Angie is the weakest song on Goats Head Soup

Maybe it’s just fatigue as Angie is one of the Rolling Stones songs that is still on most classic rock playlists. But, I’ve been listening to Goat Heads Soup and I’d forgotten how great the album is except for that dirge called Angie.

Admittedly, I didn’t like ballads when I was young and first got the album so Angie was a skip back then. But even the throwaway Star Star (with the naughty lyrics) ages better today. And, of course it was a favorite of mine as a young teen male.

The best song? Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) it ranks up with their very best.

“Star Star” a throwaway? It’s one of the best songs on the album! But, then again, I also love Angie. For me, the highlights are those two, plus your Doo Doo … and Dancing with Mr. D.

Surely it (Star Star) wasn’t expected to get radio play! I think it was even on my college radio banned list

Dancing with Mr D is also a highlight. It’s a really good and under appreciated Stones album

I’ve been listening to GHS as well because of the upcoming re-issue and the “new songs”. This was an album I mostly skipped over back when it came out, mainly because I did not like songs like Angie. listening now, I still don’t like that song, but this album is pretty fantastic. Mick Taylor really was distinct and wonderful.

Here’s an electric version of Angie that’s tolerable, with Mick Taylor making it listenable.

Perhaps being a keyboardist/piano player makes me appreciate the song more than the average listener. There’s some nice piano work there (Nicky Hopkins); nothing too fancy, but I like the country licks and phrasing on that. Same with something like “Loving Cup.”

N ot familiar with the album, as I’m not a huge Stones fan but I can say I could never stand that song.

I’m not familiar either except for “Angie” and “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker),” but I wholeheartedly agree with the OP’s opinions on these two songs.

I think if you don’t like Angie, you have no love in your soul and you are in fact an alien. Just kidding, to each their own. I think it is a great song.

I think so too.

On my planet, we do not care for whiny, not particularly on key voices.

:smiley: :smiley:

But seriously, I think it’s MJ’s voice I don’t like on that song. I usually find him okay when he’s rockin’ but it doesn’t work for me on Angie. I thing the music is pretty, though.

I don’t like any of the Stones ballads, but have a particular distaste for Angie, although Fool to Cry will certainly challenge it.
The only decent Stones ballad is Lady Jane and that’s only because of Brian Jones and the dulcimer.

I agree that ballads were not the Stones’ forte, but I still have a huge soft spot for Wild Horses.

I never was that crazy about “Angie”. The song itself is not that bad, but it doesn’t fit Mick’s voice at all, if you ask me. (He sounds great on the Stones’ “rockin’ songs”, of course.) I wonder what a more conventional “balladeer-type” voice might do with the song…

I feel the need to post in this thread because I pay attention to Rick Beato and his What Makes This Song Great? series. He had a video about Angie.

His WMTSG? series is phenomenal. His breakdowns of songs - here is More Than a Feeling - will reveal so much about the song production value, harmonies, instruments, melodies; it’s just incredible.

I am not into Nu Metal (am I using that term correctly?) and a lot of that series is Nu Metal, but many older songs are right up my valley and he does a great job. Here is Ramble On.

Jokers in the comments have stated to the effect: 'if you have your own garage band then somehow, within a year, Rick Beato will have a copy of your band’s master tracks.

Oh, neat! I actually have been following that particular series since the beginning (and been a Rick Beato subscriber since well before that), but somehow I missed that episode. Nice breakdown.

“Tolerable”? :smile: It’s absolutely magnificent. I was just listening, dozing slightly from a weekend of hard drinking, but still “in” the song. Suddenly, it was 1974 all over again, and I was sitting in the living room on a lazy summer vacation day, the sun streaming in through the big picture window, and my whole life stretching out in front of me, dreaming of the day when I would have the courage (or sense, actually) to go out and find my own Angie.

I just lost almost two hours watching these, had no idea they existed. What fun! #paranoidandroid #beencaughtstealing #killinginthename etc

What’s kind of fun is his dissection of songs that I … was not really too fond of or just kind of treated as an afterthought. One of his first, if not his first, was “All The Small Things” by blink-182. There is a neat little harmony that happens in the chorus that I’ve never really listened to that closely before that is, indeed, pretty neat when he points it out.

Yes, I can well imagine that. I will likely end up working my way through all of these. :slight_smile: