Goddess In The Doorway
by Mick Jagger
  • Record Label: Virgin
  • Release Date: Nov 20, 2001
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 13
  3. Negative: 2 out of 13
  1. E! Online
    67
    A mixed bag, with its fair share of unsatisfactory pop throwaway moments but also a healthy dose of midtempo ballads and stratospheric numbers.
  2. Dot Music
    80
    An energetic, intelligent and fairly modern rock album - not exactly cutting-edge, but not entirely anachronistic either.
  3. Billboard
    80
    His most diverse and musically adventurous solo set to date.
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    70
    Goddess is the only forward-looking project by a Rolling Stone since the band flirted with disco on "Miss You."
  6. Rolling Stone
    100
    In terms of consistency, craftsmanship and musical experimentation, Goddess in the Doorway surpasses all his solo work and any Rolling Stones album since Some Girls.

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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Rev.Rikard
    Oct 21, 2005
    8
    This is Jagger's best. Though each solo recording only reveals the glimmer twin's need of one another, this is one of the few This is Jagger's best. Though each solo recording only reveals the glimmer twin's need of one another, this is one of the few albums to which I can listen with a genuine sense of enjoyment. A thread of joy weaves itself through this collection of songs. Jaggers voice, though usually a vehicle for the blues, pulls off a celebratory sound that doesn't sound forced. Most solo albums by Jagger and Richards sound like medicore Stones' recordings with substitute musicians. However, here Jagger sounds like he has something to personally say that may or may not be shared by Keith. Though I always miss Richard's lovable, raunchy guitar licks on Mick's solo recordings, Jagger's vocals and the lyrical content allow me to miss those licks a little less. Making a Stone's fan ignore the absence of that unique rythm guitar, so definitive to the Stone's sound, is no small feat. Goddess pulls it off. Still, enough with the solo stuff, and enough with the "thrown together" material to create a tour (ala Bigger Bang). Find a hot, humid basement in France and churn out the quality stuff that dubbed you the "world's greatest rock and roll band."… Full Review »
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