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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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6 | The album is most famous for the hit song "Angie". |
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8 | ---- |
9 | !! Tracklist: |
10 | |
11 | [[AC: Side One]] |
12 | |
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) |
18 | |
19 | [[AC: Side Two]] |
20 | |
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) |
26 | |
27 | ---- |
28 | !!Principal Members: |
29 | |
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 |
35 | |
36 | ---- |
37 | !! Silver Tropes: |
38 | |
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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