Shine a Light: Original Soundtrack | The Rolling Stones

Shine a Light: Original Soundtrack | The Rolling Stones | Great acompaniant for film

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	Shine a Light: Original Soundtrack The Rolling Stones Interscope Records, 2008 average customer review:based on 66 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great Soundtrack!

What's not to like? It's the Stones, they are classic and they still got it. Go, Grandpas, you all rock!!

Great acompaniant for film

With the exception of one song, the movie is much better. There are some less well known jewels which I love. True hardcore fans will love it. Some of the highlights on Disc One-All Down The Line is great. When Mick sings about the whistle blowing, "hear it for a thousand miles", Ronnie wale's on a lead that can be heard for a thousand miles. Just My Imagination(which the Stones have completely stolen away forever from the Temptations). After Mick's surprise expletive the song totally explodes and in the film you actually see it move to a higher level. Champagne&Reefer is a great song that loses some of it's intimacy without the benefit of actually seeing not only Keith and Buddy dueling but also Ronnie on third guitar and Mick on harmonica competing for attention on stage. All four legends standing toe to toe tearing the house down. You Got The Silver transfers well to CD with Ronnie and Blondie doing great. I wish Keith would have done one off of "Wheels" or "Bridges" for his other solo spot, which I believe are a better showcase of his great songwriting talent than the chosen "Connection". Regrettably the anger in Mick's face when they burst on stage and while singing Jumping Jack Flash and the look on the rest of the bands faces(We've still got something to prove)just doesn't transfer to CD. On the CD, She Was Hot sounds so-so. But in the film you can see Mick and Mr. Fowler pointing back and forth at each other during the song. And whatever you do, don't forget Ms.Fischer dancing with Mick. With everything bouncing up and down and everything bouncing in the right place during this song makes it come alive on screen.
Disc Two-The Intro where we hear Scorsese say "We cannot burn Mick Jagger, very simple" is pretty funny, especially when after Brown Sugar we hear Mick complain that the lights "are burning up my a--".
Live With Me is by far and away the best song on the CD, but it doesn't come off like that in the film. I saw the film five times and it seems as if the sound is actually cut back in the film when this song begins. Also the choppy cut away shots totally shut this song down. On the inner sleeve of my old copy of Let It Bleed it states "This record should be played Loud". Take that advice for this song. This song should be played loud. Very loud. Extremely loud. In fact, as loud as you can stand it. As loud as your speakers can stand it. Since "Ya-Ya's" the Stones have been famous for their "Magical Mixing Techniques" and they have apparently worked their magic on the film version of this song. For whatever reason, the CD version totally blows the film version clear out of the water. There's a bass lick right after Ms. Aguilera belts out "The butler has a place for her behind the pantry door"(which she sings like she may have been there a few times herself)that is not even audible in the film at all. It's obvious some editing has taken place here. Everyone on stage in this song seems to kick it up a few notches. I my opinion, this would be an excellent choice for a single but the band doesn't always release its strongest songs for singles. This one song justifies the purchase. After the performance of this song Start Me Up is kind of a let down, but the band come back to life for what in the film is the encore. Brown Sugar and Satisfaction are very good versions. If fact almost at the end of Satisfaction it sounds as if Charlie is about to take the song onto a new level and keep playing but it turns out to be a classy way to end a classic. The last four tracks or "Bonus Tracks" seem to have been added as an afterthought. O'yea, we don't have the name of the movie anywhere in the movie. We better put in Shine a Light. The last four songs are good but lose something without the benefit of being able to put a visual to them. I hate to say this but I like the album cut of Shine a Light better than this one. Hopefully the performance of these songs will be included in the "Extras" on the DVD.
Mick has done some creative re-writing of some of the lyrics. The line about black girls in Some Girls has been removed. Which, while I don't particularly like the re-editing of some of my favorite classic songs, I must say I would have been uncomfortable explaining this line to my fourteen and thirteen year old niece and nephew. Changing the line about taking the "receiver off the hook" to "turn the hole damn thing off" was clever since allot of phones don't have receiver's anymore. Instead of some girls leaving a "lethal dose" they now leave "a little dose". The preacher in Faraway Eyes now asks for twenty dollars instead of ten. Inflation I guess. During this song Keith messes up the lyrics and tries to play it off but someone in the audience busts him on it and you can see in the film and hear on the CD, he laughs about it and tells the person to "shut up", but in a good natured way. Over all I love the Stones so I love this CD. As I said "Live With Me" is worth the purchase price everything else is extra. Why they didn't play up this song more is beyond me. I mean, why have Jack White on the cover of Rolling Stone and interview with him? The best you can say about his duet is that he didn't blow it. It wasn't bad overall but Christina's performance puts him to shame. I don't even like Christina Aguilera's kind of music. I've never purchased any of her music. A couldn't name one song she has ever done. For me she was always in the category of "famous for being famous". After listening to the CD version of this song I have a new respect for her talent. A must have if you've seen the film.

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The Rolling Stones still rock!

Surprise, surprise! Mick, Keith and the gang, now in their 60's, can still rock the house. I have every other Rolling Stones live recording and I would rate this one second behind the classic Get Yer Ya Ya's Out. Song selection is excellent, a great mix of standards and deeper album cuts. The guests, Buddy Guy, Jack White and Christina Aguilera add nice texture to the songs they contribute on. Bottom line, though, the Stones put on a great show. Sound quality is great, you can hear every riff distinctly and the band is very tight. Unlike some of the Stones' other live albums, there is not a laid back, going through the motions vibe - the band attacks these songs, the rockers stomp and the ballads groove. Stones fans will love this album and newcomers to the band will want to hear more.

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Has its moments

The Stones continue the pattern of a studio CD followed by a live CD with Shine A Light. This one is a little different that there is a Martin Scorcese film that goes with it. (Or does the CD go with the film?) I'm not only a Stones fan; I'm a collector. So I buy every CD they put in the racks.

I'm beginning to feel used.

Here's an interesting observation on the CD. It doesn't include any songs from the previous studio CD, A Bigger Bang. In fact, this CD does not include any Rolling Stones song released in the past 20 years. And only 3 of the songs were released in the 1980s. Most were released in the 1970s, with the Some Girls album contributing four songs.

Is it any wonder I feel cheated?

So what makes this different than any of the four other live CDs I've had to buy in the past two decades? The band's style of playing has remained virtually unchanged. If you put all the live CDs in your iPod and hit 'shuffle' they would sound as if they were all recorded during the same tour.

So why do I keep buying this stuff?

There is some good stuff here. There are songs that have never appeared on a live CD, like She Was Hot and Shine A Light. There is a great version of Loving Cup, an obscure track from Exile on Main St., that features Jack White of the White Stripes. Buddy Guy joins in on Champagne and Reefer, a late-model Muddy Waters tune.

And there are the songs that long time fans call "the warhorses" that are performed and nearly every concert, like Satisfaction, Jumping Jack Flash, Start Me Up, and Brown Sugar. I guess there has to be something for the tourists.

I haven't seen the film yet, but I probably will at some point. The clips I've seen look very good and I look forward to seeing it. Maybe it will help me appreciate this CD a little more.

Because the music itself is pedestrian. Or maybe I'm just tired of hearing Jumping Jack Flash played live for the nth time. At times the band sounds like they're just going through the motions, even on a song like She Was Hot that the band rarely performs.

There is one line in Some Girls that made me smile. On the Some Girls album, the line goes, "Some girls give me children that I never asked them for." On this CD, he sings, "Some girls give me children and I only had sex with her once!" That must be what he told Jerry before she kicked him out.

Yeah, I've bought into "the machine" (another fond term used by hardcore fans). And I'll buy the next CD too. I guess I still listen for those magic moments that do come, but are now fewer and farther between.

The truth is, the Stones haven't really lost a step. Some fantastic performances have been recorded and are available (if you know where to look, wink, wink) from every decade of the band's history. Check out the intensity of the Saitama, Japan show that's included on the Biggest Bang DVD. Seek out the entire show (if you know where to look, nudge, nudge). The Stones can still bring it, when they want. But as another reviewer has noted, sometimes they're on and sometimes they're off.

They're mostly off on Shine A Light. And it had so much potential...

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Falls Far Short of the IMAX Movie Experience

For me, the IMAX version of this movie was a superb experience visually and aurally and musically. But I found listening to the soundtrack alone very disappointing because Mick's voice isn't what it used to be, and that's what shines through for me outside the theater.

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