagger’s a little dull, other than that, it works. ’Hand of Fate’, now this is rock n roll. ’He shot me once but I shot him twice.’ Great solo, great vocal, great rhythm section, great riff. ’Cherry Oh Baby’. Some people just can’t get a joke. This is a joke, it’s a chill out song, like a beach party strum-a-long. ’Memory Motel’. This is the other classic on the album. Seven minutes of dueling electric pianos and singing from Mick and Keith about lost loves and lost dreams.
You can throw the whole second side out. Even ’Hey Negrita’ is expendable. ’Fool to Cry’ suffers from Jagger’s falsetto. ’Crazy Mama’ is too boilerplate. And, last and least, ’Melody’ is the most embarrassing song the Stones ever released. The catcalls between Jagger and Preston are comical. They must have been indebted to Preston to have allowed this song to ever get recorded and released. It is pathetic, from the first note to the last.
Still, the good outweighs the bad, and enough so that this is yet another very good Stones album.
BLACK AND BLUE
By David
July 28, 2002
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This album is definitely one of the band’s strangest, and is at least definitely an intriguing listen for Stones fans, even though they might end up disliking much of the material on it. Certainly it’s inconsistent, and many of the songs sound very dated and ’of their time’- for instance, ’Fool To Cry’ may have sounded like a find ballad in 1976, but nowadays it sounds hilariously kitsch, and could easily feature on the soundtrack of the next Austin Powers film. Likewise, ’Hot Stuff’ (what a title!) and ’Memory Motel’ suffer from this, though it doesn’t make them bad songs. The former lazily grooves along with a brilliant funkified riff while Jagger spits out virtually incoherent doggerel about..well, something or other involving Jamaica and New York, while the latter is another strong ballad marred slightly by its length and the presence of two cheesy keyboards almost burying the melody.
Then there’s the weaker, not so ’hot’ stuff. ’Cherry Oh Baby’ is probably the worst, being the Stones attempting reggae but sounding hopelessly rigid and affected, as if the rhythm section simply can’t grasp the concept at all. Apparently there’s an outtake of this floating around somewhere which is far superior because the band are quite obviously plastered and as a result are loose enough to play this convincingly. Wouldn’t mind hearing that. Onto Melody, which starts off as an interesting and slightly jazzy piano-led track but quickly runs out of ideas and meanders aimlessly with the same vocal line being repeatedly over and over until some blasting horns thankfully kick in and boot some life into it. ’Crazy Mama’ starts out well but then settles into a generic mid-paced rocker that the band could pump out in their sleep. It’s still quite fun, but doesn’t really hold up to more than a couple of listens.
Then, there’s the best stuff. ’Hand of Fate’ is just great, a rolling mid-tempo rocker like ’Crazy Mama’ but with far more to it, principally some murderous lyrics (’I shot that man, I put him underground! Yes, I did!’) and a sublime guitar solo from Wayne Perkins. ’Hey Negrita’ is the other really good ’un, a stuttering, funky jam with some of the most interesting and oddest guitar work I’ve yet to hear on a Stones track. Plus, it goes on for a long time but doesn’t outstay its welcome, a good trick if you can do it.
So there it is. Three good but dated and slightly camp-sounding tracks, three mediocre to bad ones, and two fantastic. Not a great Stones effort by a long shot, but a brave and interesting attempt that deserves a better reputation. Basically, it’s the band doing what they like and not caring if they fail.
BLACK AND BLUE
By the chipper
March 23, 2002
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This is the Stones’ weakest studio album. There are only two legitimate rock’n’roll tunes here, the excellent ’Hand Of Fate’ and the generic ’Crazy Mama’. ’Fool To Cry’ was the hit single, and it’s a pretty enough song, but Stones fans know the story.. Keith used to actually fall asleep on stage when they were doing this live. ’Memory Motel’ is a nostalgic look back at life on the road, with Mick and Keith sharing lead vocals. Like ’Fool To Cry’, it’s an okay number, but the mellow ones aren’t supposed to be the highlights of a Rolling Stones album! As for ’Hot Stuff’, ’Hey Negrita’, and ’Cherry Oh Baby’, there’s a reason why funk and reggae didn’t catch on like rock’n’roll, soul or R and B.. these songs are repetitive, dull and unmelodic, among the worst in the band’s history. Finally, there’s ’Melody’, a pleasant little shuffle of a song, but it’s more of a Billy Preston tune than a Stones song. I heartily recommend that anyone who likes Rock should own the entire Stones’ catalog ( the studio albums, anyway) including Black And Blue, but get all the others first!
BLACK AND BLUE
By Luke
March 22, 2002
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I’m not surprised with not so good reviews on this album, simply because it’s not typical Stones album and sound. But, in my opinion it’s fantastic. So deep, full of soul, hot, black and rough. ’Hey Negrita’ is probably the best of Ron Wood with The Stones, ’Hand of Fate’ and ’Crazy Mama’ classic, full-blooded rock-ala Stones, ’Hot Stuff’ absolutely infectious, ’Melody’ is
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