The rolling stones emotional rescue
If the Stones have adopted a gentlemanly attitude these days, their prime concerns - sex and money - are the proletariat’s, too. In place of the ethnic and sexual slurs of the earlier LP’s title tune (meant, I’ve always thought, as a sendup of liberal etiquette), Emotional Rescue extends an open invitation to foreigners: “She could be Roumanian/She could be Bulgarian/She could be Albanian…/Send her to me.” Old hands haven’t stepped out of early retirement to show cocky young punks exactly how best to offend, and radio censors won’t have a case. The Rolling Stones haven’t suddenly gone salsa (in spite of some south-of-the-border horns). One thing’s for sure: Emotional Rescue isn’t the newsbreak that 1978’s Some Girls was. But you know as well as I do that nobody talks about the musical innovations on a Stones or Dylan record unless the artists themselves have run out of things to say. Mick Jagger sings in falsetto, someone who sounds like a bad Bob Dylan (my God, it’s Keith Richards!) takes a snuffling lead vocal and special guest Max Romeo does a bird chant. Still, the Stones’ sound is so identifiable that it’s hard to remember how carefully they’ve developed it: the just-shrillenough blend of harmonica and sax, the similarly gruff treble in their forced high harmonies. 1),” but there are plenty of rooms available at the current memory motel. I’d rather be reminded of Between the Buttons by the venal, high-speed whine of “She’s So Cold” than revisit “Miss You” outtakes by way of the interminable “Dance (Pt. There’s hardly a melody here you haven’t heard from the Stones before. As far as the music goes, familiar is an understatement.
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High-contrast patterns of familiar outlines and blackened patches where the heat has burned and gone, these photographs - like pictures of corpses from some holocaust - are practically unrecognizable. Like the thermographic photos of the Rolling Stones on the album cover, Emotional Rescue is a portfolio of burned-out cases and fire trails.