The Rolling Stones - Shine a Light: Original Soundtrack
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Artist: The Rolling StonesEdition: Music CD
Format: Deluxe Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-04-01
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Jumping Jack Flash
- Shattered
- She Was Hot
- All Down the Line
- Loving Cup (feat. Jack White III)
- As Tears Go By
- Some Girls
- Just My Imagination
- Faraway Eyes
- Champagne & Reefer (feat. Buddy Guy)
- Tumbling Dice
- Band introductions
- You Got the Silver
- Connection
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Live With Me (feat. Christina Aguilera)
- Start Me Up
- Brown Sugar
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- Paint it Black
- Little T&A
- I'm Free
- Shine A Light
Music reviews of Shine a Light: Original Soundtrack
Music Review: Punch drunk - Live
Rating: 2 Stars
Shame on me. Shame, shame, shame. These guys could put out a recording of themselves having bowel movements and despite my knowledge that it would sound terrible ([...]), after the twentieth time picking it up in the store or adding then deleting it from my Amazon cart, I'd finally break down and purchase it. Shame on me.
And so it is with Shine A Light. My goodness, but this band should simply stop these tour souvenirs already. I don't mind that they continue to tour. More power to them. I realize that live and in person things are much different and that the document of many shows I have loved over the decades might not sound nearly as good on second listening sans the excitement of the event itself. But, please stop putting out live versions of songs you can no longer add anything to and can only detract from. The versions of the concert standards are absolutely horrid here, and the fault lies largely with Jagger. While the band may be rapidly morphing into a jazz version of their former selves; i.e. a band playing their songs however the heck they wish to, audience be damned, Jagger is the weak link in such a formula. God knows, they've earned the right to do so, and if all that is recognizable about Jumpin' Jack Flash, for instance, is the intro, well, so be it. However, that approach only works so well and there are times when the looseness sounds like a calamity. Champagne & Reefer, a song that should have been incredible with the legendary Buddy Guy guest starring, sounds like a crumbling wall of noise by the end. What a nightmare! Another low point is during the heartbreaking outro of Sympathy for the Devil as we hear Keith fumbling about on his guitar. Fumbling and I know I play a bad guitar? It makes me cry...I won't even get into his god-awful singing contributions.
As for Mick, there are times when he seems to care, like when Christina Aguilera pushes him some on Live With Me (and honestly, of all the female singers and duet ops available, why her and why this song?) and he tries on some of the lesser heard songs, albeit to mixed results: She Was Hot is one of the better songs on the whole set, but what the hell was he doing on As Tears Go By? It sounded like Barney Fife had commandeered the microphone. But to hear Jagger speak the lyrics without ever pushing his voice, refusing to even sustain a note longer than a conversational cadence, what's the point? It sounds like a band in rehearsals. If there is one consistently bad aspect of this effort, it is unquestionably Jagger.
Look, just because a band can go on, doesn't mean they should be rewarded so copiously for it. Many of their fans will cry out in defense that they are now in their sixties and that we should cut them so slack. Why? Would you cut Bill Russell some slack if he decided he wanted to continue to play professional basketball, despite his inability to do so on the level needed for success? The band can play gigs until they collapse on stage and I'd happily see them, especially when the ticket prices lower out of the triple digits, some time when they are well into their seventies (Sucking in the Seventies??? Who-da thunk??), but to release this cd as something other than exactly what it is - a tired effort by an old band a fraction of what they used to be - is dishonest. I didn't expect to hear a live effort similar to their glory years, but I did expect to hear a band that sounded like they could still do it. As it is, this is the equivalent of watching a punch drunk fighter still trying to compete. You just end up feeling sad and embarrassed for them. And yes, I'm not so stupid as to know that the boat-loads of money they made from this would leave none of them embarrassed, and maybe that's the point. It should.
Shine a Light may have been a great movie - I still haven't seen it - but the soundtrack is largely horrendous. While there may be a handful of songs that sound good, it still remains the low point in a career of mediocre live recordings from a band that is far and away at the top of my favorites. There will never be another Rolling Stones and their place as the greatest band in the history of rock and roll is safe with me even if others will steadfastly cling to the Beatles. Bah. The Stones are rock and roll. It's just a shame that they are also an institution, a business, and a commercial enterprise sucking the money out of fools like me who can't say no. Maybe the next time I will...I doubt it.
Description of Shine a Light: Original Soundtrack
THE ROLLING STONES `Shine A Light' is the soundtrack to director MARTIN SCORSESE'S film of the same name, which documents The Rolling Stones' performances at New York's Beacon Theatre on October 29 and November 1, 2006. With special guests BUDDY GUY, White Stripes' JACK WHITE III and CHRISTINA AGUILERA joining the Stones onstage, the Oscar-winning director captures an extraordinary performance from the band.DELUXE VERSION - 2 disc set, featuring 22 tracks with expanded packaging. Includes every track from the film, plus four bonus tracks from the shows that were not included in the film- "Paint It Black", "Little T&A", "Shine A Light" and "I'm Free"
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