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2[[caption-width-right:330:''"Can you hear the music? Can you hear the music? Can you feel the magic hangin' in the air?"''.]]
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4''Goats Head Soup'' is the eleventh studio album (thirteenth American album) by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, released in 1973. It is their last album to be produced by Jimmy Miller, who had been working with them since ''Music/BeggarsBanquet''.
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6The album is most famous for the hit song "Angie".
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9!! Tracklist:
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11[[AC: Side One]]
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13# "Dancing with Mr. D" (4:53)
14# "100 Years Ago" (3:59)
15# "Coming Down Again" (5:54)
16# "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" (3:26)
17# "Angie" (4:33)
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19[[AC: Side Two]]
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21# "Silver Train" (4:27)
22# "Hide Your Love" (4:12)
23# "Winter" (5:30)
24# "Can You Hear the Music" (5:31)
25# "Star Star" (4:25)
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28!!Principal Members:
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30* Music/MickJagger - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
31* Music/KeithRichards - guitar, backing and lead vocals, bass
32* Music/MickTaylor - guitar, vocals, bass
33* Charlie Watts - drums
34* Bill Wyman - bass
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36----
37!! Silver Tropes:
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39* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "100 Years Ago"
40--> ''Went out walkin' through the wood the other day''
41--> ''And the world was a carpet laid before me''
42--> ''The buds were bursting and the air smelled sweet and strange''
43* AlliterativeTitle: "'''D'''ancing With Mr. '''D'''", "'''D'''oo '''D'''oo '''D'''oo '''D'''oo '''D'''oo (Heartbreaker)", "'''S'''tar '''S'''tar".
44* AntiPoliceSong: "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"
45--> ''The police in New York City''
46--> ''Chased a boy right through the park''
47--> ''In a case of mistaken identity''
48--> ''They put a bullet through his heart''
49* {{Bowdlerize}}: "Star Star" was originally titled "Starfucker", until record producer Ahmet Ertegün insisted on changing it.
50* BrokenRecord: "Star Star"
51--> ''Yeah, you're a star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star''
52* ClusterFBomb: "Star Star" was originally called "Starfucker", but had the title changed after Creator/AtlanticRecords boss Ahmet Ertegün managed to get them to do so. He couldn't make them remove the profanity though.
53--> ''Yeah, you're a star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star''
54* DeathSong: "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" depicts a boy in New York city being shot by the police in a case of mistaken identity and a ten year old girl dying from a heroin overdose.
55* DoubleEntendre: "Coming Down Again"
56--> ''Slipped my tongue in someone else's pie''
57--> ''Tasting better ev'ry time''
58--> ''She turned green and tried to make me cry''
59--> ''Being hungry it ain't no crime''
60* DrugsAreBad:
61** "Angie", in the knowledge the song is about heroin
62--> ''But Angie, Angie, ain't it time we said goodbye?''
63--> ''With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats''
64** "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)".
65--> ''A ten year old girl on a street corner''
66--> ''Sticking needles in her arm''
67--> ''She died in the dirt of an alleyway''
68--> ''Her mother said she had no chance, no chance!''
69* FaceOnTheCover: Mick's face, wrapped in cloth.
70* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"
71--> ''A ten year old girl on a street corner''
72--> ''Sticking needles in her arm''
73--> ''She died in the dirt of an alleyway''
74--> ''Her mother said she had no chance, no chance!''
75* HeavyMeta: "Can You Hear The Music?"
76--> ''When I hear the drummer, get me in the groove''
77--> ''When I hear the guitar, makes me wanna move''
78* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: "Silver Train"
79--> ''And I did not know her name''
80--> ''But I sure love the way that she laughed and took my money''
81* IntercourseWithYou: "Star Star"
82--> ''Honey, I missed your two tongue kisses''
83--> ''Legs wrapped around me tight''
84--> ''If I ever get back to Fun City, girl''
85--> ''I'm gonna make you scream all night''
86* MisogynySong: "Star Star".
87--> ''Yeah, I heard about your Polaroid's''
88--> ''Now that's what I call obscene''
89--> ''Your tricks with fruit was kind a cute''
90--> ''I bet you keep your pussy clean''
91--> ''Honey, I missed your two tongue kisses''
92--> ''Legs wrapped around me tight''
93--> ''If I ever get back to New York, girl''
94--> ''Gonna make you scream all night''
95--> ''Yeah! You're a star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star''
96--> ''Yeah, a star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star''
97--> ''A star fucker, star fucker, star fucker, star fucker star''
98* NightmareFace:
99** Jagger on the album cover, his head caught in a veil, is not something claustrophobic people would like to endure.
100** "Dancing With Mr. D."
101--> ''One night I was dancin' with a lady in black''
102--> ''Wearin' black silk gloves and a black silk hat''
103--> ''She looked at me longin' with black velvet eyes''
104--> ''She gazed at me strange all cunning and wise''
105--> ''Then I saw the flesh just fall off her bones''
106--> ''The eyes in her skull was burning like coals''
107* OneWomanSong: Averted with "Angie". According to Keith Richards, the name "Angie" was a pseudonym for heroin, and wasn't about anyone.
108* OneWordTitle: "Winter"
109* OnlyKnownByInitials: "Dancing With Mr. D."
110--> ''But I know his name, he's called Mr. D.''
111* PerpetualPoverty: "Winter"
112--> ''Sometimes I think about you, baby''
113--> ''Sometimes I cry about you''
114--> ''Sometimes I wanna wrap my coat around you''
115--> ''Sometimes I wanna keep you warm''
116--> ''Sometimes I wanna wrap my coat around you''
117--> ''Sometimes I wanna but I can't afford you''
118* ThePowerOfRock: "Can You Hear The Music?"
119--> ''When you hear the music trouble disappear''
120--> ''When you hear the music ringin' in your ears''
121--> ''Can you feel the magic floatin' in the air?''
122* ProductPlacement: "Star Star".
123--> ''Yeah, I heard about your Polaroids''
124* QuestioningTitle: "Can You Hear The Music?"
125* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Star Star" alludes to Mick Jagger's affair with Music/CarlySimon.
126* ReallyGetsAround: The woman in "Star Star" is a groupie who sleeps around with every celebrity she can find.
127* RecordProducer: Jimmy Miller
128* ShoutOut: To Creator/JohnWayne and [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] on "Star Star".
129--> ''Yeah, Ali [=McGraw=] got mad with you''
130--> ''For givin' head to [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]]''
131--> ''(...) Yeah, I'm makin' bets that you gonna get''
132--> ''(Your man) before he dies (John Wayne)''
133* SpecialGuest: Billy Preston plays clavinet on "100 Years Ago" and piano on "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)".
134** In ''Film/UpInSmoke'', with Creator/CheechAndChong the song "Star Star" is playing on a record, until the record skips and repeats the line "Star Fucker, Star" ad infinitum.
135* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Keith Richards sings lead vocals on "Coming Down Again".
136* UnrequitedLove: "Hide Your Love"
137--> ''Why do you hide, hide from the man that you love?''
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