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Title: A Mick-heavy, great Stones album
Review: This is almost a Mick Jagger album grafted into a Stones album, bringing out the best in the former and plenty of solid work from the latter. Jagger not only co-writes the songs and sings, as usual, but also plays guitars (including slide), bass, harmonica, keyboards, percussion, sometimes all on one track. I haven't seen this much one-man work performed so beautifully on a pop album since Prince was at his peak. On the other hand, Stones fans may miss hearing more from Ron Wood and Daryl Jones, especially after the awesome work they did on the last tour and live album. As accomplished as Mick is in their roles on several tracks, you can feel the difference.The lyrics are awesome, with "Sweet Neo Con" socking it to the right; "She Saw Me Coming" giving us a classic Stones double entendre and a femmes fatale; "Rain Fall Down" waiting out a storm with a lover while an eerie, funky phone rings and rings. Mick seems supercharged.
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