Yes, a true one of a kind that you couldn't copy if you wanted to. It's been my personal favorite since it first came out, which is kinda funny because at the time a lot of critics complained about the sound production, and that's one of the things i loved about it!
The best pop-rock-blues-country-everything album ever recorded. I bought this in 1972, in a record shop in Brasilia/Brazil, when I was eleven. Since then, songs from this album, like Torn & Frayed, have been constant companies to me.
@@martinnewtonholmes certainly cool for Keith who was high most of time but Jagger don't really appracieted that cause even the sound engeners what stoned and it takes two weeks for a song cause most of time Keith was out.
Love the comment and replies but ya left off a few. Reggae, Punk, Ballads. That evil word disco but hey, it shot to #1 picked up more fans than they lost. In concert miss you Rocks as does emotional rescue. Finally played it live in 2013 ? Yep, never know what them boys will come up with. Keith could care less the genre of music it is. Well, he probably hated disco. So many other bands stuck in one genre. We've been blessed 56 years and counting.
one of my favourite stones songs, mick writing with jealous affection about keith again, people sometimes forget the enduring closeness of the two of them despite their fractious relationship. this lovely country soul ballad owes quite a bit to gram parsons. plus some great photos of exile era nellcote...who are you candyfromstranger!?
I use this video at the beginning of class. The kids love it! They ain't tied down to no home-town - and have a hell of a lot to learn from us older generations. They have a hell of a lot to teach us too. They steal our hearts away! Thanks so much for this!!!
Ja, die Stones sind wie Medizin..., für jede Stimmung gibts einen Song. Es gibt keine andere Band, die solch eine Vielfalt von Musikstilen so fantastisch beherrscht. Ohne diese Band wäre mein Leben soviel ärmer.
I keep coming back to your video everytime I log in. Its just beautiful man. You have perfectly captured the melancholy sadness and the wandering vagabond nature of this song and the feel of the Exile album at large. Well done sir.
Thank you Mr Ms or Mrs Candy Man your video plays excellent homage to this great track - steals your heart away! As long as the guitar plays this great music we are all happy in ourselves and sympatico !
Brian Jones (a.k.a. "Elmo Lewis") actually had very little influence in the recording sessions (March-June 1968) for what would become The Rolling Stones' seventh British and ninth American studio album, "Beggar's Banquet" (1968), a fact which may observed in scenes of Jean Luc Godard's film "One Plus One" (which incorporates the evolution of the recording for the track "Sympathy for the Devil"), which depict Jones dosing off while crouched on the floor playing acoustic guitar in a sound booth at Olympic Sound Studios in that turbulent summer of 1968. Perhaps The Rolling Stones' recording session in which Jones had the most influence was that for "Aftermath" (1966), the first of the band's LPs comprised entirely of tunes composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards that was also the fourth British and sixth American studio album released by the band and on which Jones played sitar, Appalachian dulcimer, marimba and Japanese koto, as well as guitar, harmonica and keyboards. Yet even despite these textures, the record's sound is still rooted in the Chicago electric blues sound that was the principal style of the early Stones, albeit perhaps with a "Paint It Black" hint of the psychedelia that would emerge more fully in the sessions of the band's next two studio albums, "Between the Buttons" and "Their Satanic Majesties Request" (both 1967). In the "Aftermath" sessions Jones showed precisely why he was, at the very least, the musical director of The Rolling Stones, clearly a musical wunderkind capable of playing just about any musical instrument he handled or touched. The term "musical genius" would not be much of stretch to describe Jones' playing abilities, even though he seemed perpetually frustrated by the prospect of actually composing a tune (in terms of the mechanics of that process, which include the writing of lyrics). A person may be well-spoken, very orally articulate, but still unable to transfer that verbal mastery to the creative level of writing poetry and prose. One may also clearly ascertain the instrumental contributions of Jones in several of the tracks" on "Aftermath," the sitar in the album's opener, "Paint It Black," the Dulcimer in "I Am Waiting" and "Lady Jane," locomotive-in-the-distance mouth harp-blowing in "Goin' Home' (one of the earliest rock & roll tracks to exceed the 10 minutes' mark), marimba in "Out of Time" and "Under My Thumb," among others. In "Ruby Tuesday" (from the sessions for the "Between the Buttons" LP which followed "Aftermath") Jones performs a tour de force in his multi-instrumentation of flute, piano and recorder. But by the time of "Beggar's Banquet" Jones was all but finished in his musical journey with the band he co-founded and gave its name, already contemplating new musical horizons along the lines of a Delta Blues and swamp rock-influenced ( a la Creedence Clearwater Revival) sound until the fate of July 3, 1969 intervened.
I am sorry man, but Brian Jones is overrated as a musician. He was a great harp player. But otherwise he could only play bits of music on different instruments. It is not like he MASTERED all these instruments. I play guitar and bass, but I can also play Oh Susannah on harmonica or I can play simple one note tunes on piano, or I can keep a simple beat on a drumkit. But it does not make me a musical wunderkind.
Jones barely contributed to Banquet. He played a nice bottleneck acoustic part on No Expectations but that was it. He was done. Look at the film of him in the movie One Plus One. Sad
Favorite song on an amazing album! Mick Taylor rose the tide around the Stone's boat and took the band from black & white to color. Put aside the myths and know that Mick T gave the band the fluid lead guitarist they never quite had prior to mid-1969. Keith owned the riffs but Mick T was the virtuoso. Gone after 1974.
This song is definitely Mick singing about Keith. He aint tied down, to no hometown, and everybody was reckless. YOu think he's bad, he thinks your mad, and the guitar player gets restless. His coat is torn and frayed. Keith was notorious for wearing cloths till the literally fell off him. This is my favorite Stones song ever, and this video makes me want to back up for the Cote de Azure right now and see Nellcote.
Awesome video. I think the 'Stones would be pleased. One of the greatest albums the 'Stones ever created. I love the Mick Taylor years with the group. They had a great run of albums. They took everything from the Brian Jones years, and coupled it too another great talent. Taylor does not receive enough credit for being in the band. Hope they kept a pot seed from the plant they were smoking when they made this album. So many people do not realize the greatness of the 'Stones outside the norm.
My God, don't we all miss the chemistry and musical integrity from that period. I caught them live on the '73 European tour and they were great. I have probably seen them a further 10 times since then and every time they got worse, culminating in 2003 when I nearly walked out in sheer sadness at what they had turned into.
@broadband0118 I feel your pain Caught them in 75 and 80 stopped paying attention after steel wheels. I noticed your comment was 10 years old , If your were sad then I can't imagine How you feel about them still out there in 2022, WITHOUT Charlie. At 10 years old I borrowed his copy of YaYa's the year it came out " Thanx Dad Rock in Peace" and fell in love ,If I think long enough about what there doing now I'd start to cry.
No. He was in the outs with the Stones after being kicked out of Nelcote Richards only saw him once more in 72 that was it. Once you cross the line with the Stones you are out. Bobby Keys was booted out for years remember?
one of mick's love letters to keith and probably my favorite song they ever wrote, although let it loose is tied with it. the pedal steel and the ride cymbal at the end just takes it outta this world. fitting video, expertly done. for having only 4 videos, you sure knocked this one outta the park...
hat was so nicely said. Delta blues, gospel, and country licks. All held together by rock and roll. People just get don't get it. The Stones have always been heavily influenced by all of this, as was Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. The blues, gospel, and country backbone are what gives their music soul and keeps it playing in your mind.
12 years of age, 1965... playing table tennis and then after John Lennon and his gang, Along came Mick and ..... Fifty years on, how could not love these !!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
Some socially polite person has cut the part where Keith passes out in her lap and her cigarette ash falls in his hair. This is true Stones and yet some family friendly person cut the best part.
I first bought this album I believe in late 1979 and from the beginning I took notice of Torn and Frayed...along with Loving Cup, Let it Loose and Sweet Virginia....they all grabbed me instantly but it is Torn and Frayed that to this day over 40 years later that still remains easily one of my top Stone songs...Just about perfect....
Excellent, from a band sadly the like's of which we will never see again, they were the template for Rock & Roll.......what a back catalogue even a lot of the outtakes are better than most bands today...
thanks for coming back stranger. your vid and tune were sorely missed while you were away. one of these days maybe the greedheads will wake and realize that you help them much more than their nickel and dime minds could ever understand. thanks again for your outstanding work and your perseverance. it's great to hear the song for the 183,372nd time and get to watch your vid with it.
My God this video should be put on an accompanying dvd with the album. it is SO IMPORTANT I think to have the idea of them in paris and making this album while listening to it and your video really does it all, it is beautiful (tear*)
Excellent work on My favourite Exile track! except that makes me feel like to Tune in, Turn on, Drop out ( and I can be a wild one) I could listen to this forever
This was amazing, you have achieved something very special. I completely enjoyed watching this and you clearly know your history from the pictures and placements of certain images. Great job, this is ART
Beautiful song from the Stones best album. There must have been some good vibrations back then in southern France, because there´s magic in these photographs. Wonder if Keith still owns Nellcote.
Truly one of the most unique, original videos out there. I liked your first, slightly different version as well. Great job on both, a great "feel of the moment" to it.
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