Goats Head Poop

Overall Album Score: 8.4 out of 10

Not an overall bad album. The album cover, I'm still trying to formulate an opinion on. But, the actual music inside is quite strong!

As many of you probably know, Goats Head Soup is by and large considered the *end* of the Rolling Stones reign, and when they officially entered into 'has been' territory. And, this supposition is actually quite true in many different respects! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that the quality of Goats Head Soup is a far cry from equaling the quality of those monster classics that really wasn't that long before this. Many critics would have you believing that this is the first inessential Stones album ever since December's Children.

Now, I honestly don't see why the critics universally hail Exhile on Main St. as being some sort of classic while at the same time trashing Goat Head Soup. They both are about equal in quality. (...Or they would have been if Exhile wasn't chock-full of filler...) They both have some killer songs on them!

Well, I really don't want to spend all of my paragraphs trying to argue the case for this album. In all actuality, I could care less about the thing! I might normally be somewhat excited over an album that I deemed good enough to give an 8.4 to, but considering this is The Rolling Stones, I'm sure you can understand that I'm less than enthusiastic! The Stones used to be on-top-of-the-heap. Here, they are still mighty, but you can tell that they are losing all their super power. I'd also imagine that Lois Lane was losing interest in them. And Jimmy broke his camera... And Joker ran away....... And there are not any goat heads in my soup! What?! No soup for you!

Overall Album Score: 8.4 out of 10 (Nope ... the Rolling Stones still fail to suck. The only reason this one got an overall score higher than that of Exhile on Main Street was because it catered more to my short attention span.)

Average Song Score: 8.7 (When all things are said and done, this is still The Rolling Stones. And it isn't the 80s yet, either! This is a fine set of tunes! The only reason that you would be disappointed by them is if you come into it expecting another Sticky Fingers or Let it Bleed.)

Album Tilt: 8.5 (This definitely isn't the world's finest album ever cut, but it makes a pretty enjoyable listen just the same.)

Artist Rating: 8.0 (Unfortunately, I do have to concede and say that this was another step down from The Stones artistically speaking. While they are trying something different here ... reverting a bit back to their psychedelic days ... they don't really even seem to care about formulating an album that can be considered something special.)

Track Reviews

Dancing With Mr. D 8.5/10

This is a pretty cool song. It's pretty catchy and quite fun to listen to. The riff is alright (...of course, it pales against all this band's classics and stuff, but it's certainly passes as 'good.') It might have been more exciting, but there you go! You can't have everything! As long as you don't go scrutinizing this, comparing it to Sticky Fingers, you ought to find "Dancing With Mr. D" perfectly acceptable.

100 Years Ago 9.5/10

Wheeeew! This is one of those Rolling Stones songs that is of such a high and brilliant quality that it ... only proves the brilliance and high-quality of The Rolling Stones! Hmmmhmmm... It's almost as if Goats Head Soup wasn't really a major dip in their creative-force, after all! A nice guitar solo from Richards tops this one off.

Coming Down Again 8/10

I'm not utterly sure why I'm supposed to hate this track. (George Starostin says that I'm supposed to hate "Coming Down Again" ... Where he says I'm supposed to hate coming down to, I'll never know.) The melody gets a little bit repetitive ... the lyrics aren't exactly heartbreaking either. But this is a Rolling Stones ballad. And, if it's a Rolling Stones ballad, then that's good enough for me. Although, Keith really should not sing! Sorry. But Mick's better than you are, vocally, and you know it.

Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) 8.5/10

Nice! ... It's got Rolling Stones nicicitsisis! I really dig this song title, too. It looks like it might sound like the Jeopardy theme song ... but I do end up being slightly disappointed with it. "Doo Doo" has a nice horn section on it! The melody is good. The instrumentation is spiffy. Of course, it could have used some more of that Rolling Stones spunk, but I enjoy it perfectly.

Angie 10/10

Kinduv a classic! Although, the melody and stuff was much better written here, you can tell that this love ballad type thing was much better off when Mick Jagger sings it. It's teary, touching, and ... oooh ... it's gorgeous. It's piano led (and this piano is GREAT) and so is the fake symphony. Now, who ever started saying that Goats Head Soup was the end of the Rolling Stones? I won't have it!

Silver Train 8/10

Lalalalalalalalalalaaaaaah! You know, this really would have been great if it had better production on it. It seems merely a muddled mess to me. However, even muddled messes can have some fun ... take the inside of my head for instance.

Hide Your Love 7.5/10

Kinda bluesy ... kinda not that good ... I still like it, though! It's just not all that exciting or anything. Hmmm... This album is getting not interesting.

Winter 9/10

Hey! This one is really good! It's another ballad ... Mick sings it ... and it's super goooooood! (Super gooooood!) And winter is super coooooooooold! (Super coooooold!) Really, this is another one of those wonderful, beautiful Rolling Stones ballads that we all know and love. Although, it's certainly not the best one on here, it remains a keeper!

Can You Hear the Music? 8.5/10

Now that you mention it, I *can* hear music of some sort. Don't things like this take you by surprise? You're sitting down, listening to this album, and you haven't quite realized that you were listening to music until someone bothered to point that out. Altogether, this muddled, kind of mystical track is a fine affair. The instrumentation is strange and entertaining. The chorus of "can you hear the music" is rousing enough to make this one a pretty memorable track. It's kind of goofy, too.

Star Star 9/10

This begins with a Chuck Berry-esque sequence of guitar licks, and then it progresses into a nice bit of boogie. Overall, this one makes a welcome album closer, since this is one of the more musically exciting songs on here ... from a band that we've been kind of used to being excited over.

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