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By the late seventies, The Rolling Stones were unquestionably the world’s greatest rock’n’roll band, a tag they thoroughly deserved and have yet to lose. They had moved effortlessly into open-air stadiums but also began a tradition of performing more intimate shows in theatres and clubs alongside their groundbreaking concerts in arenas. To the delight of their millions of fans, they have continued with this policy to the present. The world really was The Rolling Stones’ oyster in the late seventies, as their Canadian escapades made headlines around the world. They partied at Studio 54, came up with dancefloor favourites "Miss You" and "Emotional Rescue", and recorded in Paris, Nassau and New York. The eighties saw the band stretch the envelope further still, working with jazz great Sonny Rollins, film directors Julien Temple and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and producers Chris Kimsey and Steve Lillywhite. Amazingly, the Rolling Stones topped these achievements with ever-more ambitious tours in the nineties and noughties, and recorded three more classic studio albums with acclaimed producer Don Was, in Dublin, Los Angeles, France and the Caribbean. First issued in 1980, Emotional Rescue was a transatlantic chart-topper and its infectious title track made the best-sellers list too. Recorded in Nassau in the Bahamas, in Paris and in New York, and produced by Jagger and Richards under their Glimmer Twins guise, it also contains the classic rocker "She’s So Cold", which went Top 40 in both the UK and the US, and "Dance (Pt 1)", another groove-oriented track, which was a club hit in the States. The bittersweet ballad "All About You" features one of Richards’ most affecting vocal performances as well as Bobby Keys’ distinctive saxophone. Corriston used a thermo camera to create the album’s unusual cover, and drew on the same technique for the "Emotional Rescue" video.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is much better than history, or some of the other reviewers here, allow. Yes, many of the songs are not as good as Some Girls ('Let me Go', 'Summertime Romance', 'Where the Boys go' - probably Some Girls off-cuts anyway), hence three stars, but it's by no means as bad as some claim. Keith is back in the frame, which has to be good - check out his guitar work on 'She so Cold', 'Send it to Me' and the hilarious 'Dance' (and try to stifle thoughts of 'Flight of the Condords' and 'Stella Street' respectively). Charlie is right up in the mix, which is exactly where he should be. I personally find 'Indian Girl' quite moving, if I try not to think about what Mick's REALLY got on his mind. And Emotional Rescue, the track, is by no means a poor man's 'Miss You': Mick falsetto and the band's performance on it are fantastic. They actually sound like a band working together, and a much-better recorded and mixed one than the muddy garage variety of Some Girls. Just one thing: the running order. If you re-programme it to the following, it sounds much better:
Dance
Summertime Romance
Send it to Me
Let me Go
Indian Girl
Where the Boys Go
Down in the Hole
All about You
She's so Cold
Emotional Rescue
Dance
Summertime Romance
Send it to Me
Let me Go
Indian Girl
Where the Boys Go
Down in the Hole
All about You
She's so Cold
Emotional Rescue
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I actually like Micks campy falsetto excursions..To hell with the purists-Emotional Rescue is as much a Stonesy album as any. Buy it, have fun.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Having apparently rediscovered their lost rockin' 'Mojo' with 'Some Girls', 'Emotional Rescue' was seen as several steps back for the 'World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band'. Funnily enough, I don't now think that the 'Black & Blue' album, the studio predecessor of 'Some Girls', was all that bad, although at the time of its release - 1976 - I did think otherwise, as Punk was starting to make the Stones look irrelevant. 'Emotional Rescue' is hardly as vital as 'Some Girls', and does sound like the band retreating into a musical comfort zone; there's a pot-pourri of styles, ranging from some so-so rockers, such as 'Where The Boys Go' and 'She's So Cold', a reasonable attempt at gut bucket Blues in 'Down In The Hole', and the token Keef tune, 'All About You', but the material is overall a bit undercooked and uninispired. This newly remastered version doesn't really add anything to that impression. That being said, I actually like Mick Jagger's occasional excursions into falsetto vocal territory, and the title track is one of his better efforts in this vein. The playing is pretty good, too, but they'd do far, far better with their next album, 'Tattoo You', which despite apparently being largely cobbled together from outtake recordings and unused material from as far back as the Mick Taylor days (he left in 1974, and 'Tattoo You' didn't surface until 1981), was a far more pertinent, focussed, direct and energised record than the misfiring 'Emotional Rescue' album.
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Superb !
Best , worst ? Enough of this comparativism !
This is a superbly hedonistic record . Anyone who doesn't enjoy it is probably of a naturally miserable inclination. Read more
This is a superbly hedonistic record . Anyone who doesn't enjoy it is probably of a naturally miserable inclination. Read more
Published 2 months ago by John
Rolling Stones
I bought this CD to get hold of the track She's so Cold from 1980. It is a really underrated Stones track.
Published 5 months ago by John D
Simply Great
Imagine a band that debut in 1978 with Some Girls, follow it up with this album, and then end their career with their third album, Tattoo You. Read more
Published 13 months ago by John
exile on mainstream...?
hey ,lighten up guys, i love this album. Indian Girl is beyond bad...probably the worst song the band ever put their name to...but i like every other track on this album. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2010 by rob slevin
Worst ever Stones album
It is hard to believe on hearing this diabolical trash, that this is the band who gave us class album like Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street and Let It Bleed. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by maz
Can't believe they bothered with this one again!
The obvious question would have to be 'who decided to remaster this turkey again?' Easily the worst album of the last 50 years. Thank god there are no outtakes. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2009 by AN Other
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