By 1974, the Rolling Stones were moving on autopilot and were in desperate need of a break. They were about to lose guitarist Mick Taylor, and they had been caught in the commercial cogs of the music business for so long that they were beginning to become a shadow of their former selves. While the early Seventies created some of the most noteworthy Stones material ever, it also brought forth arguably their worst album to that point, It\u2019s Only Rock \u2018n Roll<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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This disc is noted for three songs that have been culled from it on classic rock radio \u2013 too bad only one of them is marginally worth the attention. \u201cDance Little Sister\u201d is, sadly, the best track on this disc \u2013 and even it is not up to the level of excellence that the Stones had set for themselves. But that\u2019s not saying it\u2019s a bad track; indeed, it does provide some toe-tapping excitement for the listener.<\/p>\n
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If only their half-hearted cover of The Temptations\u2019 \u201cAin\u2019t Too Proud To Beg\u201d had that kind of excitement. Gone were the days when the Stones tried to capture the real heart and soul of the old r&b classics that they first earned their bread and butter on; in was this watered-down treacle that barely passes for music. Skip this one unless you can\u2019t make it to the poison control center.<\/p>\n
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That leaves us with the title track, and the infamous video of Mick Jagger and the boys dressed up like sailors, awash in bubbles. Uh, sorry, but I never really thought this was the greatest track that the Stones ever recorded, and my mind wasn\u2019t changed by hearing it on the album it was pulled from. So that one\u2019s a wash. (Sorry, couldn\u2019t help myself.)<\/p>\n
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The bulk of It\u2019s Only Rock \u2018n Roll<\/i> sounds like filler, and has the overall feel of an album that was rushed out as a contractual obligation effort. I mean, who else would have the gumption to put out an album with a song called \u201cShort And Curlies\u201d, one of the worst tracks the Stones ever dared to lay down on tape? That one song alone should be outlawed by the Geneva Convention as a torture device.<\/p>\n
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What\u2019s left isn\u2019t that much better. \u201cTill The Next Goodbye\u201d starts off rather strong, but crumbles due to an extremely weak chorus, and could have easily been the salvation of this disc. \u201cTime Waits For No One\u201d and \u201cIf You Really Want To Be My Friend\u201d aren\u2019t bad, but aren\u2019t anything worth writing home about, while others such as \u201cLuxury\u201d and \u201cFingerprint File\u201d just hit the sonic pavement with a dull thud.<\/p>\n
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I know It\u2019s Only Rock \u2018n Roll<\/i>, but I hate it, loathe it, yes I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5665],"rating":[11203],"class_list":["post-40126","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-rolling-stones","rating-rating-d-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40126"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40126"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}