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Title: So So
Review: This album is okay, but it shows why Mick needs Keith: to keep Mick from getting lost in slick-land. The guitars are all shiny, slick, fast-picking and soulless. Give me a sloppy Keith Richards rhythm any day. "Just Another Night" is a good song, a good composition, and played and sung well. It's the best on the album. "Hard Woman" is good, with good acoustic work by Pete Townshend. But Mick's vocal is so quavering, it mars an otherwise good song. "She's the Boss" is okay, but it's basically ONE CHORD. Was Mick trying to do a rap song, without it actually being rap?...who knows... The other songs are so so at best. No attitude, no grit, no personality. Keith's solo albums are TOO gritty and sloppy, so Keith needs Mick as much as Mick needs Keith. Thank God they kissed and made up, and made the great Stones albums they've made since.
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