As tax exiles, The Rolling Stones set up shop in Jamaica to begin the sessions for the follow-up to their sprawling Exile On Main Street. Together, they tell the story of a band at a crossroads, eager for a change. It's presented in three parts with essays about the album's evolution, the band's extensive Pacific and European tours in 1973, and the lengthy gestation of the unmistakable album art. The 120-page book is a marvel, packed with unseen photos from the studio and the stage.
It's all there clearly laid bare with nothing to hide, stark but subtle, just like The Stones. There's nothing to lift off to get to the goods, and no excessive ephemera aside from a clever recipe pamphlet and a few posters inside the cardboard spacer. Upon first glance at the linen-wrapped 3-CD/Blu-ray box set complete with hardbound book, you might wonder: The bad boys of rock and roll being treated with such a graceful design? What's going on here? But opening up the set, it's as straight-ahead, no bull as the band: just a book packed with information and plenty of pictures, and the discs neatly tucked away on the left side. Let's dig in for this new helping of Goat's Head Soup. And that's before you get into the elegantly-designed book, the enlightening liner notes, and the beautiful presentation of the box set. This deluxe collection brings together new stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes (which down-convert easily to your run-of-the-mill 5.1) alongside alternate mixes and a handful of new tracks recently unearthed from the session tapes. Thanks to a new box set that's chock full of delights, Goats Head Soup has finally been given the love and care that it has unfairly missed out on over the years, with all the bells and whistles you'd expect. 1 ballad, "Angie." In the intervening decades, the 1973 album has been often overlooked, especially alongside its towering predecessors, even if it did top the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, that's not to say it's not a great album, but it just feels.different.Īfter the one-two-three-four punches of Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and the magnum opus Exile on Main Street, it makes sense that fans had long considered Goats Head Soup to be a more subdued album, thanks in no small part to the U.S. It didn't herald a new sound like Beggars Banquet or Let It Bleed. It's not a "landmark album" in the same way as Sticky Fingers, it didn't defy expectations in the same way as Exile. Goats Head Soup: as far as Rolling Stones albums go, it's an outlier.
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